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19-4-3【地道美语094】Smartphones today / tomorrow 无所不能会是智能手机的未来吗?

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dialogue 1

Jingjing: Hey Mark, is that a new phone?

Mark:  Thisis my wife's old one.

Jingjing: What's she using now? ---------

Mark:  Hersis newer than this,------------.  We're taking a few -------- from cuttingedge electronics.

Jingjing:  Iget that you're on the runway for buying -----------------.

Mark:  That'sit.  So, for now, I'll make do with---------power bank.

Jingjing: That's smart.  ------- aren't all that expensive, and itmakes a big difference---------------------.

Mark:  Iagree. ----------which smartphone I had in 2019.  And with anyluck I'll still have the money.

Jingjing: Good idea. ---------------------  It's still a good camera, eventhough those phones----------------------are all collecting dust.

Mark:  Don'tyou use the camera on your phone most of the time?

Jingjing: Well now that I have a pretty good phone, yes.  But that-----------pictures than any phone.

Mark:  Is ita DSLR?

Jingjing: Yeah, and they still sell the memory cards in stores.  S---------------such an old camera.

Mark:  That'scool.  And I bet you have------------- from these years.

Jingjing: Well, --------------------------

Mark:  Ha ha. Well, based on your WeChat posts, it looks like your photos ---------prettywell.

Jingjing: How nice of you to notice!

 

 

dialogue 2

Mark:  So,what do you think gadgets will be like---------------?

Jingjing: Ten years from now,----------------- do more things.

Mark:  Itseems like every year, smartphones can do something ---------.

Jingjing: Yeah, it's not like sci-fi movies, -----------gadget foreach thing you want to do.  Smartphones are really -----------------------.

Mark:  Right. I saw a ---------- projected onto a desk.  It wasn't really there,but the projector picked up -----------------------------------------.

Jingjing: I'm not sure how that would work.  But it sounds like that littleprojector could be-------------------a phone.

Mark:  That'sright.  So, you could have a --------------------anywhere you go.

Jingjing: Great, then I could work on my novel when I -----------------.

Mark:  You'rewriting a novel?

Jingjing: No,------------sarcastic.  Anyway, I think there's an app for thatalready.  You just print out the keyboard they send you, then you --------------hekeyboard under your camera, and---------------------

Mark:  Whoa,I need that.  Do you remember what the app was called?

Jingjing: No, but I think if you search---------------- something will comeup.

Mark:  I'llgive that --------.  I keep forgetting to look for ---------------alreadyout there.

Jingjing:  Weall do.  And that app's ------------- if I remember correctly.

Mark:  Well, ------------------------

Jingjing: Yours might.  I'm going to dig up my camera and take------------------.

Mark:  Ha ha,ok.  Don't forget to post some of the -------------!

 

 

new words andphrases

 

from dialogue 1

cutting edge  thenewest of something, especially in science and technology

on the runway for(something)  ready to do something important, not a good time to bedistracted (this is not a common idiom; and “on the deck for”, “on thelaunchpad for”, and others are easily coined)

isn't/aren't allthat <adjective>  less expensive than expected, or less thanother things by comparison

with any luck  ifthings go according to plan

collecting dust  notbeing used

DSLR digitalsingle-lens reflex (a big camera that has a prism inside and a mechanism thatallows the photographer to see through the main lens before the actual photo istaken)

clunky  heavyand inconvenient

 

 

from dialogue 2

gadgets  electronicdevices, and tools that have many functions

sci-fi  sciencefiction, a type of story with robots and future technology

an all-in-one  adevice that does what two or three other devices can do

something willcome up  you'llfind search results

already out there  alreadybeing sold to the public
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