美語情景對話 第648期:Gadgets 電子產品

Todd: Phil, you said you're a teacher. Did you study education in college?

託德：菲爾，你說過你是名老師。那你大學學的是教育嗎？

Phil: No, actually, I studied engineering in college.

菲爾：不是，實際上我大學學的是工程學。

Todd: Really. Engineer!

託德：真的嗎？工程學！

Phil: Yeah, I was an automotive when I was younger.

菲爾：對，我年輕時從事的是汽車業。

Todd: Automotive, like cars?

託德：汽車業，與汽車有關的嗎？

Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

菲爾：對，對，沒錯。

Todd: Oh, cool. Wow.

託德：哦，真酷。哇。

Phil: It was really interesting a job really exciting but I kind of came into teaching to try something different and to maybe gain confindence in myself as well.

菲爾：那份工作非常有意思，而且也很令人興奮，我當老師是爲了嘗試些不同的東西，也爲了增加自己的自信。

Todd: So if you're an engineer then you must like gadgets, right?

託德：既然你是工程師，那你一定喜歡電子產品，對吧？

Phil: Oh, yeah, I love gadgets. I got many in my room.

菲爾：哦，對，我很喜歡電子產品。我房間裏有很多電子產品。

Todd: So what kind of gadgets to you have?

託德：你都有什麼電子產品？

Phil: Well, my favorite has to be my laptop computer of course. I think everyone should have a laptop now because it's complete entertainment. I can watch movies. I can download music from the internet. I can write reports on my students. I can research new games on the internet. I can do anything in the world on my laptop. It's just amazing what you can do.

菲爾：我最喜歡的當然是筆記本電腦了。我認爲每個人都應該有一個筆記本電腦，因爲它是非常完善的娛樂設備。我可以用筆記本看電影，從網上下載音樂，寫有關學生的報告，研究新的網絡遊戲。我可以用筆記本電腦做各種事。這真的很不可思議。

Todd: So you talk about downloading things. Like you must have an MP3 player or ipod.

託德：你剛提到了下載。那你一定得有MP3播放器或是蘋果播放器。

Phil: I've got an ipod as well, yeah. I love my ipod. Everyday I listen to music. Music is one of my main passions in life and I particularly like rock music and Ska punk as well, so I download bands from all over the world on the internet that maybe ten years ago nobody would have been able to find information about, so I think things like ipod have opened up the world of music to everyone.

菲爾：我有蘋果播放器。我喜歡蘋果播放器。我每天都會用它來聽歌。音樂是我生活中的最愛之一，我特別喜歡搖滾樂和斯卡朋克，所以我會在網上下載世界各地樂隊的歌曲，十年前可能沒有人能找到這些信息，所以我認爲蘋果播放器這樣的電子產品真的爲所有人打開了音樂的大門。

Todd: Right. Right. No, I agree. Actually, I have an MP3 player and an ipod and I use them all the time.

託德：對，沒錯。我同意你的說法。實際上，我也有MP3播放器和蘋果播放器，我一直都在用。

Phil: Yeah, it's amazing.

菲爾：嗯，太棒了。

Todd: So, you're really into your laptop. You're really into your ipod. Any other gadgets that you really like?

託德：你非常喜歡筆記本電腦，也很喜歡蘋果播放器。那你還有其他喜歡的電子產品嗎？

Phil: I suppose I have to say my digital camera. When I was younger, I was absolutely useless at taking photographs — well I still am absolutely useless at taking photographs. I always manage to miss the main part of the picture or the thing I'm aiming for. Once I get the lighting composition completely wrong. So with a digital camera, I can choose the photos I want and I can keep retaking them until I know I got the one I actually want, and then on my computer, back to my laptop again, I can edit the photos until they look exactly like I want them to, so digital camera is amazing for me.

菲爾：我會說我的數碼相機。我年輕的時候對拍照這件事一竅不通，我拍照的水平不行。我總是會錯過圖片的主要部分或是我要拍攝的物體。有一次我的燈光和構圖全出現了錯誤。用數碼相機拍照的話，就可以選擇你想要的圖片，我可以一直拍攝，直到我得到我想要的那張照片，然後再用我的筆記本電腦編輯照片，達到我想要的那種效果，所以對我來說數碼相機太神奇了。

Todd: Yeah, I agree, like I use cameras a lot for the website and I couldn't make it without them.

託德：對，我同意，爲了這個網站我經常會用到相機，沒有數碼相機我根本就做不到。

Phil: Yeah, it's amazing how in the last ten years things have changed so much, like we said with the ipod earlier, I used to have a cassette player when I was younger.

菲爾：對，太不可思議了，近十年來發生了很多變化，比如我們之前談到的蘋果播放器，我小的時候用的還是盒式錄音機。

Todd: Right.

託德：對。

Phil : It was huge, and it was like taking a brick with me everywhere I went, and not the ipod just fits in my pocket and I don't even know it's there. It's amazing the difference.

菲爾：盒式錄音機非常大，以前我去各個地方都會帶着它，就好像拿着一塊磚頭一樣，而蘋果播放器就可以放進口袋裏攜帶，有時我甚至都找不到。區別太明顯了。

Todd: Yeah, I listen to the podcasts on the way to work and it makes my train commute so much more enjoyable.

託德：對，我上班的路上會聽播客，這使我在坐火車上下班時感到更愉快。

Phil: Yeah, yeah, I get the news from the BBC, the British website, so I can listen to the news in the morning and find out what's happened back in my home city. It's like keeping in touch with the rest of the world.

菲爾：對，對，我聽英國BBC網站的新聞，我早上會聽新聞，瞭解我家鄉城市的情況。這就好像和世界其他地方保持聯繫一樣。

Todd : Right, right. OK, thanks a lot Phil.

託德：對，沒錯。好，非常謝謝你，菲爾。

Phil: OK, thank you.

菲爾：好，謝謝你。

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重點講解：
1. as well 也；還；
例句：I'm coming to London and my sister's coming as well.
我要來倫敦，我妹妹也會來。
2. all over 到處；遍及；
例句：The ink spilt all over the desk.
墨水灑了一桌子。
3. open up （使）（地方、經濟、興趣領域等）開放；
例句：The money could open up music to more children.
這筆款項能讓更多的孩子受到音樂的薰陶。
4. find out （尤指特意通過努力）發現，找出，查明；
例句：Attendance has dropped off, we shall find out why.
觀衆減少了，我們應找出原因來。
5. keep in touch with 與……保持聯繫；
例句：We now keep in touch with him by writing letters.
我們現在靠寫信與他保持聯繫。