美语情景对话 第1222期:How much TV do you watch? 你花多长时间看电视?
Hanna: Hi, I'm Hanna from Australia.
汉娜：嗨，我是汉娜，来自澳大利亚。Diego: I'm Diego from Mexico.
迭戈：我是迭戈，来自墨西哥。Hanna: And today we're going to be talking about how much TV do you watch? Diego how much TV do you watch?
汉娜：今天我们要讨论的是，你花多长时间看电视？迭戈，你花多少时间看电视呢？
Diego: I don't watch a lot of TV any more but when I was a kid I used to watch six hours a day, it was ridiculous.
迭戈：我现在已经不常看电视了，不过我小时候每天会看六个小时的电视，那真是很荒唐。Hanna: Six hours a day? You must have square eyes or something.
汉娜：每天六个小时？你的眼睛一定变方了。Diego: Yeah, I'm actually glad I don't wear glasses as of today, but yeah I would finish school and then go home at around two, three, have lunch and then I would watch TV for a long time. I would do my homework in the middle of it or I would do my homework while watching TV and then I would go to bed. So I think for like four years I watched plenty of TV. How about you?
迭戈：嗯，其实我很高兴我直到现在都没有戴眼镜，以前我每天放学回到家的时间大概是下午两三点，吃完午饭后我就会看很长时间的电视。我会在看电视的间隙写作业，或者一边看电视一边写作业，然后上床睡觉。我想在四年的时间里我经常看电视。你呢？Hanna: I don't really watch much TV. Maybe when I was twelve or thirteen in junior high school I used to watch a bit of TV but ever since then I wasn't really interested in it. I watch a lot of YouTube though which is sort of like TV but I find I don't like advertisements on TV and I get bored sitting thru them and just go off and do something else.
汉娜：我不太常看电视。也许在我十二、三岁上初中那会儿，我有时会看电视，不过从那以后我就不喜欢看电视了。我经常在Youtube网上看视频，虽然那和电视有点儿像，不过我不喜欢电视上的广告，坐在那里看广告会让我感觉无聊，我会失去兴趣，转而去做其他事情。Diego: Yeah, I think the internet's replacing TV. So I think the question should be how much internet TV do you watch?
迭戈：嗯，我认为网络会取代电视。所以问题应该是你花多少时间看网络电视？Hanna: Yeah, well I watch a little bit of that.
汉娜：对，网络电视的话，我会看一会儿。
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重点讲解：
1. used to do sth. 过去常常；过去曾；
例句：People used to come and visit him every day.
人们过去每天都来拜访他。
2. as of 在…时；从…起；自…始；
例句：As of this writing, no reply has been received.
到写这封信时为止，尚未得到答复。
3. in the middle of (某件事或某段时间的)中期；
例句：She was born in the middle of a rain storm.
她出生在一场暴风雨中。
4. go off 对…不再喜欢；失去对…的兴趣；
例句：I started to go off the idea.
我开始对这一想法失去兴趣了。
