19-11-20 【地道美语123】时代秘录存档奇人:七万卷胶带录下30年电视新闻
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dialogue 1
Jingjing: How are you, Mark? ---------------?
Mark: I'mafraid not, Jingjing. Just like most people, I'm going through the ----------and trying not to --------------in my work.
Jingjing: That sounds pretty -------. I've had a bit -------- to work onprojects I enjoy, but have mostly been busy --------- my regular work. Hey, did you hear about the lady in Philadelphia who---------------------?
Mark: Iheard that story mentioned as a---------when I was listening ------------. Do you know much about it?
Jingjing: Yeah. I was really---------I started reading the ----------. First of all, her name is Marion Stokes. She was very --------- andthen wanted to live a more -----------.
Mark: Okay. You said 30 years—----------------?
Jingjing: Well, she-------- in 2012. Her first recording was of a Nightlinebroadcast about the Iranian ---------------------.
Mark: Thatwas in the late ------, wasn't it(?), during Jimmy Carter's ---------.
Jingjing: That's right, 1979. It began in November and ------r-.
Mark: Wow,it'd be interesting enough just to se--------- I remember seeing TedKoppel, the host of Nightline, ----------------
Jingjing: Well, -----------------------------------------------------
Mark: So, ---------------: she recorded the news once a day for 30years?
Jingjing: No. She started-------- from major networks. This was just atthe beginning of the----------. She left her machines runningduring the -------- and p-----------------------
Mark: Wow. If someone puts all that on the Internet, you could visit the websiteand ------------the channels in 1985 or 1995. It be cooljust to---------------- instead of edited videos.
Jingjing: That's thinking like a-------------------, Mark.
Mark: I bether project is more-------- than that. What do you think of it, Jingjing.
Jingjing: Ihad a lot of ideas as I was reading the story. ------------------------ herewhile we're talking, so that I get the facts right.
Mark: Sure. No--------------
dialogue 2
Jingjing: Ok. So here's the first article I saw.
Mark: Oh,that's a good ----------------. I get a lot of my news from there.
Jingjing: Right. And here's the ---------. It's called TheRecorder: the Marion Stokes ------------------.
Mark: Wait,what? There's a movie about a person ---------------?
Jingjing: There is. I -------seen it. But the ------------is enough tomake a movie. It's cool to see what television looked like --------------don't you think?
Mark: Well,I think it's something we-------------------------
Jingjing: Yes, but in the 1980s and 90s, even television stations were -----------------and reusing the tapes.
Mark: Wow,now that you mention tapes, I'm wondering------------ to record 30 years ofnon-stop footage on------------------TV channels.
Jingjing: Holdon, I saw that number... Here it is:----------------------
Mark: Whoa! Where did she put all of them?
Jingjing: She sent them out to a--------- She----------------her project. So, she even had the new tapes -------------------in small batches.
Mark: Wow, aproject that--------- for three decades—and hardly----------- about it!
Jingjing: Yep. And she also read ----------- per day, and saved most ofthose.
Mark: I'veheard of people like that in -----------where I've lived and visited—people who---------. But here it sounds like her---------- -------------------
Jingjing: Yeah. Who would have known an old lady in a small apartment could ------------for preserving the-------------------the 20th century?
Mark: Well,I'll ------------ for that movie about her. Hopefully there's also awebsite where people can -----------------.
Jingjing: I'd watch it too.
Mark: Thanksfor sharing the story, Jingjing!
new words andphrases
from dialogue 1
sideline (noun) an additional or auxiliary story, often-times provided as a link ormentioned verbally in a news broadcast, so that people can continue reading thestory under the current headline and remember the keywords for the sidelinedstory to read later
<be> pulledin <by something> (phrasal verb) become interested insomething, want to keep reading
let me get thisstraight (a wayof asking for clarification and confirmation) (usually after this, the personasking repeats what he/she thinks he/she just heard in slightly differentwords)
24-hour news cycle (noun) (theword “cycle” is an echo from when TV news aired every evening and a fat Sundaynewspaper meant in-depth coverage of issues spanning several days or weeks) thecurrent condition of journalism, since the takeover by cable news and the world-wideweb: a rush to publish stories and catch readers with flashy headlines, ageneral tendency toward sensationalism and fear-mongering
flip through thechannels (verb phrase) use a remote control to watch a few secondsor minutes of TV on each station, then changing over to another, withoutstopping to watch any one full show
from dialogue 2
take<something> for granted (verb phrase) accept something as common,expect it to always be there
archive (noun) a formal and well-organized system for storing information, in itsoriginally-published form
digital media(noun) recordedaudio and video in digital form (so that it can easily be stored on a computer)
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Jingjing: How are you, Mark? ---------------?
