評論
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Dialogue 1
Jingjing: Mark, have you been keeping up on the news about Covid-19?
京晶：馬克，你還一直在關注關于新冠肺炎的新聞嗎?
Mark: How could I not keep up on it? It's what we talk about at home, every morning at breakfast. Also, there are articles everywhere I look, social media, news sites...
馬克：怎么能不關心呢？這就是我們在家里每天吃早餐時談論的話題。而且，所見之處到處都有這類文章，社交媒體，新聞網站……
Jingjing: Don't I know it. There are also a lot of rumors floating around.
京晶：千真萬確。同時也有很多謠言在流傳。
Mark: What kind of rumors?
馬克：什么樣的謠言？
Jingjing: The ones I've seen were mostly about how the virus gets spread. You know, it's mostly from bodily fluids, like saliva and mucus.
京晶：我所見的主要是關于病毒如何傳播的。它主要通過體液途徑，比如唾液和粘液。
Mark: Yeah, so if someone sneezed on a railing, and a second person touched it and then rubbed their eye, the second person could get infected.
馬克：是的，如果有一個人對著欄桿打噴嚏，然后第二個人碰到了欄桿，再揉了揉眼睛，第二個人就會被傳染。
Jingjing: Right. That would all have to happen within a fairly short period of time.
京晶：對。這些都得在相當短的時間內發生才行。
Mark: So, the disease gets spread like most cold and flu viruses.
馬克：所以，這種疾病就像大多數感冒和流感病毒一樣傳播的。
Jingjing: You got it. If someone coughs or sneezes, a second person standing nearby could get infected that way also.
京晶：你說得對。如果有人咳嗽或打噴嚏，站在附近的第二個人通過這個方式就會被傳染。
Mark: OK. So, what were some of the more off-the-wall rumors you heard?
馬克：是啊。那么，你聽到的那些離奇的謠言是什么呢?
Jingjing: One was about the virus being on people's shoes.
京晶：其中一個是鞋子上會攜帶病毒。
Mark: Isn't there a grain of truth to that one? People are always cleaning their shoes when they come home nowadays.
馬克：這個難道沒有一點道理嗎？現在人們回到家后都會清潔一下鞋。
Jingjing: It's a good idea to keep shoes clean. It's not very likely that the virus will still be alive after very long, even if someone sneezed or coughed directly on them.
京晶：保持鞋子干凈是個好主意。即使有人直接對著鞋子打噴嚏或咳嗽，病毒也不太可能長時間存活。
Mark: So, I guess if someone steps on the virus, it's not going to walk all the way home with them.
馬克：所以，我猜如果有人踩到病毒，也不會帶著病毒一路走回家。
Jingjing: Nope, not with all the friction exposed to the soles of people's shoes.
京晶：不，不是所有的摩擦都暴露在鞋底 。
Mark: Aw, there goes my idea to start an anti-bacterial doormat business! Ha ha.
馬克：啊，我想到了開始做抗菌進門地墊生意！哈哈。
New words : 習語短語
(rumor) floating around 流言四起 滿城風雨 甚囂塵上
an idea, which people keep mentioning, even though no one person seems to be promoting it
off-the-wall 不同尋常的; 稀奇古怪的
weird, unlikely, unsuitable
a grain of truth
a small part of something is true or reasonable
friction 摩擦 摩擦力
surface resistance, two objects rubbed against each other
anti-bacterial 抗菌的
something that kills bacteria and/or prevents it from reproducing, usually a chemical (but this adjective can modify an ordinary object – anti-bacterial soap, anti-bacterial socks)
Dialogue 2
Jingjing: Mark, are you ready to hear a couple of the other Covid-19 rumors?
京晶：馬克，你準備好聽一些其他的關于新冠肺炎的謠言了嗎?
Mark: Sure. They're good for a laugh anyway.
馬克：好啊。夠調劑一樂了。
Jingjing: OK, so this next one is about people who smoke. What do you think the rumor is?
京晶：好的，下一個是關于抽煙人群的。你認為謠言會是什么?
Mark: Um, if I had to guess, I'd say it's about cigarettes keeping the virus alive from the factory to the smoker's mouth.
馬克：呃，如果我必須猜的話，我會說香煙能讓病毒從工廠車間一直存活到吸煙者口中。
Jingjing: Not even close. The rumor was that smokers are less susceptible to infection.
京晶：差太遠了。謠傳說吸煙者更不容易被感染。
Mark: How could that be?
馬克：怎么會這樣？
Jingjing: I think it was something about the heat and chemicals. According to the article I saw, there is no data to show that smokers are getting infected any more or less often than non-smokers.
京晶：我認為這與燃燒熱量和化學物質有關。根據我看到的那篇文章，沒有數據顯示吸煙者感染病毒的機率會更高于或低于不吸煙者。
Mark: Another rumor out the window. What was the third one?
馬克：又一個謠言被擊破了（被粉碎了）。第三個是什么？
Jingjing: Get this: People were afraid that recycled subway cards and tokens could hold the virus.
京晶：看這條：人們擔心重復使用的地鐵卡和地鐵幣可能攜帶病毒。
Mark: You mean those little plastic coins that you get from a machine?
馬克：你是說那些你從自助機器上得到的小塑料硬幣嗎?
Jingjing: Right. The rumor was that if an infected person returned theirs, all the other tokens might get the virus on them.
京晶：對。謠言說，如果一個受感染的人把他用過的地鐵幣還回去，其他所有的地鐵幣都可能被染上病毒。
Mark: Wow, that's really far-fetched.
馬克：哇，這太夸張了。
Jingjing: Some people are just paranoid, I guess.
京晶：我想有些人的確太多疑了。
Mark: Well, it's better to be safe than sorry. It's a good habit to avoid touching things in public places, and to wear gloves.
馬克：事前小心好過事后遭殃。在公共場所避免直接接觸公共物品是個好習慣，還有戴手套。
Jingjing: Right. I've seen pictures and videos of people taking it too far, though.
京晶：說得對。不過，我也看到一些人們做得太過頭的照片和視頻。
Mark: Me too! There was one of a guy getting his hair cut. The barber was wearing a protective suit and had the clippers attached to a one-meter stick.
馬克：我也看過！有一個人正在剪頭發。他的理發師身穿防護服，還把理發剪綁在一根一米長的棍子上。
Jingjing: Ha ha. That's something I gotta see!
京晶：哈哈。那我得去瞧瞧。
New words : 習語短語
susceptible 易感染的，易受影響的，善感的
more likely than other people to get sick, or to get hurt emotionally
out the window 突然失去了、或者是浪費了某樣東西、失去信任的
no longer believed to have any value, recently and quickly discredited
far-fetched 牽強附會的 不靠譜的
hard to believe, not close to the truth
paranoid 過度焦慮的 類似妄想狂的；屬于偏執狂的
having too many fears, or a constant irrational fear
take
do too much of something, beyond what is necessary
