实战口语情景对话：TV Remote Wars 电视遥控器之争

Todd: So Mark, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

托德：马克，如果你不介意，我想问一下你今年多大年纪?

Mark: I'm 31.

马克：我今年31岁。

Todd: 31. OK, and so you probably don't remember but like... I'm 37 and I remember watching television with no remote control. Like just the big square box you have to go up and turn.

托德：31岁。那你可能不记得……我今年37岁，我还记得电视没有遥控器的那个时候。那时的电视像一个大方盒子，要走到电视那里去换台。

Mark: Yeah, I remember that.

马克：对，我记得。

Todd: Was it the same when you were a kid?

托德：跟你小时候的情况一样吗?

Mark: That's right. I think I actually had a TV like that up until about ten years ago when I was at a university student.

马克：对，一样。我想大概十年前我上大学时还有一台那样的电视。

Todd: Really.

托德：真的吗?

Mark: Yeah, you just pressed on the button.

马克：对，要按下按钮。

Todd: You know actually, the remote control is so much more convenient but I actually miss having to turn the knob because you don't have so many choices. You know. Like, you pick a channel and you stick with it and then you watch it, but with the remote control you just want to flick, flick, flick.

托德：现在有遥控器方便了很多，不过我很想念转动旋钮的那个时候，因为当时没有那么多选择。选定一个频道，你就会一直看那个台，可是有遥控器的话，你就会一直换台，不停换台。

Mark: Yeah, I call it flick-a-vision. Yeah. I quite like flick-a-vision.

马克：对，我称之为快速换画面。对，我经常快速换画面。

Todd: So what's flick-a-vision?

托德：什么是快速换画面?

Mark: Well, just when you watch each channel for maybe a minute or two and then change, change, change, change. Yeah, I often do that. Like you say you don't focus on the whole program.

马克：就是一个频道只看一两分钟然后就换台，不停换台。我经常这么做。就像你说的，你不会看完整个节目。

Todd: Right. And it's terrible when you're sitting with somebody else and they have the remote control and they keep flicking away.

托德：对。和别人一起看电视而遥控器又掌握在那个人手里时非常糟糕，因为他们会一直换台。

Mark: Right, that causes a lot of family fights in my house. Yeah.

马克：对，对，我们家经常因为这件事发生争执。

Todd: Well, actually, you are a newly married man, so do you have any remote control wars with your wife?

托德：你最近刚结婚，你有没有和你的妻子因为谁掌握遥控器发生过争执?

Mark: Recently no. Not at the moment because I am living in a very small house with a small room. It's quite easy to get up and turn over the TV without using the remote. But we're not fighting at the moment but I can see in the future we will be so the key there is probably to have two rooms with two TVs.

马克：最近没有。目前没有是因为我生活在一个房间非常小的小房子里。不用遥控器也可以很方便地走到电视机那里去换台。虽然我们目前并没有因为这件事争执，不过我想以后我们可能会有争执，所以可以通过把两台电视放在两个房间里来解决这个问题。