实战口语情景对话：News Source 信息来源

Todd: Hey, so Ruth, how do you get your news?

托德：嗨，鲁斯，你是如何获取新闻的?

Ruth: Oh, I buy a newspaper.

鲁斯：哦，我会买报纸。

Todd: Oh, really, what paper do you read?

托德：哦，真的吗，你会读什么报纸?

Ruth: I always read the Guardian.

鲁斯：我一般看《卫报》。

Todd: The Guardian. Is that conservative or liberal?

托德：《卫报》。那份报纸是倾向保守还是倾向自由?

Ruth: Oh, it's labor.

鲁斯：哦，倾向于自由。

Todd: Labor. So the Labor newspaper, the Guardian, what angle do they have? Like in the States you'd say it's either conservative, like the Wall street Journal, or it's liberal, like the New York Times.

托德：自由。那自由派的报纸《卫报》会用什么角度来发表文章?就像在美国，报纸不是保守派就是自由派，保守派的代表是《华尔街日报》，而自由派的代表则是《纽约时报》。

Ruth: OK, it would be more like the New York Times.

鲁斯：好，那它与《纽约时报》类似。

Todd: Oh, like the New York Times.

托德：与《纽约时报》类似。

Ruth: Yeah.

鲁斯：是的。

Todd: Actually, I don't even read papers anymore.

托德：实际上，我已经不再看报纸了。

Ruth: What!

鲁斯：什么?

Todd: I mean, I read them online, but I just prefer to get everything on the internet.

托德：我是说，我会浏览在线新闻，我更喜欢在网络上获取各种消息。

Ruth: So, you just read the newspaper on the internet?

鲁斯：所以你会在网络上看报纸新闻了?

Todd: Pretty much. Yeah, I never pay for a paper paper anymore.

托德：基本上的。我不再买报纸了。

Ruth: What! Don't you think that is really anti-social, looking at a screen all day?

鲁斯：什么?你不认为一整天盯着电脑屏幕很反社交吗?

Todd: Yeah, but how much more social is it looking at a paper?

托德：是这样，不过看报纸有多少社交性呢?

Ruth: Well, I don't know. I guess it's not much more social, but I don't know, at least if you read a newspaper, you can read it outside in the fresh air, for example.

鲁斯：嗯，我不知道。我想那样的社交性更多，这我不清楚，至少你可以在室外的新鲜空气下看报纸。

Todd: Well, that's true. I guess so, but it's free, and I know how you're always saving money.

托德：那倒是没错。我想是这样，那很自由，我知道你一直在存钱。

Ruth: Well, that's true but, I think the Guardian is a good newspaper so I like to support them.

鲁斯：这是没错，不过我认为《卫报》是一份很不错的报纸，所以我想支持它。

Todd: I have to admit I do like to go out on Sunday and get a paper and a coffee. Yeah, it's nice.

托德：我必须要承认，我喜欢周日出去买份报纸，然后喝杯咖啡。那很美好。

Ruth: Yeah, even like just walking to the shop to get the newspaper is quite nice.

鲁斯：是啊，就想这样走起商店买份报纸真的很不错。

Todd: Yeah, the thing is though, I don't like how the print media, or newspapers that you buy, have such limited space, and on the internet you can get such a wider range of information that it's just a lot better I think, cause these days I don't know if you can really trust what they put in the newspapers.

托德：是这样没错，不过我不喜欢印刷报纸是因为它们有空间的限制，而在网络上你可以得到更广泛的消息，我认为这要好很多，因为我不知道最近还能不能相信报纸上报道的消息。

Ruth: Yeah, I'm not sure that you always can, but I think TV is the same and I think the internet is exactly the same.

鲁斯：是啊，我也不确定，不过我认为电视新闻也是一样的情况，而网络当然也是这样。

Todd: Yeah, that's actually why I like radio news, cause I think radio news is a lot more in depth. You can actually hear the person talking, and unlike TV that has very short clips, radio news usually has longer segments, so I am a big fan of that.

托德：对，实际上这就是我喜欢听广播新闻的原因，因为我认为广播新闻更具深度。你可以听到人们的谈话，不像电视新闻都是很短的片段，广播新闻通常报道时间更长，所以我是广播新闻的拥趸。

Ruth: Yeah, I like the radio, but you can't see the pictures and I don't have a very good imagination, so I like to see the pictures.

鲁斯：嗯，我也喜欢广播，不过广播新闻不能看到画面，而我又不擅于想象，所以我更喜欢看有画面的新闻。

Todd: Ah, I just love the voice. I love when they go, "And now to our correspondent in blah-blah-blah." It just sounds cool.

托德：啊，我就喜欢声音。我喜欢他们说“现在连线我们的记者……”。听起来很酷。

Ruth: No, you're right, it does sound good. And it's free as well.

鲁斯：你是对的，那听起来是不错。而且也同样自由。

Todd: Well, I have the internet in my apartment so anytime you want to read the internet news just come on over.

托德：嗯，我的公寓里有网络，所以任何时候你想浏览网络新闻都可以过来。

Ruth: Oh, thanks very much. Also, I have a newspaper in my apartment and I get a subscription so, come along and read the newspaper at my flat.

鲁斯：非常感谢你。同样，我公寓里有报纸，而且我也有订阅，所以你可以来我的公寓看报纸。

Todd: Oh, cool, I'll definitely take you up on that.

托德：太好了，我一定会接受你的邀请过去的。

Ruth: OK.

鲁斯：好的。