So you can eventually charge your phone or iPod from it.

这样你就可以为你的手机或者身听充了。

Can you imagine watching astronauts walk on Mars the same time the Walkman came out?

你能想象到当身听面世时，宇航员在火星上漫步吗？

There would have been no record players, Walkmans or eventually iPods.

届时，唱片机、身听，乃至 iPod 可能都不会出现。

I popped it into place and lay down on my bed.

我啪地一下把它放进身听，然后躺倒在床上。

I was going to tell her that there weren't even any batteries in the CD player, but I could tell she didn't want to be interrupted.

我本想跟她讲身听里面根本没有，不过看得出来，这时候打断她说话恐怕不太好。

QUIET carriages on trains are a nice idea: travellers voluntarily switch phones to silent, turn stereos off and keep chatter to a minimum.

在车上设 “安静车厢”是个不错的想法：旅客们自觉将手机调成静音，身听，轻声地交谈。

In this programme, we'll be taking a nostalgic look back at the 1980s and the birth of the Sony Walkman.

在本期节目中，我们将带你回顾一下令人怀旧的20世纪80年代以及索尼身听的诞生。

I would walk around the park with my Walkman by myself and listen to the song I'd repeat and just like cry.

我会一个人拿着身听在公园里散步，单曲循环这首歌，边听边哭。

And this is another, and the interesting thing about the Sony Walkman is that it's a tape recorder that won't record.

这是另一个，于索尼身听的有趣之处在于它是一个不会录音的录音机。

AD ANNOUNCER: The Sony Walkman is a tiny stereo cassette player with truly an incredible sound.

索尼身听是一款微型立体录音机，它具有真正令人不可思议的声音。

But Rowley forgot to put batteries in his CD player, so it was pretty much worthless.

天杀的罗利拿了身听竟然忘记拿，所以我们是竹篮打水一场空。

My sudden movement caused the headphones to pull the CD player off the bedside table, and it clattered to the wooden floor.

我的忽然移动让耳机把身听扯下了桌子，咔哒一声落到了地板上。

Years before iPods and MP3 downloads, the Sony Walkman was the first widely available portable music player.

在用iPods和MP3下载音乐之前，索尼身听是第一款广泛使用的便携式音乐播放器。

This morning, after Rodrick left, I called up Rowley and told him to bring his CD player to school.

今天一早，当罗德里克出门后，我就打话让罗利把身听带到学校。

Released at the start of the summer holidays for Japanese students, within 3 months the entire first run of 30 thousand Walkmans had sold out.

首批3万台身听在暑假开始时面向日本学生发售，在3个月内全部售罄。

I went to my CD player first, picking it up off the floor and placing it precisely in the center of the table.

我先走向我的身听，把它从地上捡起来，精确地放到桌子正中央。

The idea behind the Walkman was simple-a high-quality stereo cassette player, small enough to hold in your hand, allowing you to walk down the street listening to your own soundtrack.

身听背后的想法很简单——一个高质量的立体声播放器，小到可以用手拿，这样你就可以边听音乐边逛街。

She took the music player away from me and started chewing us out.

她还从我手里没收了身听，然后就开始啰啰嗦嗦数落我们。

But instead, people of all ages began wearing Walkmans to listen to their favourite music on the move, and the new invention caught the public imagination – an idiom meaning, made the public interested in or excited about something.

但相反的是，各个年龄段的人们开始戴上身听，一边走一边听他们最喜欢的音乐。这个新发明勾起人们的想象——这个习语的意思是，令公众对某事感兴趣或感到兴奋。

You're not allowed to bring personal music players to school, so we had to wait to use it until after lunch when the teachers let us outside.

学校里是不准带身听的，所以我们只能等到午休时分老师放我们出去的时候。