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Dialogue Script 1 對話原文1
Clerk: Can I help you?
Stan: OK, I want to buy a computer.
Clerk: What do you want to be able to do with it?
Stan: Oh, I'm not sure. I don't know much about computers.
Clerk: Do you want to play games or write documents?
Stan: What's the difference?
Clerk: Well, for game playing, it's better if you have a bigger memory and a better quality video card.
Stan: I guess Pentium IV 1.6 would be good. 
Clerk: OK. What size hard drive do you want?
Stan: It doesn't need to be too big, just big enough to play games. What about the rest?
Clerk: If you're concerned about game effects, I suggest you buy a higher quality sound card and video card.
Stan: Effects? Yeah, that's important. Give the best! And I'd like a big screen.
Clerk: The monitor for a big screen will take up more space. What about a flat screen? They're more expensive, however.
講解：
1. 首先，導購員問Stan想拿電腦來做什么。 What do you want to be able to do with it? 也可以說What are you going to use your computer for?
2. Stan打算用電腦來打電腦游戲，這對電腦有什么要求呢？就是a bigger memory and a better quality video card and sound card. 大一點的內存，質量好一點的顯卡和聲卡。Pentium IV 1.6 奔騰4 1.6的處理器，Pentium是英特爾(Intel)公司開發的32位微處理機名稱。
3. What size hard drive do you want? 要多大的硬盤？a big screen or monitor.大一點的顯示器。a flat screen就是純平顯示器，比較貴。現在比較流行的是體積較小的液晶顯示器，LCD，是liquid crystal display的縮寫。還有筆記本電腦的顯示器現在是以 “薄膜電晶體” TFT 是thin-film transistor的縮寫，當然造價就更高了。
Dialogue Script 2 對話原文 2
Brian: Check it out！Were slashing prices! Hello, ma'am .
Monica: Oh, Hi, I'm just looking. I have a computer already.
Brian: How long have you had it?.
Monica: Ten years. Works like a charm.
Brian: Ten years? What a dinosaur! I can't believe you still use it.
Monica: It's fine for writing letters and...
Brian: Do you like to play interactive games?
Monica: Well, my sister has a Ninendo.
Brian: Today's computer graphics are so realistic. And you can download games from the Internet.
Monica: Oh, yeah, the Internet thing. I'd like to get that some day.
Brian: Why not today? Live in the 21st century with a new system.
Monica: But my parents gave me that computer when I started grad school. Can't I just upgrade it?
Brian: Even if it's possible, it won't be worth it.
Monica: I used it to write my thesis. The hard drive has almost 40 megabytes!
Brian: Today's have twenty to eighty gigabytes. I bet your computer isn't even modem compatible.
Monica: But it was so expensive, over 20,000 yuan. It must be high quality.
Brian: In the 80's, all computers cost and arm and leg.
Monica: Are things different now?
講解：
1. 這里Monica在一個電腦商城閑逛的時候，Brian趁機向她推薦電腦產品。他用的廣告語是Check it out！We're slashing prices! 就是 “瞧一瞧，看一看了，大減價了!” check it out在口語當中是一個很有用的詞組，表示 “看看”的意思，例如： Check it out, man! The room is huge. 天哪，快來看！房間好大呀！
2. I'm just looking. 我就是隨便看看。下次大家去逛商場的時候，如果導購員問你想買什么的時候，而你又還沒有決定，就可以說I'm just looking.隨便看看。
3. Works like a charm. Something works like a charm，是說某物有奇效，這里是說我的電腦很好用。
4. Monica 的電腦用了10年了，Brian驚嘆 What a dinosaur! 整個一個恐龍，也就是說Monica 的電腦真夠老的了。
5. interactive games是互動式游戲，也就是我們說的網絡游戲。Ninendo是指任天堂公司出品的電視游戲機和游戲。任天堂是日本一個專門生產游戲的公司。
6. Today's computer graphics are so realistic. 是說現在的電腦圖象非常逼真。Graphics是指在電腦上能制作，處理，編輯圖形的能力，一般也稱為computer graphics。這里用realistic來修飾它，是逼真，生動的意思。
7. upgrade the computer給電腦升級，但是一般都比較貴，所以Brian說It won't be worth it. 不值得，還不如買一臺新的。be worth something 具有某種價值，值得... ...，例如：What is it worth?或How much is it worth?這值多少錢? It is worth￡
500. 它值五百鎊。The rarer it is, the more it is worth. 物以稀為貴。He is worth a million. 他是百萬富翁。It's worth seeing /hearing,/reading. 值得一看(一聽, 一讀). The proposal is not worth consideration.這個提案不值得考慮。
8. The hard drive has almost 40 megabytes! 硬盤有將近40MB呢。megabyte是百萬字節，是電腦的存儲單位，通常以縮寫MB來表示。也就是我們說的兆字節。下面說的gigabyte是十億字節，通常用縮寫GB來表示。giga-為字首,意為“十億”
9. The computer is modem compatible.電腦能兼容調制解調器，modem調制解調器，也就是我們俗稱的“貓”。
10. It must be high quality.質量一定很好。那么質量差就是Low quality。
11. In the 80's, all computers cost and arm and leg. 80年代的電腦都貴的要命。cost and arm and leg.表示“價值不菲”。
