Chester：Martin was showing me his PDA this morning. It's the latest model.
卻斯特：今天早上馬丁給我看他的電子記事簿，是最新的型號。
Steve：Of course. Whatever it is, Martin's always got to have the latest.
史蒂夫：那個自然。無論甚麼，馬丁總是要最新款的。
Chester：But it's amazing what it can do. Wherever you are, as long as there's a wireless connection, you're connected to the whole world.
卻斯特：但那記事簿的功能實在令人驚異。無論你在哪裡，只要有無線電接連，你就可以接通全球。
Steve：Mine is like that, but it's not the latest model.
史蒂夫：我的電子記事簿也是一樣，但卻不是最新型號。
Chester：Ah, but listen to this. Imagine you're downtown and you want to eat Chinese. You just tap in your zip code and it will give you a list of all the Chinese restaurants within half a mile, with recommendations.
卻斯特： 嗯，你聽我說。假如你在市中心，想吃中國菜，只須輸入你的郵遞區號，那記事簿就會把半英里內所有中國餐館都列出來給你看，還有評語。
Steve：Wow! The mind boggles. That's really cool.
史蒂夫：哇，真是難以想像，實在妙極了。
卻斯特說：Martin was showing me his PDA this morning。PDA即personal digital assistant（個人數碼助理），或稱「電子記事簿」，例如：In addition to storing information such as addresses and telephone numbers, I use my PDA mainly to receive and send email（除了貯存地址和電話號碼，我的電子記事簿主要是用來接收、寄出電郵）。
現在問讀者一個問題：Martin was showing me his PDA this morning和Martin showed me his PDA this morning有甚麼分別？按過去進行式(past continuous tense)和簡單過去式(simple past tense)動詞經常並用：過去進行式說某事背景，簡單過去式說主要事情，例如：As he was opening the door, the dog went at him（他正把門打開，狗就攻擊他）。把「說某事背景」的用法引申，過去進行式可用來取代簡單過去式，使所述事情顯得較為隨便。例如你昨夜打電話給公司董事，今早和同事談起，可以說I was telephoning the company director last night，這聽起來無非隨便談及打電話的事；假如說I telephoned the company director last night，那是特別要談打電話這件事了。
史蒂夫聽到馬丁那個電子記事簿的神奇功能，說The mind boggles。Boggle有「（使）驚奇式困惑」的意思，常見於something boggles the mind 或the mind boggles 這說法，例如：The mind boggles at the complexity of the human body/The complexity of the human body boggles the mind（人體之複雜，令人難以想像）。形容詞是mind-boggling，例如：The functions of his PDA are really mind-boggling（他那個電子記事簿的功能真令人驚訝）。
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It will make a big difference to her career
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