You would wear them on the street and you're immediately an Apple person and you wear them on the subway, you like a little bit cooler than everybody else at first because you're an Apple person.
你會帶著它上街,你變身成了蘋果飯;你帶著它走進地鐵,你喜歡比任何人都酷一點,因為你就是蘋果飯。
The once communal media music is transformed into an almost exclusively private experience.
公共媒體音樂轉變成了一種幾乎完全私人的體驗。
I grew up in the '50s. I was a member of the juke box generation. This is my juke box, thanks to Steve.
我成長在50年代。我是自動唱片點唱機的忠實信徒。而這個小東西現(xiàn)在就是我的“自動唱片點唱機”,這全要感謝斯蒂夫。
But the iPod compounds are growing problems. Fans turn to illegal file share websites like Napster where they can download songs for free and that spells trouble. Not only for the music industry but also for the artists who want exposure while protecting their livelihood.
但iPod的產(chǎn)物的問題卻日益嚴重起來。粉絲們轉向非法文件共享網(wǎng)站,就比如Napster。在那里他們可以免費下載歌曲,這也造成了麻煩。不僅為音樂產(chǎn)業(yè)也給想保護自己居所的藝術家們造成了困擾。
And there was a sound in this book saying look, by downloading music for free we're doing you a favor. And these And that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard in my life.
在這本書中有一個聲音曾說道,看吧,免費下載的音樂,我們正在幫你的忙。這些人非常解了你。這是在我的生命中我聽說過的最可笑的事情。
Everyone's scrambling and trying to figure out what do with suing everybody? Do a suit inthe 14-year-old kid on his mom's computer stealing your music?
每個人都在指手畫腳并試圖找出大家都好的方式這樣好嗎?每個人都要在14歲的孩子的媽媽電腦上偷音樂?
Music travels by word of mouth in world parts and it's impossible to hold it back. When you have people making millions and millions of dollars offer something that is your livelihood and you're getting nothing out of it that's just unfair.
音樂通過語言在世界廣為傳播,不可能把它抓回來。當有人用數(shù)百萬美元提供給你東西,而你卻只知索取不知付出,那是不公平的。
詞語解釋:
1. subway n. 地鐵
2. generation n. 年代
3. industry n. 工業(yè),產(chǎn)業(yè),行業(yè)