美国国家公共电台 NPR Sunday Puzzle: Follow My Lead
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:
We're only two days away from the Fourth of July. But here's something that won't leave you bloated like barbecue and beer. It's The Puzzle.
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GARCIA-NAVARRO: Joining me as always is Will Shortz. He's puzzle editor of The New York Times and WEEKEND EDITION's puzzlemaster. Will, good morning.
WILL SHORTZ, BYLINE 1: Good morning, Lulu.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: So any Fourth of July plans?
SHORTZ: Well, there are fireworks on the Hudson River...
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Of course (laughter).
SHORTZ: ...Near me, so I'll be going there. How about you? That's your day off.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: It is indeed my day off. I don't like fireworks because I spent too many years in war zones (laughter).
SHORTZ: Oh, yeah. Interesting.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: So yeah - so the Fourth of July is always a time when I drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of barbecue. But yeah, the fireworks aren't my favorite part.
SHORTZ: Got you.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: So remind us of last week's challenge.
SHORTZ: Yeah, it came from a Croatian puzzle-maker named Kruno Matic. I said, take the name Kim Kardashian. Rearrange the letters to get the last name of a famous actress along with a famous one-named singer. Who are these people? And the answer is Kidman, as in Nicole Kidman, and the other letters make Shakira. It was a fantastic anagram.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: It really was, and those are three great, interesting ladies. This week, we got more than 1,300 responses. And our randomly 2 selected winner is Karen Marshall of Shoreline, Wash. Congratulations, Karen.
KAREN MARSHALL: Thank you very much. It's an honor.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yeah. What's Shoreline like?
MARSHALL: Shoreline is a beautiful community north of Seattle. And I actually live in the Richmond Beach section. So we're down - we're about a 10-minute walk to the sound. So it's very pretty.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I was about to say, with a name like Shoreline, it's got to be near the water.
MARSHALL: Yes.
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MARSHALL: It is.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: What do you do there?
MARSHALL: I'm a legal assistant at Lasher 4 Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson in downtown Seattle. And they are a proud sponsor of our local NPR station KUOW.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Wonderful. Now - I have to mention this - we hear your daughter has gotten a shoutout of sorts in a previous edition of The Puzzle. Tell us about that.
MARSHALL: Yes. In the Denver con 3 for the National Puzzlers' League back in 2008, my son-in-law proposed to my daughter after the business meeting. And we all talked about it with Louanne (ph) Hansen on that Sunday morning, on July 20.
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MARSHALL: It was pretty exciting.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Will, do you remember that proposal?
SHORTZ: Oh, that was a classic moment in the National Puzzlers' League Convention. It was after the business meeting. And the puzzler proposed to his girlfriend - complete surprise. And I'll never forget that.
MARSHALL: Yeah.
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GARCIA-NAVARRO: There you go - aw.
All right, are you ready to play The Puzzle?
MARSHALL: Yes, I am.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: All right, take it away, Will.
SHORTZ: All right. Karen, I'm going to give you some words. For each one, think of a word that can follow mine to complete a familiar two-word phrase. And the first two letters of my word must be the first and last letters of yours. For example, if I said freedom, you would say fighter because freedom fighter is a phrase, and the first two letters of freedom, F-R, are the first and last letters of fighter.
MARSHALL: OK (laughter).
SHORTZ: We're going to start with three-letter answers, three-letter words, and your first one is electric. What word follows electric in three letters that starts with E and ends in L?
MARSHALL: Electric eel 5 - no.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yeah.
SHORTZ: Electric eel...
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yeah, it was right.
SHORTZ: ...Is it. E, blank, L...
MARSHALL: Oh, it is.
SHORTZ: ...Is right.
MARSHALL: OK (laughter).
SHORTZ: Now we're at four-letter answers. And your first one is glamour 6.
MARSHALL: Glamour girl.
SHORTZ: Glamour girl is it.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Good.
SHORTZ: Relay.
MARSHALL: Relay race.
SHORTZ: That's it. Prickly.
MARSHALL: Prickly pear.
SHORTZ: Uh-huh. Here's your next one, test, T-E-S-T.
MARSHALL: Test...
SHORTZ: And your hint for this one is a laboratory.
MARSHALL: Test tube.
SHORTZ: That's it.
MARSHALL: OK.
SHORTZ: All right, now five-letter answers. And your first one of these is stick.
MARSHALL: Stick...
SHORTZ: And for this, think of a car.
MARSHALL: Stick shift.
SHORTZ: That's it. Frequent.
MARSHALL: Flyer.
SHORTZ: Uh-huh. Mass, M-A-S-S.
MARSHALL: Media.
SHORTZ: That's it. Stuffed.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I know...
MARSHALL: Shirt.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: ...A lot of these, yeah.
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SHORTZ: Stuffed shirt is it. Good. Now we have some six-letter answers. Candid 7.
MARSHALL: Camera.
SHORTZ: That's it. Draft.
SHORTZ: Draft dodger is it. Merchant.
SHORTZ: That's it. Bronco.
MARSHALL: Bronco - buster?
SHORTZ: Bronco buster, good. And here's your last one. It's an eight-letter word. And your clue is peer, P-E-E-R.
MARSHALL: Pressure.
SHORTZ: Peer pressure - nice job.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yeah, you were amazing.
MARSHALL: Thank you.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Very well done. It clearly runs in the family.
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MARSHALL: Thank you so much.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: For playing our puzzle today, you'll get a WEEKEND EDITION lapel pin as well as puzzle books and games. You can read all about it at npr.org/puzzle. And Karen, what member station do you listen to?
MARSHALL: KUOW.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Karen Marshall of Shoreline, Wash., thank you so much for playing The Puzzle.
MARSHALL: Thank you very much. Goodbye, Lulu. Goodbye, Will.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Goodbye.
SHORTZ: Thank you.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Will, what's next week's challenge?
SHORTZ: Yes, it comes from listener Tyler Lipscomb of Athens, Ga. Think of a common girl's name. Write it in all capital letters. Rotate one of these letters 90 degrees and another of the letters 180 degrees, and the result will name a make of car. What is it? So again, a common girl's name. Write it in all capital letters. Rotate one of the letters 90 degrees and another of them 180 degrees, and the result will name a make of car. What make is it?
GARCIA-NAVARRO: When you have the answer, go to our website, npr.org/puzzle, and click on the Submit Your Answer link. Just one entry per person, please. Our deadline for entries is Thursday, July 6, at 3 p.m. Eastern. Include a phone number where we can reach you at about that time. And if you're the winner, we'll give you a call. You'll get to play on the air with the puzzle editor of The New York Times and WEEKEND EDITION's puzzlemaster, Will Shortz. Thanks so much, Will.
SHORTZ: Thank you.
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- 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。
- Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内，分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
- Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句
- We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
- The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票，协议被通过。
- He used an eel spear to catch an eel.他用一只捕鳗叉捕鳗鱼。
- In Suzhou,there was a restaurant that specialized in eel noodles.苏州有一家饭馆，他们那里的招牌菜是鳗鱼面。
- Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
- The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。
- I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance for it.我只有希望公正的读者多少包涵一些。
- He is quite candid with his friends.他对朋友相当坦诚。
- They are tax dodgers who hide their interest earnings.他们是隐瞒利息收入的逃税者。
- Make sure she pays her share she's a bit of a dodger.她自己的一份一定要她付清--她可是有点能赖就赖。