در این درس یک مکالمه انگلیسی درباره تلویزیون داریم. در این متن کوتاه انگلیسی در مورد خرید تلویزیون، دو نفر یک مکالمه روزانه انگلیسی درباره خرید تلویزیون دارند. سعی کنید ابتدا مکالمه را گوش دهید تا ببینید چقدر از آن را می فهمید. سپس آن را با متن همزمان گوش دهید تا به تلفظ لغات انگلیسی بهتر بتوانید برسید.
پیشنهادهای ویژه
نرم افزار آموزش مکالمه انگلیسی (ویژه اندروید)
با قابلیت تشخیص صدا و ترجمه فارسی
بسته کامل آموزش مکالمه زبان انگلیسی
شامل مجموعه‌های ویدویی و صوتی
🗣 Buying a TV (خرید یک تلویزیون)
A: Seriously, I don’t know why we need to get a new TV.
جدی، من نمی دونم چرا ما باید یک تلویزیون جدید بخریم؟
B: Honey I told you already. I can’t appreciate the graphics level and detail of the games on my Playstation 3 on our old TV.
عزیزم من قبلا بهت گفته ام. من با سطح و جزییات گرافیک بازی های پلی استیشن 3 ام روی تلویزیون قدیمی مون حال نمی کنم (لذت نمی برم).
C: Good afternoon folks! How can I be of service today?
بعد از ظهرتون بخیر دوستان! چه کمکی می تونم امروز بهتون بکنم؟
B: I’m looking to upgrade to a newer, bigger television set.
من به دنبال اینم که به یک دستگاه تلویزیون بزرگتر و جدیدتر ارتقا بدم.
C: You’ve come to the right place! What size are you looking for?
شما به جای درستی اومدین! دنبال چه اندازه ای هستید؟
A: Just a normal sized TV for our living room.
یک تلویزیون با اندازه ساده برای اتاق نشیمنمون.
C: I see. Well this set here is on sale.
متوجه ام. خوب این دستگاه اینجا روی تخفیف هست.
It’s a forty six inch HDTV screen and has all the works.
اون یک تلویزیون 46 اینچ HDTV است و همه امکانات جانبی رو دارد.
Three HDMI connectors, USB, VGA and S – Video ports.
سه تا اتصال HDMI، یو اس بی، VGA و پورتهای S-Video.
It even has a DVI port so you can hook up your PC or laptop!
حتی یک پورت DVI داره که می تونید اون رو به کامپیوتر یا لپتاپتون وصل کنید.
This is without a doubt the complete home theater experience!
این بدون شک یک تجربه سینمای خانگی کامله.
B: This is exactly what I need!
این دقیقا چیزیه که من نیاز دارم!
Can you imagine watching movies or playing video games on this thing?
می تونی نگاه کردن فیلم یا بازی کردن بازی های ویدئویی رو این وسیله تصور کنی؟
A: Honey, I think it’s a bit too big.
عزیزم، من فکر می کنم یکم زیادی بزرگه.
I don’t even think it will fit in our living room.
من حتی فکر نمی کنم توی اتاق نشیمن ما جا بشه!
C: Not to worry, we will deliver and install it in your home.
نگران نباشید، ما اون رو میاریم و در خونه شما نصب می کنیم.
It comes with a wall mount so you can just hang it on the wall like a picture!
اون همراهش یک اتصال دیواری هست که می تونید مثل یک نقاشی به دیوار آویزونش کنید!
B: This is great! How much will this set me back?
عالیه! این چقدر برای من آب می خوره؟
C: Lucky for you, this is the last one we have in stock so it’s half off!
از شانس شما، این آخرین موجودی ما تو انبار هست و نصف تخفیف خورده!
B: I’ll take it!
من برش می دارم!
🗝️ لغات انگلیسی مهم مکالمه
🔹 appreciate: قدردانی کردن، سپاس گذاری کردن، در اینجا به معنی خوش نیامدن یا حال نکردن می تواند ترجمه شود.
🔹 upgrade: ارتقاء دادن، بهبود دادن
🔹 hook up: متصل کردن
🔹 set me back: هزینه بردن
🔸 (of a purchase) cost someone a particular amount of money.
