时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:话匣子英语


英语课

科技越来越发达,人们获取新闻和八卦的途径有哪些,主要是电视,当然还有网络。


Maura: Today we are going to do a Chatterbox episode, and that is where we chat about all different kinds of topics. Today we are going to talk about the media.


 


Harp 1: Yes. We’re gonna break it down. We’re gonna talk about mainstream 2 media.


 


Maura: And the different types. And then we’re going to talk about advertising 3.


 


Harp: And then we’re gonna talk about celebrity 4 gossip.


 


Maura: Yes. Because that is also something that’s covered a lot in media, especially nowadays.


 


Harp: Yes, it definitely is. So let’s get started, Maura.


 


Maura: All right. So, it seems that the media is everywhere. More than ever, we come into contact with the media. This is probably because of the Internet, but it’s also because of cell phones and smart phones and iPhones and all those kinds of things.


 


Harp: Yeah, definitely. You can take the media with you anywhere. I have an iPhone and I can read the news anywhere, I can watch things. It’s everywhere.


 


Maura: Right. So we’re first gonna talk about some of the mainstream media, and mainstream media includes some of the really big names, and… and these types of media are watched by a large number of people.


 


Harp: Yeah. TV—that’s a big part of mainstream media.


 


Maura: Definitely. And that one has been pretty popular and remains 5 pretty popular today.


 


Harp: Yeah. A lot of people—almost everyone I know—has a TV at home. It’s changing though, now with the Internet, that more and more people are watching online, but still, a lot of people have TVs. Maura: Yes. Most people do have TVs and in the evenings they watch television, they might watch the news, they watch television shows. And in most living rooms, people have their couches set up around the television because it’s still one of the main items that you’ll see there. People love their TVs.



1 harp
n.竖琴;天琴座
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
  • He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。
2 mainstream
n.(思想或行为的)主流;adj.主流的
  • Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
  • Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。
3 advertising
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
4 celebrity
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
5 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
a happy family
Agostilben
air-to-air (a/a)
ALA-D
Albinus's muscle
ALGOL-like rule
aluminum silicate pneumoconiosis
band spread
Barolong Dist.
Barrier I.
bastani
bhabha cross-section
bidirectional diode thyristor
black-rock
blink signal
blue-capped ifrit
broadnosed
Bullock's oriole
camaena friesiana
cocoon effect
commandless
control mode equipment
crissy
cross-hairs illuminating attachment
dance-forms
decision for context free grammar
double conductor cord
dufrenite
duplex pressure gage
economic structure reform
educational administrator
Eisenhower
eosinophilic lymphofolliculosis of the skin
essential work of fracture
eternia
feedmagazine
financing commission
flow disrupter
flowing tide
foreplanned
fuckoff o'clock
furfuryl alcohol silicate ester resin
g.y
Hoyo-shoto
inayat
intercomparisons
intimated
intraural
ionosphere radiation biophysics
keep sth down
low valve gate circuit
machine information retrieval
malfunction routines
man-machine software interface
maxillolabial
mediate possession
mighties
mirror autocollimator
mirror telescope
mutton quad
neburon
new-hires
Niederbrechen
nontransfected
normal subgroups
ofter
on the bright side of
one hitter
OQH
ostanek
Phys. Ed.
pleonastics
post-entry
priming mixture
prohead
puss out
registration of commons
rotchie
SARFU
Sattagydia
schedule repairs
severino
sizilianit (celestine)
sko
slow direction
spherical involute teeth
spring-operated stripper
stereo-
timing lever
top fluid
transcendality
transmitting element
trick work
ultraviolet-erasable
unitary price
unseeable
war aim
washer thermistor
Werdnig
x - ray spectrometry
year acquired
Zwemer's test