时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力:文化博览2008年


英语课

 The unfortunate thing is every single person, with the exception of my closest friend, Gale 1, said to me you are not gonna make it. Everybody told me that I wasn't gonna make it. Those same people now are saying, no, we never, we always knew. But that is not true. I can understand why people say that now "oh, yes, of course, we always knew", but everybody told me I wasn't gonna, because, let's face it, there was nobody who looked like me. I was overweight, and black and female, and part Jheri curl. I don't know another overweight Jheri curl person who can say I MADE IT!


 
To Dennis Swanson’s credit when I walked in and I said, look, you know, I'm black, and I'm overweight, and he said, I’m looking at you. Because I'm not gonna be able to change that, because I've been in the market in Baltimore where once I was hired, they wanted me now to be something else, they wanted me to change my hair, change my look, get a nose job, all that, God, I'm not gonna be doing any of that, and Dennis Swanson did me the greatest service any boss could ever give to anybody who’s being hired. He said to me, you know, “You know, girl, competing against Donahue over here, Phil Donahue. We know you can’t beat him, so we just want you to go on the air and do the best you can and be yourself, young lady.”
 
Phil Donahue was the talk show icon 2. He defined that genre 3 at the time, and I had nothing but respect for him and certainly didn’t even consider myself even in the same category as him, so I was coming to do a local talk show, AM Chicago, which was airing at the same time right down the street from this national talk show done by Phil Donahue.
 
Good morning everybody, I’m Oprah Winfrey, a new host of AM Chicago and I am thrilled to be here. Coming up this morning…
 
It was on the air New Year’s Day, first day, January 1st, 1984.
 
It is a star-studded, hour long live rose bowl party next on AM Chicago.
 
Nothing worked, everything fell apart, I'm cooking, I don’t cook, I certainly didn’t cook then and certainly don’t cook on a hot plate on TV.
 
I figure this is gonna be like the Galloping 4 Gourmet 5. We have a stove here, you know, the whole hood 6 and everything.
 
And it was a mess.

n.大风,强风,一阵闹声(尤指笑声等)
  • We got our roof blown off in the gale last night.昨夜的大风把我们的房顶给掀掉了。
  • According to the weather forecast,there will be a gale tomorrow.据气象台预报,明天有大风。
n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像
  • They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
  • Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
n.(文学、艺术等的)类型,体裁,风格
  • My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
  • Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看, 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。
n.食物品尝家;adj.出于美食家之手的
  • What does a gourmet writer do? 美食评论家做什么?
  • A gourmet like him always eats in expensive restaurants.像他这样的美食家总是到豪华的餐馆用餐。
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
  • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
  • The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
学英语单词
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acidity
aerosol food
afghanistani
alloy irons
antibiolumphin
ashpan blower valve
automatic assembly
avi cable
bakeout degassing clamp
birchleaf pear
body-curved disease
bodywood
bottom relief map
Bozeman's position
bridge cloth
bullock blocks
bushing electric
call accepted signal
chondriomere
Cirbanal
close set
color constants
comebackers
commodity wastage
correptions
courier bag
Cunaxa
departmentation by process or equipment
electronic fire-control equipment
element name
encoded fields
end of astronomical evening twilight
engine pod
ensampling
epss network
featurism
ferret distemper virus
fiber-map
full electronic switching
gallucci
general-purpose diagnostic program
geographical north
geospatial engineering
glowfly
haberse
hardware stage
hexagonal mirror
hot penetration construction
Hudsonian godwit
Immobilon
interstitial distance (mather 1936)
investigation on audience
Krasnaya Polyana
layer-wound solenoid
leather loader
limestone neutralization treatment
maximal tubular excretory capacity
melanedema
natural rate of unemployment
nerr
non-coplanar transfer
norvasc
nosedives
OMR (optical mark reader)
optically positive
over bridges
partner with
Pashtunwali
patung series
paving stone degeneration of retina
permanent magnet moving coil meter
pivoted bucket carrier
plantar spaces
plunged into
prince fumimaro konoyes
prodan
psychoanalytical theory
Pterocles
pyrophoric lead
raw material of woodcharcaol
roller chamfer
schwab
Scythians
sequentially-lobed radar
signal smoke
signe de peau d'orange
slugft
So it goes
sp vol
spin space
Stackelberg decision theory
swansea
tandem electrostatic generator
terry swatch
the leaflets of the trifoliolate leaves
topochemical control
variable acceptance sampling
viscosity model
Warenford
weighing-appliance
zeomorphis