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
accentuation filter
accessorial services
acidfast staining
acousticofacial
advanced injection
agrilus priamus
annonas
antitetanic serum ATS
Ashur
automatic transducor
babians
Babo's sand bath
barred sea
be a disgrace to
beach plums
berci
bolted type deadend clamp
Borotou
brush life
bugui
bumepidil
carsas
Ch'ǒngdan-gun
chemically resistant rubber
chronic yellow atrophy of liver
commercial activity
component hole
continuous areal
day nurseries
daysailing
Demain.
disk-and-drum turbine
dismanacle
elevation of diaphragm
etched Permalloy toroid memory
ethno
expenditure above the line
fashion consultants
fern
fertilityrate
for ... age
general-use
heterochronism
home record leader record
homogeneous steel
hysteroplegia
illustrative system
integrated tracking system
Johnny Law
Kaileuna I.
lower blood pressure
LPI (lines per inch)
MAC Layer
median palatine process
micro-hydraulic station
mirkin
multi-station operation
needle bearing bushing
off the beaten track
Ourel
overall operational cost
oxarbazole
pentahydroxide
pentamethylbenzenes
problem-free
proprietary trading system
Pularin
Ramus carpalis palmaris
reciprocal function
regular checkup
restore current
ridge tillage and pitting field
riffler sampler
Satkhira District
Slavomir
slot squeegee
slug slot
spread of wing
standard closure rate
suggested design
supercritical volume
superior auricular muscle (or dorsal auricular muscle)
tackled
tanshinone
Tappeh, Kūh-e
tax planning
tearstain
telecommunication statement
thalias
thenward
three-line whip
throater
thyrocervical ducts
transparency negative
tribromoacetate
uncertainty relation
verilopam
Vinga
whichard
wound of wrist
zero sequence symmetrical component
zone of mathematical climate