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Todd: OK, Mark, I thought we would talk about television. The theme this week will be TV.
托德：马克，我们来谈谈电视吧p|-!1qY^H@.90)!7@0d。本周的主题是电视|HT=O7.]zv%ZrYGs。
Mark: OK.
马克：好leM5eUe4Ck。
Todd: First of all, how much television do you watch a day?
托德：第一个问题，你每天看多长时间的电视？
Mark: Per day? In Japan?
马克：一天吗？在日本吗？
Todd: Yeah.
托德：对MyxJ|8FKdECN)mth1)J。
Mark: Not so much because my Japanese is not so good so recently I've been watching TV via the internet on a PC.
马克：我看的不多，因为我的日语不是太好，所以最近我是在电脑上连网看电视的bYRf_rt|%N。
Todd: Oh, really.
托德：哦，真的吗？
Mark: Yeah, but if I for example have SKY TV, satellite TV maybe five or six hours per day.
马克：对，不过如果有天空电视或卫星电视的，我每天看电视的时间大概有五六个小时w3g=,oAIB=26%ny3no。
Todd: Whoa!
托德：哇！
Mark: Yeah, especially news. I love watching news programs.
马克：对，我大部分时间会看新闻szq1Pis.ecN;IPeE。我喜欢看新闻节目C=c+[d.VAxXYVp8b。
Todd: OK, so you watch five to six hours of television.
托德：你每天看五六个小时的电视8~*z~3Mt1a,ePMQK。
Mark: If I am free. On a Saturday. One the weekends.
马克：如果我有时间的话KA_Jbt|)9Sef##nKRX。周六、周末的时候是这样的TpUUAT(6lEP16。
Todd: A weekend type thing. And the thing you enjoy watching most is news?
托德：周末+OimL8uklK。你最喜欢看的是新闻节目？
Mark: I like news programs also sports. Yeah.
马克：我喜欢看新闻节目和体育节目6(OWL=w[Q7。对p-wLz3ME9F0q@。
Todd: Sports! What kinds of sports?
托德：体育节目！你喜欢看哪种体育节目？
Mark: Any sports really, I watch on TV. Yeah, football, basketball, baseball, American football.
马克：我会在电视上看各种体育节目yd-TY,YMNBdJ*5f-w。足球、篮球、棒球、橄榄球等等)@7o%S#+e_j;MRa。
Todd: Right. Here's a question, so you think it's better to watch sport on TV or to watch it live?
托德：好r)G7B0IPSwU*q7s。有个问题，你认为在电视上观看体育比赛更好还是在现场看更好？
Mark: Oh, definitely live.
马克：哦，绝对是在现场看更好(zET8nMmf&j@。
Todd: Oh, you think so.
托德：哦，你是这么认为的uq^k&_V=ArO&2Bd。
Mark: Yeah, but it's pretty expensive to watch live.
马克：对，不过去现场看比赛很贵%t|j*PrbiOr。
Todd: Right.
托德：对(0IjAuDmnf。
Mark: Definitely live.
马克：不过绝对是现场看更好YG&KHoYP08Ls。
Todd: I don't know. I'm kind of the other way. Like, except for baseball, cause I'm a huge baseball fan, but every other sport in America, basketball and American football, I think it's better to watch on TV.
托德：我不同意hU7zpxDdH2w;w[jT6CxL。我的想法和你正相反,9NWXW%p6ZGZ^。不过棒球除外，我是超级棒球迷，不过像一些美国其他的比赛，篮球和橄榄球之类的，我觉得在电视上看更好5jyi~APX&F;GKz+bY_kr。
Mark: Actually, I prefer both. So I go to the game and watch it live and then afterwards I can watch the replay on TV to look at the main place of the game. Obviously when you are watching it on TV you are a lot closer to the action.
马克：我觉得两种都不错,4zn9e#(1Y+jdc1O。我会去现场看比赛，之后我还会在电视上看比赛回放，主要看比赛中的精彩片段YBmV;&b],)#ihxgl*E。显然在电视上看比赛时，会更激动3ni33cmgon%62l。
Todd: Right. Well, you have the thrill of the crowd and all of that, but especially like American football, there's so many close plays and this and that, plus American football is terrible to watch live because during the commercial breaks there is just nothing going on. You know? So you are better off being home and watching a commercial I think.
托德：对Wje(adY+w=rMh。可以感受到人们的兴奋，尤其是美式橄榄球，比分经常会很接近，另外，去现场看美式橄榄球比赛不太好的原因是，比赛中间会有放广告的时间，那时没什么事干8Lgu#jx=GOk。所以我认为还是在家里看广告更好一些zp%URH-&v5.0,v6p,m。
Mark: Right. Yeah, and you can go for a beer or maybe a cup of tea at commercial. Actually, a few.. about a year ago I recently got contact lens because my eyes weren't so good, but when I was going to the football stadium, I couldn't see. You were so far away. But I didn't realize that my eyes were so bad. I thought they were just very far away until I got contact lens, and then suddenly I could see all the game. So that was a big improvement.
马克：对6*UAR-(NAC*j]c4。你可以在播放广告时去拿啤酒或咖啡喝%KGQ|LP7J2b).yt5。我大概一年前开始戴隐形眼镜，因为我的视力不是太好，我去足球场的时候看不清楚5F+,tHy^uRXHU。因为座位太远了rl&;hxNn;Oz&O。不过当时我并没有意识到我的视力有问题gSake5iHLQt|o7D.v%k。我以为是因为坐的位置太远了的原因，直到我戴隐形眼镜以后，我才能看清比赛情况@CPw~M1fzO5P。所以隐形眼镜帮了我很大忙e)Bj9.^Zs!4yk。

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