實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Reading Trends 閱讀趨勢

Todd: Actually I still enjoy newspapers somewhat. I like to eat my lunch and read the newspaper or maybe have a newspaper when I'm taking the bus or the train, so I have something to read, but I don't buy them as much as I used to.

托德：其實我仍然非常喜歡報紙。我喜歡一邊吃午飯一邊看報紙，也喜歡在坐公交車和火車時看報紙，雖然我仍然在看報，但我不像以前那樣買報紙了。

Monica: Yeah, that's true, I really like the idea of having a newspaper in paper form and I do enjoy opening it up and having a coffee in the morning and reading the newspaper, but I don't actually do that now.

莫妮卡：是這樣的，我喜歡印刷的報紙，也喜歡早上打開報紙，一邊喝咖啡一邊看報紙，不過我現(xiàn)在基本上不這么做了。

Todd: So how often do you actually start and finish a book?

托德：你多久能看完一本書?

Monica: Well, I've been reading maybe one or two books a week, recently which is quite a lot for me.

莫妮卡：嗯，我基本上一周看一到兩本書，最近我看的更多。

Todd: Yeah, that's pretty good.

托德：嗯，真不錯。

Monica: As I said earlier, it's really because I have a bit more spare time than I used toso that has changed my reading habits. And when I'm traveling I love reading, so if I'm on a train I love reading a book and if I'm on a plane I prefer to read a book than watch a movie, for example, so I get a lot of enjoyment out of reading books, still. Having said that I do listen to e-books on the computer...

莫妮卡：我之前說過，因為我現(xiàn)在的空閑時間比以前多，所以我的閱讀習(xí)慣發(fā)生了改變。我喜歡在旅途中看書，我喜歡在火車上看書，如果我坐飛機的話，我更喜歡看書，而不是看電影，看書給我?guī)砹撕芏鄻啡ぁｋm然如此，不過我也會在電腦上聽有聲電子書。

Todd: Oh, I love e-books

.托德：哦，我喜歡電子書。

Monica:...which I love because it's very therapeutic I think listening to someone reading to you, a bit like when you were little and your mom used to read you a book. I like to do that when I'm really tired and I don't want to actually physically read a book and I don't want to even check my e-mail. I just want to lie down and basically listen to a story. Yeah, so I have enjoyed doing that recently and technology has had a big part to play in how much I do that.

莫妮卡：我喜歡聽有聲電子書是因為我覺得那令人精神放松，聽其他人給你讀書，就像小時候聽媽媽講故事一樣。我非常累的時候，不想看書甚至不想檢查電子郵件時，我就會聽電子書。我只想躺下來聽故事。我最近很喜歡聽電子書，科技對我的閱讀習(xí)慣產(chǎn)生了很大的影響。