美国国家公共电台 NPR Who You Gonna Call?

Who You Gonna Call?

OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

Let's meet our next two contestants². First up, Josh Polenberg. You're a grant manager at Pfizer and you're obsessed³ with board games.

JOSH POLENBERG: I am...

EISENBERG: ...Obsessed. OK, what is a board game that none of us have heard of, some obscure board game that we have to play?

POLENBERG: Power Grid⁴.

EISENBERG: Power Grid.

POLENBERG: Power Grid is amazing.

EISENBERG: OK, that sounds a little too real. What happens in Power Grid? There's a blackout.

(LAUGHTER)

POLENBERG: You have to buy power stations and then buy cities to put the power stations in and then power them to get more money to buy more power stations to power more cities.

EISENBERG: Is it called Con¹ Ed? Like, what is this game? Your opponent is Joey Gutmann, who apparently⁵ says that your competitive nature led you to a job as a federal litigator.

JOEY GUTMANN: That's true.

EISENBERG: Now, you are no stranger to the game show circuit. You've been on "Jeopardy," "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," but also - and most notably⁶ - a hot dog eating contest.

(LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE)

GUTMANN: The most important by far.

EISENBERG: How did you do?

GUTMANN: I won.

EISENBERG: You won the hot dog eating - how many hot dogs?

GUTMANN: It was very informal. It was - we were camp counselors⁷ and we wanted to keep the kids entertained. There were eight and a half hotdogs without buns.

EISENBERG: How did you feel the rest of the day?

GUTMANN: Not great.

EISENBERG: (Laughter) OK, very good. OK, remember, Josh and Joey, the first of you who wins two of our games is going to move on to battle our earlier winner, Mary, in the final round at the end of the show. And your first challenge is a music parody⁸ game called Who You Going to Call? Josh, when you're in trouble, when you need help, who do you call?

POLENBERG: Google.

EISENBERG: Google.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Joey, how about you? Who do you call when you need help?

GUTMANN: My wife.

EISENBERG: Aw, yeah? And what does she say?

GUTMANN: Stop it.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: OK, so we are going to do the most dangerous thing we've ever done on this show. We are going to do a parody of "Ghostbusters."

JONATHAN COULTON: That's right. We took the "Ghostbusters" theme song and rewrote it to be about other things that end with buster or busters, such as gangbusters or bunker busters, two examples of things that end in busters.

EISENBERG: (Laughter).

COULTON: Buzz in to answer. And the winner will be one step closer to the final round, and the loser will be forced to listen to a redditor mansplain (ph) how the all-female "Ghostbusters" reboot ruined his childhood.

(LAUGHTER)

COULTON: Here we go. (Playing guitar, singing) There was something blue where you rented flicks⁹. Who you going to call?

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Joey.

GUTMANN: Blockbuster.

COULTON: That's right. Blockbuster is correct.

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: (Playing guitar, singing) If you're stalling things on the Congress floor, who you gonna call?

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Joey.

GUTMANN: Filibuster¹⁰.

COULTON: That's right.

EISENBERG: Nice.

GUTMANN: I apologize so much for the singing.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: OK, here's a terrible joke I wrote - what's the difference between a ghost and a congressman¹¹?

COULTON: I don't know.

EISENBERG: Ghosts show up.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Wait, ghosts are transparent¹². What do you think of that one?

COULTON: Oh, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. (Playing guitar) I ain't afraid of no dirt 'cause I have a hand-held vacuum cleaner.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Josh.

POLENBERG: Dustbuster.

COULTON: That's right.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: The look on both of their faces at the end of...

COULTON: ...Are you kidding me? That's all we get?

EISENBERG: (Laughter) That's the clue?

COULTON: (Playing guitar, singing) Roosevelt and Taft grab the Sherman Act. Who you going to call?

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Joey.

GUTMANN: Trust busters.

COULTON: That's right.

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: (Playing guitar, singing) If you want some deals on Black Friday, who you going to call?

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Josh.

POLENBERG: Doorbusters.

COULTON: Yeah, you got it.

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: (Playing guitar, singing) I ain't afraid of bar food. I hear you like skee ball. I ain't afraid of arcades¹³. Chain restaurant.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Joey.

GUTMANN: Dave and Buster's.

COULTON: You got it.

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: (Playing guitar, singing) An impossible claim TV show de-bunks. Who you going to call?

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Joey.

GUTMANN: "Mythbusters."

COULTON: That's right.

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: Art Chung, how did our contestants do?

ART CHUNG: They both did great. Joey, congratulations, you're one step closer to moving on to our final round.

(APPLAUSE)

1 con   

n.反对的观点，反对者，反对票，肺病；vt.精读，学习，默记；adv.反对地，从反面；adj.欺诈的

参考例句：

• We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
• The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票，协议被通过。

2 contestants   

n.竞争者，参赛者( contestant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing 8 different countries. 这次比赛吸引了代表8个不同国家的500多名参赛者。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 obsessed   

adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的

参考例句：

• He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
• The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。

4 grid   

n.高压输电线路网；地图坐标方格；格栅

参考例句：

• In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
• Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。

5 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

6 notably   

adv.值得注意地，显著地，尤其地，特别地

参考例句：

• Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。
• A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小，一头银发，每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。

7 counselors   

n.顾问( counselor的名词复数 )；律师；（使馆等的）参赞；（协助学生解决问题的）指导老师

参考例句：

• Counselors began an inquiry into industrial needs. 顾问们开始调查工业方面的需要。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• We have experienced counselors available day and night. ) 这里有经验的法律顾问全天候值班。） 来自超越目标英语 第4册

8 parody   

n.打油诗文，诙谐的改编诗文，拙劣的模仿；v.拙劣模仿，作模仿诗文

参考例句：

• The parody was just a form of teasing.那个拙劣的模仿只是一种揶揄。
• North Korea looks like a grotesque parody of Mao's centrally controlled China,precisely the sort of system that Beijing has left behind.朝鲜看上去像是毛时代中央集权的中国的怪诞模仿，其体制恰恰是北京方面已经抛弃的。

9 flicks   

（尤指用手指或手快速地）轻击( flick的第三人称单数 )； （用…）轻挥； （快速地）按开关； 向…笑了一下（或瞥了一眼等）

参考例句：

• 'I shall see it on the flicks, I suppose.' “电影上总归看得见。” 来自英汉文学
• Last night to the flicks. 昨晚看了场电影。 来自英汉文学

10 filibuster   

n.妨碍议事，阻挠；v.阻挠

参考例句：

• A senator dragged the subject in as a filibuster.一个参议员硬把这个题目拉扯进来，作为一种阻碍议事的手法。
• The democrats organized a filibuster in the senate.民主党党员在参议院上组织了阻挠议事。

11 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

12 transparent   

adj.明显的，无疑的；透明的

参考例句：

• The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明，可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
• The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。

13 arcades   

n.商场( arcade的名词复数 )；拱形走道（两旁有商店或娱乐设施）；连拱廊；拱形建筑物

参考例句：

• Clothes are on sale in several shopping arcades these days. 近日一些服装店的服装正在大减价。 来自轻松英语会话---联想4000词(下)
• The Plaza Mayor, with its galleries and arcades, is particularly impressive. 市长大厦以其别具风格的走廊和拱廊给人留下十分深刻的印象。 来自互联网