和老外聊天的地道口語第91期:你有寫博客嗎?

J: are you.a blogger?
K: sure I am. I've been writing a blog for almost three years.
J: oh, it seems that I'm the only one who never blogs. When did you get started?
K: I began blogging when I first went to the US for my graduate stuides.
J: what do you usually write about?
K: at first, I'll write about my life there. Like interesting things on the campus, travel stories, special English words that I come across. Sometimes, I'll post my pictures on my blog so my family and friends can get to know how everything's going.
J: that's interesting. How often do you write a blog?
K: it's random. If there happen to be a lot of things going on, I may add several new entries in a week, and if I've got nothing to share, I may leave my blog untouched for weeks.
J: got it. Are you still updating your blog?
K: sure, since I came back from the US, I've been keeping the habit of blogging, simply to share my personal insights on any topic I like.
J: good for you. I know many people just leave their blogs alone after the first few months.

你寫博客嗎?
當然啦. 我都寫了快三年了.
看來我是唯一不寫博客的人.你是什麼時候開始寫的?
我剛到美國讀研究生的時候.
通常都寫些什麼內容呢?
剛開始,我會寫一些我在那邊的生活.比如說,學校裏發生的有趣的事,旅途見聞,碰到的特殊英語單詞.有時候,我還會把生活照片貼在博客裏,這樣家人和朋友就可以知道我現在在那邊過個怎麼樣了.
挺有意思的.你多長時間更新一次?
挺隨意的.如果身邊發生的事多,我一週要寫好幾篇,如果我沒什麼想說的,可能好幾個月都不更新.
明白了.現在,你還堅持寫博客嗎?
當然了,從美國回來以後,我還保留着寫博客的習慣,對感興趣的話題發表我的觀點.
不錯,我知道有很多人都是寫幾個月之後,就不再堅持了.

come across somebody/something
to meet or find somebody/something by chance (偶然)遇見,碰見,發現
I came across children sleeping under bridges.
我偶然發現睡在橋下的孩子。
She came across some old photographs in a drawer.
她在抽屜裏偶然發現了一些舊照片。

random:done, chosen, etc. without somebody thinking or deciding in advance what is going to happen 隨意的;任意的;未經事先考慮的;胡亂的
the random killing of innocent people
對無辜者的隨意殺戮
a random sample/selection(= in which each thing has an equal chance of being chosen)
隨機抽樣／選擇
The information is processed in a random order.
信息是按隨機順序處理的.

entry:an item, for example a piece of information, that is written or printed in a dictionary, an account book, a diary, etc. 項目;條目;詞條;賬目;記錄
an encyclopedia entry
百科全書的一個條目
There is no entry in his diary for that day.
他的日記裏沒有那天的記錄.