JESS: How are you getting on with your art project, Tom?

杰斯：汤姆，你的艺术项目做得怎么样了？

TOM: OK. Like, they gave us the theme of birds to base our project on, and I'm not really all that interested in wildlife.

汤姆：嗯，我们的项目的指定主题是鸟，我却对野生动物不是很感兴趣。

But I'm starting to get into it.

但是我开始喜欢这个主题了。

I've pretty well finished the introductory stage.

我的引入阶段已经很好地完成了。

JESS: So have I.

杰斯：我也是。

When they gave us all those handouts with details of books and websites to look at, I was really put off, but the more I read, the more interested I got.

当拿到那些介绍书目和网站细节的讲义的时候，我真心是拒绝的。但是当我读得越多，我却越感兴趣了。

TOM: Me too. I found I could research so many different aspects of birds in art – colour, movement, texture.

汤姆：我也一样。我发现我能从艺术的角度做很多不同的关于鸟的研究——颜色，动作和纹理。

So I was looking forward to the Bird Park visit.

所以我本来期待着去飞鸟公园参观。

JESS: What a letdown!

杰斯：太让人失望了。

It poured with rain and we hardly saw a single bird.

那天下着瓢泼大雨，我们一只鸟都没看见。

Much less use than the trip to the Natural History Museum.

这次参观还不如去自然历史博物馆呢。

TOM: Yeah. I liked all the stuff about evolution there.

汤姆：是的，我喜欢博物馆里关于进化论的展示。

The workshop sessions with Dr Fletcher were good too, especially the brainstorming sessions.

与弗莱彻博士的研讨会也很好，特别是头脑风暴环节。

JESS: I missed those because I was ill.

杰斯：我生病了所以没去成。

I wish we could've seen the projects last year's students did.

要是我们能看看去年的学生完成的项目就好了。

TOM: Mm. I suppose they want us to do our own thing, not copy.

汤姆：嗯。我想老师们是想要我们做自己的，而不是去模仿。

JESS: Have you drafted your proposal yet?

杰斯：你的开题报告的稿子写好了吗？

TOM: Yes, but I haven't handed it in.

汤姆：是的，但是还没有提交。

I need to amend some parts.

有一些部分需要修改。

I've realised the notes from my research are almost all just descriptions.

我发现我研究中的笔记几乎都是描述。

I haven't actually evaluated anything. So I'll have to fix that.

我从未给出真正的评价，所以我打算修改这部分。

JESS: Oh, I didn't know we had to do that.

杰斯：哦。我都不知道还需要做这个。

I'll have to look at that too.

我也得去检查一下。

Did you do a timeline for the project?

你给项目做时间轴了吗？

TOM: Yes, and a mind map.

汤姆：是的，还做了一个脑图。

JESS: Yeah, so did I. I quite enjoyed that.

杰斯：我也做了。还挺享受这个过程的。

But it was hard having to explain the basis for my decisions in my action plan.

但是在行动计划中解释我的决定依据是件难事儿。

TOM: What?

汤姆：什么意思。

JESS: You know, give a rationale.

杰斯：你懂的，展示基本原理。

TOM: I didn't realise we had to do that.

汤姆：我都不知道我们还需要做那个。

OK, I can add it now.

好吧，我现在加上。

And I've done the video diary presentation, and worked out what I want my outcome to be in the project.

我已经做好了视频日志展示，也制定出了项目的预期结果。

JESS: Someone told me it's best not to be too precise about your actual outcome at this stage, so you have more scope to explore your ideas later on.

杰斯：有人告诉我最好不要非常精确地描述这一阶段的实际结果，这样你会有更多的余地在后期探索你的观点。

So I'm going to go back to my proposal to make it a bit more vague.

所以我打算回到开题报告中把这部分弄得模糊一些。

TOM: Really? OK, I'll change that too then.

汤姆：真的吗？我等下也要去改。