美語情景對話 第1348期:Phone Addiction 手機上癮(1)

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。

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重點講解：
1. be addicted to 入迷的；着迷的；
They are addicted to computer games.
他們對計算機遊戲上了癮。
2. keep on 重複；繼續；
He didn't come at all. It was silly of us to keep on waiting for him.
他根本沒有來，我們傻等了他半天。
3. set down 放下；
The waiter set down refills on a coffee table.
侍者把重新斟滿的酒杯放在咖啡几上。
4. be mad at 對……生氣；
She was mad at her husband for forgetting her birthday.
她因爲她的丈夫忘了她的生日而生氣。