英文原版对话1000个:1165 Social Connections
时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:原版英语对话1000个
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Alex: Hi, Katia, how are you?
Katia: I'm doing good and you Alex?
Alex: I'm doing good thank you. I have a question for you. Are you on Facebook?
Katia: Yes, I am in Facebook but I really do not check very often.
Alex: OK, how often do you check it usually?
Katia: I actually try not to check it very often. It's been taking a lot of my time so right now I check it about, I try once a week during the weekends.
Alex: OK. I used to be on Facebook a lot before. I was like checking it every day and, you know, posting on my friends' walls and trying to catch up with everybody on Facebook. But then I realised that I was losing a lot of time on it. I was, I don't know if investing 1 is the word, but I was spending a lot of time on it and I kind of like decided 2 to close my wall, because I thought that I was just spending too much time, and it was not really adding anything so, but I don't know if that's the right thing, because sometimes I feel that I need to communicate stuff 3 to my friends and since my wall has been closed for so long, I don't want to kind of like just communicate something there and then just stopped communicating through my wall any more so I don't know how to do it.
Katia: It has really become an issue 4 hasn't it? You can get lost from what is actually happening around you and live in a virtual 5 world so I'm actually a little bit worried about that, about what is happening and how we live our lives and how we present ourselves to others. I believe that it should be handled differently than it has up to now so maybe you're doing good by closing or, you know, thinking about it at least.
Alex: Yeah.
Katia: But how much, that you might have to consider.
Alex: Yeah, that's right. It's very funny how all this communication has changed in the last few years. I remember just four years ago or even five years ago I wasn't on Facebook and all the communication I used to have with my friends was through email or by phone or by meeting you know. But now with Facebook everybody spends so much time on Facebook. Sometimes if you don't publish something on Facebook, it seems that you didn't do anything so I don't know it's just weird 6.
Katia: Well the question is are you actually more in communication now than you were four or five years ago?
Alex: I am more in communication with people that I haven't been in touch with for the last ten years let's say. Like all my friends from elementary school that I wasn't really in touch and everybody's now on Facebook and now everybody is updated on what I'm doing or why I do this, what I'm going to do on next vacation, what about my plans for anything so that's a good thing I think. It really depends on how much importance you give to it.
Katia: That is true.
1 investing
v.投资,花费( invest的现在分词 );授予;(把资金)投入;投入(时间、精力等)
- He was timid about investing money. 他不敢投资。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Europe also caught the excitement of investing in American railroads. 欧洲人对投资美国铁路也极感兴趣。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
2 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3 stuff
n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
- We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
- He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
4 issue
n.出版,发行,(报刊等)期、号,论点,问题,结果, (水,血等的)流出;vt.使流出,放出,发行(钞票等),发布(命令),出版(书等)发给;vi.发行,流出,造成...结果,进行辩护,传下
- I bought the book the day after its issue.这书出版后的第一天,我就去买了它。
- I'll support her down the line on that issue.在那个问题上我将全力支持她。
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