Dialogue 1
Jingjing: Hey Mark, is that a new phone?
京晶：嘿，馬克，那是一部新手機嗎？
Mark: This is my wife's old one.
馬克：這是我太太那部舊手機。
Jingjing: What's she using now? Did she get a new one?
京晶：她現在用什么呢？
她買了部新的嗎？
Mark: Hers is newer than this, but it's pretty basic. We're taking a few years off from cutting edge electronics.
馬克：她那部比這部新，但是挺基礎款的。我們已經不買潮流先鋒電子設備好多年了。
Jingjing: I get that you're on the runway for buying a house and having a baby.
京晶：我明白你們現在的情況，
正在準備買房子和要孩子。
Mark: That's it. So, for now, I'll make do with this phone and a power bank.
馬克：是這樣的。現在我就將就用這個手機，再配個充電寶。
Jingjing: That's smart. But smartphones aren't all that expensive, and it makes a big difference which one you have.
京晶：很聰明的做法。但智能手機也不那么貴，你用哪一款還是有很大的不同。
Mark: I agree. But in a few years it won't matter which smartphone I had in 2019. And with any luck I'll still have the money.
馬克：我同意。但是再過些年以后，我2019用哪款手機已無關緊要了。按這計劃（不買手機），到時我還有錢。
Jingjing: Good idea. I bought a good camera before I ever bought a good smartphone. So, when my friends all had better phones than me, I had a good camera.
京晶：好主意。我在買個像樣的手機前買了一個好相機。所以，當我的朋友們都擁有比我更高級的手機時，我有一個好相機。
Mark: Don't you use the camera on your phone most of the time?
馬克：你難道不經常用手機上的攝像頭嗎？
Jingjing: Well now that I have a pretty good phone, yes. But that camera still takes better pictures than any phone.
京晶：既然我有個這么好的手機，那當然。但那個相機依然能照出比任何手機都好的照片。
Mark: Is it a DSLR?
馬克：是單反相機嗎？
Jingjing: Yeah, and they still sell the memory cards in stores. So, it doesn't seem like I have such an old camera.
京晶：是的。商店里還有儲存卡賣的，所以看上去一點兒也不像我有個如此有年頭的相機。
Mark: That's cool. And I bet you have great pictures from these years.
馬克：那還挺酷的。我打賭你這些年肯定是拍了不少好照片。
Jingjing: Well, that camera's so clunky that I seldom carry it. Most of my photos are snapshots from my phone.
京晶：不過，那臺相機太笨重了我不怎么帶在身邊。我大部分照片都是手機快拍的。
Mark: Ha ha. Well, based on your WeChat posts, it looks like your photos came out pretty well.
馬克：哈哈。從你微信發的那些來看，看上去你的照片拍得還挺好的。
Jingjing: How nice of you to notice!
京晶：你不要太好，連這些都能注意到！

New words : 習語短語
cutting edge 尖端的，前沿的
the newest of something, especially in science and technology
on the runway for (something) 準備好做某事
ready to do something important, not a good time to be distracted (this is not a common idiom; and “on the deck for”, “on the launchpad for”, and others are easily coined)
isn't/aren't all that <adjective> 并非那么……
less expensive than expected, or less than other things by comparison
with any luck 如果事情按計劃進行
if things go according to plan
DSLR 數碼單反相機
digital single-lens reflex (a big camera that has a prism inside and a mechanism that allows the photographer to see through the main lens before the actual photo is taken)
clunky 笨重不便的
heavy and inconvenient

Dialogue 2
Mark: So, what do you think gadgets will be like in the future?
馬克：那，你覺得這些小裝置未來會是什么樣？
Jingjing: Ten years from now, smartphones will be able to do more things.
京晶：十年后，智能手機將能做更多事了。
Mark: It seems like every year, smartphones can do something new.
馬克：看上去就像是每一年智能手機都能做些新事情。
Jingjing: Yeah, it's not like sci-fi movies, where there's a different gadget for each thing you want to do. Smartphones are really an all-in-one.
京晶：是的，不像在科幻電影里，一個小設備能做一件你想做的事，智能手機手機真是一種全能的存在。
Mark: Right. I saw a keyboard that was projected onto a desk. It wasn't really there, but the projector picked up where the user put his fingers.
馬克：是的，我見過一個鍵盤投影在一張桌子上，鍵盤當然不在桌子上，投影儀抓取了用戶放手指的地方。
Jingjing: I'm not sure how that would work. But it sounds like that little projector could be packed into a phone.
京晶：我不確定那個怎么運作，但聽上去小投影儀能被裝在一臺手機里。
Mark: That's right. So, you could have a full-size keyboard anywhere you go.
馬克：對啊，這樣一來，不管你到哪兒都能有個完整大小的鍵盤了。
Jingjing: Great, then I could work on my novel when I go on a hike.
京晶： 太棒了，到時我去遠足的時候也能繼續寫我的小說了。
Mark: You're writing a novel?
馬克：你在寫小說？
Jingjing: No, I was being sarcastic. Anyway, I think there's an app for that already. You just print out the keyboard they send you, then you put that piece of paper with the keyboard under your camera, and type.
京晶：沒有，我只是幽默一下。對了，我想已經有app 有那個功能了。你只需要打印出來他們發給你的鍵盤，然后他們把那張有鍵盤的紙放在你的手機鏡頭下，然后打字。
Mark: Whoa, I need that. Do you remember what the app was called?
馬克：哇哦，這個我需要。你記得是什么App嗎？
Jingjing: No, but I think if you search “keyboard”, something will come up.
京晶：記不得了，但如果你搜索“鍵盤”的英文，就有顯示。
Mark: I'll give that a shot. I keep forgetting to look for technology that's already out there.
馬克：這個我得試試。我總是忘記去搜尋那些現成的科技。
Jingjing: We all do. And that app's free, if I remember correctly.
京晶：我們都一樣，那個軟件是免費的，如果我沒記錯的話。
Mark: Well, I guess our big cameras and notebook PCs will be collecting dust most of the time.
馬克：那，我估計我們的大相機，筆記本電腦大多數時候都要閑置了。
Jingjing: Yours might. I'm going to dig up my camera and take spring photos.
京晶：說的對，我要去把我們的相機找出來拍拍春天了。
Mark: Ha ha, ok. Don't forget to post some of the better ones!
馬克：哈哈，好。別忘了發點好的啊！

New words : 習語短語
gadgets 電子小設備
electronic devices, and tools that have many functions
sci-fi 科幻
science fiction, a type of story with robots and future technology
an all-in-one 多功能俱全
a device that does what two or three other devices can do
something will come up 能找到些結果
you'll find search results
already out there 已經在市面上售賣的
already being sold to the public