轻松英语口语会话 数字人生(mp3+lrc字幕)

[00:00.00]Lesley:Once again Andy Runey has your number,and he isn't happy about it.
[00:02.34]莱斯利：安迪又有新的号码了，他对此并不高兴。
[00:04.68]Andy:I dislike being a number.
[00:05.76]安迪：我不喜欢变成一个数字。
[00:06.84]I even hate to take a number.
[00:07.90]我憎恨数字。
[00:08.96]All of us dislike being identified by number I think.
[00:10.57]我想没人喜欢被人用数字来辨认。
[00:12.17]First we're all saddled with a nine digit social security number.
[00:14.02]先是强加给我们一个有九位数字的社会安全号。
[00:15.88]I have a business address,that's ten numbers.
[00:17.21]我有一个商务地址，那是用十位数来代表的。
[00:18.54]I have a business telephone number,area code,that's ten more.
[00:20.29]我有个办公电话的号码（包括电话区号），那又是一个十位数。
[00:22.03]Already I have twenty_nine numbers.
[00:23.22]这样我就有二十九个数字了。
[00:24.41]A ten number telephone including the area code,home address and zip code,eight numbers.
[00:27.25]再加上十位数的电话号码（包括电话区号），还有代表家庭住址和邮政区号的八位数，
[00:30.10]I have forty_seven numbers and I'm just getting started.
[00:31.93]我有了四十七个数字，而这才刚刚开始。
[00:33.77]We have two cars each with two license plates;
[00:35.21]我们有两辆车，也就有两个牌照。
[00:36.65]my bank account number has nine digits.
[00:37.91]我的银行账号有九个数字，
[00:39.17]Now I'm up to six_seven numbers that I should remember.
[00:40.57]现在我得记住六十七个数字了。
[00:41.98]Yesterday I got my new American express card;
[00:43.54]昨天，我领到了新的美国运通卡，
[00:45.11]it has fifteen digits.
[00:45.86]客观存在有十五个数字。
[00:46.62]What's that all about?
[00:47.47]这是什么意思？
[00:48.31]The number one trillion has only thirteen digits.
[00:50.11]一万亿也不过十三位，
[00:51.91]Why do they need a number so many times bigger,than the number of people there are in the whole United States?
[00:54.74]他们为什么要用这么大的数字呢？美国的总人口数翻上几番都不如它大。
[00:57.56]My Visa card has sixteen digits;my Master card has another sixteen.
[01:00.10]我的签证卡是十六位数字，万事达卡又是十六位。
[01:02.64]Now I'm up to a hundred and fourteen numbers that somebody uses to put their finger on me.
[01:05.30]瑞在别人要辨认我的时候，我就有一百一十四个数字了。
[01:07.97]The zip code was going to be magic.
[01:09.05]邮政区号变得越来越不可思议。
[01:10.13]Now a lot of addresses have added four numbers to their zip.
[01:11.73]现在有很多地址的邮政区号又加了四个数字。
[01:13.33]In most cities,the telephone company is adding more area codes to confuse people.
[01:15.67]很多城市的电话公司都在将电话区号升位，这把人们弄得越来越糊涂。
[01:18.01]There are two hundred and seventy million Americans,
[01:19.49]现在有两亿七千万美国人。
[01:20.96]why doesn't each one of us get assigned just one of the two hundred and seventy million numbers and that number,would work for everything.
[01:24.31]为什么不是只有两亿七千万个号码，每个人一个，而且一个号码就可以应付所有的事情呢？
[01:27.66]It would be your social security number,your address,phone number,bank account number,American Express,everything.
[01:31.28]它既是你的社会安全号，又能代表你的地址、电话号码、银行账号、美国运通卡卡号，所有的一切。
[01:34.90]Why should our zip code be different from our area code?
[01:36.48]为什么我们的邮政区号和电话区号不同呢？
[01:38.06]I mean this is a computer world.
[01:39.14]我是说，这是一个电脑化的世界。
[01:40.22]Phone company computers would recognize who the number was when someone dialed it and rang that person.
[01:43.43]你如果给别人打电话，一拨号，电话公司的计算机应该就能够辨认这个号码是谁的。
[01:46.63]There would be a different sounding ring for each person in the house or office.
[01:48.72]无论是家里还是办公室里的电话，找不同的人，响铃声应该不同。
[01:50.81]There are a few details that would have to be worked out of course;
[01:52.37]当然，还有些具体的细节问题需要解决。
[01:53.94]I'm sure none of us wants our American Express card on our license plate.
[01:55.65]比如说，我敢肯定，没人希望自己的运通卡号码出现在自己的车牌上。