▪️ that must have set you back a bit
🔹 the works = the best things offered: چیزهایی اضافی که با یک چیز اصلی پیشنهاد داده می شوند.
🔸 used after mentioning several things, to emphasize that someone or something has everything you can think of
▪️ The hotel had everything – sauna, swimming pool, the works.
🔸 all the extra things that may be offered with something:
▪️ This camera came with a carrying case, zoom lens, tripod – the works.
🔹 projector: پروژکتور
🔹 plug in: وصل کردن به برق، به برق زدن
🔹 speaker: اسپیکر
🔹 remote control: دستگاه ریموت کنترل که با آن دستگاههای دیگر را از راه دور کنترل می کنند
🔹 cable television: تلویزیون کابلی
🎯 نکات درس
اولین نکته این است که همیشه برای خریدن نیاز نیست از buy استفاده کنید. در بسیاری مواقع از فعل get به معنی گرفتن و خریدن استفاده می شود. (why we need to get a new TV). همچنین عباراتی مانند get a new job به معنی پیدا کردن شغل جدید هم بسیار رایج هست. get a new house به معنی یک خانه جدید خریدن می باشد.
در این جمله I can’t appreciate the graphics level of the games on our old TV، دقت کنید که هنوز این شخص تلویزیون جدیدی نخریده است اما از حالا به تلویزیونی که در حال حاضر در منزل هست با اصطلاح old TV اشاره می کند. این مورد کمی در فارسی شاید کمتر استفاده بشود. معمولا ما از «عبارت تلویزیونی که داریم» استفاده می کنیم و تلویزیون قدیمی را بعد از خرید تلویزیون جدید به آن اطلاق می کنیم.
واژه folks برای اشاره غیر رسمی به گروهی از افراد استفاده می شود. مثلا Sorry, folks, I know I’m a little late. البته این واژه معناهای دیگری هم دارد، مثلا دوستان، یا والدین.
به عبارت I’m looking to upgrade to a newer, bigger television set دقت کنید. در اینجا looking به معنای نگاه کردن نیست. ما همیشه به شما تاکید می کنیم که هر کلمه ای می تواند معناهای زیادی داشته باشد. پس اگر در جایی به کلمه ای رسیدید که در جمله معنی پیدا نمی کرد سریع به دیکشنری مراجعه کنید تا معناهای دیگر آن کلمه را نیز یاد بگیرید. در این جمله به وضوح کلمه looking به معنی نگاه کردن نیست. پس واژه Look را در دیکشنری نگاه می کنیم و به معانی زیر میرسیم :
🔸 (see) : to turn your eyes towards something, so that you can see it
🔸 (search) : to try to find something
▪️ I looked everywhere but Jimmy was nowhere to be found.
(من همه جا را دنبال جیمی گشتم، نه همه جا را نگاه کردم)
▪️ Could you help me look for my contact lens?
در این عبارت look به معنی گشتن و به دنبال بودن است.
در مکالمه روزمره انگلیسی بسیاری پیش می آید که دو صفت تفضیلی با هم استفاده می شوند مانند newer, bigger television set – در اینجا به فایل صوتی خوب گوش بدهید، در متن هم مشاهده می کنید که یک ویرگول بین دو کلمه newer و bigger قرار دارد. در فارسی ما این را با «و» ترجمه می کنیم : جدیدتر و بزرگتر. اما در انگلیسی روزمره معمولا این دو واژه با یک فاصله تلفظ می شوند.
همچنین واژه set به معنای دستگاه در این مکالمه به کار رفته است. کلا به دستگاه تلویزیون television set می گویند.
به عبارت It’s a forty six inch HDTV screen and has all the works دقت کنید. در معنی کلمات درباره این کلمه یعنی works صحبت کردیم. این هم از آن مواردی است که با معنی همیشگی در ذهن ما یعنی (کار) متفاوت است.
پیشنهادهای ویژه
نرم افزار آموزش مکالمه انگلیسی (ویژه اندروید)
با قابلیت تشخیص صدا و ترجمه فارسی
بسته کامل آموزش مکالمه زبان انگلیسی
شامل مجموعه‌های ویدویی و صوتی
🎧 پادکست صوتی آموزش انگلیسی
متن پادکست
Hello English learners, my name is Marco.
