你是什么時候開始使用手機的

今天的這段對話，在討論手機，
 
手機的功能很豐富，你是什么時候開始使用手機的
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: So I want to ask you about when is the right age to have stuff or to start doing stuff. What do you think is the right age to start having a phone?
 
請你談談?chuàng)碛心澄锘蜷_始做某事的合適年齡。你認為幾歲可以有手機？
 
B: Oh, I think for security reasons, to, you know, keep the child safe, perhaps maybe about 11 or 12 when they start going around places without their parents.
 
哦，我認為出于安全考慮，為了保證孩子的安全，也許11歲或12歲左右可以有手機，因為那時孩子開始在沒有家長陪同的情況下四處走動。
 
A: Yeah.
 
對。
 
B: It would be a way for me to contact my daughter. Even now, my daughter is only six and she doesn't have a phone, and that's far too young, I believe. However, she walks to school by herself and walks home by herself. And that stresses me out for her safety. So there are times where I wish I could phone her or text her, but she doesn't have a phone. And I do believe that six is far too young to have a phone.
 
手機應該是我可以聯(lián)系我女兒的方法。不過現(xiàn)在我女兒只有6歲，她沒有手機，我認為這個年齡用手機太早了。不過，她自己步行上學，晚上放學自己步行回家。我非常擔心她的安全。所以有時我希望我能給她打電話或是發(fā)信息，不過她沒有手機。我認為六歲的孩子還太小，不能用手機。
 
A: A little bit too young.
 
是太小了。
 
B: Yes. So purely for security reasons, I think probably around 11 or 12.
 
對。單純從安全角度考慮，我認為11歲或12歲左右比較合適。
 
A: How old were you when you first got your phone.
 
你幾歲開始用手機的？
 
B: Well, I'm an old person so, you know, people didn't have mobile phones. I was reaching the end of high school. I was, I think, 17 when I got my first mobile phone. And it was a big brick. But again, that was for, you know, I guess security reasons.
 
嗯，我年紀挺大的了，你知道 ，以前人們都沒有手機。我在高中畢業(yè)時才有了第一部手機。我想，我是在17歲時有的第一部手機。那時的手機和磚塊一樣。不過，那也是為了安全考慮。
 
A: Yeah.
 
嗯。
 
B: My parents got it for me. I was going out, you know, I started going out at night, going to concerts. And I was beginning to be allowed going into bars and things at 17, 18. So yeah, it was a good security thing. My parents were appreciative of being able to contact me.
 
我父母給我買了手機。當時我開始在晚上外出，會去看音樂會。十七八歲的時候，我可以去酒吧了。所以，手機是安全保障。我父母可以用手機聯(lián)系到我。
 
A: Yeah.
 
對。
 
B: How about you? How old were you when you first got your mobile phone?
 
你呢？你多大有的第一部手機？
 
A: Oh goodness. I was about 12 or 13. I was really young.
 
我的天哪。我大概是12歲或13歲的時候。當時我很小。
 
B: Okay.
 
好。
 
A: And I only got my first mobile phone or my first cellphone because my best friend who got the same one and I wanted to send like picture messages to her. It was back in the old days where you can send a photo, you can take photos.
 
因為我最好的朋友有了手機，我想給她傳彩信，所以我得到了一個和她一樣的手機。那個時候，手機可以傳圖片和拍照。
 
B: Picture messages.
 
圖片彩信。
 
A: Picture messages.
 
圖片彩信。
 
B: I couldn't even send picture messages. Mine was just texts, like pressing the same button over and over again.
 
我的手機都不能傳圖片彩信。只能發(fā)文字消息，要一直按同樣的按鍵。
 
A: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So I never really used it as like a way of security. I just used it to send really overpriced picture messages to my friend for absolutely no reason. It was such a waste. And to play Snake. Do you remember Snake?
 
哦，對，沒錯。我從來沒把手機當做安全保障。我只是用手機給朋友發(fā)非常貴的彩信，而且沒有什么理由。那簡直是浪費。當時還玩貪吃蛇。你還記得貪吃蛇嗎？
 
B: Oh yeah, Snake.
 
哦對，貪吃蛇。
 
A: Like the little game that you could play on your phone.
 
手機上可以玩一些小游戲。
 
B: Yup, yup.
 
對，對。
 
A: Yeah. I didn't use it for a good use, I think. I just used it to waste time.
 
嗯。我想我沒有善用手機。我只是浪費了時間。
 
B: Fair enough. Well, you're 12, you said, right?
 
情有可原。你剛說你當時只有12歲，對吧？
 
A: Twelve, thirteen, yeah.
 
12歲或13歲。
 
B: That sounds age appropriate, I think, age appropriate use.
 
我認為聽起來那與年齡相符。
 
A: Yeah. It's a good time to start wasting your time.
 
對。是開始浪費時間的年齡。
 
B: Yeah.
 
對。
 
A: Get ahead to start wasting time.
 
開始浪費時間。
 
B: Yeah.
 
嗯。