时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月


英语课

 


ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:


The perfect home for a perfect television family is for sale.


(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE BRADY BUNCH THEME SONG")


UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) Here's the story of a lovely lady...


SHAPIRO: Yes, "The Brady Bunch" house is on the market, or rather the house used for exterior 1 shots for the TV series that ran from 1969 to 1974. And it can be yours for about $1.9 million. Here's NPR's Neda Ulaby.


NEDA ULABY, BYLINE 2: The house in suburban 3 Studio City, Calif., has attracted an avalanche 4 of interest, according to its realtor. But Amanda Kolson Hurley, an editor at the website CityLab, thinks that's not because of its looks.


AMANDA KOLSON HURLEY: The house is this sort of reddish-brown, kind of earth-toned split level.


ULABY: "Brady Bunch" fans remember the AstroTurfed backyard where Marcia got smacked 5 in the face with her brother's football.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE BRADY BUNCH")


MAUREEN MCCORMICK: (As Marcia Brady) Hey, you guys. Ow, my nose.


ULABY: And the plaid-accented family room with its wood-paneled walls and extremely beige carpet.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE BRADY BUNCH")


UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Wait, this room is for all of us. That's why they call it a family room. Get it?


ULABY: "Brady Bunch" obsessives have created floor plans that show the house's exterior does not match the interior. Those scenes were filmed in a studio. Imagine, says Hurley, a family today with a live-in maid but where three girls share one bedroom. The three boys share another.


HURLEY: And of course that's where you got the drama of the show, such as it was, or the comedy is that, you know, people in close quarters are interacting more.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE BRADY BUNCH")


BARRY WILLIAMS: (As Greg Brady) I didn't mean to make you cry.


ULABY: Like the time when the oldest siblings 6 fight over getting a recently renovated 7 attic 8.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE BRADY BUNCH")


MCCORMICK: (As Marcia Brady) A girl needs more space. I can't even use my hair dryer 9 when I want to.


ULABY: The genealogy 10 of ranch 11 houses like this one can be traced in part to Frank Lloyd Wright. Developers reportedly want to tear the house down, but the sellers hope to find a family to buy it. They will have to put up with the tourists who still drive by to see it. Neda Ulaby, NPR News.


[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: A previous headline mistakenly listed the price of the home as $1.88 billion. In fact, it's on the market for $1.88 million.]



adj.外部的,外在的;表面的
  • The seed has a hard exterior covering.这种子外壳很硬。
  • We are painting the exterior wall of the house.我们正在给房子的外墙涂漆。
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
adj.城郊的,在郊区的
  • Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
  • There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
n.雪崩,大量涌来
  • They were killed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.他们在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一次雪崩中罹难。
  • Higher still the snow was ready to avalanche.在更高处积雪随时都会崩塌。
拍,打,掴( smack的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He smacked his lips but did not utter a word. 他吧嗒两下嘴,一声也不言语。
  • She smacked a child's bottom. 她打孩子的屁股。
n.兄弟,姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )
  • A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分
翻新,修复,整修( renovate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He renovated his house. 他翻修了房子。
  • The house has been renovated three years earlier. 这所房子三年前就已翻新。
n.顶楼,屋顶室
  • Leakiness in the roof caused a damp attic.屋漏使顶楼潮湿。
  • What's to be done with all this stuff in the attic?顶楼上的材料怎么处理?
n.干衣机,干燥剂
  • He bought a dryer yesterday.他昨天买了一台干燥机。
  • There is a washer and a dryer in the basement.地下室里有洗衣机和烘干机。
n.家系,宗谱
  • He had sat and repeated his family's genealogy to her,twenty minutes of nonstop names.他坐下又给她细数了一遍他家族的家谱,20分钟内说出了一连串的名字。
  • He was proficient in all questions of genealogy.他非常精通所有家谱的问题。
n.大牧场,大农场
  • He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
  • The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。
学英语单词
a Monday morning quarterback
Alkaliya
angolensin
Archinephricduct
Bar-Salibi, Jacob
bascine
berardo
business proceeding
camouflage of tactical target
camshaft chain and sprocket drive
cancer-preventive
causal investigation
Centranthera cochinchinensis
Chai Badan
communication jammer
countersunk head semi-tubular rivet
cylinder seek command
delta-wing, delta-winged
denaturization
deoxytrillenoside
dipole orientation
dipwads
disinflamed
double-gate field effect transistor
drive sb away
dust-core coil
e-mail bombing
easyflask
Edna O'Brien
entire
evenleche
extended display processor instruction set
final feed temperature
fire-protection standard
foehn cloud
foxtails
fuel filling column
grey level probability density function
gum benzoins
halogenating reaction
harbor log
heredosyphilology
hokerful
i-smite
indicis
inland arc
instructional psychology
interlamellar seta
irreversible encipherment
Kegaska
kieser
kilovolt meter
kinetics of polymerization
ligeti
living words
locally-incorporated deposit-taking company
machairas
male contact
manthorpe
marker radio-beacon
masculine mastoplasia
matwork
mollycoddle
needly
neuroimagery
Oxymethebanol
paraffinic solvent
pennames
pequeno
pierrehumbert
portional
poste restantes
PPDG
preops
pushingly
range of detection
regelii
Rogers,William Penn Adair
SARCC
sea cap
sewster
ship position control system
side dump
Simmersfeld
slepery
smog-mask
smoked provisions
sportswork
stud muffin
summer sausages
take someone upon the hip
thoracotomise
tooth lever
topographical index
unacceptable condition
unexplained variance ratio
US Airways
us laid
vantageable
vena femoropoplitea
whitebeam