And my name is Catherine.
So Marco, you’ve been shopping a lot lately.
I have.
And this dialogue or this lesson today is one of my favorite pieces of furniture, maybe appliances that I’ve bought recently and it’s a TV.
All right.
So I’d even go for electronics with that one, the electronics department is somewhere you like to hang out.
Uh-huh.
I mean, I think every guy loves, you know, like a big screen TV and the home theater system.
So you just like go deaf after watching.
And why is that?
Is bigger really better when it comes to like a 70 inch TV?
Well, I don’t know.
I think, yeah, the whole experience of just seeing this movie on this huge TV and like having all the sound and I don’t know, it’s just something about that or watching a football
game with your buddies and you can actually watch.
Yeah, okay, that I can appreciate, but we’ve got a couple of great words for you.
We’re going to preview in today’s vocabulary preview, vocabulary preview.
So in vocabulary preview today, we’re going to be looking at two words.
The first one is to appreciate.
All right.
So this basically means to like.
You appreciate someone, but in this context to enjoy or take advantage of something.
So maybe you hear this with a couple, two people who are fighting and the girl says to the guy, you don’t appreciate me.
So he doesn’t really care about her in the way that she wants him to, or you could say this about a TV, for example, I can’t appreciate my PS3, my great awesome console, my gaming
system because my TV is not good enough or big enough or big enough or big enough.
So this means that it could be a lot better if I just bought a better TV, right?
And if you buy a better TV, then you basically are upgrading or to upgrade.
So this verb to upgrade means to go from something that’s okay to something that’s better.
Exactly.
So in previous lessons, we’ve seen to get a complimentary upgrade, for example, on a flight or in a hotel.
I like that.
Well, you can also get an upgrade on a computer.
You say, well, my computer’s from 1994.
I really need to get an upgrade.
Yeah, for sure.
So to upgrade.
Now we’re going to be listening to this dialogue for the first time.
We’re going to be buying a TV.
So let’s listen.
Seriously, I don’t know why we need to get a new TV.
Honey, I told you already, I can’t appreciate the graphics level and detail of the games on my PlayStation 3 on our old TV.
Good afternoon, folks.
How can I be of service today?
I’m looking to upgrade to a newer, bigger television set.
You’ve come to the right place.
What size are you looking for?
Just a normal sized TV for a living room.
I see.
Well, this set here is on sale.
It’s a 46 inch HT TV screen and it has all the works.
Three HDMI connectors, USB, VGA and S video ports.
It even has a DVI port so you can hook up your PC or laptop.
This is without a doubt the complete home theater experience.
This is exactly what I need.
Can you imagine watching movies or playing video games on this thing?
Honey, I think it’s a bit too big.
I don’t even think it will fit in our living room.
Not to worry, we will deliver and install it in your home.
It comes with a wall mount so you can just hang it on the wall like a picture.
This is great.
How much will this set me back?
Lucky for you, this is the last one we have in stock so it’s half off.
I’ll take it.
All right, so I’m going to have to defer to you, Marco, on some of these words in today’s language takeaway because they’re all about TV specifics.
Language takeaway.
All right, the first word that we’re going to be looking at is graphics, the graphics level.
All right, so you might have heard this before with the phrase graphic designer, someone who designs images.
But in this case, we’re talking about graphics so the way things appear on your TV.
So basically the pictures, right?
So he wanted to appreciate the graphics of his PlayStation 3 better and that’s why he wanted a new TV.
All right, I could say my computer has amazing graphics.
It means games are really fun because they look good.
Or this game has amazing graphics so the game has places or scenery that looks really, really real.
All right, so graphics.
But some kinds of TVs are made to provide those wonderful graphics and those are called HDTV.
Right, an HDTV or that’s an acronym for High Definition Television.
All right, and I heard some actors and actresses were complaining about HDTV because the picture quality is so good.
So you can see all of the little problems on their face, the little wrinkles and the pimples and the scars.
So be careful because one day we’re going to be able to see way too much.
Exactly, so on High Definition Television, that’s basically what you get is better definition, better level of graphics.
So more pixels per inch, you can see a lot more clarity.
So an HDTV.
