美国国家公共电台 NPR To All The Ghouls I've Loved Before
时间：2019-01-17 作者：英语课 分类：2016年NPR美国国家公共电台10月
To All The Ghouls I've Loved Before
play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0005:22repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser 1 to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:
Let's check in with our contestants 3. Jere, if you were a monster, what kind of monster would you be?
JERE HESTER: I guess I would be the 1970s Godzilla nemesis 4 Rodan because he was - he was really cool. He spun 5 around, but he was also a great sculptor 6.
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EISENBERG: Corissa, if you were a monster, what kind of monster would you be?
CORISSA CARLSON: I would be the nemesis to the Keebler elves and be the Cookie Monster.
EISENBERG: (Laughter) Your next game is a music parody 7 game called To All The Ghouls I've Loved Before. Jere, you won the first game. So win this, and you'll move on to the final round. Corissa, you need to win this, or your dissertation 8 will be shredded 9.
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EISENBERG: Jonathan Coulton, take it away.
JONATHAN COULTON: I sure will. We have rewritten the kind of creepy Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias song "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" to be either less creepy or more creepy...
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COULTON: ...Depending on your perspective because it is now about famous monsters. Are you ready?
CARLSON: Yes.
COULTON: OK.
(Singing) To all the ghouls I've loved before - cone-shaped hair I can't ignore. They built her just for me. Then electricity awoke her. She's alive, they swore.
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COULTON: Corissa?
CARLSON: Bride of Frankenstein?
COULTON: Indeed. Bride of Frankenstein is correct.
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EISENBERG: Her name is Bernice, OK?
COULTON: (Laughter) She has a name.
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COULTON: Actually, Mrs. Frankenstein was the wife of the scientist.
EISENBERG: Exactly.
COULTON: Just mansplained in a slightly more feminist 10 way.
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COULTON: But not that much more.
EISENBERG: I love that. I love that.
COULTON: (Singing) The winds of change are always blowing. There are times they smell like trash. This Muppet grump had no nose showing. His can was cramped 11. I had to dash.
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COULTON: Jere?
COULTON: That's correct.
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COULTON: Not the most horrifying 13 monster...
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COULTON: ...In the history of monsters.
EISENBERG: Yeah. We've all had that apartment.
COULTON: Yeah.
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COULTON: Pretty standard.
EISENBERG: (Laughter).
COULTON: (Singing) There was this one manifestation 14 - big, white thing in a sailor's hat. I felt a very strange sensation when the Ghostbusters made him splat.
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COULTON: (Laughter) Corissa?
CARLSON: The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man?
COULTON: (Laughter) Yeah, that's right.
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COULTON: This is your last clue.
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COULTON: (Singing) My latest ghoul - he does beguile 15. He has a very pointy smile. A Transylvanian stud - likes to drink my blood. I think I'll let him suck a while.
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COULTON: Jere?
HESTER: Dracula?
COULTON: Yeah, you got it.
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COULTON: Art Chung, how did our contestants do?
ART CHUNG: We have a tie. So here's your tiebreaker question - hands on your buzzers 16. Name the hit Halloween song by Bobby Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers released in 1962.
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CHUNG: Corissa?
CHUNG: That is correct. Well done.
(APPLAUSE)
CHUNG: So Corissa, with that, you've tried it up with one game apiece. And we're back to another tiebreaker round.
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CHUNG: Doesn't get any easier. I'm going to give you a category. And you'll go back and forth 18 naming things that fall in that category. The first contestant 2 to mess up by guessing incorrectly, repeating an answer or taking too long will be eliminated. You'll have to buzz in to answer first. Here's your category - periodic table elements with atomic numbers 1 through 10.
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CHUNG: Corissa, you start.
CARLSON: Carbon.
CHUNG: Carbon is number 6. Correct. Jere?
HESTER: Nitrogen.
CHUNG: Nitrogen is number 7.
CARLSON: Hydrogen.
CHUNG: Hydrogen is number 1, Corissa. Correct. Jere?
HESTER: Oxygen.
CHUNG: Oxygen is number 8. Back to Corissa.
CARLSON: Well...
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CARLSON: I'm going to guess sodium 19.
CHUNG: I'm sorry. Sodium is incorrect. So we're going to have to say goodbye. And congratulations to Jere. You're moving on to the final round.
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EISENBERG: It's settled. Our finalists are Vanessa and Jere. They will face off in our final round at the end of the show. Coming up, "Stranger Things'" David Harbour has many sides. We'll roll with 20 of them in the nerdiest game you'll ever hear. I'm Ophira Eisenberg. And you're listening to ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR.
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- View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
- I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。
- The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
- The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。
- The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing 8 different countries. 这次比赛吸引了代表8个不同国家的500多名参赛者。
- Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Uncritical trust is my nemesis.盲目的相信一切害了我自己。
- Inward suffering is the worst of Nemesis.内心的痛苦是最厉害的惩罚。
- His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。
- Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。
- A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
- The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。
- The parody was just a form of teasing.那个拙劣的模仿只是一种揶揄。
- North Korea looks like a grotesque parody of Mao's centrally controlled China,precisely the sort of system that Beijing has left behind.朝鲜看上去像是毛时代中央集权的中国的怪诞模仿，其体制恰恰是北京方面已经抛弃的。
- He is currently writing a dissertation on the Somali civil war.他目前正在写一篇关于索马里内战的论文。
- He was involved in writing his doctoral dissertation.他在聚精会神地写他的博士论文。
- Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce. 先铺一层碎生菜叶，再把鱼放上，就可以上桌了。
- I think Mapo beancurd and shredded meat in chilli sauce are quite special. 我觉得麻婆豆腐和鱼香肉丝味道不错。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
- From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。
- The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence. 房子十分狭小拥挤，但经纪人却把它说成是小巧别致的住宅。
- working in cramped conditions 在拥挤的环境里工作
- He's always having a grouch about something.他总是发脾气抱怨这个抱怨那个。
- One of the biggest grouches is the new system of payment.人们抱怨最多的一点就是这种新的支付方式。
- He went to great pains to show how horrifying the war was. 他极力指出战争是多么的恐怖。
- The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate. 战争的可能性太可怕了，真不堪细想。
- Her smile is a manifestation of joy.她的微笑是她快乐的表现。
- What we call mass is only another manifestation of energy.我们称之为质量的东西只是能量的另一种表现形态。
- They are playing cards to beguile the time.他们在打牌以消磨时间。
- He used his newspapers to beguile the readers into buying shares in his company.他利用他的报纸诱骗读者买他公司的股票。
- Scout in with Buzzers(Via The Swarm) or whatever fast unit you have. 用技能召唤的蜂群（或者任何你拥有的快速单位）探路。 来自互联网
- Buzzers have the ability to clear garrisoned structures. 蜂群拥有清除驻军建筑得能力。 来自互联网
- He beat the potato into a mash before eating it.他把马铃薯捣烂后再吃。
- Whiskey,originating in Scotland,is distilled from a mash of grains.威士忌源于苏格兰，是从一种大麦芽提纯出来的。
- The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
- He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。