美語情景對話 第877期:Decline of the Papers 報紙的沒落

Matt: Hey, Rachel, so do you read the newspaper these days?

馬特：嗨，蕾切爾，你最近看報紙了嗎？

Rachel: Actually, no. I used to get a newspaper delivered and I didn't read it at all, so I cancelled it cause I was worried about wasting trees, and wasting paper and therefore trees.

蕾切爾：沒有。我以前有訂報紙，但是我完全沒有看，因爲我擔心浪費樹木、浪費紙，所以我取消了訂閱。

Matt: Right, right. Yeah, me neither. I don't get any of my news from Newspapers themselves.

馬特：好，好的。我也是。我現在也不會從報紙上獲取新聞了。

Rachel: So how do you find out what's going on?

蕾切爾：那你怎麼了解發生了什麼事呢？

Matt: Most times I just look on the Internet, and I've got, you know ... my first page that pops up lists about six or seven headlines, and actually I find myself clicking on them quite a bit. You know, you see one sentence is enough to draw me in, and then I end up reading online my news.

馬特：大部分時間我會在網上瀏覽新聞 ，首頁會彈出六七條頭條新聞標題，我發現我經常會點擊這些標題去查看詳細新聞。一句話就足以吸引我了，然後我就在網上瀏覽新聞 。

Rachel: Yeah, yeah, me too. But I'm a bit worried about it because I always like, when you can choose news, which news article to read you tend to just choose the light entertainment article or maybe not the really serious news as much as you would if was on the front page.

蕾切爾：對，我也是。不過我對此有些擔心，因爲我發現，在可以選擇閱讀哪些新聞時，你通常會選擇頭版新聞中娛樂性不強的文章，或者不太嚴肅的新聞。

Matt: Right, right. And I wonder where those headlines, like, who chooses what appears? So I worry about that too. But I wonder in the future if they'll even be newspapers anymore.

馬特：對，對。我想知道這些新聞是誰挑選出來放在頭版的？我也擔心這點。我想知道未來報紙還會不會存在。

Rachel: I heard that they are actually really struggling to make money and even the most famous newspapers are starting to go bankrupt.

蕾切爾：我聽說報紙業現在獲利非常困難，甚至最出名的報紙也開始走向破產。

Matt: Really?

馬特：真的嗎？

Rachel: Yeah.

蕾切爾：對。

Matt: And what ...? Do you think those companies will make a shift to being completely online then at some point?

馬特：那……你認爲這些公司會在某個時間點完全轉向網絡新聞嗎？

Rachel: Yeah, I think they would have to. Yeah, yeah. Which is a shame because I mean cause I like the idea of the newspaper.

蕾切爾：對，我認爲他們必須這樣做。對，這真遺憾，因爲我喜歡報紙這個概念。

Matt: Right, right.

馬特：對，沒錯。

Rachel: Do you think books will disappear though?

蕾切爾：你認爲書籍也會消失嗎？

Matt: That I don't know. I mean I think a lot of people ... like you were maybe saying, but like the feel of a book and like and I think people reading on a screen. I've never been able to read a book online. Me neither. I've always only read through something I can hold and take with me anywhere. But these days with the little handheld units! Have you ever tried to read online? Like read an actual novel?

馬特：這個我不知道。我想許多人，包括你在內都曾這樣說過，不過我喜歡讀書的感覺，現在人們都在屏幕上閱讀。我一直不能在線閱讀。我看書的話，必須要看拿在手裏且可以隨身攜帶的實體書。不過最近出了很多掌上設備。你有試過在線閱讀嗎？比較在線閱讀小說之類的？

Rachel: No, I just don't like the idea of it. I don't think my eyes could take that sort of electronic screen for like 300 pages, so no.

蕾切爾：沒有，我不喜歡在線閱讀。我想我的眼睛不能在電子屏上看300頁，所以我沒試過。

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重點講解：
1. used to do sth. 過去常常；過去曾；
例句：There used to be public executions.
處決囚犯過去都是公開執行的。
2. find out (尤指特意通過努力)發現，找出，查明；
例句：Attendance has dropped off,we shall find out why.
觀衆減少了，我們應找出原因來。
3. pop up 突然出現；不意冒出；
例句：The menu pops up when you click twice on the mouse.
雙擊鼠標，菜單便會彈出來。
4. draw in 使參與；使捲入；
例句：It's stupid trying to draw in customer with prize and gift!
想用獎品和禮品引來顧客是愚蠢的事！
5. end up 最終；結果；到頭來；
例句：Don't gobble the turkey. You'll just end up getting stuffed.
別狼吞虎嚥地吃火雞，你最後會噎着的。