摘要
这是一个英语学习节目，两位主持人在对话过程中会对前文提到的部分生词用比较简单的英语进行解释，通过这种方式帮助听众顺利听懂节目内容——大家不妨留意文中的蓝色生词，将中英文解释结合起来学习吧。
Alice:Hello,I’m Alice.Neil:And I’m Neil.Alice:So,Neil,you texted me earlier and didn’t put a full stop at the end.Neil:You’re right.I never use full stops in texts.They’re much too stuffy[古板的]or formal.Textingis like conversation.You don’t need lots of punctuation.Alice:Well,punctuation is the subject of today’s show.And I know I’m a bit of a stickler[固执己见者]about this,but I think you’re letting the standards of written English language slip.Neil:A stickler is someone who insists on a certain way of doing a particular thing.Surely you aren’t such a stickler for punctuation rules that you want to stop the evolution[进化]of English,Alice?
