王强口语 第一册 long conversation 18.3
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：王强口语 第一册
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John: Hi, Victor!
Victor: Hi there, John! What's new?
John: I was just about to watch this video dad got in the mail! It's an anthology of clips from TV shows in the 1950's!
Victor: Oh, wow! Ancient history!
(On the TV screen, the host is interviewing a professor.)
Host: Professor, do you foresee13 man going into space?
Professor: No. The radiation from the sun would kill them when they left the atmosphere and at a speed of 4,000 MPH, it'd take 99 years to reach Pluto 1!
John: Boy! They didn't have a clue then!
Victor: And the use of the word "man" was sexist!
Host: Say, son, you really can sing! How much do you earn driving a truck?
Interviewee: $16 a week, sir.
Host: $16 a week? How would you like to earn $50 a week?
Interviewee: $50 a week? Yes, sir!
John: Did people really earn that little then?
Victor: I guess so!
Host: Could you explain what all these circuit boards, relays and vacuum tubes are?
Interviewee: Certainly! This is a "Thinking Machine"! It stores data in its memory! How big is this contraption? It takes up three warehouses 2!
John: Look, Victor! A primitive 3 computer!
Victor: Oh, wow! It's humongous! Now, through miniaturization, you can carry all that in your hand!
John: In those days there was no coast-to-coast cable or satellites or even morning TV! They didn't have color TV or videotape. These were copied from films!
Victor: Wow! It's amazing what a totally different world it was! Everything's changed!
(John's Father walks in and talks to himself.)
John's Father: Today's young people have no respect for anything! They dress in sloppy 4 clothing and dance to noise that they call music!
- Pluto is the furthest planet from the sun.冥王星是离太阳最远的行星。
- Pluto has an elliptic orbit.冥王星的轨道是椭圆形的。
- The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee. 威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
- Row upon row of newly built warehouses line the waterfront. 江岸新建的仓库鳞次栉比。
- It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
- His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。