實(shí)戰(zhàn)口語情景對(duì)話：Media-Then and Now 媒體-那時(shí)和現(xiàn)在

Meg: Hey Todd, so continuing talking about then and now, I was thinking we could switch to talking about just life in general.

梅格：嘿，托德，我們繼續(xù)來討論“那時(shí)和現(xiàn)在”，我想我們可以把話題轉(zhuǎn)向日常生活。

Todd: Sounds good.

托德：聽上去不錯(cuò)。

Meg: So my first question for you is are movies today more interesting than before?

梅格：我第一個(gè)問題是，你認(rèn)為現(xiàn)在的電影比以前的電影更有意思嗎?

Todd: Well. I'm gonna sound like an old guy, but I would say no, movies are not more interesting today. Movies were much better, twenty, thirty years ago. The stories were better. They were more interesting. These days movies just have too much special effects, and there's too many movies about superheroes. I hate movies about superheroes. So yeah, I think movies used to be more interesting. What do you think?

托德：嗯。聽起來我可能像上了年紀(jì)的人，不過我的回答是不是，現(xiàn)在的電影并不比以前的電影有意思。二三十年前的電影更好。以前的電影劇情更好，也更有意思。現(xiàn)在的電影加了太多特效，而且超級(jí)英雄類的電影太多了。我討厭超級(jí)英雄的電影。所以我認(rèn)為以前的電影更有意思。你怎么看?

Meg: I have the opposite opinion of you. I think movies today are more interesting than before. Maybe I'm too used to a lot of special effects, so when I watch some older movies, the story might be interesting, but I get a little bored watching it and actually I love superhero movies.

梅格：我和你的看法不同。我認(rèn)為現(xiàn)在的電影比以前的有意思。也許我已經(jīng)很習(xí)慣大量特效場(chǎng)面了，所以我在看老電影時(shí)，雖然電影情節(jié)很有意思，不過在觀看時(shí)我覺得有些無聊，實(shí)際上我很喜歡超級(jí)英雄電影。

Todd: Oh really?

托德：哦，真的嗎?

Meg: So I would say that yes, any superhero movies - Spiderman or Batman especially is my favorite so those movies for me are more interesting than in the past.

梅格：所以……對(duì)，我喜歡所有超級(jí)英雄電影……我的最愛是《蜘蛛俠》或《蝙蝠俠》，所以我認(rèn)為這些電影比以前的電影更有意思。

Todd: OK, well we're talking about comparatives, so who's cooler Batman or Spiderman?

托德：好，我們來比較一下，蝙蝠俠和蝙蝠俠誰更酷?

Meg: Oh, Batman. Hands down.

梅格：哦，當(dāng)然是蝙蝠俠。

Todd: I'm sorry. I think Spiderman's really lame. I've never liked Spiderman.

托德：抱歉，我認(rèn)為蜘蛛俠很差勁。我從來沒喜歡過蜘蛛俠。

Meg: He kind of whines a lot.

梅格：他經(jīng)常發(fā)牢騷。

Todd: He looks like a kid in his pajamas.

托德：他看起來像穿著睡衣的孩子。

Meg: He is a kid in his pajamas.

梅格：他是穿著睡衣的孩子。

Todd: Maybe that's it.

托德：也許就是這樣。

Meg: Whereas Batman has a lot of skills that he's developed himself, so.

梅格：相反，蝙蝠俠有很多技能，而且還會(huì)開發(fā)新能力。

Todd: True, true. OK, well how about Batman, so like who is better?

托德：對(duì)，沒錯(cuò)。那就扮演蝙蝠俠的演員來說，你覺得誰演得更好?

Meg: Who is the best Batman?

梅格：誰是蝙蝠俠最佳扮演者?

Todd: Yeah, so who is better? Who was the last one? It was ...

托德：對(duì)，誰演的更好?上次扮演蝙蝠俠的演員是誰來著?

Meg: Well, the most recent Batman was Ben Affleck, but I didn't watch that one.

梅格：在最新一部系列電影中扮演蝙蝠俠的是本·阿弗萊克，不過我沒看過那部電影。

Todd: OK.

托德：好。

Meg: So before that, there was Christian Bale.

梅格：在他之前，扮演者是克里斯蒂安·貝爾。

Todd: Oh, that's right.

托德：哦，沒錯(cuò)。

Meg: So without having seen Ben Affleck, I would still say that Christian Bale was a better Batman.

梅格：我沒看過本·阿弗萊克版的蝙蝠俠，我認(rèn)為克里斯蒂安·貝爾的演繹更好。

Todd: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure. OK, so let's talk about other things. How about the news? With news are you more knowledgable these days than before, say five ten years ago?

