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托福TPO/Official 66 Con1听力原文What was unusual about the conference that the professor attended?【新东方在线】

请听学生和一位文学教授的对话。

Narrator: Listen to a conversation between a student and a literature professor

学生：上周末的会议如何，Miles教授？

Student: How was that conference last weekend? Professor Miles.

教授：很好，我听到了很多非常精彩的演讲，以及令人耳目一新的话题，而且这些话题平时都没机会听到。

Professor: Great. I heard some really terrific presentations, refreshing topics too. About all these, you don't usually hear too much about.

教授：这就是学术界很有意思的一个方面。学术界认为学者们会对所有能想到的话题进行研究。

Professor: Oh, it's a funny thing about academia. It thinks scholars would do research about every topic imaginable.

但实际上，有些作家，有些体裁并不是令人赞扬的，所以没有多少人写过它们，比如哥特文学，侦探小说。

But actually, some authors, some genres aren't respective very much. So not very much is written them... gothic literature, detective novels.

学生：但是这次会议是关注这个的？

Student: But that's what the conference was about？

教授：差不多。我觉得这有点颠覆性。但还有大量的知识等着我们去探索。我觉得这很令人兴奋。

Professor: Yeah, pretty much. It was kind of subversive, I guess. But there's a whole wealth of knowledge out there just waiting to be explored. I find that really exciting.

教授：其实，你本来是想问问我期末论文的事情吧？

Professor: Yeah. Anyway, you wanted to ask me about the final paper ?

学生：是的，我现在认为这与那次会议的主题有关。既然我们要写的是一本不那么重要题材。我在想，科幻小说如何？

Student: Yeah，which I see now ties into the theme of that conference, since we're supposed to write about a book from one of those lesser genres. I was wondering what about science fiction?

教授：当然。尽管这种体裁在学术界得到越来越多尊重。

Professor: Sure. Though it's a genre that's actually getting more and more respect within academia.

会议上甚至有一个关于杰克·万斯的演讲。

There was even a talk at the conference about Jack Vance.

学生：他写了《冒险星球》对吧？

Student: He wrote planet of adventure, right?

教授：是的。他是一位涉猎广泛、受人尊敬的科幻小说作家。如果你对科幻小说感兴趣，你可以查一下。

Professor: Yeah. He's a well-researched respected science fiction writer. If you're interested in science fiction, you could look them up.

这会让你找到很多其他作者，为你的论文提供很多可能性。

That leads you to lots of other authors and lots of possibilities for your paper.

学生：太好了。我很欣慰你认为这是一个值得研究的流派。我要找一本我感兴趣的书，然后就此写一篇论文。

Student: Great. I'm relieved you think that, that's a good genre to study. I'll find a book that interests me and do the paper on that.

似乎大多数人都认为科幻小说是一种，我不知道，垃圾文学。

It seems like most people assume that science fiction is kind of like, I don't know, junk literature.

教授：是的，很多人这么认为。

学生：嗯，不过我读过一些东西，我认为有些真的写得很好，写纯科幻需要很多想象力。

Student: Yeah, but I've read somethings and I think that some of it is really well written and it takes so much imagination to write SCI-Fi.

教授：小心你的用词，科幻小说和纯科幻是不一样的。

Professor: Well, careful, though, there is a difference between science fiction and Scifi.

教授：纯科幻，是你在电影中看到的那种。它有所有的宇宙飞船和机器人，它聚焦于奇异的技术，你知道的这个因素，比如特效，而为了特效的精彩会牺牲一个好的故事。

Professor: SCI fi, that's what you tend to see in films. It has all the spaceships and robots, and it focuses on exotic technology you know factor like special effects，at the expense of a well written story.

我想很多人都没有意识到这一点，因此没有对两者做出区分。

I think a lot of people don't realize this and tend not to make a distinction.

教授：但真正的科幻小说远不止这些，比这要高级多了。

Professor: But true science fiction is much more intellectual than that.

故事是非常重要的，即使它发生在一个想象的世界，它也可能有奇异的小玩意。但关注点是在故事情节。

The story is very important, and even though it might take place in an imaginary world, it might have exotic gadgets. The focus is on the plot.

科幻小说创造了关于我们世界的隐喻。以及作为人类意味着什么。它的目的是让人思考真实的事物比如历史和人类行为。这是值得你花时间研究的，但不Sci-fi并不值得

Science fiction creates metaphors about our world. And well what it means to be human. It's meant to get people to think about real things like history and human behavior. That's worthy of it, but not Sci-fi

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What was unusual about the conference that the professor attended?

Why does the professor mention Jack Vance? Click on 2 answers.

What is the man's attitude toward science fiction?

According to the professor, what is a key difference between sci-fi and science fiction?

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