英语听力：奥普拉：脱口秀女王-9

 It was fun. It was thrilling. You could invite anybody you wanted in the world to come on your show and sit and talk to you. Didn't mean they come, but a whole world and myriad¹ of people did.

 

Do you know how long your tongue is, I hear that it’s, usual it's longer than most.

 

Yeah, it’s long enough to make you my very closest friend

 

I think excitement is a very important thing in a person’s life. You know, getting out and doing things and.. when you get bogged² down.

 

What gets you excited?

 

My initial³, dream for myself of being able to stretch out, stretch out of myself and create work that would touch people’s lives, became true.

 

There’s one thread running through each show we do. It is the message that you, you are not alone.

 

It was unbelievable, and to this day still think it is.

 

What a blessing⁴, what a gift, what a ...one of the greatest opportunities any living human being has ever held is the opportunity to have done the show for 20 years every day to step into people’s homes in their bathrooms, in their kitchens, in their family rooms, in their bedrooms, in their closets and to be welcomed and embraced, and to feel like you’re part of people’s lives. I don’t know of another living human being who has had that as an opportunity and who has appreciated it more than I have, I don’t know, because every single day of my life, I get in the elevator, I go downstairs, I think about what that is. I think it is a, it is a privilege to have this as your work, as your work, as to say, that you can use your voice and your voice isn’t just what comes out of your mouth but it is what comes from the interior⁵ of your soul to speak to people in a way that allows them to see the best of themselves, and for that I am eternally⁶ grateful.

 

1 myriad   

adj.无数的；n.无数，极大数量

参考例句：

• They offered no solution for all our myriad problems.对于我们数不清的问题他们束手无策。
• I had three weeks to make a myriad of arrangements.我花了三个星期做大量准备工作。

2 bogged   

adj.陷于泥沼的v.（使）陷入泥沼， （使）陷入困境( bog的过去式和过去分词 )；妨碍，阻碍

参考例句：

• The professor bogged down in the middle of his speech. 教授的演讲只说了一半便讲不下去了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• The tractor is bogged down in the mud. 拖拉机陷入了泥沼。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 initial   

adj.最初的，开始的，词首的；n.首字母，姓名的开头字母；vt.标注姓名的首字母于

参考例句：

• After she'd overcome her initial shyness,she became very friendly.她克服了起初的羞怯之后，变得十分友善。
• The experiments have given initial results eventually.那些试验总算初见成效了。

4 blessing   

n.祈神赐福；祷告；祝福，祝愿

参考例句：

• The blessing was said in Hebrew.祷告用了希伯来语。
• A double blessing has descended upon the house.双喜临门。

5 interior   

adj.在内的，内部的，内地的，国内的；n.内部

参考例句：

• There is water in the interior of the cave.在山洞的内部有水。
• They went into the interior room.他们进了内室。

6 eternally   

adv. 不朽地, 永久地

参考例句：

• I'm eternally grateful that we managed to go there before the war. 我们设法在战争爆发前到了那里，我对此永生感恩。
• Only Janet, eternally hopeful, thought it was worth trying again. 只有永远满怀希望的珍妮特认为值得再试一次。