優秀英語日常口語對話

英語的學習我們是絕對不能鬆懈的，今天小編就給大家參考一下英語口語，僅供大家來一起閱讀看看哦

　　Phone Addiction 手機上癮

Todd: Okay, so, Jen, we're gonna talk about media and technology, phones and music, things like that. So the first one is, how addicted are you to your phone? How long can you go without using your phone?

託德：好，珍，我們來談談媒體和技術、手機和音樂等話題。第一個問題，你對手機的上癮程度有多大?你可以多長時間不用手機?

Jen: That's a difficult question because I'm very, I would say I'm very addicted to my phone because I keep on checking it every five minutes. I feel like without my phone my head doesn't, my brain stops working, you know?

珍：這是一個很難回答的問題，因爲我對手機很上癮，我每隔五分鐘就要看一下手機。我想沒有手機我的大腦可能會停止運作，你知道嗎?

Todd: Wow.

託德：哇哦。

Jen: I would say the maximum I can stay without it would be one or two hours.

珍：我會說我最多可以一到兩個小時不用手機。

Todd: You've got to be kidding me.

託德：你一定是在開玩笑吧。

Jen: I mean, if you asked me in the past, yeah, I could stay without it for a while, but nowadays, I don't even own a watch so that would be my time as well, so, I have to keep checking it. What about you?

珍：我是說，如果你以前問我這個問題，我會說我可以一段時間不用手機，可是現在的話，我甚至連手錶都沒有，我用手機來看時間，所以我會一直看手機。你呢?

Todd: We are polar opposites. Actually, I am so bad about not using my phone, and that's a smart phone, actually I have two. I have an Android Galaxy and I have an iPhone. I set them down and forget where they are, and go days without actually checking them sometimes. I'll go to work and somebody will be like, are you mad at me? I've been trying to reach you and you won't ... And I'm like, no, I'm not mad at you, why? I'm like, oh, I haven't checked my phone in two days.

託德：我和你完全相反。實際上，我爲不使用手機感到抱歉，我的手機是智能手機，而且我有兩部手機。我有一部搭載安卓系統的蓋世手機，還有一部iPhone。我把它們放在一邊，我不記得放在哪裏了，所以有時我會有幾天的時間都不看手機。我去上班時，有人會問我“你在生我氣嗎?我一直嘗試聯繫你，可是聯繫不到你……”我會說，“我沒生你氣，我爲什麼要生氣?哦，我有兩天沒有看手機了”。

Jen: That sounds so crazy to me because I could never go without my phone for two days.

珍：這在我聽來太瘋狂了，因爲我絕對不可能兩天不用手機。

Todd: Well, one, there's a couple things. One, it's old school, right? And two, I get all my information on the Internet on a PC. So I'm working, so I get everything on the Internet, like Facebook, news, stuff like that. The computer, like you said, tells the time. So I actually forget about my phone.

託德：有幾點原因。首先，這是守舊，對吧?其二，我用電腦上網來獲取所有信息。我在網上獲取各種信息，比如臉譜網和新聞之類的。如你所說，電腦也可以顯示時間。所以，我纔會忘了手機。

Jen: I think if I have a PC then I would also forget my phone.

珍：我想如果我有電腦的話，我也會忘了手機的。

Todd: But your generation, it's all in your hand, right?

託德：不過你們這代人，都用手機瞭解世界不是嗎?

Jen: That's right because it's more convenient.

珍：對，因爲這樣更方便。

　　Death to Email 電子郵件的消亡

Todd: I know. Actually I see you guys and it's amazing. I see my students how fast they can use their phone, and it's phenomenal to me. It's like blurry, it's so fast.

託德：我知道。我看到過你們用手機打字，非常不可思議。我看到過我的學生用手機的速度，那對我來說太驚人了。我看着很模糊，太快了。

Jen: I think if you start using your phone more and not your PC then you would be fast at it too, because even if I were to check my mails I don't do it from my PC, I actually do reply to all my mails from my phone itself.

