2014年職稱英語(綜合類)教材閱讀判斷文章及譯文3

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　TV Game Shows

　　One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the "best seller" lists with a sale of fewer than 100,000 copies, but a popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers. TV can make anything or anyone well-known overnight.

　　This is the principle behind "quiz" or "game" shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands of dollars in the U.S. and almost everyone watched them. Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career as a television personality. But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating. It turned out that the show's producers who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand. Why? Because if the audience didn't like the person who won the game, they turned the show off. The result of this cheating was a huge scandal. Based on his story, a movie under the title "Quiz Show" is on 40 years later.

　　Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV. But game shows are still here, though they aren't taken as seriously. In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible. There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together, or that try to cause newly-married couples to fight on TV, or that punish losers by humiliation them. The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV. People still win money, but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.

　　注釋：

　　1. the size of the audience：觀眾的數(shù)目、規(guī)模。size指規(guī)模、數(shù)量等;audience是集合名詞，當它表達一個整體概念時，后面的動詞用單數(shù);若表達整體中的具體的成員時，動詞用復(fù)數(shù)形式。

　　2.best seller：暢銷書，暢銷品

　　3.…with a sale of fewer than 100,000 copies：……其發(fā)行量已不到10萬冊

　　4.TV viewer：電視觀眾

　　5.overnight：是副詞，意為“一夜之間”。又如：Byron became famous overnight.拜倫一夜成名。

　　6.This is the principle behind…for prizes and money：這就是存在于電視“智力競賽”表演背后的原理，這些表演促使普通老百姓為了獎品和獎金走上電視玩游戲。

　　7.give away：送掉，發(fā)給，贈給

　　8.for fun：為了好玩，為了開心。類似的表達法還有：for a change 為了改變一下，為了換換花樣。

　　9.文中的famous意為“著名的”。同義詞有noted，renowned，popular，distinguished等。

　　10.television personality：電視明星

　　11. It turned out that the show's producers who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand.原來，在幕后操縱的節(jié)目制片人已提前將問題的答案告訴類那些最受(觀眾)歡迎的參賽者。

　　12.scandal：丑聞，丑事

　　13.to be on：在文中是“上演”之意

　　14.Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV：Charles Van Doren不再參與電視節(jié)目了。

　　練習：

　　1. TV can make a beggar world-famous overnight.