美語情景對話 第1068期:Dialed In vs Unplugged 入網VS斷網

Aimee: So Paul, speaking of technology, how long do you think you can go without checking your phone?

艾米：保羅，說到科技，你認爲你可以多長時間不看手機？

Paul: Ah, it's quite embarrassing, really, if I'm honest, I check it a lot. I really do, like I'm always having to look at Facebook, my emails. I'm looking at the football news online... yeah, I mean... It's not something that I'm proud about; but it's something that, yeah, it's quite a big part of my life, I think.

保羅：說起來真的很不好意思，說實話我看手機的次數很頻繁。我經常看手機，我一直在看臉譜網還有郵件。我還會在網上瀏覽足球新聞。我並不是以此爲榮，只是我想那已經成爲了我生活的一部分。

Aimee: If you left the house and you had forgotten your phone, would you feel something really missing?

艾米：如果你出家門以後發現忘了帶手機，那你會感覺少了些什麼嗎？

Paul: I did actually I forgot my...I use my ipad a lot, and I forgot my iPad the other day just as I was leaving, and my bus was about to arrive. And I really had the strong like pull to get back for it. But I caught myself and decided that yeah, I can manage without it, you know, for one day.

保羅：我的確忘帶過，我比較常用iPad，有一天我出門時忘了帶我的iPad，而公交車馬上就要到了。我非常想回去拿。可是我阻止了自己，我想沒有iPad我也可以度過一天。

Aimee: Could you manage?

艾米：那你做到了嗎？

Paul: Yeah, I did, I didn't even think about it actually. It was just that you know, that sort of momentary pull where I thought I needed it, and then actually having you know, sort of considered it seriously. It was like, I don't need it, so yeah, I did find without it I didn't have to be like hooked up to a life support system or anything. Yeah, it's amazing really, how it comes to be such a central part in your life. How long do you think you could go without using the internet?

保羅：做到了，我甚至沒有去想它。我以爲我很需要它，這其實是一種瞬間的吸引，可是再仔細考慮一下，你會發現，我並不需要它，而且沒有iPad，我就不用連接這個所謂的“生命支持系統”了。它是如何成爲生活中心的，這真是太不可思議了。你能多長時間不用網絡？

Aimee: Ahh, I check my phone thousands of times a day... To exaggerate, did I say thousands? I check it too much, I think, far too much. If I left my home, I would feel gutted. I would feel like I'm really, really missing something. It would definitely be a big, big pull, I think. I read a lot of things on the internet and I check things and, and yeah. When it's not there, then I do feel like something is maybe I should be doing something, or missing out on something. And it's not good - I'm embarrassed it's not good at all. So I think I need to work on unplugging.

艾米：啊，我一天要看幾千次手機。我有些誇張了，我剛是不是說了幾千次？我想我看手機的次數太多了。如果我把手機落在家裏，那我會感覺非常沮喪。我會覺得少了些什麼。我想那一定是非常大的吸引。我在網絡上瀏覽很多內容，還要查看很多東西。如果我沒帶手機，那我感覺我應該做些什麼事情，否則我會感覺少了些什麼。這樣並不好，我很尷尬，這樣一點都不好。我認爲我應該斷網。

Paul: I've heard a lot of people they try to do at least one or two days a week when they don't use the internet at all. But that sounds like it could be quite a good idea. You know, maybe just you know, unplug.

保羅：我聽說有很多人每週儘量有一天或兩天的時間完全不用網絡。我認爲那聽起來是個非常不錯的主意。遠離電子產品。

Aimee: Yeah. Do you think you could?

艾米：對。你認爲你能做到嗎？

Paul: I think I could, yeah, I think I could. In fact, I really like hiking and being outdoors, and, I think one of the things I really love about it is that I'm... nobody can contact me, you know? And I'm kinda away from everything. And I really enjoy those moments.

保羅：我想我能，我可以做到。實際上，我很喜歡徒步，我喜歡戶外活動，這些活動讓我着迷的其中一個原因是，我進行戶外運動時沒人能聯繫到我。那讓我遠離一切。我非常享受那些時刻。

Aimee: Uhm, yeah. I don't know if I could. I always have to cut down before going cold turkey, I think, I've got to cut down. I'm trying to cut down. You know, I mentioned before, I'm trying to get back into reading uhm, just get back into real books instead of screen time. So, yeah, I couldn't go cold turkey, I think, a couple of days a week. I would need to cut down.

艾米：嗯。我不知道我能不能做到。在完全停止使用電子產品之前，我會減少使用時間。我會逐漸減少使用時間。我之前提到過，我在努力找回我的閱讀習慣，我要看紙質書，而不是電子書。一週有幾天的時間完全不使用電子設備，我想我做不到。我需要逐漸減少使用時間。

Paul: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we should probably yeah, make a concerted effort I think it is probably good for us to try to reduce our, you know, user time.

保羅：對，沒錯，我想也許我們應該一起努力，我認爲這會幫助我們減少使用電子產品的時間。

Aimee: Yeap.

艾米：好的。

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重點講解：
1. speaking of (接過話頭引入新話題)說到…，談到…；
例句：Speaking of hamburgers, I am as hungry as a hawk.
說到漢堡包，我感到餓極了。
2. hook up 連接，接通（計算機或其他電子儀器）；
例句：The wireman hooked up a telephone.
線路工人已把電話裝好並接通。
3. miss out on 沒有參加，錯過(對自己有益或有趣的事)；
例句：If you dwell on the bad things in life,you miss out on all the good things.
如果你一直躊躇於生活中那些糟糕的事上，你就會錯過一切美好的事情。
4. cut down 削減；減少使用；
例句：I haven't given up smoking but I'm cutting down.
我沒有斷煙，但是抽菸少了。