珍：我想如果你開始多用手機而不是用電腦的話，你也可以那麼快，因爲即使我現在要查看電郵，我也不是在電腦上操作，我會用手機回覆所有電郵。

Todd: Wow. Actually no, I think it's not true because I've tried. I think it's because I'm older. My phone gets stiff. I mean my phone ... My thumb gets stiff like arthritis or something, like it literally stops moving. That's why I'm amazed.

託德：哇哦。實際上，我認爲我辦不到，因爲我已經試過了。我想這是因爲我年紀大了。我的手機僵掉了。我的意思是說我的手機……我的拇指僵化，類似關節炎之類的疾病，也就是說它靜止不動了。所以我纔會感到吃驚。

Jen: Maybe it's just in your head.

珍：也許是你的思想僵化。

Todd: I physically can't do it. No, no, I really like, and when I type I could type really fast, touch type, but I cannot move my thumb that fast. The more, the longer I try I get thumb fatigue, like my thumb just stops, the joint won't work anymore.

託德：是身體上做不到。不是，我在電腦上打字時，速度可以非常快，可是在觸摸屏上打字，我的拇指動不了那麼快。打的字越多、時間越長，我的拇指越疲勞，所以拇指就不動了，關節不再工作了。

Jen: For me it's very difficult for me to type really fast. I would rather use my thumb and text.

珍：對我來說，我在電腦上的打字速度達不到那麼快。我更願意用拇指編輯短信。

Todd: No, that's cool. Now these days I don't know if you've realized but you can do voice typing. Have you tried that? Google Docs for example, you don't even have to type anymore. You can just talk in a microphone and with no special software and Google Docs will type what you say.

託德：嗯，那很酷。我不知道你有沒有注意到，最近可以語音輸入了。你試過嗎?比如谷歌文件，甚至不用再打字了。你可以用麥克風進行語音輸入，不用特殊軟件的輔助，谷歌文件就可以識別出你說的話。

Jen: But then again you have to be very clear because it always makes a lot of mistakes.

珍：可是要明確的是，這種方法的錯誤很多。

Todd: Yeah, but you know what's amazing about it, is I had, I was doing it with my students and then I was going to have my student do it and the voice recorder wouldn't take their voice, it would only take my voice.

託德：對，不過你知道那了不起的地方在於，我和學生一起用語音輸入，我讓學生進行語音輸入，可是語音記錄器不接受學生的聲音，只接受並識別我的聲音。

Jen: I think it's because the ...

珍：我想那是因爲……

Todd: The user account name?

託德：用戶名?

Jen: Yeah, the user account name can only recognize your voice because that's been saved first.

珍：對，用戶名只能識別你的聲音，因爲那個先保存了。

Todd: Right, so it saves the first voice, then another one won't work.

託德：好吧，它會保存第一個人的聲音，而其他人的聲音就不能識別了。

Jen: Yeah, I guess.

珍：我想是這樣的。

Todd: So that brings up the question, technology gets better and better and better. Do you think typing will be obsolete, will be gone in five, 10 years?

託德：這就引出了一個問題，技術越來越先進。你認爲打字會在未來5到10年被淘汰嗎?

Jen: I cannot really say but maybe no, not in 10 years. Maybe 20 to 30 years, yes, but not in 10 years, because I think still people are more comfortable writing their books and stuff like reports, just typing. Everybody doesn't like to talk a lot.

珍：我不能確定，不過也許10年後還不會被淘汰。可能在二三十年後會被淘汰，但10年後不會，因爲我認爲人們依然認爲在寫書或報告時打字更舒服。所有人都不喜歡說太多話。

Todd: True. Yeah, I think there's a different mental process when you type and it's just when you just speak it goes away.

託德：沒錯。我認爲打字和說話時的思維過程是不同的。

Jen: Yeah.

珍：對。

　　Pests and Predators 有害生物和捕食者

Todd: So you have a problem with possums and with rabbits.

託德：所以你們的問題是負鼠和兔子。

Rachel: Rabbits on farms. There's also wild deer and boar in the forests who also do a lot of damage and stray cats and dogs as well also kill a lot of native species. There's no native animals in New Zealand. The only mammals that are native to New Zealand are dolphins and bats, so there's no natural hunters except for hawks. So the birds, a lot of the birds have lost the ability to fly and they nest on the ground, so they're enormously vulnerable to predator species like cats and dogs. They've almost completely decimated many bird species, so that's why they're hunters throughout New Zealand who are basically given free range to shoot whatever they can find because they're so destructive to the natural environment.

