实战口语情景对话 第1172期:The Right Age 合适的年龄

Katie: So I want to ask you about when is the right age to have stuff or to start doing stuff. What do you think is the right age to start having a phone?
凯蒂：请你谈谈拥有某物或开始做某事的合适年龄。你认为几岁可以有手机？

Aimee: Oh, I think for security reasons, to, you know, keep the child safe, perhaps maybe about 11 or 12 when they start going around places without their parents.
艾米：哦，我认为出于安全考虑，为了保证孩子的安全，也许11岁或12岁左右可以有手机，因为那时孩子开始在没有家长陪同的情况下四处走动。

Katie: Yeah.
凯蒂：对。

Aimee: It would be a way for me to contact my daughter. Even now, my daughter is only six and she doesn't have a phone, and that's far too young, I believe. However, she walks to school by herself and walks home by herself. And that stresses me out for her safety. So there are times where I wish I could phone her or text her, but she doesn't have a phone. And I do believe that six is far too young to have a phone.
艾米：手机应该是我可以联系我女儿的方法。不过现在我女儿只有6岁，她没有手机，我认为这个年龄用手机太早了。不过，她自己步行上学，晚上放学自己步行回家。我非常担心她的安全。所以有时我希望我能给她打电话或是发信息，不过她没有手机。我认为六岁的孩子还太小，不能用手机。

Katie: A little bit too young.
凯蒂：是太小了。

Aimee: Yes. So purely for security reasons, I think probably around 11 or 12.
艾米：对。单纯从安全角度考虑，我认为11岁或12岁左右比较合适。

Katie: How old were you when you first got your phone.
凯蒂：你几岁开始用手机的？

Aimee: Well, I'm an old person so, you know, people didn't have mobile phones. I was reaching the end of high school. I was, I think, 17 when I got my first mobile phone. And it was a big brick. But again, that was for, you know, I guess security reasons.
艾米：嗯，我年纪挺大的了，你知道 ，以前人们都没有手机。我在高中毕业时才有了第一部手机。我想，我是在17岁时有的第一部手机。那时的手机和砖块一样。不过，那也是为了安全考虑。

Katie: Yeah.
凯蒂：嗯。

Aimee: My parents got it for me. I was going out, you know, I started going out at night, going to concerts. And I was beginning to be allowed going into bars and things at 17, 18. So yeah, it was a good security thing. My parents were appreciative of being able to contact me.
艾米：我父母给我买了手机。当时我开始在晚上外出，会去看音乐会。十七八岁的时候，我可以去酒吧了。所以，手机是安全保障。我父母可以用手机联系到我。

Katie: Yeah.
凯蒂：对。

Aimee: How about you? How old were you when you first got your mobile phone?
艾米：你呢？你多大有的第一部手机？

Katie: Oh goodness. I was about 12 or 13. I was really young.
凯蒂：我的天哪。我大概是12岁或13岁的时候。当时我很小。

Aimee: Okay.
艾米：好。

Katie: And I only got my first mobile phone or my first cellphone because my best friend who got the same one and I wanted to send like picture messages to her. It was back in the old days where you can send a photo, you can take photos.
凯蒂：因为我最好的朋友有了手机，我想给她传彩信，所以我得到了一个和她一样的手机。那个时候，手机可以传图片和拍照。

Aimee: Picture messages.
艾米：图片彩信。

Katie: Picture messages.
凯蒂：图片彩信。

Aimee: I couldn't even send picture messages. Mine was just texts, like pressing the same button over and over again.
艾米：我的手机都不能传图片彩信。只能发文字消息，要一直按同样的按键。

Katie: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So I never really used it as like a way of security. I just used it to send really overpriced picture messages to my friend for absolutely no reason. It was such a waste. And to play Snake. Do you remember Snake?
凯蒂：哦，对，没错。我从来没把手机当做安全保障。我只是用手机给朋友发非常贵的彩信，而且没有什么理由。那简直是浪费。当时还玩贪吃蛇。你还记得贪吃蛇吗？

Aimee: Oh yeah, Snake.
艾米：哦对，贪吃蛇。

Katie: Like the little game that you could play on your phone.
凯蒂：手机上可以玩一些小游戏。

Aimee: Yup, yup.
艾米：对，对。

Katie: Yeah. I didn't use it for a good use, I think. I just used it to waste time.
凯蒂：嗯。我想我没有善用手机。我只是浪费了时间。

Aimee: Fair enough. Well, you're 12, you said, right?
艾米：情有可原。你刚说你当时只有12岁，对吧？

Katie: Twelve, thirteen, yeah.
凯蒂：12岁或13岁。

Aimee: That sounds age appropriate, I think, age appropriate use.
艾米：我认为听起来那与年龄相符。

Katie: Yeah. It's a good time to start wasting your time.
凯蒂：对。是开始浪费时间的年龄。

Aimee: Yeah.
艾米：对。

Katie: Get ahead to start wasting time.
凯蒂：开始浪费时间。

Aimee: Yeah.
艾米：嗯。