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
affiliated business
air arc cutting and gouging electrode
al-mutawa
aminoanthracene
anopheles (anopheles) bengalensis
antimicrobin
apostolic Fathers
arise in one's mind
average paid-in capital
band separation
Beta-Sitosterolemia
blackfellows
bloomville
BMCP
case chip
certs
Chanuka
chlormadione
closier
clutch the straw
composite reserve unit
condensation agent
coral-bells
corn syrups
course broadcasts on television
cranializations
cravat
Creasote.
crewboat
doorknob transformer
dual-fuel diesel engine
educational research project
equilibrium control
ETOPS
femininitude
fictitious load
Finite Reinsurance
fissus
floc formation
flow check
fluid-supply suspension relay
fork over
French Guyana
fried rice with shredded
gate feeder
going alongside against the current
heat inertia index
hostid
humanware
hunt-club
inflammable gas
interim maintenance
Just Say No
Komi-Zyrian
last accrual date
laundry and hot shower drains tank
Leiognathidae
lindsley
lipogranulomatosis subcutanea
long-term earthquake prediction
manufacturing miller
maplins
mapping transformation
miconia miconia
microcyclops kentanensis
microflaw
Muslimophile
net capital to debt ratio
Nevimycin
niggas
non full phases operation of line
nondistorted
nut forming machine
odd functions
overmilling
phineas taylor barnums
polyphosphoric
production language program
propulsion current
protostellar
qualled
radiation shielding material
Ranzania
refractory anemias
removable section
segregation by ability
septan fever
shipborne guide stud
short-lifetime satellite
smear ghost
spinning waltz
sternauli
system user
take-one
temporary storage register
thoroughbasses
tower mill
two-bellows transmitter
uvoz
vesselling
weft clearer
wind scale