英语听力：奥普拉：脱口秀女王-1

 I used to speak in the church all the time and the sisters in the front row fanning themselves would say to my grandmother, "Hattie Mae, this child sure can talk." So if those sisters were alive today, well they’d be shocked because I'm still talking.

 

I don't come to any of this without an acknowledgement of where I've come from, and I know it is no small thing to be a former colored girl, negro¹, black, now African-American in the United States of America with a media forum² that is in the homes of millions of people in the United States and throughout the world. I did not take that lightly, and to this day, I don't take that lightly.

 

A group of workers staged demonstration³ on Capitol Hill this week. 

 

Check this out!

 

Metro⁴ department of parks and recreation.

 

All the employees here are working overtime⁵.

 

What's your reaction to all of this first of all?

 

I had been doing news since I was 19 years old in Nashville, and I've done every local story there is to do. This is the days where you took your own camera and you shot footage with a Bell and Howell, and came back and edited⁶ it, and wrote the story, covered every octogenarian's birthday, every hundred's birthday. I did all the people's stories which really were harder to do than hard news.

 

Did you get a good feeling deep down inside knowing you're gonna make somebody happy?

 

Because you're starting from nothing, you're starting from you going to a birthday party for a 104-year-old, Mrs. Mims, and there is nothing there, but Mrs. Mims’ family and a bad cake. So I had done every kind of story and covered hard news as well, and always felt that it was not the right place for me. But I had my father's voice in my ear: you know, constantly, well you are making 22,000 dollars and you're 22. I don't know what else you want in the world. You'd better save half your money because you're not gonna make that kind of money forever.

 

When I, you know, moved to Baltimore--I got the opportunity to move to Baltimore--I had the misfortune⁷ to be paired with an anchorman, who didn’t want a young black co-anchor. He didn't want a co-anchor at all and certainly didn't want a young female⁸ one. It was a very difficult position for me to be in, very difficult. I didn't even know how bad it was. Because I thought they wanted me there since they hired me.

 

They said there is no chance that the strike is spreading to Maryland.

 

I got a huge demotion, huge demotion, I was doing the six o'clock news and they placed me on the new local talk show that was starting, called "People Are Talking".

1 Negro   

n./adj.黑人；黑人的

参考例句：

• It's impolite to call the black people Negro.称呼黑人为Negro是不礼貌的。
• He was the first Negro ever to enroll there.他是学院招收的第一个黑人学生。

2 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

3 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

4 metro   

n.地铁；adj.大都市的；(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国，主要经营零售)

参考例句：

• Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗？
• The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。

5 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。

6 edited   

编辑( edit的过去式和过去分词 )； 剪辑（电影、录音磁带、无线电或电视节目、书等）； 主编（报纸、杂志等）

参考例句：

• I know that this draft text will need to be edited. 我知道这篇草稿需要校订。
• All references to the scandal were edited out of the tape. 所有涉及这件丑闻的内容都从录音带中删去了。

7 misfortune   

n.不幸，厄运，逆境，不幸事故，灾难

参考例句：

• It is said to be an omen of misfortune.那被认为是一种不幸的先兆。
• She had the misfortune to break her leg.她不幸摔断了腿。

8 female   

adj.雌的，女(性)的；n.雌性的动物，女子

参考例句：

• We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
• The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。