實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：The Music Industry 音樂界(1)

Hana: Alright, so Ben, what do you think about the music industry recently?

哈娜：好，本，你怎么看最近的音樂界?

Ben: Recently? Actually, you know I don't really listen to the radio so I'm not really sure about popular music, but one thing I do is I read a lot about music news, so one thing I've been noticing is with all of these new programs and websites like iTunes, Spotify, the free music ...

本：最近的音樂界?實際上，你知道我不常聽廣播，所以我不太了解流行音樂，不過我會瀏覽大量音樂新聞，我一直在關(guān)注新程序還有iTunes、Spotify等網(wǎng)站以及免費音樂……

Hana: Like YouTube yeah?

哈娜：比如YouTube?

Ben: YouTube. Yeah, YouTube as well. Like sometimes musicians, we don't ... No one buys CDs anymore.

本：YouTube。對，還有YouTube。有時音樂家，我們不……現(xiàn)在沒人再買CD了。

Hana: No.

哈娜：對。

Ben: Right? When was the last time you bought a CD? Do you remember?

本：對吧?你上次買CD是什么時候?你還記得嗎?

Hana: I don't even remember. Probably like ten years ago.

哈娜：我不記得了。大概是10年前吧。

Ben: Right, so like with the internet and the increase of everyone having high speed internet all around the world, I think the industry is changing a lot, especially for musicians and how they get paid.

本：好，隨著互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的發(fā)展，現(xiàn)在世界上所有人的網(wǎng)速都很快，我認為音樂界改變了很多，尤其是對音樂家以及他們得到報酬的方式來說。

Hana: Yeah, true.

哈娜：對，沒錯。

Ben: It's interesting in that kind of way, but I think it's a little ... I think we need to change how we pay musicians because people can't make money anymore.

本：這值得注意，不過我認為……我認為我們應(yīng)該改變支付音樂家報酬的方式，因為他們現(xiàn)在掙不到錢了。

Hana: No.

哈娜：嗯。

Ben: Used to sell CDs and receive a profit from that, but now people are on YouTube downloading music illegally.

本：以前他們通過出售CD可以得到收益，但是現(xiàn)在人們都在Youtube上非法下載音樂。

Hana: Yes.

哈娜：對。

Ben: Do you remember those programs that people ... What were they called? Like they were like downloader ... Peer to peer downloading software programs, like I think one of them was called Napster. It was one of the biggest ...

本：你記得那些程序嗎?那些是什么來著?就是那種下載程序，點對點下載軟件程序，其中一個程序是Napster。這是最大的下載程序之一……

Hana: Was it?

哈娜：是嗎?

Ben: Yeah, yeah. It was huge.

本：對，是的。這個程序很受歡迎。

Hana: Okay.

哈娜：好。

Ben: You would download this ... I remember, it was about 15 years ago. You would download the program onto your computer and you'd search for something. Let's say Madonna, which was actually my first song that I ever downloaded illegally was Madonna because I liked her when I was a kid.

本：我記得大約15年前就能通過這些程序下載音樂了。你可以把音樂下載到電腦上，還可以進行搜索。我第一首非法下載的歌是麥當娜的歌曲，因為我小時候很喜歡麥當娜。

Hana: Okay.

哈娜：好。

Ben: Before my punk days.

本：在我玩朋克樂之前。

Hana: Alright. Right.

哈娜：好，好的。

Ben: So yeah, you type in the name of the artist you want to listen to and you'd down ... All these songs come up that people have placed on the internet.

本：輸入你想聽的音樂家的名字，然后下載。你可以搜索出人們放到網(wǎng)上的所有歌曲。

Hana: Right.

哈娜：對。

Ben: And you can download that and you can keep it and listen to it as many times as you want for free.

本：你可以下載并保存這些歌曲，可以想聽多少遍就聽多少遍，而且都是免費的。

Hana: Yeah.

哈娜：對。

Ben: And you didn't pay ... I didn't pay Madonna anything.

本：你沒有支付……我沒有付麥當娜任何錢。

Hana: No.

哈娜：沒有。

Ben: Right? In that way, I think the music industry has changed a lot.

本：對吧?我認為從這一點來說，音樂界改變了很多。

Hana: Yeah, I think so.

哈娜：對，我也是這么認為的。

Ben: Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure if it's good or bad, probably bad

.本：嗯，對。我不確定這是好事還是壞事，可能是壞事。

Hana: You think?

哈娜：你認為是壞事?

Ben: For artists I think it's not good.

本：我認為對藝術(shù)家來說并不好。

Hana: For artists. Yeah.

哈娜：對藝術(shù)家來說，對。

Ben: Especially if they're not as popular, so if they do not have a very big record deal.

本：尤其是如果藝術(shù)家并不太出名的話，如果他們的唱片合約并不重要的話。

Hana: Yeah.

哈娜：對。