Dialogue 1

Mark: What's new, Jingjing?
馬克：最近怎么樣啊，京晶？
Jingjing: Same old, same old, I'm afraid. Hey, did you catch the Oscars?
京晶：老樣子，老樣子吧。對了，你關注奧斯卡了嗎？
Mark: I didn't actually watch it, but I was interested to see who won.
馬克：我沒看，但是我還挺感興趣都誰得獎了。
Jingjing: So, you got the run down online, eh? I saw a few short videos of the ceremony, but searched the web for most of the info.
京晶：所以，你在網上找到這方面的消息了？我看了頒獎禮的幾個短視頻，大多數相關資訊還是在網上搜的。
Mark: Good old Wikipedia! Were you surprised by any of the results?
馬克：真是又方便又靠譜的維基百科啊！有結果讓你覺得驚訝嗎？
Jingjing: Well, I've not had time to catch most of those films. So, I was just rooting for the ones I had seen.
京晶：我沒時間看其中大部分影片，我就支持我看過的片子。
Mark: Me too! I watched Dunkirk last summer, and was glad to see another film by Christopher Nolan.
馬克：我也是！我去年夏天看了《敦刻爾克大撤退》，很開心看到克里斯托弗·諾蘭執導的另一部影片。
Jingjing: That's the same director who did Inception, right?
京晶：是執導過《盜夢空間》的同一位導演吧？
Mark: Yeah, and Memento. I've been a fan of his films for a long time. I even watched his first film, the Followingin the theater.
馬克：對，還有《記憶碎片》。我一直是他的粉絲。我甚至還在電影院看過他的第一部影片《追隨》。
Jingjing: He didn't win Best Director, though. Dunkirk got three or so other awards, for technical stuff.
京晶：可他沒有得到最佳導演獎，《敦刻爾克》因為技術運用獲得了差不多三個其他獎項。
Mark: Yeah, editing and sound. Did you see the movie that won Best Picture?
馬克：是的，剪輯和音響（注：最佳音響，最佳音效剪輯）。你看了最佳影片嗎？
Jingjing: No, but on the radio, I heard an interview of one of the actors.
京晶：沒有。但是我在廣播上聽到了其中一名演員的采訪。
Mark: Do you mean Richard Jenkins?
馬克：是理查德·詹金斯嗎？
Jingjing: I think that was the actor's name. He played Giles in the movie.
京晶：我想這就是那個演員的名字。他在電影里扮演的吉爾斯。
Mark: He's been a supporting actor in a bunch of comedies. I'm glad he at least got nominated for an Oscar this time, for a more serious role.
馬克：他在很多喜劇里演過配角。我很高興聽到他終于被奧斯卡提名的消息，因為一個嚴肅的角色。
Jingjing: Yeah, now I'm really interested in seeing the Shape of Water.
京晶：是啊，現在我非常感興趣想看看《水形物語》。
Mark: So am I. It's supposed to be very well written.
馬克：我也是。應該創作得很好。
Jingjing: I've gotta go now, Mark. If I have a chance to find those films, I'll share them with you.
京晶：我得走了，馬克。如果我有機會能找到那些片子，我就帶給你看。

New words:習語短語

same old, same old 老樣子，沒變化
nothing has changed
the Oscars 奧斯卡金像獎
awards given for best films
the run down 關于某事的詳盡描述的信息
some important information, enough to understand something
ceremony 頒獎禮
a show with awards
rooting for 支持 挺（某人）
supporting, without actually doing anything
supporting actor 配角
an actor who plays in a film, but not the lead role
serious role 正劇的角色
a character in the film, not funny

Dialogue 2

Jingjing: Hi again, Mark.
京晶：嗨，馬克
Mark: I was looking forward to seeing you.
馬克：我盼著見你呢。
Jingjing: Is that just because you expect me to have some movies to share with you?
京晶：是不是因為期待著我給你帶點片子看呀？
Mark: Of course not! I'm glad to see you any time. Uh, did you find any of those films from this year's Academy Awards?
馬克：當然不是啦！何時何地我見到你都開心著呢。你找到今年奧斯卡的一些片子了嗎？
Jingjing: No luck. I only found one, and it's still downloading.
京晶：沒呢。只找到了一部，還在下載中。
Mark: Wow, you must have a really slow Internet connection.
馬克：哇哦，你的網速一定慢得可以啊。
Jingjing: Ha ha. Sometimes it's fast—when everybody's sleeping. Can you guess which film I found?
京晶：哈哈。有時候快——大家都在睡覺的時候。你能猜到我找了哪部嗎？
Mark: Is it one of the ones we talked about?
馬克：是不是我們聊過的那部？
Jingjing: No. I'll tell you:it's Darkest Hour.
京晶：不是的，告訴你吧，《至暗時刻》。
Mark: Oh, that's the one about Winston Churchill. I can't imagine Gary Oldman playing that role.
馬克：噢，關于丘吉爾的那部。我簡直不敢相信加里·奧德曼扮演了那個角色。
Jingjing: You still think of him as Sirius Black, from the Harry Potter films, don't you?
京晶：你仍然覺得他是哈利波特系列電影里的小天狼星布萊克吧？
Mark: Yeah. But he's a pretty good actor.
馬克：是啊。但他是個不錯的演員。
Jingjing: He won best actor for his role in Darkest Hour. So, it's worth watching him play Churchill.
京晶：他因為在《至暗時刻》的扮演的角色獲得了最佳男演員獎。所以，值得一看他扮演的丘吉爾。
Mark: I'm a history buff. So, I like anything about World War II.
馬克：我是個歷史迷。所以我喜歡任何關于二戰的東西。
Jingjing: Did you ever see the Reader?
京晶：你看過《朗讀者》嗎？
Mark: Is that the one with Kate Winslet? I just watched the first few minutes of it, but got too busy to finish.
馬克：凱特·溫斯萊特演的那一部嗎？我只看了開頭的幾分鐘，太忙了沒看完。
Jingjing: Watch it sometime when you don't get interrupted. It's a very moving story. I won't tell you anything about it, because I don't want to spoil it for you.
京晶：沒人打擾你的時候再把它看完吧。非常感人的故事。我就先什么都不說了，免得給你劇透。
Mark: Well, then that's the film I'll see next. Thanks for the recommendation.
馬克：好，那下一部我就看這個。感謝推薦。

New words:習語短語

Academy Awards 奧斯卡金像獎
awards given for best films (the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences)
downloading 下載
getting content from the Internet onto you own computer
history buff 歷史迷
someone who likes history and knows a lot about it (alternately movie buff)
spoil 劇透
give away the ending of a story (A spoiler is when the ending is given away in a review.)