【英语时差8,16】麦克和亚曼达正在聊电视节目

Mike: Did you see "Friends" last night? I was falling out of my chair laughing!

Amanda: No, I'm not really into sitcoms¹. Besides, all the episodes² of "Friends" are just reruns now. I've been watching "Bai Quan Nu Wang." I just loooove the leading actor in it! He's so cute!

Mike: Yuck! I hate romance³. That show sounds like a soap opera to me.

Amanda: Come on, it's definitely not that. The acting⁴ in soap operas is so bad, and they're way too sappy.

Mike: And the acting in your favorite show is better? Those stars might look great, but their acting is lousy.

Amanda: That's not true. They can be really funny sometimes, and they use plenty of expression. It is true that the actors' looks do help the romantic scenes a lot, though.

Mike: Dramas just aren't my thing, unless they're action dramas; then they're ok. But sitcoms are my favorite, and "Friends" is just an all-time hit. It did last ten seasons after all!

Amanda: That's too long, in my opinion. The Sunday night dramas have a set beginning and ending point instead of going on and on till people get tired of them. Though I'd never get tired of looking at my idol⁵!

1 sitcoms   

n.情景喜剧( sitcom的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This is the stuff most stadard TV sitcoms are made of. 这是大多数标注的电视幽默剧所采用的题材。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• In most countries, prime-time Monday night television is dominated by sitcoms. 在大多数国家，周一晚上的电视黄金时段都由连续剧所占据。 来自互联网

2 episodes   

插曲，片断( episode的名词复数 )； 一集

参考例句：

• The novel deals with the romantic episodes of her early life. 小说叙述了她早期生活的浪漫插曲。
• Three episodes have been telescoped into a single programme. 把叁集的内容压缩成了一个节目。

3 romance   

n.恋爱关系，浪漫气氛，爱情小说，传奇

参考例句：

• She wrote a romance about an artist's life in Tokyo.她写了一个关于一位艺术家在东京生活的浪漫故事。
• They tried to rekindle the flames of romance.他们试图重燃爱火。

4 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

5 idol   

n.偶像，红人，宠儿

参考例句：

• As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子，他是父母的宠儿。
• Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。