Speakout 3rd Edition B1+. Unit 1: BBC Street Interview · Eugene Fedoseyev
视频内容围绕手机在现代生活中的重要性展开，讨论人们如何依赖手机进行学习、工作和社交。适合练习口语表达和话题讨论。
I think I could live without all my gadgets apart from my phone, because it’s so important to me,
我觉得除了手机之外，我可以不用其他所有电子设备。因为手机对我来说非常重要。
because I use it for my emails, for university, for school work, and to keep up with news and my friends.
因为我用它来处理电子邮件、完成大学作业、学习课程内容，同时还能了解新闻和与朋友保持联系。
I’m a musician and I play guitar so my favourite kinds of gadgets are guitar pedals ’cause I can change the way my guitar sounds.
我是一名音乐家，主要演奏吉他。因此，我最喜欢的电子设备就是吉他效果器（guitar pedals），因为它们可以让我改变吉他的音色。
I could live without the iPad.
没有 iPad，我也能生活。
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I could live without a …
没有……我也能生活。
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a home computer, but I do like a laptop, and I absolutely – I hate to say it – I love my phone.
我有一台家用电脑，不过我也挺喜欢笔记本电脑的。说实话，我真的很讨厌使用手机（不过其实我非常依赖它）。
I would say my laptop is a pretty important thing, er, for work, in general, and I just can’t live without it.
我得说，我的笔记本电脑对我来说非常重要——尤其是在工作中。没有它，我真的无法正常生活。
In terms of gadgets that I could live without, I’d say my smartwatch.
说到那些我可以没有的小玩意儿，我想说的是我的智能手表。
Er, I love my phone.
我非常喜欢我的手机。
I use it all the time.
我一直在使用它。
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I even use it in bed.
我甚至在床上也会使用它。
I’m just pretty much never off it.
我基本上一直都处于这种状态（即没有停止使用某种东西或没有从某种状态中恢复过来）。
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I love my laptop.
我非常喜欢我的笔记本电脑。
I couldn’t really live without it ’cause
没有它，我真的无法正常生活。
I attend university and everything is now
我现在正在上大学，一切都已经安排好了。
online, so we all rely on our textbooks online and all our lectures and our teachers teach us from our laptops.
所有教学内容都是在线提供的，因此我们都依赖在线版的教科书、视频讲座，以及老师通过笔记本电脑进行的授课。
So I love a range of gadgets from my Xbox and my laptop, but I could live without all of them except for my phone,
我非常喜欢我的 Xbox 和笔记本电脑上配备的各种小工具，不过除了手机之外，没有这些小工具我也能正常生活。
and that’s because I use it for everything: my work and in my free time.
之所以这样，是因为我在工作和闲暇时间都会使用它。
I think they do, but I think in this day and age it’s needed to look at screens,
我觉得他们确实会这样做，但在如今这个时代，人们确实需要经常看屏幕。
and I think that a lot of people couldn’t do without the screens so I think that’s why a lot of people do it.
我认为很多人离不开这些屏幕，所以我想这就是很多人会使用它们的原因。
But I do think some people do it too much.
不过我确实认为有些人做得有些过头了。
I do think people spend too much time looking at screens.
我确实认为人们花在看屏幕上的时间太多了。
I think when you spend so much time looking at a screen, you lose the face-to-face contact and that emotion that you get from that interaction.
我认为，当你花费大量时间盯着屏幕看时，就会失去面对面交流的机会，以及那种交流过程中所产生的情感体验。
I do think people spend too much time on the screens.
我确实认为人们花在屏幕前的时间太长了。
I think people are addicted to screen time, er, needing information or entertainment more immediately at their hands.
我认为人们已经对“屏幕时间”上瘾了；或者说，他们更渴望能够立即获取信息或娱乐内容。
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I think people, younger generation, might have more difficulty just being with themselves, on their own.
我认为，年轻一代的人可能更难以独自待着、自己面对自己（即更难以做到“与自己相处”）。
I would agree with that.
我同意这一点。
People certainly look at their phones too much.
人们确实太频繁地看手机了。
It might even be the first thing in the morning.
甚至可能是早晨的第一件事。
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I wake up, check my emails and might as well be the last thing in the evening, where I do the same thing,
我醒来后查看邮件，其实这跟傍晚时分做的事情没什么两样——到傍晚时我又会重复同样的流程。
or check the news, or things like that.
或者查看新闻，诸如此类的事情。
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I do, especially like nowadays everything is online, everything’s on technology, whether it’s phones or computers.
是的，我非常喜欢现在这个时代的一切都依赖于网络、都依赖于技术——无论是手机还是电脑。
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嗯……