The next thing we’re talking about is actually kind of related to the back part of your TV where you plug things in.
Sometimes it’s on the side, sometimes it’s on the back.
Well, there are different names for different kinds of plugs.
So today we’re going to talk about two of those.
One of them is USB.
Right, this TV has a USB port which basically stands for Universal Serial Bus.
All right, so a port is a place where you plug something in.
Your computer has a lot of ports as well.
But USB is maybe more common for people who have iPods or computers because this is how we normally connect things to our computers.
So in this case, this television, you could connect maybe your iPod and reproduce videos or pictures onto the TV.
Awesome.
Or in the second case, we have a DVI port.
So DVI, you’re going to have to tell me about this one, Marco, because I’m not so sure.
Well, a DVI is basically a digital video input.
So basically you can connect your computer to the TV and see what’s on your screen.
Nice.
And so if you have a bunch of movies stored on your computer, you can just plug it into the TV and watch.
Or you can even navigate the internet on a big screen TV.
Cool.
All right.
So what are these three HDMI connectors?
All right.
Well, this is a new technology.
Basically how before you used to get your DVD player, your VHS, and you had three cables, two for sound and one for video.
Yeah, the red, yellow, and white cables.
Exactly.
So with this new type of cable or technology, with one cable, it takes all the information to the TV.
So just one cable for everything.
Oh, nice.
Because my problem is I always used to put the wrong cable in the wrong port.
So I’d have the red cable in the yellow port and then I’d say, where’s the video?
I can’t see.
All I can do is listen.
Yeah, it happens.
So with this, now it’s easy.
And well, it even, it’s a little bit more organized because I remember I used to have a TV and I had a lot of different things connected to it.
It was just this big spider web in the back with all these cables.
So an HDMI high definition multimedia interface connector.
And what else do we have?
Well, the last thing we’re talking about is actually the place to put your TV.
So a lot of people now are putting their TVs on walls like paintings because these TVs are so thin.
So we call this a wall mount.
So a mount, to mount something is also a verb, right?
It means to put something up or to hang something up.
So many people like to mount their trophies to show off.
Very good.
So this is what we’re doing with the TV.
We’re going to mount it on the wall like a painting.
Cool.
So those are our words for language takeaway.
Let’s take another listen to today’s dialogue.
We’re going to slow it down this time and really figure out what’s going on.
Seriously, I don’t know why we need to get a new TV.
Honey, I told you already.
I can’t appreciate the graphics level and detail of the games on my PlayStation 3 on our old TV.
Good afternoon, folks.
How can I be of service today?
I’m looking to upgrade to a newer, bigger television set.
You’ve come to the right place.
What size are you looking for?
Just a normal sized TV for a living room.
I see.
Well, this set here is on sale.
It’s a 46 inch HTTV screen and it has all the works.
Three HDMI connectors, USB, VGA and S video ports.
It even has a DVI port so you can hook up your PC or laptop.
This is without a doubt the complete home theater experience.
This is exactly what I need.
Can you imagine watching movies or playing video games on this thing?
Honey, I think it’s a bit too big.
I don’t even think it will fit in our living room.
Not to worry.
We will deliver and install it in your home.
It comes with a wall mount so you can just hang it on the wall like a picture.
This is great.
How much will this set me back?
Lucky for you.
This is the last one we have in stock so it’s half off.
I’ll take it.
All right, so now we’re going to be taking a look at three different phrases that we saw in this dialogue in Fluency Builder.
Fluency Builder.
All right, this first phrase is definitely one that I use a lot.
We can talk about food, we can talk about electronics, we can talk about most different things but the phrase here is the works.
He’s getting the works.
All right, that means any option he could get, any possibility.
He wants it all.
Right, so if you’re getting a new car for example, right, you’re getting the high definition sound system, you’re getting nice tires, leather seats, you’re getting the works.
All right, or if you’re getting a hamburger and you want the works, you’re getting it with cheese and lettuce and tomato and pepper and bacon.
It means every option, you’re getting it all.
The works.
So I think this word is so versatile that we should maybe listen to some more examples.
Example one.
The bridegroom was wearing a morning suit, top hat, gloves, the works.
Example two.
He spent over $10,000 on his home theater system.