托德：對(duì)，我也是，我也這么認(rèn)為。我們來談?wù)勂渌虑榘?。新聞?就新聞來說，你現(xiàn)在比以前了解的新聞范圍更廣、更全面嗎，比如和5年前相比?

Meg: Actually, I think I am less knowledgable than before. There's a lot of news out there, and it's easy to access the news but there's so much news coming from so many sources, I'm not sure which news service is more trustworthy, so I think it's more difficult now to find the correct news. The true news. What do you think?

梅格：實(shí)際上，我認(rèn)為我現(xiàn)在比以前了解的更少了?，F(xiàn)在有很多新聞，很容易獲取新聞，但是新聞的來源太多，我不知道哪個(gè)來源更可信，所以我認(rèn)為現(xiàn)在很難找到準(zhǔn)確的、真實(shí)的新聞。你怎么看?

Todd: I agree. Sadly I think I am less knowledgable because before I would read the newspaper, or I would read magazine articles or I would listen to better news stories on the news. These days I just look at a Facebook headline and I don't even read the article, so I don't even know what's going on sometimes. Which is terrible for a man my age.

托德：我同意。不幸的是，我認(rèn)為我現(xiàn)在也比以前接觸的新聞少了，因?yàn)橐郧拔視?huì)看報(bào)紙，或是看雜志文章、收聽新聞。而現(xiàn)在我只是看臉譜網(wǎng)頭條，但是不會(huì)點(diǎn)進(jìn)去看文章，有時(shí)我甚至不知道發(fā)生了什么事。對(duì)一個(gè)我這么大年紀(jì)的人來說，這太糟糕了。

Meg: Terrible for anyone I think.

梅格：我認(rèn)為對(duì)所有人來說都很糟糕。

Todd: Yeah, I think it's because I think the news was more honest than before, than now, sorry. I think the news is less honest these days. It used to be more honest. I just don't trust the news anymore.

托德：對(duì)，我認(rèn)為以前的新聞比現(xiàn)在更真實(shí)。我認(rèn)為現(xiàn)在的新聞不太真實(shí)。以前更真實(shí)一些。我只是不再相信新聞了。

Meg: Yeah, I don't really trust it either.

梅格：對(duì)，我也不相信新聞了。

Todd: Yeah, less trustworthy.

托德：對(duì)，可信性小了。

Meg: So along those lines, would you say social media makes life better or worse for people?

梅格：從這方面來說，你認(rèn)為社交媒體是使人們的生活更好了還是更糟了?

Todd: I think it's both, like I think it's you know, three points better, two points worse, so it's a negative. It's better because you can keep track of so many family members, especially if you're far away, so I like how it connects people, yeah, it just makes people sad sometimes, or makes them frustrated about their life maybe, so yeah, I don't think it makes life better. But I'm an old guy, so...

托德：我認(rèn)為兩者都有，有些方面更好了，有些方面更糟了，我認(rèn)為是負(fù)面影響。社交媒體使人們的生活更好了，是因?yàn)槟憧梢院秃芏嗉彝コ蓡T保持聯(lián)系，尤其是你在遠(yuǎn)方的時(shí)候，用社交媒體和家人聯(lián)系非常方便，我很喜歡這點(diǎn)，但是有時(shí)社交媒體會(huì)讓人感到傷心，或者是讓人們對(duì)生活感到失望，所以我認(rèn)為社交媒體并沒有使生活變得更好。不過也許可能因?yàn)槲夷昙o(jì)大了，所以……

Meg: Yeah, I think it's true. I think there are scientific studies to show that because of social media, people compare themselves too much so it's quite appropriate that we are talking about comparison because people will see other people's lives on social media that look quite good and they will compare themselves and feel bad about themselves, or for some people I think it has made it worse, but like you, I agree that some points are better like seeing pictures from my family.

梅格：對(duì)，我認(rèn)為你說的沒錯(cuò)。有科學(xué)研究表明，由于社交媒體的出現(xiàn)，人們進(jìn)行了過多的比較，比較這個(gè)詞非常貼切，因?yàn)槿藗兛梢栽谏缃幻襟w上看到其他人的生活，別人的生活看起來非常好，他們會(huì)拿自己去比較，然后會(huì)覺得自己的生活很糟糕，對(duì)有些人來說社交媒體使他們的生活變得更糟了，和你一樣，我同意的確在有些方面使人們的生活更好了，比如可以通過社交媒體看到家人的照片。

Todd: Yeah, so true.

托德：對(duì)，沒錯(cuò)。