英闻天下——307 Spring Festival TV Gala Faces Heated Debate

 　　Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, is the most important public holiday for the Chinese people.

 

　　On New Year's Eve, families have the tradition of staying up late into the night.

 

　　Ever since 1983, the Chinese have added watching the Spring Festival TV gala to their list of traditions.

 

　　But no Spring Festival TV gala has faced such heated debate as this year's.

 

　　Zha Mao Tu Zi says on weibo.com,

 

　　A huge generation gap is reflected by this year's Spring Festival TV gala! I watched it together with my parents and grandparents. While I was high on those jokes, my parents and grandparents saw nothing funny at all! They thought this year's TV gala was completely tasteless. And the weirdest¹ part is - I don't know how to explain to them why those jokes are so funny!

 

　　He Cai Tou says on blog.sina.com,

 

　　As a post-1980's, I like this year's Spring Festival gala so much! It follows tightly on the taste of the younger generation. Lots of hot topics on the internet also got reflected in the TV gala of this year.

 

　　But media commentator² Wu Tianxu shows his disagreement on yangtse.com,

 

　　This year's Spring Festival TV gala is full of "heavy taste" elements like the homosexual jokes and slang which can only be understood by the younger generation. Older people cannot catch their points at all. And the social phenomena³ reflected by these jokes cannot be easily accepted by them either. As a TV gala watched by audiences of all age groups, it shouldn't only follow the interest of the youth.

 

　　Playwright⁴ Shu Huan contributes his point of view on cqnews.net,

 

　　The most loyal fans of the CCTV Spring Festival gala are those above 40 years old. People at a younger age have more diversified⁵ means to consume their New Year's Eve, not necessarily by watching the TV gala. Organizers of Spring Festival gala should lay their emphasis on attracting the attention of people belonging to this age group rather than the younger generation.

 

　　Panda Miki writes on blog.ifeng.com,

 

　　It's true that this year's Spring Festival gala hit hot issues on microblogs and became a carnival⁶ for Chinese netizens. But we shouldn't forget hot issues on the internet don't necessarily equal to hot issues in society. Not all Chinese people are netizens, and even fewer of them have their own microblogs.

 

　　Directors of the Spring Festival gala should take a wider field of vision in deciding the content of shows on the TV gala.

1 weirdest   

怪诞的( weird的最高级 )； 神秘而可怕的； 超然的； 古怪的

参考例句：

• Think of the weirdest, craziest shit you'd like to see chicks do. 想想这最怪异，最疯狂的屁事。你会喜欢看这些鸡巴表演的。
• It's still the weirdest damn sound I ever heard out of a Jersey boy. 这是我所听过新泽西人最为怪异的音调了。

2 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。

3 phenomena   

n.现象

参考例句：

• Ade couldn't relate the phenomena with any theory he knew.艾德无法用他所知道的任何理论来解释这种现象。
• The object of these experiments was to find the connection,if any,between the two phenomena.这些实验的目的就是探索这两种现象之间的联系，如果存在着任何联系的话。

4 playwright   

n.剧作家，编写剧本的人

参考例句：

• Gwyn Thomas was a famous playwright.格温·托马斯是著名的剧作家。
• The playwright was slaughtered by the press.这位剧作家受到新闻界的无情批判。

5 diversified   

adj.多样化的，多种经营的v.使多样化，多样化( diversify的过去式和过去分词 )；进入新的商业领域

参考例句：

• The college biology department has diversified by adding new courses in biotechnology. 该学院生物系通过增加生物技术方面的新课程而变得多样化。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Take grain as the key link, develop a diversified economy and ensure an all-round development. 以粮为纲，多种经营，全面发展。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 carnival   

n.嘉年华会，狂欢，狂欢节，巡回表演

参考例句：

• I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
• Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。