蕾切爾：準確的說是農場裏的兔子。森林裏的野鹿和野豬也造成了很多損害，流浪貓和流浪狗也吃掉了大量本土物種。現在新西蘭沒有本土動物。新西蘭唯一的本土哺乳動物是海豚和蝙蝠，除了老鷹以外，這些動物沒有天敵。所以，許多鳥類失去了飛翔能力，它們在地上築巢，因此極易受到貓和狗等天敵的攻擊。它們幾乎吃掉了大部分鳥類物種，這也是新西蘭的獵人可以隨意獵殺他們能找到的任何動物的原因，因爲這些動物對自然環境具有極強的破壞性。

Todd: Yeah, I think I read somewhere where you have some campaign to have like no predators by a certain year, right like a new things in New Zealand.

託德：嗯，我看到過一個新聞，新西蘭開展了一項行動，計劃在某一年之前消滅捕食者，這在新西蘭是一項新舉措。

Rachel: I haven't heard of that but I wouldn't be surprised. I think that's always been a goal.

蕾切爾：我沒聽說過這項行動，不過我並不驚訝。我想那一直是新西蘭的目標。

Todd: I think it was ... it was in the news. I'll have to check so I could be wrong, but I think it was 2050 is the goal of the government to have no predators.

託德：我想我是在新聞中看到的這則消息。我要確認一下，我記的不太清楚，應該是新西蘭政府計劃在2050年前消滅捕食者。

Rachel: That would be amazing.

蕾切爾：那太令人吃驚了。

Todd: And they said the big one is dogs and cats. That's like the sticking point.

託德：政府說主要目標是狗和貓。這是關鍵所在。

Rachel: They're starting to get much stricter about controlling cats and dogs now. Keeping cats inside and keeping dogs leashed, so that they don't run off into the bush and cause a lot of problems.

蕾切爾：他們現在已經開始採取更嚴格的手段控制貓和狗了。確保貓呆在室內，給狗狗拴上狗繩，這樣它們就不會跑進灌木叢裏，不會造成很多問題。

Todd: But dogs I think are probably more domesticated. They're probably not as dangerous, but cats are basically ... they're not that domesticated. They're still natural hunters.

託德：我認爲狗狗可能更易馴化，適合家養。它們可能沒有那麼危險，但是貓……它們沒有那麼戀家。它們仍是天生的獵人。

Rachel: Yeah, we keep them with us to hunt, you know, pests like mice. They live with us, so yeah, they catch a lot of birds, but with the birds nesting on the ground and unable to fly, it's very easy for the dogs to kill them as well.

蕾切爾：對，我們讓貓跟我們一起捕措，比如老鼠等害蟲。貓和我們生活在一起，它們會抓很多鳥，而那些不能飛、在地上築巢的鳥，很容易被狗狗殺死。

Todd: Oh, I see. And dogs can just be naughty sometimes.

託德：哦，我明白了。狗狗有時可能也很淘氣。

Rachel: Heck yes. They run off.

蕾切爾：淘氣。然後它們就會跑開。

Todd: So what do you think? Do you think your country can achieve this goal - no predators - by 2050?

託德：你怎麼看?你認爲新西蘭能實現在2050年前消滅捕食者這一目標嗎?

Rachel: It sounds very challenging. I think at present, only some of the offshore islands are completely pest free. Well, no predators yeah that's not quite the same as no pests because pests also include things like rabbits and possums and deer that don't eat the native species so just predator free might be a bit more achievable I think.

蕾切爾：這聽起來極具挑戰性。我認爲目前，只有幾個近海島嶼完全沒有有害生物。當然，沒有捕食者和沒有有害生物還不完全一樣，因爲有害生物還包括兔子、負鼠和鹿等不吃本土物種的動物，所以我認爲消滅捕食者這一目標可能更易實現。