英文原版对话1000个:974 Essential Stuff

Jess: Right, Tom, tell me, what three things could you not live without?

Tom: Well, I guess you say me playing with my new toy just now. It's my iPod touch and it is fantastic. I often take long bus journeys at the weekend and on this little electronic storage machine with a screen I can watch a movie and that's just ... makes bus journeys fly by. It also has wireless¹ internet so I can carry it around and in a coffee shop I can check my e-mail and it has the added function of being able to play music, although I don't listen to music much. That's one. My iPod touch is with me all the time.

It's kind of connected to my number 2. Number 2 is the internet. I couldn't live without the Internet. I'm online every day - reading newpapers, checking out information about things I want to do and see that day. Keeping in touch with family and friends, although I don't do that as much as they would like. The internet is such a huge part of my life. I can't imagine what it was like ten or fifteen years ago, when nobody was online.

Number three, I suppose is the sun, which sounds a bit facile because everything on the whole planet² requires the sun, but for me it's not so much about the nutrition that plants and animals derive³ from the sun. It's just being able to lie and relax in the soft warmth, tanning⁴ by the pool, letting my mind empty and clear. Those are my three. How about you?

Jess: Well, I have to agree with your second one, definitely⁵ the Internet is one thing I couldn't live without either, for the same reasons you mentioned really, just to stay in touch with people for things like reading the news, checking my e-mail, finding⁶ phone numbers, getting information. I really couldn't live without it.

The second thing would be my family. I couldn't live without them. I think since I've moved away from Britain and I don't live close to them, and I don't see them regularly anymore, I've grown to love them even more. Kind of you don't realize what you've until it's gone, and that was true with my family. I really miss them all the time, and I love going back to see them, so they're my number two

And my number three would be music. Music's a huge part of my life and I think I remember things by what I was listening to at the time. I'll remember periods of my life by what's songs I was listening to or what album I'd bought, so for me my memories are very much brought back to me by music, so those are my three things: the Internet, my family, and music.
 

1 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

2 planet   

n.行星

参考例句：

• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun. 海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. 然而, 垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。

3 derive   

v.取得；导出；引申；来自；源自；出自

参考例句：

• We derive our sustenance from the land.我们从土地获取食物。
• We shall derive much benefit from reading good novels.我们将从优秀小说中获得很大好处。

4 tanning   

n.制革法，皮肤晒成褐色；[口]鞭打；鞣制

参考例句：

• When his father gets home, he'll get a good tanning. 他爸爸回来时他将要挨一顿痛打。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• The sun's ultraviolet rays are responsible for both tanning and burning. 阳光中的紫外线是皮肤晒黑和灼伤的根源。 来自辞典例句

5 definitely   

adv.一定地，肯定地；明确地，确切地

参考例句：

• The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛，这个队肯定会输。
• I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前，我一定回家。

6 finding   

n.发现，发现物；调查的结果

参考例句：

• The finding makes some sense.该发现具有一定的意义。
• That's an encouraging finding.这是一个鼓舞人心的发现。