Activity 1b Listen and match the inventions with the dates.
活动1b 听力,请将发明与日期配对。
Life must have been difficult when you were a kid.
你小的时候生活一定非常艰苦。
Oh, not really. Why do you say that?
不是,你为什么这么说?
Well, you didn't have many modern inventions.
因为当时没有现代发明。
Like, you probably didn't have a telephone, right?
当时的生活没有电话,对吗?
Of course we did!
我们当然有!
How old do you think I am?
你认为我多大了?
The telephone was invented in 1876.
电话的发明时间是1876年。
How about cars? I bet cars weren't invented yet.
汽车呢?我猜轿车还没有发明出来。
Sure they were. Cars were invented in 1885.
已经发明了轿车。轿车的发明时间是1885年。
My family had a car.
我们家有一辆轿车。
I think you need to take a history class, Alice.
爱丽丝,我想你应该去上历史课。
Ha, ha! Well, did you have a TV?
好吧,当时有电视吗?
No, we didn't.
我们没有。
The TV was invented around 1927, I think.
我想电视是在1927年左右发明的。
Some friends of mine had one.
我的许多朋友都有电视。
But in those days, TVs were really expensive,and we couldn't afford one.
但是在当时,电视非常贵,很难买得起。
And I bet you didn't have calculators and computers and stuff.
我想当时一定没有计算器和电脑。
That's something I do know.
我知道这些东西。
We learned in school that handheld calculators were invented in 1971 and personal computers were invented in 1976.
我们在学校学了,手持计算器是在1971年发明的,个人电脑是在1976年发明的。
You're right.
对。
I didn't have those things when I was young.
我小的时候没有这些东西。
But I do now!
但是我们现在有!
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