美語情景對話 第1365期:The Music Industry 音樂界(2)

Ben: How do they ... How are they going to get profit? If there's someone like less popular, someone independent artist, like the lower level not so popular artists, they don't make money.

本：他們……他們要如何贏利？如果有人不太出名，比如一些獨立藝術家，或是不太出名的低層藝術家，他們掙不到錢。

Hana: No, but I mean, I think recently, I think it's a good thing that people sort of can find non-famous singers on YouTube or on internet. I listen to radio and while I drive I listen to radio often and I also listen to music on YouTube. The other day accidentally I found ... Maybe it's not even a singer, it's just an ordinary person singing somebody's song by ... I thought he is great and I start listening to his songs and I subscribe his channel and in that way, unknown ... Well, famous people can become famous and they can make money and sort of ... In that sense, YouTube or those internet websites or apps can give them opportunity for ...

哈娜：嗯，不過最近人們可以在Youtube或其他網站上發現一些不出名的歌手，我認爲這是好事。我開車時經常聽廣播，我也會在Youtube上聽音樂。有一天我偶然發現了……那可能並不是一名歌手，而只是一個普通人演繹的一首歌曲，我覺得他唱得太棒了，我開始聽他唱的所有歌，而且我訂閱了他的頻道，我認爲通過這種方式，不出名的人會變得有名，而且可以掙到錢，這樣看來，YouTube、其他網站或應用程序可以給他們提供機會……

Ben: That's true. I think ... I totally agree with you and I think in that way, that's ... I guess YouTube and the internet has helped lesser known artists become exposed.

本：沒錯。我完全同意你的觀點，我認爲從這點來看，YouTube和網絡可以幫助不知名的藝術家增加曝光率。

Hana: Yes.

哈娜：對。

Ben: Right?

本：對吧？

Hana: Exactly.

哈娜：沒錯。

Ben: So there's exposure with YouTube, right? So there's all these view count, right? You can suggest a YouTube video to a friend, you can share it on your Facebook page.

本：YouTube可以增加曝光率，對吧？還有瀏覽量，對吧？你可以把Youtube上的視頻推薦給朋友，也可以分享到臉譜網主頁。

Hana: Yeah.

哈娜：對。

Ben: Definitely in that way YouTube has totally changed ... Have you heard the term go viral before?

本：這樣說來，YouTube完全改變了……你以前聽說過病毒式傳播這個詞嗎？

Hana: No. What does that mean?

哈娜：沒有。那是什麼意思？

Ben: Go viral means that a video that's put on video gets a lot of hits, a lot of views very, very, very quickly, so it gets seen by a lot of people. Viral, like a virus, right? It spreads through the internet.

本：病毒式傳播的意思是，一個視頻的點擊量特別高，以極快的速度得到了很多瀏覽量，有許多人觀看。就像病毒一樣，對吧？像病毒一樣迅速在互聯網上傳播。

Hana: Okay.

哈娜：好。

Ben: There are some unknown artists that started out with just a YouTube video and that video went viral, right? It received many views, many people saw it, and now they're popular musicians that people know about.

本：有很多不知名藝術家是通過YouTube視頻走紅的，他們的視頻迅速傳播，對吧？瀏覽量很大，有許多人觀看，然後他們就成爲了知名音樂人，有許多人知道他們。

Hana: Right? Like Justin Bieber, yeah?

哈娜：嗯。比如賈斯汀·比伯，對吧？

Ben: You know what? I think you're right. Didn't his parents put him on YouTube when he was a kid?

本：你知道嗎？我認爲你說得沒錯。在他小時候他父母就把他的視頻放到Youtube上了，不是嗎？

Hana: I guess so, yeah.

哈娜：我想是的，對。

Ben: I think something ...

本：我認爲有時……

Hana: That's how he started, yeah?

哈娜：他就是這樣開始的歌手之路，對吧？

Ben: Right. Yeah, in that way you can become ...

本：對。用這種方式可以成爲……

Hana: A pop star.

哈娜：流行歌星。

Ben: A pop star, right?

本：流行歌星，對吧？

Hana: Yeah.

哈娜：對。

Ben: Just from posting a YouTube video that gets seen.

本：只要把視頻上傳到Youtube上，就會得到關注。

Hana: Right.

哈娜：對。

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重點講解：
1. in that sense 從這個意義上說；
In that sense, we were very clever.
從這方面來說，我們的做法很聰明。
2. agree with 同意；贊成；意見一致；
Death is terrible. I agree with you there.
死亡很可怕。這點我同意你的觀點。
3. go viral 像病毒般擴散；
He tweeted a picture and waited for the effort to go viral.
他把照片發到了推特上，等着自己的這一作品像病毒一樣四散傳播開去。
4. start out 從…開始；從…着手；
People do not start out with the search for facts, they start out with an opinion.
有效的管理者都知道一項決策不是從蒐集事實開始的，而是先有自己的見解。