美国国家公共电台 NPR Something Fishy

 

OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: 

Now it's time to crown our big winner. Let's bring back our finalists, Mary, who was an intern¹ at America's Test Kitchen and ate a lot of beef tenderloin and Owen, a park ranger² who saved a possum. Puzzle guru Art Chung, take it away.

ART CHUNG: Thanks, Ophira. Mary and Owen, your final round is called Something Fishy³. Every answer will contain a form of marine⁴ life. So for example, if I said, it's a piece of sports footwear used in ice hockey, you'd answer skate. We're playing this round like a penalty shoot-out. You'll each get up to eight questions. The contestant⁵ who scores the most points will be our big winner. And your prize is an ASK ME ANOTHER Rubik's Cube. We flipped⁶ a coin and Mary is going first. Remember, every answer contains a form of marine life.

Here we go. Mary, a movie and MTV show that confronts people who pretend to be someone they're not on the internet.

MARY BUCKLIN: "Catfish⁷."

CHUNG: Correct.

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CHUNG: Owen, Beatles song that opens with the line I am he as you are he as you are me.

OWEN MOORHEAD: "I Am The Walrus⁸."

CHUNG: You got it.

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CHUNG: Mary, she's the celebrity⁹ chef who hosted "30 Minute Meals" and who still has her own daytime talk show.

BUCKLIN: Rachael Ray.

CHUNG: Ray is the marine life. That's right.

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CHUNG: Owen, a 1986 film where Australian Paul Hogan said, now, that's a knife.

MOORHEAD: "Crocodile Dundee."

CHUNG: That's correct.

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CHUNG: Mary, DeMet's Candy Company owns the brand name for this confection made with chocolate, caramel and nuts.

BUCKLIN: Snickers?

CHUNG: No, I'm sorry, we were looking for Turtles.

BUCKLIN: Oh, yeah.

CHUNG: DeMet's Turtles, yeah.

BUCKLIN: I can't believe I missed a food question.

CHUNG: (Laughter) Owen, it's a verb that means to melt rock to extract the metal inside.

MOORHEAD: Oh, an eel¹⁰?

CHUNG: No, I'm sorry, we were looking for smelt¹¹.

MOORHEAD: Oh.

CHUNG: Mary, who starred as the gone girl in a 2014 film "Gone Girl?"

BUCKLIN: Oh, my goodness, what is her name? Rosamund Pike?

CHUNG: That's right.

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CHUNG: Well done. Owen, it's the only NFL team to ever have a perfect season with 17 wins, zero losses and zero ties.

MOORHEAD: Oh, the Seahawks?

CHUNG: We're looking for the Miami Dolphins.

MOORHEAD: Got you.

CHUNG: At the halfway¹² point, the score is now 3 to 2. Mary's in the lead. Mary, it's a common lawn weed scientifically known as Digitaria.

BUCKLIN: Crabgrass?

CHUNG: That's right.

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CHUNG: Owen, they're small usually hexagonal wafers served with soups and chowders.

MOORHEAD: Oyster¹³ crackers¹⁴.

CHUNG: That's right.

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CHUNG: Mary, it's a popular brand of heavy duty smartphone and tablet cases.

BUCKLIN: Oh, OtterBox?

CHUNG: That's right.

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CHUNG: Owen, it's a 2001 movie about computer hackers¹⁵ starring John Travolta and Halle Berry.

MOORHEAD: "Swordfish."

CHUNG: That's correct.

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CHUNG: Mary, it's a song by the band Heart where you burn, burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick.

BUCKLIN: (Laughter) Oh, my goodness, I don't know. "Rock Lobster¹⁶."

CHUNG: Also great guess. No, we're looking for "Barracuda."

BUCKLIN: Oh, yeah.

CHUNG: Owen, it's casino lingo¹⁷ for a gambler who bets lots of money.

MOORHEAD: Oh, a shark.

CHUNG: Owen, that was close. A shark is a professional gambler who chases after bad players like fish. But a whale specifically is someone who bets a lot of money.

MOORHEAD: Oh.

CHUNG: All right, we're onto the last question. Mary's in the lead 5 to 4. Mary, if you get this right, you win. A Batman villain¹⁸ once portrayed¹⁹ by Danny DeVito.

BUCKLIN: The Penguin²⁰.

CHUNG: That's right.

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CHUNG: Congratulations, you're our big winner.

BUCKLIN: Yay.

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EISENBERG: Congratulations, Mary. That's our show. ASK ME ANOTHER's puzzle guru is Art Chung.

CHUNG: Hey, my name anagrams to narc thug.

EISENBERG: Our house musician is Jonathan Coulton.

JONATHAN COULTON: Thou jolt²¹ a cannon²².

