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1 .<-NARRATOR:->Listen to a conversation between a student and the faculty adviser of the campus newspaper.

旁白：听下面一段学生和校园报社指导教师的对话

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Hi, I talked to someone on the phone a couple weeks ago… [Upspeak]Anna, I think it was?

学生：嗨。我几周前在电话里和一个叫…我想是叫安娜的人沟通过。

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->I’m Anna, the faculty adviser.

指导教师：我就是那位指导教师。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Oh, great. I’m Peter Murphy. You probably don’t remember me, but…

学生：噢，太好了。我是皮特墨菲。你可能不记得我了，但是…

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->[interrupting]No, no, I remember you. You were interested in working for the paper….

指导教师：不不，我记得你。你对在报社工作很感兴趣。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, as a reporter.

学生：是的，我想做一名记者。

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->That’s right. Uh, you’re taking a journalism class, and you’ve done some reporting before, in high school, right…?

指导教师：太棒了。你正在上一门记者学的课程，而且你之前在高中有做过报导，是吗？

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->[interrupting]Wow! You have a good memory.

学生：哇哦，你的记性真好。

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Well, we haven’t had many students applying lately. So… so, anyway, you still want to do some reporting for us?

指导教师：最近没有太多的学生来申请职位，所以呢……不管怎么样， 你还是想为我们做报导是吗？

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, if you have room for me on the staff.

学生：是的，如果你们还有职位可以给我提供的话。

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Well, we always need more reporters. But you know we don’t pay anything, right?

指导教师：我们一直都需要记者，但是你知道的，我们是不给支付薪水的。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, I know, but I, uh, I’d like the experience; it would look good on my resume…

学生：嗯，我知道，但是我呢…想要积累经验，这会使我的简历更丰富些。

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Absolutely. Let’s see… I think I told you that we ask prospective reporters to turn in some outlines for possible articles.

指导教师：当然。那我们就看看。我想我告诉过你，就是我们要求未来的记者提交一些合适的文章大纲。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, I sent them in about a week ago, but I haven’t heard anything back yet, so… so I thought I’d stop by and see… but I guess you haven’t looked at them yet.

学生：是的。我一周前就发送了，但是目前还没有收到回复，所以，我就想过来问一下，我猜你们目前还没有看吧。

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Oh, Max—the news editor—he looks at all the submissions…

指导教师：噢，新闻编辑麦克斯负责阅读所有提交的文章。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Oh, so he hasn’t made any decision about me yet?

学生：哦，那么他还没有做决定到底要不要我？

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Well, I just got here a few minutes ago…. I haven’t been in for a couple of days.

指导教师：我几分钟前才到这里...有几天没有过来了。

2 .Uh, just give me a second to check my e-mail… Ah, here’s a message from Max… Let’s see… [pause]

给我一点时间，我来查一下邮箱。嗯，这有一封麦克斯的邮件。让我们来瞧瞧。

3 .Well, it seems you’ve really impressed him. He says it’d be wonderful if you could join our staff.

看起来他对你印象很深刻。他说如果你能加入我们的团队将好极了。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Oh, great! When can I start?

学生：太好了。那我什么时候开始呢？

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Well… You turned in an outline on something to do with the physics department?

指导教师：呃..你提交的大纲是和物理系相关的？

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, they’re trying to come up with ways to get more students to take their introductory courses.

学生：是的。他们正想办法来让更多学生加入他们的基础课程。

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Right… [reading the e-mail]…Well, apparently, nobody else is covering that story… so he wants you to follow up on it.

指导教师：是的...显然别人没有报道过这个事情，所以他希望你继续追踪。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->OK. Uh, what about the other outline I sent in? About the proposed increase in tuition fees?

学生：好的。那么我发送的另一篇大纲呢？就是关于学费上涨的提议的那个？

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Oh, it looks like we’ve got that covered.

指导教师：噢，看来我们已经有人在做了。

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->So I’m starting with an article about the physics department. I guess I’d better get to work.

学生：那么我就从物理系的文章开始做起吧。我想我还是最好赶紧进入工作状态。

2 .Do you have any advice on how I should cover the story?

关于怎么样采访这个新闻报道，你有什么好的建议吗？

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Well, Max’ll want to talk to you, but I’m sure he’ll tell you to find out things like why the physics department’s worried about enrollment.

指导教师：麦克斯会和你谈的，我相信他会让你去探察一下为什么物理系会担忧录取学生的问题。

2 .Has the number of students been getting smaller in recent years? By how much?

是不是最近学生的数量在减少？减少了多少呢？

3 .What kinds of plans are they considering to address this problem?

他们正在考虑什么方案来解决这个问题呢？

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Right. Some of those issues are already in what I proposed.

学生：明白了，其中的一些我已经在我的大纲中提到了。

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->And you’ll want to do some interviews… you know, what do the professors think of the plans? What do the students think? You get the idea, but…

指导教师：而且你需要做一些采访，你知道的，教授们认为这些方案如何，学生们的想法如何？你懂得。但是…

1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->But wait till I talk to Max before proceeding.

学生：但是要等和麦克斯谈完之后才能进行。

1 .<-FEMALE FACULTY ADVISOR:->Right. He’ll cover everything you need to know to be a reporter for us.

指导教师：是的。他会告诉你一切关于如何成为我们报社记者的事情。

2 .Can you come back this afternoon? He’ll be here until five o’clock.

你能今天下午再来一次吗？他会 5 点钟到这里来。