實(shí)戰(zhàn)口語(yǔ)情景對(duì)話：Video Games 視頻游戲

Todd: So, Eli, you're young and you're into Manga, so I take it you like video games?

托德：伊萊，你很年輕，你喜歡日本漫畫(huà)，所以我想你喜歡視頻游戲吧?

Eli: Mm-hm, I do very much. It's my other hobby. Um, almost an obsession sometimes. I think my friends get quite worried about me sometimes, the amount I play, but yeah I've always since I've been little liked computer games. I think my dad on his old macintosh forced us into it originally, so I blame it all on him, but that sort of developed into obviously in my field that I do which is animation. It's very close connected to it, and I'd like to maybe work making computer games one day, uh.

伊萊：嗯，我非常喜歡。這是我的另一個(gè)愛(ài)好。有時(shí)甚至?xí)朊?。我想有時(shí)我的朋友非常擔(dān)心我，因?yàn)槲彝娴奶嗔?，不過(guò)我從小就一直很喜歡電腦游戲。我想是我爸爸用他那臺(tái)麥金塔電腦把我們帶進(jìn)了游戲的世界，所以我一直怪他，不過(guò)是動(dòng)畫(huà)讓我更加的深入了。兩者有非常緊密的聯(lián)系，我希望有一天我能制作電腦游戲。

Todd: What's a really good game? What do you think is the best game?

托德：有什么好游戲?你認(rèn)為哪個(gè)游戲是最好的?

Eli: My favorite games are I think a split between two, the Final Fantasy series, which is a spread of lots of different games which are RPG which are role playing games, where you are, you're a character, or party of characters and you run around talking to people, discovering things, fighting battles, lots and lots of puzzles, lots of secrets. That's what I like.

伊萊：我最喜歡的游戲有兩個(gè)，一個(gè)是《終極幻想》系列，它擴(kuò)散出許多不同的游戲，屬于角色扮演游戲，你會(huì)扮演一個(gè)角色，或者是一個(gè)組織，你會(huì)去四處和人們交談，發(fā)現(xiàn)事情，進(jìn)行打斗，有許多難題，許多秘密。這就是我喜歡的。

Todd: Is the setting now or the future or the past?

托德：那游戲設(shè)定的背景是現(xiàn)在、未來(lái)還是過(guò)去?

Eli: The setting's always in some fantasy world, but you don't know about. That's kind of, that's one of the nice things about computer games, it's almost escapism. You can escape the reality of the real world and go and run around in some fantastical world I mean, now that the graphics and computer games are getting so advanced it really does feel like your going into a new world of your own actually,and that you're there running around, so yeah, that's great and I think my other favorite game would have to be the SIMS series, which is,started with SIM city, which is a little city building game, where you're the mayor of the city.

伊萊：設(shè)定都是在幻想世界里，不過(guò)你并不清楚。這就是電腦游戲的好處之一，總是逃避現(xiàn)實(shí)。你可以逃離現(xiàn)實(shí)世界，去一些幻想世界里，我的意思是，既然圖像和電腦游戲這么先進(jìn)，就像你進(jìn)入了一個(gè)自己的新世界里，你在那里奔跑，那非常棒，另一個(gè)我喜歡的游戲是《模擬人生》系列，是在一個(gè)模擬城市進(jìn)行的，是一種建設(shè)城市的游戲，你是那里的市長(zhǎng)。

Todd: You're the mayor!

托德：你是市長(zhǎng)!

Eli: You're the mayor of the city and you have to build up your city over hundreds of years and advance it, and then from that they made the SIMs which actually goes into the houses and you control the lives of the little SIM people in the houses. It's almost like playing dolls houses, but very, very advanced and they have their own wants and needs and they fall in love and they go to work and it's basically just determining the destinies of your little character and furnishing their houses at the same time, which is always fun.

伊萊：你是那座城市的市長(zhǎng)，你必須要建設(shè)擁有百年歷史的城市，然后還要發(fā)展這個(gè)城市，而模擬人生游戲?qū)嶋H上就是進(jìn)入一個(gè)房屋，你控制游戲中房屋里的人。這就像玩娃娃屋一樣，不過(guò)這個(gè)很先進(jìn)，他們有自己的欲望和需求，他們會(huì)談戀愛(ài)，也會(huì)去工作，基本上就是決定你那個(gè)角色的命運(yùn)，同時(shí)還要為他們的房屋布置家具，這非常有意思。

Todd: Wow, what a game! So actually, shows how old I am, you said, "computer games!" So you don't say video games anymore?

托德：哇，多好的一個(gè)游戲啊!那實(shí)際上，這說(shuō)明了我的年紀(jì)，你說(shuō)的是“電腦游戲!”所以你不管那個(gè)叫視頻游戲嗎?

Eli: Well, the SIMS and SIM City, I mean the first SIM City series I played on, probably the Mac had only just got a hard drive, um, really old when I was about, sort of seven or eight, even younger than that, so yeah, those PC games, mac games, and also video games, video games are Play Station, the ones that you play on the TV.

伊萊：嗯，《模擬人生》游戲和《模擬城市》游戲，我玩的第一個(gè)《模擬城市》游戲是在只有一個(gè)硬盤的蘋(píng)果計(jì)算機(jī)上玩的，那是臺(tái)非常老的電腦，當(dāng)時(shí)我只有7、8歲，或者還要小，那些單機(jī)游戲，Mac游戲，還有視頻游戲，視頻游戲其實(shí)就是游戲機(jī)，就是在電視上玩的那種。

Todd: Which to you prefer a play station or an actual arcade game to play on?

托德：你更喜歡哪種，是游戲機(jī)還是街機(jī)游戲?

Eli: Uh, I never actually got into arcade games, cause you got to put money in to play them so, and I don't think my, our parents ever wanted us to sort of waste money like that so.

伊萊：嗯，我從來(lái)沒(méi)有玩過(guò)街機(jī)游戲，因?yàn)橥婺切┯螒蛐枰跺X，我想我的父母不希望我們?cè)谀巧厦胬速M(fèi)錢。

Todd: What kind of player do you have: a play station?

托德：那你有游戲機(jī)嗎?

Eli: I have a play station, and a Dreamcast, and an X box, and a Game Cube, and an N64 and a Gameboy.

伊萊：我有臺(tái)游戲機(jī)，有一臺(tái)Dreamcast游戲機(jī)，還有一臺(tái)X box游戲機(jī)，一臺(tái)Game Cube游戲機(jī)，還有一臺(tái)N64和一臺(tái)Gameboy游戲機(jī)。

Todd: Wow, I don't even know what those are.

托德：哇，我甚至都不知道那些是什么。

Eli: And a PC!

伊萊：還有個(gè)人電腦!