美語情景對話 第804期:Staying Connected 保持聯繫

Tom: Jess, usually when I see you, you're sitting at the computer checking your e-mail. How many times a day do you check it?

湯姆：傑西，我每次看到你，你都坐在電腦前檢查電子郵件。你通常多久檢查一次郵件？

Jess: I honestly don't count, but many, many times. Definitely more than twenty times a day. It's not really necessary. It's not like I have millions of e-mails coming into my account every day, but I'm very impatient and I hate waiting for responses or waiting for something that I'm expecting so I'll check my e-mail so that I can receive it as soon as it's sent. How about you? Do you check your e-mails often?

傑西：說實話，我沒有算過，不過我一天要檢查好多次。一天絕對超過20次。其實真的沒有必要這麼做。我並不是每天都會收到無數封郵件，而是我非常沒耐心，我討厭等待別人回覆郵件，討厭那種等待所期待事情的感覺，所以我希望我檢查郵箱時能馬上收到對方的回信。你呢？你經常檢查郵件嗎？

Tom: I suppose I check once a day, and if I have any mail, it will be one or two weeks before I reply to it. I'm really bad at keeping in touch. I've got accounts at facebook and my space and hi5, all these social networking sites, but I almost never log on .... I got a message the other day, a friend telling me, I'm a boring facebooker. It's official because I haven't updated my profile in so long.

湯姆：我大概一天檢查一次，如果我有郵件，那我可能會在一兩週後纔會回覆。我在保持聯繫上做得不好。我有臉譜網賬號、我的空間的賬號，也有hi5的賬號，這些社交網站的賬號我都有，可是我幾乎從來沒有登陸過，那天我收到了一個朋友的信息，朋友說我是個無聊的臉譜網用戶。這是一條官方信息，因爲我已經很久沒有更新過臉譜網上的簡介了。

Jess: Why don't you? Is it that you haven't got enough time?

傑西：爲什麼呢？因爲你沒時間嗎？

Tom: I have got so much free time. I think it's just because I'm very lazy. I take photos. I meet people. I do things. I just don't feel the need to tell everyone about it at the end of the day. My family have kind of gotten used to it now. They know that I'll get in contact they'll likely to see me in the next few months, or I'll get in contact if there's a birthday or a baby, but apart from that, I really don't keep in touch very well.

湯姆：我有很多空閒時間。我想是因爲我太懶了。我也會拍照片，和朋友們見面。我也會做各種各樣的事。我只是覺得沒有必要把這些告訴所有人。我的家人現在已經習慣我這個樣子了。如果他們幾個月以後來看我，他們知道我會聯繫，或者如果有人過生日或是有人生孩子，我也會聯繫他們，不過除此之外，我不太和別人保持聯繫。

Jess: Apart from e-mail, neither do I. I did join Facebook a couple of years ago when all of my friends did and everyone was sending me links to join, and I created my profile, but to be honest, it's too much for me to have more than one thing to check that many times a day, so usually I stick to e-mail for communication. Yes, I do check it a lot, but I think if I started checking Facebook as regularly, I wouldn't have time to do the things I need to every day.

傑西：除了電子郵件以外，我也不太和別人聯繫。我幾年前註冊了臉譜網，當時我所有朋友都註冊了臉譜網賬號，他們邀請我一起用臉譜網，我就創建了我的簡介，不過說實話，我實在無法每天檢查好幾種社交工具，所以通常我只會堅持用電郵和別人交流。我的確每天要檢查好幾次，不過我想如果我開始規律性地查看臉譜網，那我就沒有太多時間去做我每天要做的事情了。

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重點講解：
1. as soon as 一…就…；
例句：I may leave the office as soon as I have finished my work.
我一完成工作就可以離開辦公室。
2. at the end of the day 最終；到頭來；
例句：You are smiling, at the end of the day.
你終於笑了。
3. get used to sth./doing sth. 開始習慣於；
例句：I can not get used to eating bread every day.
我不習慣每天吃麪包。
4. apart from 除了…外（別無）；
例句：Apart from clothes and bedding, I have nothing.
我除了行李被褥之外一無所有。
5. to be honest 老實說；說實在的；
例句：To be honest ,I do not think we have a chance of winning.
說實話，我認爲我們沒有獲勝的可能。
6. stick to 堅持不變；
例句：Perhaps he should have stuck to writing.
也許他還是一心放在寫作上來得保險。