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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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