CALVIN: So, are you pretty well settled in your new place?
TOM: I still have to buy a washing machine and dryer.
But otherwise I've pretty much finished moving.
CALVIN: Does your building have cable TV?
TOM: I'm not sure. I didn't check yet.
CALVIN: Huh? How can you move into a building if you don't check?
You don't want to live somewhere where it's hard to get cable.
TOM: Why? I'm not a big TV fan. I watch very little.
CALVIN: Well, I agree. Regular TV is lousy. I don't watch it either.
But cable TV is excellent. Didn't you have it at your old place?
TOM: My girlfriend had it hooked up for about three months.
But I rarely watched it. I was too busy.
CALVIN: What do you do for news?
TOM: I read the newspaper. That's much better than cable TV.
CALVIN: I don't agree. I think it's better in some ways.
But CNN is great. With CNN, you have fast news coverage, and images too.
And you can watch it while you're eating breakfast.
TOM: Yes, I've watched CNN before. But I still like the newspaper better.
CALVIN: Larry King Live is my favorite talk show.
I think shows like his are excellent ways to hear different opinions about world events.
TOM: So maybe I will get cable hooked up. Just to watch CNN, I mean.
CALVIN: But that's not all you have with cable.
There are a lot of things you can get. Do you like MTV?
TOM: No, not at all. I don't care about that.
I like Beavis and Butthead. They're hilarious.
But I never watch music videos. They dry up your brain.
CALVIN: How about the Discovery channel?
TOM: Yes, I forgot about Discovery.
I have to agree that's an excellent channel.
And maybe, for the first time in history, it's a channel that does some good in the world.
CALVIN: What do you mean?
TOM: I mean, usually TV channels are only good for advertising products.
In other words, they are good for making money.
But the Discovery channel does a lot to show people how the environment is being destroyed.
CALVIN: Yes, it does. I agree.
TOM: I think the Discovery channel makes people think about protecting the environment.
That is a great service to the future of the world.
CALVIN: So you see: cable TV can be important.
TOM: Yes, I suppose.
凱文:你的新家都安頓好了嗎?
湯姆:我還要買洗衣機(jī)和干洗機(jī)
但除此而外差不多都安頓好了。
凱文:你家有有線電視嗎?
湯姆:不確定,我沒檢查過呢。
凱文:什么?你沒檢查過就搬進(jìn)去了呢?
你不會(huì)想住在申請(qǐng)不到有線電視的地方吧?
湯姆:為什么?我不是電視迷,我很少看電視。
凱文:沒錯(cuò)!無線電視臺(tái)的節(jié)目都很遜,我也不太看。
不過有線電視臺(tái)就不錯(cuò),你以前住的地方?jīng)]有有線電視嗎?
湯姆:我女朋友裝了三個(gè)月。
但是我很少看,我太忙了。
凱文:那你怎么知道新聞?
湯姆:我看報(bào)紙,那比看電視還好。
凱文:我不認(rèn)同。我想某方面的確比較好。
但是美國有線新聞網(wǎng)很不錯(cuò), 隨時(shí)有最新的新聞報(bào)導(dǎo)和畫面。
而且你還可以邊吃早餐邊看新聞。
湯姆:我以前看過,不過我還是覺得看報(bào)紙比較好。
凱文:賴瑞.金直播是我最喜歡的脫口秀。
看他如何呈現(xiàn)世界大事的不同觀點(diǎn)是很過癮的事。
湯姆:那或許我會(huì)裝有線電視,我的意見是只看美國有線新聞網(wǎng)。
凱文:但還不只這樣。
你還可以收看很多節(jié)目。你喜歡音樂電視嗎?
湯姆:絕不,我才不看咧!
我喜歡它的卡通《癟四與大頭蛋》,好有趣喔。
但是我絕不看音樂電視,那會(huì)榨干你的腦袋。
凱文:那么探索臺(tái)呢?
湯姆:是的,我忘了還有探索臺(tái)。
我必須承認(rèn)那是很棒的頻道。
而且很可能是有史以來首個(gè)對(duì)世界有所貢獻(xiàn)的節(jié)目。
凱文:什么意思?
湯姆:我的意思是,通常電視頻道只對(duì)商品宣傳有利。
換言之是營利導(dǎo)向。
但是探索臺(tái)頻道做了很多節(jié)目,告訴人們環(huán)境正在遭到破壞。
凱文:的確是。我同意。
湯姆:我覺得探索臺(tái)頻道讓人們意識(shí)到要保護(hù)環(huán)境。
這對(duì)世界的未來有極大的貢獻(xiàn)。
凱文:所以你看,有線電臺(tái)也頗重要的。
湯姆:我想是的。