實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Staying Connected 保持聯(lián)系

Tom: Jess, usually when I see you, you're sitting at the computer checking your e-mail. How many times a day do you check it?

湯姆：杰西，我每次看到你，你都坐在電腦前檢查電子郵件。你通常多久檢查一次郵件?

Jess: I honestly don't count, but many, many times. Definitely more than twenty times a day. It's not really necessary. It's not like I have millions of e-mails coming into my account every day, but I'm very impatient and I hate waiting for responses or waiting for something that I'm expecting so I'll check my e-mail so that I can receive it as soon asit's sent. How about you? Do you check your e-mails often?

杰西：說實話，我沒有算過，不過我一天要檢查好多次。一天絕對超過20次。其實真的沒有必要這么做。我并不是每天都會收到無數(shù)封郵件，而是我非常沒耐心，我討厭等待別人回復郵件，討厭那種等待所期待事情的感覺，所以我希望我檢查郵箱時能馬上收到對方的回信。你呢?你經(jīng)常檢查郵件嗎?

Tom: I suppose I check once a day, and if I have any mail, it will be one or two weeks before I reply to it. I'm really bad at keeping in touch. I've got accounts at facebook and my space and hi5, all these social networking sites, but I almost never log on .... I got a message the other day, a friend telling me, I'm a boring facebooker. It's official because I haven't updated my profile in so long.

湯姆：我大概一天檢查一次，如果我有郵件，那我可能會在一兩周后才會回復。我在保持聯(lián)系上做得不好。我有臉譜網(wǎng)賬號、我的空間的賬號，也有hi5的賬號，這些社交網(wǎng)站的賬號我都有，可是我?guī)缀鯊膩頉]有登陸過，那天我收到了一個朋友的信息，朋友說我是個無聊的臉譜網(wǎng)用戶。這是一條官方信息，因為我已經(jīng)很久沒有更新過臉譜網(wǎng)上的簡介了。

Jess: Why don't you? Is it that you haven't got enough time?

杰西：為什么呢?因為你沒時間嗎?

Tom: I have got so much free time. I think it's just because I'm very lazy. I take photos. I meet people. I do things. I just don't feel the need to tell everyone about it at the end of the day. My family have kind of gotten used to it now. They know that I'll get in contact they'll likely to see me in the next few months, or I'll get in contact if there's a birthday or a baby, but apart from that, I really don't keep in touch very well.

湯姆：我有很多空閑時間。我想是因為我太懶了。我也會拍照片，和朋友們見面。我也會做各種各樣的事。我只是覺得沒有必要把這些告訴所有人。我的家人現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)習慣我這個樣子了。如果他們幾個月以后來看我，他們知道我會聯(lián)系，或者如果有人過生日或是有人生孩子，我也會聯(lián)系他們，不過除此之外，我不太和別人保持聯(lián)系。

Jess: Apart from e-mail, neither do I. I did join Facebook a couple of years ago when all of my friends did and everyone was sending me links to join, and I created my profile, but to be honest, it's too much for me to have more than one thing to check that many times a day, so usually I stick to e-mail for communication. Yes, I do check it a lot, but I think if I started checking Facebook as regularly, I wouldn't have time to do the things I need to every day.

杰西：除了電子郵件以外，我也不太和別人聯(lián)系。我?guī)啄昵白粤四樧V網(wǎng)，當時我所有朋友都注冊了臉譜網(wǎng)賬號，他們邀請我一起用臉譜網(wǎng)，我就創(chuàng)建了我的簡介，不過說實話，我實在無法每天檢查好幾種社交工具，所以通常我只會堅持用電郵和別人交流。我的確每天要檢查好幾次，不過我想如果我開始規(guī)律性地查看臉譜網(wǎng)，那我就沒有太多時間去做我每天要做的事情了。