Ep. 2 What Have You Been Playing

这一期，我们谈很多很多东西，such as：游戏的英文名字，怎么用like，V和W的正确发音，还有一个嘉宾来说说她最近玩什么游戏！赶快进来啊！ 喜欢本节目？加入QQ群陪小扎老师玩儿！QQ群号：471186171 别忘记跟朋友们分享节目！I will love you if you do. Playlist 播放表列 Shadow of the Beast (1989) – Intro Pokemon (1996) – Theme, Battle vs Trainer Silent Hill (1999) – Killing Time Sonic and Knuckles (1994) – Mushroom Hill Zone Act 1 Spelunky (2012) – Cloudberry Castle, Mollusc Zach: Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of “What Have You Been Playing?”, where we study a little bit of English through one of my favorite hobbies: video games! My name is Zach and I’m your host. 扎克：大家好，欢迎收听今天的节目！今天我们要练习一个非常有用的短语来描述游戏的玩法和感觉，这个短语就是：it’s like。我立刻举个例子吧：Overwatch is like Team Fortress 2. 这句话是什么意思呢？就是“《守望先锋》跟《军团要塞2》很像”！我们用英语在对比东西时会经常这么说，而且，用着“it’s like”来描述别人没玩过的游戏很有效，因为这样他们可以从自己的经验来理解游戏是什么样子。可是这样还是不够啊，当然还要来说几句补充！ Zach: Today, we have a couple of games to talk about. First I am going to tell you these games’ names so you can listen for them later on. 扎克：今天我们要讨论几个游戏。我先将这些游戏的名字和别的专有名词告诉你，这样你们在听英语对话的时候，会着重zhuo2zhong4听游戏的名字。 God of War – 战神 Wolverine – 金钢狼 X-Men – X战警 Alien – 异形 Animal Crossing New Leaf – 动物之森3DS The Sims – 模拟人生 Zach: Okay, so what have I been playing? Before I get into that, I am going to give you some questions. If you can answer these questions after listening to me once, congratulations! Be sure to leave a comment letting me know. If not, it’s okay, I will give you some key words and key phrases to practice. 扎克：我来回答这个问题“what have you been playing？”之前，我先要问你几个问题。如果你能正确地回答这几个问题，说明你听懂了！务必留言通知小扎老师。有几个地方你没听懂的话，没有关系，录音结束时我们会学到几个关键词和短语。 Zach: The questions are… What is the name of the game I have been playing? How old is it? What kind of game is it? What is the main character’s name? Is the game difficult? Zach: It’s time to ask the question! What have you been playing? Well, I just got a brand new game called “Shadow of the Beast” for PlayStation 4. This game is really interesting because it’s a remake, or a reimagining, of a game from 1989. “Shadow of the Beast” is a 2D action-adventure game. It’s a lot like God of War because you fight lots of enemies and need to create combos in order to get a high score. The game is incredibly bloody and violent! Aarbron, the main character, uses his claws to annihilate enemies. He actually looks like a cross between Wolverine from X-Men and Alien, from the movie series. The game is not terribly difficulty, but if you want to get a platinum score on each level, you need to play flawlessly. 扎克：怎么样？大部分听懂了吗？还是有几个地方没听懂？我们复习一下几个关键词和短语吧！在学习了这些关键词和短语之后，为了保证你真的学会了，我推荐你们再听一遍录音。 Vocabulary 关键词 Brand new – 崭新 My Xbox One is brand new. 我们也可以说brand spankin’ new, 可是这说法比较俚语。 My Xbox One is brand spankin’ new. Remake/Reimagining – 重制版，重新塑造 The company wants to create a reimagining of the original game. Remake和reimagining这两个词的意思差不多，可是reimagining带着更新的感觉，跟原版不是很像，只是有原版的灵魂。 Action Adventure – 动作冒险类 I am not a big fan of action adventure games. 这说法很地道，说I am not a big fan of就是意思我不是特别喜欢某个东西，比如I am not a big fan of cats。我也希望大家能听到说adventure中的V声音，稍等一会儿我们要在讨论这个重点。 Combo – 连击 I got a really high combo, over 23 hits! Combo经常跟low或high搭配。 Violent – 猛烈meng3 lie4，剧烈 You are too young to watch violent movies. Annihilate – 毁灭，歼灭jian1 mie4 You can use a super attack to absolutely annihilate your enemies. Movie series – 电影系列 Marvel has created a very popular movie series in recent years. 也可以说game series，还是·comic series，还是television series！ My favorite game series is probably Final Fantasy. Platinum – 铂，讲游戏时候是白金 Getting a platinum on this game is nearly impossible. 说英语时，platinum（白金）平时比gold（黄金）更好，是最高级。 Flawless – 完美无缺的，无瑕的xia2 She is absolutely flawless in every way. 在我刚说的那段里，我说了flawlessly，就变成副词了。再举个例子：he completed the level flawlessly with no mistakes. V和W的声音 这点特别重要！你可不小看V和W这两个字母。如果你是学习德语的学生，把V说出wuh的样子是可以的，但是大部分的中国人应该是学英语的，对不对？所以，我们要保证我们说V是有这个震动的感觉。为了确认发音是对的，必须要把上牙咬着下唇chun2啊！跟我联系几个单词吧。 Video game，不是wideo game。 Vacuum，不是wacuum。 Violent，不是wiolent。 Adventure，不是adwenture。 扎克：这期节目的短语是跟描述和比较有关的，是用like来比较两个相同的东西。有几个说法，包括： It’s a lot like。。。 Looks like。。。 Kind of like。。。 扎克：当然还有就是单说like，比如：life is like basketball，但是我刚才说的例子比较地道一点。我给你们说几个例子啊！如果你能翻译成中文，我下一期节目中会？？感谢？？你。 The cake looks like a building. I like painting things that look kind of like elephants with wings. I don’t know why. Video games are a lot like life, except everything is made a bit easier for you in a game. 扎克：还有录音中的looks like a cross between。这短语是什么意思呢？就是说两个不同的东西混在一起后的现象，比如：Shanghai is a cross between Eastern and Western styles. 你们能不能把两个游戏来描述一个游戏呢？留个言说说呗！ 扎克：今天的节目快要结束了，不过我们还有一个guest想说一下她最近玩什么游戏！我们先过一遍两个生词。 Chill out – 放松，冷静下来 You really need to chill out, dude. Sitting down with a good book is the best way to chill out. Newcomer – 新手 He’s a newcomer to the MOBA style of games. 还有一种说法比较网络语，是noob。如果你跟一个菜鸟玩游戏，而且他玩的很糟，可以叫他noob！You noob! 扎克：好的！嘉宾来了！ What have you been playing? I don’t play a lot of video games really, in fact I’m a bit of a newcomer to games, but I have been playing a game called Animal Crossing New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS. It’s a nice, relaxing game that I can just chill out with. The game is kind of like The Sims actually. It’s fun because I can walk around the town, go fishing, decorate my house, and, really the most important part, make money. I don’t mean real money! Money in the game is called bells, you use it to buy stuff. There is always something new in the game, so I really enjoy playing once a day. 扎克：今天到此结束了，谢谢大家收听Unheard English。喜欢这期节目的话，麻烦你跟朋友分享分享，点个赞，还有最重要的任务，就是给我留言！小扎老师想听听你们的心思！ Zach: Bye everybody! See you next time. Don’t forget to share with your friends. Happy gaming!