美語情景對話 第702期:DVD or Cinema DVD還是電影院
Todd: OK, Mark, I thought we would have a mock-debate.
託德：馬克，我們來進行一場模擬辯論吧。Mark: OK, sounds good. What are we debating?
馬克：好，聽起來不錯。我們辯論的主題是什麼？Todd: We're going to debate what is better — to watch a movie on DVD or at the cinema?
託德：我們的辯論題目是是用DVD看電影好還是去電影院看電影好？
Mark: OK, well I would definitely choose DVD.
馬克：好，我肯定會選擇用DVD看電影。Todd: OK, I would say the cinema. So you go first, why is it better on DVD?
託德：好，那我選擇去電影院看電影更好。你先發表觀點，你爲什麼認爲用DVD看電影更好？Mark: I prefer watching movies at home because I can sit on my nice relaxing sofa. I can drink a beer. If I want to lie down on the sofa, I can lie down on the sofa. So in the cinema, you always get somebody at the side of you and they're very noisy eating popcorn or shouting and I can't focus on the movie.
馬克：我喜歡在家裏看電影，因爲可以坐在自己家舒服的沙發上。還可以一邊看電影一邊喝啤酒。如果我想躺在沙發上看電影，那我就可以躺下。可是在電影院，你旁邊總會有吵鬧的人，他們或者在吃爆米花或者大聲喊叫，這種情況讓我無法專心看電影。Todd: See, actually, I would agree that's the opposite. When you watch a movie at home. You have family members that interrupt you. The telephone rings. There's always things going on. Where in a movie, usually people are pretty quiet and you can just sit and enjoy the movie.
託德：我同意相反的觀點。在家看電影的時候可能會被其他家人干擾。電話也可能在這個時候響起。總是會有其他事情發生。而在電影院裏，一般人們都會安靜地觀賞電影，你只要坐在那裏享受電影就行了。Mark: Yeah, but you can tell your family members, do not disturb and switch the telephone off and then you can watch it. Also, I think recently with the quality of the TV's, it's a lot better now to watch at home, for example you've got the plasma screen TV with the surround sound. It's just like being in the movie theater.
馬克：對，不過你可以告訴家人不要打擾你，把電話關機，然後好好欣賞電影。另外，我認爲以現在電視的質量來說，在家裏看電影要好很多，可以用帶有環繞音響系統的等離子電視看電影，那就像在電影院看電影一樣。Todd: Yeah, I don't know. There's something about — I like to a movie, and when you watch a movie at the cinema, you get the bigger screen. Usually nowadays the cinemas have higher quality sound. You've got your popcorn, your hot dog. It's kind of a sense of excitement. When you sit down to watch a movie at home there's not a sense of excitement.
託德：嗯，我不這麼認爲。我喜歡去電影院看電影，電影院的屏幕更大。現在電影院的音響質量更好。還可以一邊吃爆米花或熱狗一邊看電影。而且在電影院看電影會有一種興奮的感覺，在家裏看電影就沒有這種興奮感。Mark: Right, well, I agree that the movie theater has improved. For example recently they've got the beautiful comfortable chair. I live in Japan now, and in Japan you can get a beer at the movie theater. Can you get a beer in America?
馬克：好，我同意電影院的質量提高了。現在電影院的椅子又漂亮又舒服。我現在在日本生活，在日本的電影院看電影可以喝啤酒。在美國可以喝啤酒嗎？Todd: No, I don't think so.
託德：不能，應該是不能。Mark: No, you can't in England as well. I like to drink a beer when I'm watching a movie. So the movie theater has improved, but you have to go to the theater. What happens if it's raining, you don't want to go. If it's snowing, you don't want to go. Whereas at home, now you don't need to the DVD store. You can get them via your TV, right. Just press the magic button.
馬克：是不能，同樣在英國也不可以。我喜歡一邊喝啤酒一邊看電影。雖然電影院的環境有所提高，但是還是要前往電影院去觀看。如果遇到下雨天，你就不會想去電影院了。如果下雪，你肯定也不想去。而現在在家看電影，已經不需要去DVD店買光盤了。你可以在電視上看電影，只要按下那個神奇的按鈕就行了。Todd: True. So the question is, do you think there will even be cinemas is say twenty years, thirty years?
託德：沒錯。現在問題是，你認爲二十年或者三十年以後還有電影院存在嗎？Mark: Well, I've noticed in the last ten years, that the small cinemas in the cities have usually closed, and they're moving out of town to the big multiplexes.
馬克：嗯，我注意到，過去十年城市裏的小型電影院已經相繼關閉，現在的趨勢是在郊區建設多銀幕影院。Todd: Right.
託德：對。Mark: So the number of cinemas has reduced in the past ten years, I think, and it will probably continue to do that. We got a home cinema now. And people are buying huge screen TV's or they are getting all the latest technology in their home. It's cheap enough to buy now, so I'd probably say that cinemas will be no longer in about ten years.
馬克：我認爲過去十年電影院的數量在逐漸減少，而且這種情況很可能會持續下去。我們現在有家庭影院。人們還可以買大屏幕電視，在家裏就可以獲得各種先進技術。現在家庭影院和大屏幕電視的價格很便宜，所以我認爲十年以後可能就沒有電影院了。Todd: Ten years!
託德：十年！Mark: Yeah.
馬克：對。Todd: Well, I hope they don't go away too fast cause I still like them.
託德：我希望電影院不要這麼快消失，我還是很喜歡去電影院看電影的。
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重點講解：
1. focus on 集中（注意力）；關注；
例句：I want tofocus onthat theme today.
這正是我今天將要談到的主題。
2. go on 進行；發生；
例句：That made it impossible for us togo on.
這使我們沒法進行下去。
3. switch off 關掉，關上（電燈等）；
例句：I will remember toswitch offthe lights.
我會記得關燈的。
4. no longer 不再；已不；
例句：This film ticket isno longeravailable.
這張電影票不再有效。
5. go away 離開；
例句：The massage made the hurtgo away.
按摩使疼痛消失了。
