現代社會，網絡科技電子產品已經佔據了人們的大半生活，關於這種情況的好壞，至今仍沒有爭論出什麼結果。下面這段口語對話希望對你有所啓發。還有更多精彩內容請關注應屆畢業生考試網。
Aimee: So Paul, speaking of technology, how longdo you think you can go without checking yourphone?
艾米：保羅，說到科技，你認爲你可以多長時間不看手機?
Paul: Ah, it's quite embarrassing, really, if I'mhonest, I check it a lot. I really do, like I'm alwayshaving to look at Facebook, my emails. I'm looking atthe football news online... yeah, I mean... It's not something that I'm proud about; but it'ssomething that, yeah, it's quite a big part of my life, I think.
保羅：說起來真的很不好意思，說實話我看手機的次數很頻繁。我經常看手機，我一直在看臉譜網還有郵件。我還會在網上瀏覽足球新聞。我並不是以此爲榮，只是我想那已經成爲了我生活的一部分。
Aimee: If you left the house and you had forgotten your phone, would you feel somethingreally missing?
艾米：如果你出家門以後發現忘了帶手機，那你會感覺少了些什麼嗎?
Paul: I did actually I forgot my...I use my iPad a lot, and I forgot my iPad the other day just as Iwas leaving, and my bus was about to arrive. And I really had the strong like pull to get back forit. But I caught myself and decided that yeah, I can manage without it, you know, for one day.
保羅：我的確忘帶過，我比較常用iPad，有一天我出門時忘了帶我的iPad，而公交車馬上就要到了。我非常想回去拿。可是我阻止了自己，我想沒有iPad我也可以度過一天。
Aimee: Could you manage?
艾米：那你做到了嗎?
Paul: Yeah, I did, I didn't even think about it actually. It was just that you know, that sort ofmomentary pull where I thought I needed it, and then actually having you know, sort ofconsidered it seriously. It was like, I don't need it, so yeah, I did find without it I didn't have tobe like hooked up to a life support system or anything. Yeah, it's amazing really, how it comesto be such a central part in your life. How long do you think you could go without using theinternet?
保羅：做到了，我甚至沒有去想它。我以爲我很需要它，這其實是一種瞬間的`吸引，可是再仔細考慮一下，你會發現，我並不需要它，而且沒有iPad，我就不用連接這個所謂的“生命支持系統”了。它是如何成爲生活中心的，這真是太不可思議了。你能多長時間不用網絡?
Aimee: Ahh, I check my phone thousands of times a day... To exaggerate, did I saythousands? I check it too much, I think, far too much. If I left my home, I would feel gutted. Iwould feel like I'm really, really missing something. It would definitely be a big, big pull, I think. Iread a lot of things on the internet and I check things and, and yeah. When it's not there, thenI do feel like something is maybe I should be doing something, or missing out on it's not good - I'm embarrassed it's not good at all. So I think I need to work onunplugging.
艾米：啊，我一天要看幾千次手機。我有些誇張了，我剛是不是說了幾千次?我想我看手機的次數太多了。如果我把手機落在家裏，那我會感覺非常沮喪。我會覺得少了些什麼。我想那一定是非常大的吸引。我在網絡上瀏覽很多內容，還要查看很多東西。如果我沒帶手機，那我感覺我應該做些什麼事情，否則我會感覺少了些什麼。這樣並不好，我很尷尬，這樣一點都不好。我認爲我應該斷網。
Paul: I've heard a lot of people they try to do at least one or two days a week when they don'tuse the internet at all. But that sounds like it could be quite a good idea. You know, maybe justyou know, unplug.
保羅：我聽說有很多人每週儘量有一天或兩天的時間完全不用網絡。我認爲那聽起來是個非常不錯的主意。遠離電子產品。
Aimee: Yeah. Do you think you could?
艾米：對。你認爲你能做到嗎?
Paul: I think I could, yeah, I think I could. In fact, I really like hiking and being outdoors, and, Ithink one of the things I really love about it is that I'm... nobody can contact me, you know?And I'm kinda away from everything. And I really enjoy those moments.
保羅：我想我能，我可以做到。實際上，我很喜歡徒步，我喜歡戶外活動，這些活動讓我着迷的其中一個原因是，我進行戶外運動時沒人能聯繫到我。那讓我遠離一切。我非常享受那些時刻。
Aimee: Uhm, yeah. I don't know if I could. I always have to cut down before going coldturkey, I think, I've got to cut down. I'm trying to cut down. You know, I mentioned before,I'm trying to get back into reading uhm, just get back into real books instead of screen , yeah, I couldn't go cold turkey, I think, a couple of days a week. I would need to cutdown.
艾米：嗯。我不知道我能不能做到。在完全停止使用電子產品之前，我會減少使用時間。我會逐漸減少使用時間。我之前提到過，我在努力找回我的閱讀習慣，我要看紙質書，而不是電子書。一週有幾天的時間完全不使用電子設備，我想我做不到。我需要逐漸減少使用時間。
Paul: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we should probably yeah, make a concerted effort I think it isprobably good for us to try to reduce our, you know, user time.
保羅：對，沒錯，我想也許我們應該一起努力，我認爲這會幫助我們減少使用電子產品的時間。
Aimee: Yeap.
艾米：好的。
