万花筒 2009-11-12&11-14 热门网络话题串烧

Our stories are moving up across the Internet today. Joining me this evening is political blogger and twitter supreme-Shane is with us. Now where are we gonna go first? Shane Greer. Michelle Obama.

-Michelle Obama, she is on the cover of Glamour¹ magazine in the United States, and she is doling² out the advice, this time about relationship, she’s telling people what they should look for in the perfect man, she says, don’t look in the bank account, don’t look for titles, what you're actually looking for is how they treat their mother. So, a sound advice perhaps from the … from the first Lady.

-Porsche are challenging a rubber shoe company.
-Yea, essentially³, it’s a car versus⁴ a shoe, they both own the copyright or both claim they own the copyright to Cayman, now for Porsche that’s the name of a car, it's a model of car. For Crocs, it’s a model of shoe. Porsche is suing Crocs, to say that they’ve no right to use that name because Porsche have been using it for years. My question, though, who is actually going to confuse / a small rubber shoe and a large 51,000 pound sports car. Absolutely absurd, I think Porsche’s created a little bit of a PR disaster for themselves.

-Yeah, but a fuss is a fuss, isn't it? Life on Mars, we've been looking there since 1924.
-Oh, Let me take you back, 1924, and we’ve got the Chief of Naval⁵ Operations for the US navy. He sends out an order to the fleet for three days, you have to listen radio signals, possibly coming from the world Mars' little green man. Sadly, they didn’t find anything, but wouldn't it have been of great interest if they did?
-It would indeed. 2010's most glamorous⁶ tourist destination could be--

-BEIRUT. Who you thank it, Beirut?, and oddly enough ,one of my colleagues at Total Politics Jeremy Hartley has just come back from a holiday in Beirut and he’s singing it and praising it. Often of course it was associated with that incredibly long 14-year civil war, but for years ,Beirut has also been known as the real party destination for the Middle East. During the civil war, they actually held things called bombing parties, which was at where the bombs were raining down. Such was the character of the people in there, their determination to shrug⁷ it all off. They held parties where all of these bombings were taking place, now it’s a huge center for global tourism, a huge center for global party. And whatever it is, whatever you like, it’s the place to be apparently⁸.

Ok, now it has been launched, we are talking about the game of the century, let the price war begin.
-Well, first of all, the trailer for the game is just seriously cool, if I actually had an X-box, I will be going out and buying it. But astonishingly, ￡54.99 is the RRP(Recommended Retail⁹ Price). We've got shops like Sainsbury's selling it for 26 Pounds, it reminds me of the Dan Brown book when it came out . The challenge wasn't to buy the book, the challenge was to find the book at the full price, you know, could you actually find it somewhere where they sell it at the RRP. Exactly the same as this and they are predicting phenomenal sales, Sainsbury's alone expected to shift 120,000 units, incredible figures.
 

1 glamour   

n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住

参考例句：

• Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
• The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

2 doling   

救济物( dole的现在分词 )； 失业救济金

参考例句：

• "What are you doling?'she once demanded over the intercom. 有一次他母亲通过对讲机问他：“你在干什么？ 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
• Many scrollbars are quite parsimonious in doling out information to users. 很多滚动条都很吝啬，给用户传递的信息太少。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

3 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

4 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

5 naval   

adj.海军的，军舰的，船的

参考例句：

• He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
• The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。

6 glamorous   

adj.富有魅力的；美丽动人的；令人向往的

参考例句：

• The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊，但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
• It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差，并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。

7 shrug   

v.耸肩(表示怀疑、冷漠、不知等)

参考例句：

• With a shrug,he went out of the room.他耸一下肩，走出了房间。
• I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.我很佩服她能对错误的批评意见不予理会。

8 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

9 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。