Todd: So Mark, what happens on boxing day?
托德:马克,节礼日那天会发生什么?
Adrienne: So we just had Christmas and I see your knitting bag is out, did you knit anything for anyone for Christmas?
埃德里安娜:我们刚刚过了圣诞节,我看到你的编织袋了,你在圣诞节的时候给谁织东西了吗?
Todd: Um , Kawabe you said you used to be a bike delivery person.
托德:川边,你说过你曾经做过骑单车送货的工作。
Easter is a holiday celebrated in March on the Sunday after the full moon, or on the Sunday after the first day of spring which I think is March 23rd. So it would be the Sunday after March 23rd.
复活节是在三月满月后的周日庆祝的节日,或者说是在春分之后的周日,我想春分是在3月23日。所以复活节是在3月23日之后的周日。
Adrienne: So, Vivian, you have grandchildren!
埃德里安娜:薇薇安,你都有孙子了!
Todd: So, Eli, how are your Japanese classes going?
托德:艾丽,你的日语课怎么样了?
Everyone talks about how kids these days use technology much more than in the past, but when I think back to my childhood, I remember how technology was a huge part of my life. The first thing is the cassette tape, especially when I was in high school, every Friday night my favorite radio station used to play complete records, and I would stay up till about ten o’clock in the evening and have my cassette recorder ready and I would record the entire album, the entire record from the radio and then I would be able to play it in my car. I was born in 1971, so when I was a kid, people weren’t using the internet but I had a computer in my house when I about 11 or 12 years old and my dad taught me some basic programming and I even created a program where I fooled one of my friends into thinking that we had entered into the computer record system at my school and he was getting a bad grade in social studies and I made it look like we had entered into the social studies records file and I changed his grade and he was very scared about this. He went home and told his dad and finally called me back later on that evening and said, "Hey, my dad said that you need a modem to break into another computer."
所有人都在说现在的孩子们比以前的孩子所应用的科技要多得多,可是我回想了一下我的童年时代,我记得科技在我生活中占了很大一部分。首先就是卡带,尤其是我上高中的时候,每个周五晚上我最喜欢的广播电台都会播放完整的磁带专辑,我会一直熬到晚上十点,把我的盒式磁带录音机准备好,录制整张专辑,从广播电台的节目录制整张专辑,然后我就能在我的车里放这张专辑了。我生于1971年,所以我小时候人们还没有应用互联网,但是我大概11岁或12岁的时候家里有了电脑,我爸爸教了我一些基本编程,而我还创建了一个程序骗我朋友,让他以为我们进入了学校的电脑记录系统,当时他的社会学考得非常差,而我编的程序看起来我们好像进入了社会学分数记录档案,而我改变了他的分数,他对这件事情感到很惊讶。他回家以后告诉了他爸爸,之后他那天晚上回我电话说,“嘿,我爸爸说你需要调制解调器才能侵入其他的电脑。”
Todd: OK. Cat, we’re going to talk about high school.
托德:好。凯特,我们要谈谈高中的事情。
Todd: Adrienne, we’re going to talk about cleaning! So, first of all, how often do you clean, like your apartment?
托德:埃德里安娜,我们要谈谈清洁工作!首先,你的公寓多久做一次打扫工作?
Todd: OK. Sophie, we’re going to talk about opposites. OK. What is big?
托德:好,苏菲,我们要来谈谈反义词。好,什么东西是大的?