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Recording 43
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Good morning. Dave speaking. Oh, hi. I'm phoning about a short story competition. Urn, I saw an advert in a magazine and I was just calling to get some details.
早上好，我是戴夫。你好。我打來是想問問那個短篇小說比賽的。我在雜志上看到廣告，就打過來咨詢一些細節。
Yes, certainly. I'm the competition organiser, so I should be able to help. What kind of details are you looking for? Well, um... Does it cost anything to enter?
好的，當然。我是比賽的組織者，所以我應該能幫上忙。你想咨詢什么內容？報名的話要交費嗎？
Yes, there's an entry fee of five pounds. OK , that should be fine. It's a short story competition, so how many words is that?
要，報名費是5英鎊。好的，這不是大問題。這是個短篇小說比賽，要求多少字呢？
Well, we want to give people a reasonable amount of freedom, but the guidelines are around 3000 words. Oh, that sounds quite a lot.
我們希望能給大家合理的自由發揮空間，但參考的字數范圍約為三千字。噢，這聽起來可真不少。
Well, it's not as much as it used to be. We did have a limit of 5,000 words, but some people thought that was too many, so this year we've reduced it. Right, and does the story need to be about anything in particular?
這已經不如以前字數多了。我們曾經要求最低五千字，但有人認為這太多了，所以今年我們降低了要求。好吧，這個故事有指定要求某方面內容嗎？
No, you can write about any topic you like. But the main point of the competition is that it has to have a surprise ending. Oh, I see. That sounds interesting. I don't think I've ever written a story like that before.
沒有，你可以寫任何你喜歡的主題。但比賽主要要求故事有個出乎意料的結局。噢，我明白了。這聽起來很有趣。我覺得我從未寫過這樣的故事。
Yes, it's something we've introduced for this year's competition. Right. Um... I'm eighteen. Is there any age limit?
這是我們為了今年比賽而引入的內容。好的。我十八歲，比賽有年齡限制嗎？
Yes, you need to be sixteen or over. So if you're eighteen, that's fine. Great. So you have the competition once a year. Is that right?
有，你必須年滿16歲以上，如果你已經18歲了，就沒問題。太好了。你們一年舉辦一次比賽，對嗎？
Yes, we start advertising in January and the competition takes up a lot of the year. We give people a few months to write their story and then it takes quite a long time to judge all the entries and to announce the winners. I see. So when is the closing date for the competition? It's already April. I hope I'm not too late.
對，我們從一月份開始進行廣告宣傳，比賽占去了一年中的大部分時間。我們給大家幾個月時間來寫故事，然后要評判所有的參賽作品，并宣布比賽贏家，這又要花上很長時間。我明白了。比賽的截止日期是什么時候？現在已經四月份了，我希望我不算太遲。
No, you've still got plenty of time. You need to submit your entry by the 1st of August. After then it will be too late, although you can always enter next year's competition. OK, good. So how do I enter?
不，你的時間還很充裕。你需要在八月一號前提交你的參賽作品，在此之后就太晚了，當然了，你總是可以參加下一年比賽的。好的。我怎么報名呢？
