【话匣子英语】电子游戏

 今天安德鲁和莫拉格找到共同爱好了，那就是—电子游戏....

Andrew:

I’m doing pretty well. You know, I’m on vacation right now, so my life is pretty stress-free and relaxed, but what’s new with you?

 

Morag: Not too much, except I have been engaging in some activities that run right along with our theme today of video games.

Andrew: Oh, so does that mean you have been playing a lot of video games?

Morag:

 I have. I kinda got suckered in earlier in the month by a sale, and I bought The Sims 4. I don’t know if many of our listeners will have played The Sims games; they’ve sold extremely well, all of them, but, uh, they are a time sink.

 

Andrew:

Well, if you haven’t guessed by now, our topic for today is video games. So Morag and I are, I guess you could say, both gamers, but maybe with different levels of interest in video games. But we’re going to do a Chatterbox episode¹, where we have a natural conversation about video games and our experiences with them. And today, Morag, I want to start the episode by asking you about your first experiences with video games. How did you get into gaming?

 

Morag:

Well, it’s actually kind of funny. I wasn’t allowed to play games for a while, and it’s not by my parents. It’s just because I was a tomboy, and I hung out with boys, but they wouldn’t let me play games, usually, ’cause I was a girl.

 

Andrew: Mmm, that is weird².

Morag: I spent a lot of time watching boys play games, and I really wanted to play. Like, I spent hours watching my guy friends when I was a kid, playing, like, Duke Nukem 3D or Doom³, or all of those shooters.

Andrew: Wolfenstein 3D.

Morag:

Wolfenstein, yup. But I didn’t have any gaming capacity⁴ when I was a kid, and so I just watched other people, but was so interested in it that, as soon as I was able to play games for myself, I got really into it.

 

Andrew: So what was the first game then that you were able to play?

Morag: I remember I talked my mom into renting an N64 with the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Andrew: One of my favourite games ever.

Morag: It’s so good, right?

Andrew: It’s so good.

Morag: But I never finished it when I was a kid because, um, I didn’t own the console⁵. We just had to rent it, so I played the first bit of that game so many times, any time I rented it. But that was my first taste.

1 episode   

n.（作品的一段）情节，插曲，系列事件中之一

参考例句：

• The episode was a huge embarrassment for all concerned.这段小插曲令所有有关人员都感到非常尴尬。
• This episode remains sharply engraved on my mind.这段经历至今仍深深地铭刻在我的心中。

2 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

3 doom   

n.厄运，劫数；v.注定，命定

参考例句：

• The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
• The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。

4 capacity   

n.能力，力量，接受力；容量，能量，容积

参考例句：

• She is employed by the president in an advisory capacity.她被总裁聘为顾问。
• This carriage has a seating capacity of 120 people.这节车厢定员120人。

5 console   

n.控制台，仪表板，落地柜；vt.安慰，慰问

参考例句：

• We tried to console her when her dog died.她的狗死后，我们尽力安慰她。
• The console is just like a typewriter.控制台就像一台打字机。