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Now listen to two students discussing the article.
请听下面两位学生讨论这篇文章。
Woman: Oh, no, did you see this?
女：不是吧。你看过这篇文章了吗？
Man: Yeah, why? You don't like the idea?
男：看过了啊，怎么了？你不喜欢这个想法吗？
Woman: Not at all!
女：一点儿也不喜欢！
Man: How come?
男：为什么？
Woman: Well, the cost, for one thing, they are just not being realistic.
女：首先就是费用问题，他们一点儿也不现实。
Man: Even compare to the price of textbooks?
男：即使和教材的价钱相比还是很贵吗？
Woman: Well, sure, textbooks aren't cheap, but do you think people are only gonna use one device the whole time they are at university?
女：当然了，虽然教材也不便宜，但是你觉得大家在学校期间只会需要一台设备吗？
What happens if yours breaks? You have to buy a new one.
如果设备坏了怎么办？那你就不得不再买台新的了。
Or they come out with some fancy new features. Wouldn't you want to get a new one then?
或者，又出新款了呢？你不会想换台新的吗？
Man: Yeah, I see what you mean. A lot of people would probably want to replace theirs with the latest version.
男：嗯，我知道你的意思。很多人可能会想换新款。
Woman: Right! Maybe even every year and that can add up.
女：没错！也许他们甚至一年换一次新款，这些花费加起来数字可不小啊。
Man: True, but, don't you agree it'll make studying and preparing for classes a lot easier?
男：确实。但是你不觉得有了这些设备，学习和课堂准备都会简单得多吗？
Woman: I don't think everybody is gonna think it's so great.
女：我觉得不是每个人都会认为它很棒的。
Man: What do you mean?
男：怎么说呢？
Woman: Well. , it's only helpful if it's easy to use and, well, this thing is pretty small. It's only about 18 or 20 centimeters tall.
女：嗯...这个设备只有在使用方法简单的情况下才有帮助吧。你看，它其实挺小的，长度只有18或者20厘米左右。
Man: Oh, really? So that means the screen's pretty small.
男：真的吗？那这样屏幕就很小了。
Woman: Right, and I heard that the key pad or control buttons, they are small, too.
女：没错，而且我听说键盘和按键也都很小。
So if you have normal-sized fingers, it's not so easy to select an item or get it to function right, you know, to do stuff like highlighting or underlining.
如果手指大小正常的话，要选对图标或者正确操作可不容易，你知道的，比如标重点或者画线什么的。
Man: I hadn't thought of that.
男：我还没想到这点呢。
Woman: So what good are all those fancy features if it's hard to use them?
女：所以说如果操作这么困难的话，要那些花里胡哨的功能有什么用？
Besides, I like the old-fashioned way of studying material: writing notes on the page and underlining or highlighting important sections of the book.
而且，我更喜欢传统的学习方式：在书上做笔记，把书里重要的部分标出来或者画线。
I'm more comfortable with that.
我觉得这样更舒服。
