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Now listen to two students discussing the article.
請聽下面兩位學生討論這篇文章。
Woman: Oh, no, did you see this?
女：不是吧。你看過這篇文章了嗎？
Man: Yeah, why? You don't like the idea?
男：看過了啊，怎么了？你不喜歡這個想法嗎？
Woman: Not at all!
女：一點兒也不喜歡！
Man: How come?
男：為什么？
Woman: Well, the cost, for one thing, they are just not being realistic.
女：首先就是費用問題，他們一點兒也不現實。
Man: Even compare to the price of textbooks?
男：即使和教材的價錢相比還是很貴嗎？
Woman: Well, sure, textbooks aren't cheap, but do you think people are only gonna use one device the whole time they are at university?
女：當然了，雖然教材也不便宜，但是你覺得大家在學校期間只會需要一臺設備嗎？
What happens if yours breaks? You have to buy a new one.
如果設備壞了怎么辦？那你就不得不再買臺新的了。
Or they come out with some fancy new features. Wouldn't you want to get a new one then?
或者，又出新款了呢？你不會想換臺新的嗎？
Man: Yeah, I see what you mean. A lot of people would probably want to replace theirs with the latest version.
男：嗯，我知道你的意思。很多人可能會想換新款。
Woman: Right! Maybe even every year and that can add up.
女：沒錯！也許他們甚至一年換一次新款，這些花費加起來數字可不小啊。
Man: True, but, don't you agree it'll make studying and preparing for classes a lot easier?
男：確實。但是你不覺得有了這些設備，學習和課堂準備都會簡單得多嗎？
Woman: I don't think everybody is gonna think it's so great.
女：我覺得不是每個人都會認為它很棒的。
Man: What do you mean?
男：怎么說呢？
Woman: Well. , it's only helpful if it's easy to use and, well, this thing is pretty small. It's only about 18 or 20 centimeters tall.
女：嗯...這個設備只有在使用方法簡單的情況下才有幫助吧。你看，它其實挺小的，長度只有18或者20厘米左右。
Man: Oh, really? So that means the screen's pretty small.
男：真的嗎？那這樣屏幕就很小了。
Woman: Right, and I heard that the key pad or control buttons, they are small, too.
女：沒錯，而且我聽說鍵盤和按鍵也都很小。
So if you have normal-sized fingers, it's not so easy to select an item or get it to function right, you know, to do stuff like highlighting or underlining.
如果手指大小正常的話，要選對圖標或者正確操作可不容易，你知道的，比如標重點或者畫線什么的。
Man: I hadn't thought of that.
男：我還沒想到這點呢。
Woman: So what good are all those fancy features if it's hard to use them?
女：所以說如果操作這么困難的話，要那些花里胡哨的功能有什么用？
Besides, I like the old-fashioned way of studying material: writing notes on the page and underlining or highlighting important sections of the book.
而且，我更喜歡傳統的學習方式：在書上做筆記，把書里重要的部分標出來或者畫線。
I'm more comfortable with that.
我覺得這樣更舒服。