He got all the works.
Example three.
I bought a new car with all the works, magnesium rims, custom paint and leather seats.
So now that we’ve seen the works on the home theater system, he needs to hook it up.
All right, so this is an important part and a very exciting part of a new purchase.
So when you buy something, you have to hook it up.
That means you have to plug things together.
Okay, so we plug things into the wall for electricity, but also hook up maybe those cords you were talking about earlier, that HDMI connector.
That’s called hooking up or connecting.
So you would hook up your DVD player to your television.
All right, I could ask you, did you hook up those new speakers to your big TV yesterday?
Very good, right?
All right.
So to connect.
It’s another way of saying to connect.
And finally, the big event when you’re buying something is the end when you have to actually pay.
And this guy’s a little bit worried that the things he wants cost a lot of money.
So he asks a really great question.
Yeah, he said, how much will this set me back?
Okay, this sounds a little weird at first, because you could just say, how much will this cost?
But he’s speaking in a very colloquial way, very familiar, and he says, how much will this set me back?
So how much will this cost me?
So how much am I actually going to spend?
So it’s just a different way of saying how much does it cost.
But it’s like you say, more colloquial, it’s a lot more native like.
Exactly.
So if you’re writing your paper, you don’t want to write this.
This will set you back $500 in economics.
But we’d say this in spoken language and our normal daily lives with friends.
So why don’t we listen to a couple more examples of set me back?
Example one.
This unexpected expense is going to set us back a couple thousand dollars.
Example two.
That fancy dinner at the restaurant last night really set us back.
Example three.
I feel guilty about buying this coat.
It set me back over $300.
Alright great, so now that we’ve taken a look at those great phrases and with some good examples, why don’t we listen to this dialogue one last time?
Seriously, I don’t know why we need to get a new TV.
Honey, I told you already.
I can’t appreciate the graphics level and detail of the games on my PlayStation 3 on our old TV.
Good afternoon folks.
How can I be of service today?
I’m looking to upgrade to a newer, bigger television set.
You’ve come to the right place.
What size are you looking for?
Just a normal sized TV for our living room.
I see.
Well, this set here is on sale.
It’s a 46 inch HT TV screen and it has all the works.
Three HDMI connectors, USB, VGA and S video ports.
It even has a DVI port so you can hook up your PC or laptop.
This is without a doubt the complete home theater experience.
This is exactly what I need.
Can you imagine watching movies or playing video games on this thing?
Honey, I think it’s a bit too big.
I don’t even think it will fit in our living room.
Not to worry.
We will deliver and install it in your home.
It comes with a wall mount so you can just hang it on the wall like a picture.
This is great.
How much will this set me back?
Lucky for you, this is the last one we have in stock so it’s half off.
I’ll take it.
Okay, so a big TV, I think it’s just a great thing to have at home not to spend too much time in front of the TV but it’s good to sit down and watch a movie.
It’s nice because now there are so many different things you can do with it.
You can hook up your computer, you can buy projector, you can play your PS3 or your Wii.
I think there’s a lot to do and it’s just wonderful how great graphics have come in just like the last five years.
What do you think about having a television set, for example, in the bathroom?
I would say it’s a really bad idea but if I have a bathtub, I think it would be really cool.
What about some people don’t like having a television set in their bedroom?
I agree with this.
Because I think it’s really important that you have peace and quiet in your bedroom because it’s kind of like, for me, it’s an important space where I can just relax and be quiet
and I like reading a lot so if I have a TV, maybe I’ll watch more TV but I’d much rather read a book before bed.
True.
Yeah, I definitely agree but I’ve seen people that have TVs in their living rooms and their dining rooms even in their kitchen so they’re watching something while they’re cooking and
even in the bathroom.
Like you say, in a bathtub, well it’s nice but some of them I’ve seen in front of the toilet or something.
I would say that the one in the kitchen is nice because if you spend a lot of time in the kitchen, you can watch the news while you’re cooking or you can actually watch cooking
shows and try and practice.
Or soap operas.
So I guess it depends on the person, it depends on how much you watch TV but I’m curious to know what our listeners have to say about TVs and big electronics purchases.
All right.
All right, bye everyone.
Bye.
