美語情景對話 第982期:Google Glasses 谷歌眼鏡
Todd: So Josh, in another interview you were talking about Google Glasses.
託德：喬什，在另一期節目裏你提到過谷歌眼鏡。Josh: Yeah, that's right.
喬什：對，沒錯。Todd: So, what do you think about Google Glasses?
託德：你怎麼看谷歌眼鏡？
Josh: Google Glasses. Well, right off the bat I think privacy issues.
喬什：谷歌眼鏡。嗯，我馬上就想到了隱私問題Todd: Right.
託德：好。Josh: Just because probably everyone's read the articles about how it might make there be no privacy.
喬什：因爲可能所有人都看了那篇谷歌眼鏡可能會造成沒有隱私的報道。Todd: Like well explain, like how so? How would there be no privacy?
託德：我們要解釋一下，爲什麼？爲什麼會沒有隱私？Josh: Well, if everyone's wearing these glasses and they have cameras on them, you wouldn't know when they have their camera on and when they have it off so if you're just talking with someone on the street they could be recording you and planning some lawsuit against you or anything like that. And if you're not thinking about it then for all you know they're recording whatever you're saying and they could use that against you. And it's hard to be that careful.
喬什：如果所有人都戴上這種眼鏡，相當於他們一直帶着攝像機，你不知道他們什麼時候打開攝像機，什麼時候關上，所以如果你和別人在街上聊天，那他們可能會記錄下你說的話，然後對你提起訴訟之類的。如果你沒想到這點而暢所欲言的話，那他們可能會錄下你的話，然後用來對付你。要做到如此小心很難。Todd: But couldn't you do that with another device? Like you could already do that with hidden cameras or recorders as well, right?
託德：可是，用其他設備也能做到吧？比如可以用隱藏攝像機或錄音機之類的，對吧？Josh: Yeah, that's absolutely true, which is why a lot of people say it won't be a problem. But the issue is I guess is just if everyone starts wearing them then there's so much footage of everything that the other problem would be if that's all running through Google servers, some people get nervous about Google being able to hand over just loads of video data to the government or to anyone who asks, right, because who knows what they do with it.
喬什：是，你說得完全正確，所以有很多人認爲這並不是問題。但是我認爲，問題是如果所有人都開始戴谷歌眼鏡，那所有事都會被記錄下來，另一個問題是，如果這些都儲存在谷歌的服務器上，有人擔心谷歌會把大量的視頻數據交給政府或其他提出要求的人，因爲沒有人知道他們會用這些視頻做什麼。Todd: Yeah, that's true. So actually, what can these glasses do? Like what are the functions of the glasses?
託德：沒錯。那這種眼鏡能做什麼？這種眼鏡有哪些功能？Josh: So actually, the functions are really cool and when you watch the video of how they work online, you can see that it'll put a screen in the upper left hand area of your view and it'll look like it's floating in front of you. So then that screen that you see, you'll be able to say things like, "Take a picture" and then you'll see a flash in front of you and then you'll see the picture save to the hard drive of the glasses. And then that screen can also display like a GPS data or it could display text messages or emails, whatever you want. And you just talk to it and you can tell it to scroll down or read it to you or whatever you need it to do. So it's like a virtual assistant that you always have on.
喬什：它們有非常酷的功能，你在網上看介紹這類眼鏡的視頻時，你可以看到它會在你視角左上方區域設置一個屏幕，看起來就像那個屏幕就漂浮在你前面一樣。然後在你看到的那個屏幕上，如果你說“拍照”，你就會看到眼前一個閃光，然後照片就保存到谷歌眼鏡的硬盤裏了。在那個屏幕上你還可以顯示GPS數據或者短信和郵件等任何你需要的內容。你只要告訴它你想讓它做的事情，比如讓它向下滾動或是讀出內容，或是其他你想讓它做的事情。這種眼鏡就像你一直戴在身上的虛擬助理一樣。Todd: That sound pretty incredible. What about like just depth perception? It seems to me that it must be really hard for your eyes to be, you know, observing something so close to it. I can't think of anything else where you can see it and it's that close to your eye.
託德：聽起來真不可思議。那深度知覺呢？在我看來，眼睛很難觀察到如此近距離的東西。我想不到你能看到其他任何離你眼睛如此之近的東西。Josh: Yeah, that's right so they're using these new technology in screens. I don't remember the name but it's a micro screen and because the pixels are so small in the screen, your eye will actually be able to pick it up well, it's that's close to your eye.
喬什：對，沒錯，所以他們將這種新技術應用到屏幕上。我不記得具體名字了，不過我知道那是微屏幕，因爲屏幕上的像素非常小，所以你的眼睛能看到距離如此近的東西。Todd: That's incredible!
託德：這太不可思議了！Josh: Yeah, absolutely.
喬什：當然了。Todd: So, how about these glasses, like would you want to be an early adopter?
託德：那你想做這種眼睛的早期採用者嗎？Josh: I actually applied to be one because last month they were going to accept 2,000 people to try them out early. And I applied, I didn't get in. You had to have a good story for why you'd want to do that and I didn't spend much time on it but I thought it was interesting.
喬什：實際上，我已經申請了，上個月他們宣佈會需要2000個人來提前試戴這種眼鏡。所以我就申請了，不過我沒有入選。你必須要有一個好的故事說明你爲什麼想試戴這種眼鏡，但是我沒在理由上花太多心思，不過我認爲那很有意思。Todd: So, what was your story? What did you tell them?
託德：那你寫了什麼理由？你跟他們說了什麼？Josh: What was my story? Again I didn't spend much time on them but I said that I was in Japan and that being able to travel and have that on, I could take really cool pictures and make interesting YouTube videos or whatever to help other people see what I'm seeing and be able to explore with me.
喬什：我的理由？我並沒有花太多心思，我說我在日本，我可以在旅行的時候戴谷歌眼鏡，我會拍非常酷的圖片，製作有意思的優兔網視頻，幫助其他人瞭解我看到的事情，和我一起探索。Todd: Yeah, that sounds like it's pretty competitive. It would be pretty hard to make it the final cost?
託德：嗯，聽起來非常有競爭力。決定最終成本是不是很難？Josh: Yeah.
喬什：對。Todd: So do you know the price tag on these glasses, how much they'll cost?
託德：那你知道這種眼鏡的定價嗎，大概要多少錢？Josh: So Google's actually put a cap on it. They said that it will be under $1500.
喬什：谷歌設置了上限。他們說價格不會超過1500美元。Todd: That's it?
託德：是這樣嗎？Josh: Yeah.
喬什：對。Todd: Wow! And it's basically it has all the power of a computer?
託德：哇哦！它是不是有和電腦一樣的功能？Josh: All the power of a computer with a lot less memory so you will have to go to your computer and upload things. And it will also be connected to the internet. So with 3G, you'll be able to upload things to Facebook, and yeah, basically like a computer.
喬什：和電腦的功能一樣，但是內存要小很多，所以要把文件上傳到電腦上。同時，也要連網。用3G網絡，你能將文件上傳到臉譜網上，所以基本上就像電腦一樣。Todd: Man, that is going to be some future.
託德：天哪，那真像未來的場景。Josh: Yeah, interesting.
喬什：對，很有意思。
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1. right off the bat 馬上；立刻；
例句：He learned right off the bat that you can't count on anything in this business.
他立刻明白在這一行業中不能依靠任何東西。
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例句：She got them to hand over all their money by a wicked deceit.
她用卑鄙的手段使他們把所有的錢移交給她。
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例句：The method seems good but it needs to be tried out.
這個方法似乎不錯，但需要試驗一下