EISENBERG: Our puzzles were written by Jonathan Bayliss (ph), Matt Foster (ph), Danielle Thompson (ph) and senior writer Jay Keith Van Stratten (ph). ASK ME ANOTHER is produced by Mike Katzif, Travis Larchuk, Julia Melfi, Danny Shin, Rommel Wood and our intern Camila Salazar, along with Steve Nelson (ph) and Anya Grundmann. ASK ME ANOTHER was created by Eric Nuzum and Jesse Baker²³. We'd like to thank our production partner WNYC. And next week, we'll be back at The Bell House. I'm her ripe begonias.

CHUNG: Ophira Eisenberg.

EISENBERG: And this was ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR.

1 intern   

v.拘禁，软禁；n.实习生

参考例句：

• I worked as an intern in that firm last summer.去年夏天我在那家商行实习。
• The intern bandaged the cut as the nurse looked on.这位实习生在护士的照看下给病人包扎伤口。

2 ranger   

n.国家公园管理员，护林员；骑兵巡逻队员

参考例句：

• He was the head ranger of the national park.他曾是国家公园的首席看守员。
• He loved working as a ranger.他喜欢做护林人。

3 fishy   

adj. 值得怀疑的

参考例句：

• It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
• There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。

4 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

5 contestant   

n.竞争者，参加竞赛者

参考例句：

• The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
• The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。

6 flipped   

轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥

参考例句：

• The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
• The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。

7 catfish   

n.鲶鱼

参考例句：

• Huge catfish are skinned and dressed by hand.用手剥去巨鲇的皮并剖洗干净。
• We gigged for catfish off the pier.我们在码头以鱼叉叉鲶鱼。

8 walrus   

n.海象

参考例句：

• He is the queer old duck with the knee-length gaiters and walrus mustache.他穿着高及膝盖的皮护腿，留着海象般的八字胡，真是个古怪的老家伙。
• He seemed hardly to notice the big walrus.他几乎没有注意到那只大海象。

9 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。

10 eel   

n.鳗鲡

参考例句：

• He used an eel spear to catch an eel.他用一只捕鳗叉捕鳗鱼。
• In Suzhou,there was a restaurant that specialized in eel noodles.苏州有一家饭馆，他们那里的招牌菜是鳗鱼面。

11 smelt   

v.熔解，熔炼；n.银白鱼，胡瓜鱼

参考例句：

• Tin is a comparatively easy metal to smelt.锡是比较容易熔化的金属。
• Darby was looking for a way to improve iron when he hit upon the idea of smelting it with coke instead of charcoal.达比一直在寻找改善铁质的方法，他猛然想到可以不用木炭熔炼，而改用焦炭。

12 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

13 oyster   

n.牡蛎；沉默寡言的人

参考例句：

• I enjoy eating oyster; it's really delicious.我喜欢吃牡蛎，它味道真美。
• I find I fairly like eating when he finally persuades me to taste the oyster.当他最后说服我尝尝牡蛎时，我发现我相当喜欢吃。

14 crackers   

adj.精神错乱的，癫狂的n.爆竹( cracker的名词复数 )；薄脆饼干；（认为）十分愉快的事；迷人的姑娘

参考例句：

• That noise is driving me crackers. 那噪声闹得我简直要疯了。
• We served some crackers and cheese as an appetiser. 我们上了些饼干和奶酪作为开胃品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

15 hackers   

n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”

参考例句：

• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网

16 lobster   

n.龙虾，龙虾肉

参考例句：

• The lobster is a shellfish.龙虾是水生贝壳动物。
• I like lobster but it does not like me.我喜欢吃龙虾，但它不适宜于我的健康。

17 lingo   

n.语言不知所云，外国话，隐语

参考例句：

• If you live abroad it helps to know the local lingo.住在国外，学一点当地的语言自有好处。
• Don't use all that technical lingo try and explain in plain English.别尽用那种专门术语，用普通的词语解释吧。

18 villain   

n.反派演员，反面人物；恶棍；问题的起因

参考例句：

• He was cast as the villain in the play.他在戏里扮演反面角色。
• The man who played the villain acted very well.扮演恶棍的那个男演员演得很好。

19 portrayed   

v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 )；描述；描绘；描画

参考例句：

• Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中，他始终把自己说成是受害者。
• The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

20 penguin   

n.企鹅

参考例句：

• The penguin is a flightless bird.企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟。
• He walked with an awkward gait like a penguin.他走路的步子难看得就像企鹅。

21 jolt   

v.（使）摇动，（使）震动，（使）颠簸

参考例句：

• We were worried that one tiny jolt could worsen her injuries.我们担心稍微颠簸一下就可能会使她的伤势恶化。
• They were working frantically in the fear that an aftershock would jolt the house again.他们拼命地干着，担心余震可能会使房子再次受到震动。

22 cannon   

n.大炮，火炮；飞机上的机关炮

参考例句：

• The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
• The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。

23 baker   

n.面包师

参考例句：

• The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
• The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。