Mark: I'mafraid not, Jingjing. Just like most people, I'm going through the ----------and trying not to --------------in my work.
Jingjing: That sounds pretty -------. I've had a bit -------- to work onprojects I enjoy, but have mostly been busy --------- my regular work. Hey, did you hear about the lady in Philadelphia who---------------------?
Mark: Iheard that story mentioned as a---------when I was listening ------------. Do you know much about it?
Jingjing: Yeah. I was really---------I started reading the ----------. First of all, her name is Marion Stokes. She was very --------- andthen wanted to live a more -----------.
Mark: Okay. You said 30 years—----------------?
Jingjing: Well, she-------- in 2012. Her first recording was of a Nightlinebroadcast about the Iranian ---------------------.
Mark: Thatwas in the late ------, wasn't it(?), during Jimmy Carter's ---------.
Jingjing: That's right, 1979. It began in November and ------r-.
Mark: Wow,it'd be interesting enough just to se--------- I remember seeing TedKoppel, the host of Nightline, ----------------
Jingjing: Well, -----------------------------------------------------
Mark: So, ---------------: she recorded the news once a day for 30years?
Jingjing: No. She started-------- from major networks. This was just atthe beginning of the----------. She left her machines runningduring the -------- and p-----------------------
Mark: Wow. If someone puts all that on the Internet, you could visit the websiteand ------------the channels in 1985 or 1995. It be cooljust to---------------- instead of edited videos.
Jingjing: That's thinking like a-------------------, Mark.
Mark: I bether project is more-------- than that. What do you think of it, Jingjing.
Jingjing: Ihad a lot of ideas as I was reading the story. ------------------------ herewhile we're talking, so that I get the facts right.
Mark: Sure. No--------------
dialogue 2
Jingjing: Ok. So here's the first article I saw.
Mark: Oh,that's a good ----------------. I get a lot of my news from there.
Jingjing: Right. And here's the ---------. It's called TheRecorder: the Marion Stokes ------------------.
Mark: Wait,what? There's a movie about a person ---------------?
Jingjing: There is. I -------seen it. But the ------------is enough tomake a movie. It's cool to see what television looked like --------------don't you think?
Mark: Well,I think it's something we-------------------------
Jingjing: Yes, but in the 1980s and 90s, even television stations were -----------------and reusing the tapes.
Mark: Wow,now that you mention tapes, I'm wondering------------ to record 30 years ofnon-stop footage on------------------TV channels.
Jingjing: Holdon, I saw that number... Here it is:----------------------
Mark: Whoa! Where did she put all of them?
Jingjing: She sent them out to a--------- She----------------her project. So, she even had the new tapes -------------------in small batches.
Mark: Wow, aproject that--------- for three decades—and hardly----------- about it!
Jingjing: Yep. And she also read ----------- per day, and saved most ofthose.
Mark: I'veheard of people like that in -----------where I've lived and visited—people who---------. But here it sounds like her---------- -------------------
Jingjing: Yeah. Who would have known an old lady in a small apartment could ------------for preserving the-------------------the 20th century?
Mark: Well,I'll ------------ for that movie about her. Hopefully there's also awebsite where people can -----------------.
Jingjing: I'd watch it too.
Mark: Thanksfor sharing the story, Jingjing!
new words andphrases
from dialogue 1
sideline (noun) an additional or auxiliary story, often-times provided as a link ormentioned verbally in a news broadcast, so that people can continue reading thestory under the current headline and remember the keywords for the sidelinedstory to read later
<be> pulledin <by something> (phrasal verb) become interested insomething, want to keep reading
let me get thisstraight (a wayof asking for clarification and confirmation) (usually after this, the personasking repeats what he/she thinks he/she just heard in slightly differentwords)
24-hour news cycle (noun) (theword “cycle” is an echo from when TV news aired every evening and a fat Sundaynewspaper meant in-depth coverage of issues spanning several days or weeks) thecurrent condition of journalism, since the takeover by cable news and the world-wideweb: a rush to publish stories and catch readers with flashy headlines, ageneral tendency toward sensationalism and fear-mongering
flip through thechannels (verb phrase) use a remote control to watch a few secondsor minutes of TV on each station, then changing over to another, withoutstopping to watch any one full show
from dialogue 2
take<something> for granted (verb phrase) accept something as common,expect it to always be there
archive (noun) a formal and well-organized system for storing information, in itsoriginally-published form
digital media(noun) recordedaudio and video in digital form (so that it can easily be stored on a computer)