美語情景對話 第1172期:The Right Age 合適的年齡
Katie: So I want to ask you about when is the right age to have stuff or to start doing stuff. What do you think is the right age to start having a phone?
凱蒂：請你談談擁有某物或開始做某事的合適年齡。你認爲幾歲可以有手機？Aimee: Oh, I think for security reasons, to, you know, keep the child safe, perhaps maybe about 11 or 12 when they start going around places without their parents.
艾米：哦，我認爲出於安全考慮，爲了保證孩子的安全，也許11歲或12歲左右可以有手機，因爲那時孩子開始在沒有家長陪同的情況下四處走動。Katie: Yeah.
凱蒂：對。
Aimee: It would be a way for me to contact my daughter. Even now, my daughter is only six and she doesn't have a phone, and that's far too young, I believe. However, she walks to school by herself and walks home by herself. And that stresses me out for her safety. So there are times where I wish I could phone her or text her, but she doesn't have a phone. And I do believe that six is far too young to have a phone.
艾米：手機應該是我可以聯繫我女兒的方法。不過現在我女兒只有6歲，她沒有手機，我認爲這個年齡用手機太早了。不過，她自己步行上學，晚上放學自己步行回家。我非常擔心她的安全。所以有時我希望我能給她打電話或是發信息，不過她沒有手機。我認爲六歲的孩子還太小，不能用手機。Katie: A little bit too young.
凱蒂：是太小了。Aimee: Yes. So purely for security reasons, I think probably around 11 or 12.
艾米：對。單純從安全角度考慮，我認爲11歲或12歲左右比較合適。Katie: How old were you when you first got your phone.
凱蒂：你幾歲開始用手機的？Aimee: Well, I'm an old person so, you know, people didn't have mobile phones. I was reaching the end of high school. I was, I think, 17 when I got my first mobile phone. And it was a big brick. But again, that was for, you know, I guess security reasons.
艾米：嗯，我年紀挺大的了，你知道 ，以前人們都沒有手機。我在高中畢業時纔有了第一部手機。我想，我是在17歲時有的第一部手機。那時的手機和磚塊一樣。不過，那也是爲了安全考慮。Katie: Yeah.
凱蒂：嗯。Aimee: My parents got it for me. I was going out, you know, I started going out at night, going to concerts. And I was beginning to be allowed going into bars and things at 17, 18. So yeah, it was a good security thing. My parents were appreciative of being able to contact me.
艾米：我父母給我買了手機。當時我開始在晚上外出，會去看音樂會。十七八歲的時候，我可以去酒吧了。所以，手機是安全保障。我父母可以用手機聯繫到我。Katie: Yeah.
凱蒂：對。Aimee: How about you? How old were you when you first got your mobile phone?
艾米：你呢？你多大有的第一部手機？Katie: Oh goodness. I was about 12 or 13. I was really young.
凱蒂：我的天哪。我大概是12歲或13歲的時候。當時我很小。Aimee: Okay.
艾米：好。Katie: And I only got my first mobile phone or my first cellphone because my best friend who got the same one and I wanted to send like picture messages to her. It was back in the old days where you can send a photo, you can take photos.
凱蒂：因爲我最好的朋友有了手機，我想給她傳彩信，所以我得到了一個和她一樣的手機。那個時候，手機可以傳圖片和拍照。Aimee: Picture messages.
艾米：圖片彩信。Katie: Picture messages.
凱蒂：圖片彩信。Aimee: I couldn't even send picture messages. Mine was just texts, like pressing the same button over and over again.
艾米：我的手機都不能傳圖片彩信。只能發文字消息，要一直按同樣的按鍵。Katie: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So I never really used it as like a way of security. I just used it to send really overpriced picture messages to my friend for absolutely no reason. It was such a waste. And to play Snake. Do you remember Snake?
凱蒂：哦，對，沒錯。我從來沒把手機當做安全保障。我只是用手機給朋友發非常貴的彩信，而且沒有什麼理由。那簡直是浪費。當時還玩貪吃蛇。你還記得貪吃蛇嗎？Aimee: Oh yeah, Snake.
艾米：哦對，貪吃蛇。Katie: Like the little game that you could play on your phone.
凱蒂：手機上可以玩一些小遊戲。Aimee: Yup, yup.
艾米：對，對。Katie: Yeah. I didn't use it for a good use, I think. I just used it to waste time.
凱蒂：嗯。我想我沒有善用手機。我只是浪費了時間。Aimee: Fair enough. Well, you're 12, you said, right?
艾米：情有可原。你剛說你當時只有12歲，對吧？Katie: Twelve, thirteen, yeah.
凱蒂：12歲或13歲。Aimee: That sounds age appropriate, I think, age appropriate use.
艾米：我認爲聽起來那與年齡相符。Katie: Yeah. It's a good time to start wasting your time.
凱蒂：對。是開始浪費時間的年齡。Aimee: Yeah.
艾米：對。Katie: Get ahead to start wasting time.
凱蒂：開始浪費時間。Aimee: Yeah.
艾米：嗯。
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重點講解：
1. by oneself 自行；單獨；
例句：Clive disappeared into a room by himself.
克萊夫獨自一人進了屋。
2. go out 外出交際；外出娛樂；
例句：It will be a marvellous occasion and they should go out and enjoy it.
這是個好時機，他們應該出去痛快地玩一玩。
3. over and over again 一再；再三；反覆；
例句：This is what she has been saying over and over again--I don't know how many times.
這種話，她翻來覆去不知說過多少遍了。
4. fair enough (說法、決定或行爲)有些道理，說得過去；
例句：Fair enough, I think that's a very reasonable price.
有道理，我認爲那是非常公道的價格。
