今天的这段对话，在讨论邮件，
 
现在的信息技术很发达，你经常采用什么方式与别人联系
 
来听今天的讲解:
 
A: Jess, usually when I see you, you're sitting at the computer checking your e-mail. How many times a day do you check it?
 
杰西，我每次看到你，你都坐在电脑前检查电子邮件。你通常多久检查一次邮件？
 
B: I honestly don't count, but many, many times. Definitely more than twenty times a day. It's not really necessary. It's not like I have millions of e-mails coming into my account every day, but I'm very impatient and I hate waiting for responses or waiting for something that I'm expecting so I'll check my e-mail so that I can receive it as soon as it's sent. How about you? Do you check your e-mails often?
 
说实话，我没有算过，不过我一天要检查好多次。一天绝对超过20次。其实真的没有必要这么做。我并不是每天都会收到无数封邮件，而是我非常没耐心，我讨厌等待别人回复邮件，讨厌那种等待所期待事情的感觉，所以我希望我检查邮箱时能马上收到对方的回信。你呢？你经常检查邮件吗？
 
A: I suppose I check once a day, and if I have any mail, it will be one or two weeks before I reply to it. I'm really bad at keeping in touch. I've got accounts at facebook and my space and hi5, all these social networking sites, but I almost never log on .... I got a message the other day, a friend telling me, I'm a boring facebooker. It's official because I haven't updated my profile in so long.
 
我大概一天检查一次，如果我有邮件，那我可能会在一两周后才会回复。我在保持联系上做得不好。我有脸谱网账号、我的空间的账号，也有hi5的账号，这些社交网站的账号我都有，可是我几乎从来没有登陆过，那天我收到了一个朋友的信息，朋友说我是个无聊的脸谱网用户。这是一条官方信息，因为我已经很久没有更新过脸谱网上的简介了。
 
B: Why don't you? Is it that you haven't got enough time?
 
为什么呢？因为你没时间吗？
 
A: I have got so much free time. I think it's just because I'm very lazy. I take photos. I meet people. I do things. I just don't feel the need to tell everyone about it at the end of the day. My family have kind of gotten used to it now. They know that I'll get in contact they'll likely to see me in the next few months, or I'll get in contact if there's a birthday or a baby, but apart from that, I really don't keep in touch very well.
 
我有很多空闲时间。我想是因为我太懒了。我也会拍照片，和朋友们见面。我也会做各种各样的事。我只是觉得没有必要把这些告诉所有人。我的家人现在已经习惯我这个样子了。如果他们几个月以后来看我，他们知道我会联系，或者如果有人过生日或是有人生孩子，我也会联系他们，不过除此之外，我不太和别人保持联系。
 
B: Apart from e-mail, neither do I. I did join Facebook a couple of years ago when all of my friends did and everyone was sending me links to join, and I created my profile, but to be honest, it's too much for me to have more than one thing to check that many times a day, so usually I stick to e-mail for communication. Yes, I do check it a lot, but I think if I started checking Facebook as regularly, I wouldn't have time to do the things I need to every day.
 
除了电子邮件以外，我也不太和别人联系。我几年前注册了脸谱网，当时我所有朋友都注册了脸谱网账号，他们邀请我一起用脸谱网，我就创建了我的简介，不过说实话，我实在无法每天检查好几种社交工具，所以通常我只会坚持用电邮和别人交流。我的确每天要检查好几次，不过我想如果我开始规律性地查看脸谱网，那我就没有太多时间去做我每天要做的事情了。