实战口语情景对话 第805期:Essential Stuff 必需品

Jess: Right, Tom, tell me, what three things could you not live without?
杰西：好，汤姆，哪三样东西是你生活中必不可少的？

Tom: Well, I guess you say me playing with my new toy just now. It's my iPod touch and it is fantastic. I often take long bus journeys at the weekend and on this little electronic storage machine with screen I can watch a movie and that's just ... makes bus journeys fly by. It also has wireless internet so I can carry it around and in a coffee shop I can check my e-mail and it has the added function of being able to play music, although I don't listen to music much. That's one. My iPod touch is with me all the time. It's kind of connected to my number 2. Number 2 is the internet. I couldn't live without the internet. I'm online every day — reading newpapers, checking out information about things I want to do and see that day. Keeping in touch with family and friends, although I don't do that as much as they would like. The internet is such a huge part of my life. I can't imagine what it was like ten or fifteen years ago, when nobody was online. Number three, I suppose is the sun, which sounds a bit facile because everything on the whole planet requires the sun, but for me it's not so much about the nutrition that plants and animals derive from the sun. It's just being able to lie and relax in the soft warmth, tanning by the pool letting my mind empty and clear. Those are my three. How about you?
汤姆：嗯，你看到我现在正在玩我的新玩具吧。这是iPod touch，非常棒。我周末经常要坐长时间的公交车，有这个带有屏幕的小型电子储存设备，我就可以在公交车上看电影，这样时间就过得很快。而且这上面还有无线网络，我可以随身携带，可以在咖啡店检查电子邮件，iPod touch还有一个附加功能，可以用它听音乐，不过我不太常听音乐。这是其中一样东西，我随时都要带着我的iPod touch。其实它和我第二样必需品有点儿联系。第二个就是互联网。没有网络我没法生活。我每天都要上网，上网看新闻，了解我当天想做的事情的相关信息。还有用网络和家人以及朋友保持联系，不过我不像他们联系的那么频繁。互联网在我生活中占据很重要的部分。我无法想象十年或十五年前那种没有网络的生活。我想第三样不可或缺的应该是阳光，这听起来可能像是随口说的答案，因为这个星球上的一切都需要阳光，不过对我来说，我需要的不仅仅是动植物从太阳那里得到的营养。还有可以在温暖的阳光下，躺在泳池旁边晒太阳，什么都不想，只是休息。这就是我必不可少的三样东西。你呢？

Jess: Well, I have to agree with your second one, definitely the Internet is one thing couldn't live without either, for the same reasons you mentioned, really, just to stay in touch with people for things like reading the news, checking my e-mail, finding phone numbers, getting information. I really couldn't live without it. The second thing would be my family. I couldn't live without them. I think since I've moved away from Britain and I don't live close to them, and I don't see them regularly anymore, I've grown to love them even more. Kind of you don't realize what you've until it's gone, and that was true with my family. I really miss them all the time, and I love going back to see them, so they're my number two, and my number three would be music. Music's a huge part of my life and I think I remember things by what I was listening to at the time. I'll remember periods of my life by what's songs I was listening to or what album i bought, so for me my memories are very much brought back to me by music, so those are my three things: the Internet, my family, and music.
杰西：嗯，我同意你说的第二样，互联网绝对是我必不可少的，我的理由和你的一样，要和朋友们保持联系，浏览新闻，检查电子邮件，找电话号码，获取信息。没有网络我真的无法生活。第二样是我的家人。没有他们我也没法生活。我离开英国以后，我住得离他们很远，我不能像以前那样经常和他们见面，而我却更爱他们了。就好像你在失去某样东西前没有意识到它的珍贵一样，我和家人的感情就是这样。我真的很想念和他们在一起的时光，我想回去看看他们，所以家人是我不可或缺的，第三样是音乐。音乐在我生活中占据了重要的部分，我通过我当时听的音乐来记忆。我会通过我当时听的音乐或我当时买的专辑来记住生命中的那段时光，对我来说音乐会帮我找回以前的记忆，让我回忆起以前的事情，所以我必不可少的三样东西是：互联网、家人和音乐。