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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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