美語情景對話 第354期:Video Games 電子遊戲
I can't remember what this toy was called but I had this very interesting, basically it was, like a robot car you could program in how forward you wanted it to go and then, when it would stop and after it would stopped, if it was going to make a right turn or a left turn, and you could also make it go backwards or in diagonal, and it was very fun. You could set it up in your house or outside and try to program in directions so that it would follow a path, so you could try to make it go from the living room and take a left into the kitchen and stop just before it ran into your mom, and back up before she kicked it and yelled at you, or make it turn around in circles. I think it also had some sounds you could make, but it's very interesting to think back that, that kind of technology existed, you know, in the late 80's, early 1980's, too. Of course, everybody's favorite when I was a kid anyway, even today, are video games, not only home video games but the arcade style games. I was a, I was a good kid but I can remember of the few times that I got in trouble with my dad was because I ended up at a arcade, and I was playing video games for so long and I didn't call home and ended up coming home very late and that was very upsetting to my parents and they were worried about me. Also, it seemed like the kids in school that were most popular were the kids who had video games at their houses. I didn't have a video game at my house so I always had to find friends and go over to their house to play.
我不記得這個玩具的名字了，不過它非常有趣，基本上，那就像個機器人汽車，你可以設定想讓它行進的距離，讓它停止的時間，可以讓它右轉或是左轉，也可以讓它倒車或沿對角線移動，非常有意思。你可以在家裏玩，也可以在外面玩，可以設定方向，這樣它就能按照一個路線前進，你可以讓它從客廳出發，左轉進入廚房，然後在它撞上你媽媽之前停下來，在你媽媽踢它並向你大喊之前倒車，也可以讓它轉圈，我想也可以讓它發出一些聲音，不過回想起來真的很有意思，你知道，在上世紀80年代末期還有那樣的技術存在，80年代早期也有這種技術。當然，無論是孩提時代，還是現在，所有人的最愛都是電子遊戲，不僅僅是家庭電子遊戲，還有街機風格的遊戲。我是個好孩子，但是我記得有幾次我爸爸處罰了我，因爲我一直在遊戲廳，我玩了很長時間的電子遊戲，沒有打電話回家，我到家裏的時候已經非常晚了，這令我的父母非常不安，他們非常擔心我。而在學校裏最受歡迎的學生似乎就是那些家裏有電子遊戲的孩子。我家裏沒有電子遊戲，所以我一直不得不找有遊戲的朋友，去他們家裏玩遊戲。
重點講解：
1. run into
（車輛意外地）撞上，撞倒；
eg. This lamp - post looks as if It's been run into by a bus.
這個電燈杆看上去似乎被公共汽車撞過。
eg. If you don't turn right, you're going to run into the wall.
如果你現在不右轉，你就會撞到牆。
2. think back
回憶；回想；
eg. The photographs made me think back to my schooldays.
這些照片使我回想起我的學生時代。
eg. Now think back to some of the ads at that time, she would feel funny.
現在回想起當時的一些廣告，她自己都會覺得好笑。
3. get in trouble
處於困境；惹麻煩；將受懲罰；
eg. His upset looking gave rise to rumors that he had got in trouble with police.
他不安的神色引發了謠傳說他與警方發生了某些糾葛。
eg. Now it seems that the very same revisionism could get him in trouble with the law again.
如今看來，修正主義似乎也可以使他再一次捲入法律糾紛。
4. end up
最終；結果；
eg. Wasteful people usually end up in debt.
揮霍浪費者最後往往負債。
eg. The boat rides all take different routes, but they all end up in the same place.
乘船旅行都走不同的路線，但都在相同的地方結束。
5. go over to
朝…走去；到…去；
eg. We'll go over to the job site together.
我們等一會兒一起去工地。
eg. He crooked a finger to tell us to go over to him.
他彎了彎手指，示意我們到他那兒去。
