地道美語聽力播客693: 購買電子書（雙語）

Kindo: What’s that?

金多：那是什么?

Nookie: It’s my new e-book reader. I’m just downloading some new books onto it.

諾基：我的電子書閱覽器，我下載一些電子書放在里面。

Kindo: I haven’t bought one yet. I’m old school. I still prefer a printed book.

金多：我還沒買過這種東西呢，我是個(gè)守舊派，更喜歡印刷的書籍。

Nookie: But if you haven’t tried it yet, how do you know you wouldn’t like it better? This e-book reader can store over 10,000 digital books and it’s easily portable. Imagine trying to carry an entire library from place to place.

諾基：如果你還沒有嘗試過，你怎么知道自己不會(huì)更喜歡電子書呢?這個(gè)電子書閱覽器能夠存儲(chǔ)1萬多本數(shù)字圖書，而且攜帶很輕便。如同把整個(gè)圖書館的書從一個(gè)地方帶到另一個(gè)地方。

Kindo: I don’t usually read 10,000 books all at once and I hear that there are a lot of incompatible formats out there. Each company is trying to edge out the others by establishing their format as the format. I think I’ll just wait until the dust settles.

金多：我也沒有一下子讀過1萬本書籍，而且我聽說有很多文件不相容的格式。每個(gè)公司都試圖通過建立他們自己的格式作為版式，從而取代其他公司。我想我還是等一切落定之后再?zèng)Q定。

Nookie: The different formats aren’t that big a deal. You can easily convert a book in one format to another.

諾基：不同的格式并不是什么大問題，你能夠輕易地把電子書從一個(gè)格式轉(zhuǎn)換成另一個(gè)。

Kindo: I like the look of text on a printed page.

金多：我喜歡看印刷的紙質(zhì)文本。

Nookie: You mean that faded text on that yellowed page? On an e-book reader, you can adjust the text size, font, and even line spacing.

諾基：你是說那些發(fā)黃的已經(jīng)褪色的文本?電子書閱覽器上，你可以調(diào)整文本大小、字體、甚至行間距。

Kindo: Can I get all of the out-of-print books on my shelves in digital format?

金多：我可以把書架上的不再發(fā)行的書籍換成數(shù)字格式嗎?

Nookie: Well, I’m not sure.

諾基：嗯，我不確定。

Kindo: Until I can, I’ll stick to my low-tech books.

金多：直到我能，我仍然堅(jiān)持我的這些低技術(shù)的書籍。