美語情景對話 第1364期:The Music Industry 音樂界(1)
Hana: Alright, so Ben, what do you think about the music industry recently?
哈娜:好,本,你怎麼看最近的音樂界?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,所以我不太瞭解流行音樂,不過我會瀏覽大量音樂新聞,我一直在關注新程序還有iTunes、Spotify等網站以及免費音樂……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是什麼時候?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,隨着互聯網的發展,現在世界上所有人的網速都很快,我認爲音樂界改變了很多,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,不過我認爲……我認爲我們應該改變支付音樂家報酬的方式,因爲他們現在掙不到錢了。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?那些是什麼來着?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,因爲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,然後下載。你可以搜索出人們放到網上的所有歌曲。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:你可以下載並保存這些歌曲,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?我認爲從這一點來說,音樂界改變了很多。Hana: Yeah, I think so.
哈娜:對,我也是這麼認爲的。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:你認爲是壞事?Ben: For artists I think it's not good.
本:我認爲對藝術家來說並不好。Hana: For artists. Yeah.
哈娜:對藝術家來說,對。Ben: Especially if they're not as popular, so if they do not have a very big record deal.
本:尤其是如果藝術家並不太出名的話,如果他們的唱片合約並不重要的話。Hana: Yeah.
哈娜:對。譯文屬僅供學習交流使用,未經許可請勿轉載
重點講解:
1. all around 四處;到處;
In trying to understand romantic love, she's reading poetry from all around the world.
她閱讀世界各地的詩歌來理解浪漫的愛情。
2. search for 搜尋;搜索;搜查;尋求;
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
欲索珍珠就要潛到水底。
3. type in 輸入(在網上);
As you type in the Search box, the contents of the folder will be filtered to reflect each successive character that you type.
按照您在“搜索”框中鍵入的內容,將對文件夾中的內容進行篩選以反映您鍵入的每個連續字符。
4. for free 義務地;無償地;免費地;
This gives you the ability to download and use this tool for free.
這樣您就可以免費下載和使用這個工具。