NPR边听边练31:奥斯卡颁奖周末,洛杉矶也疯狂

 　　【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。

　　精听建议：

　　先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

　　下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？

　　（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）

　　On Sunday in L.A., you're either at the show, at the parties or at home watching. I'm talking about the Academy Awards. This is a company town that virtually shuts down on Oscar night. Actually, the whole weekend will be a blur¹ of Oscar craziness, and here to talk about that is Allison Hope Weiner. She's been covering Hollywood for a long time and writing for publications like Entertainment Weekly and the New York Times. And welcome to the program.

　　"Thanks. ___1___" Now you've lived here for a long long time, and you've been in the scene for a long time. What is it like here on the weekend? ___2___ "You can't move anywhere. I assume it's ___3___ I gets in New York when the president comes downtown. They've already ___4___ Hollywood. Everybody is scrambling² to try to get into parties. Anyone who's gonna get in anywhere is already in. So if their... if they haven't been invited somewhere, it's probably best to pretend like you'll leave and tend business, or, you know, turn all your lights up, sort of like people'll come trick-or-treat in your aid of candy. That kind of situation. So it's pretty crazy." And also, you have to be invited to the right parties. "Yes. There're some parties that are just the in parties. And a lot of people know that would be ___5___, which is actually cutting. It's gasless to shear³. And it's greatly... completely pandemonium⁴."

　　1. Nice to be here.

　　2. Tell us what it's like.

　　3. sort of like

　　4. roped up

　　5 vanity fair

1 blur   

n.模糊不清的事物；vt.使模糊，使看不清楚

参考例句：

• The houses appeared as a blur in the mist.房子在薄雾中隐隐约约看不清。
• If you move your eyes and your head,the picture will blur.如果你的眼睛或头动了，图像就会变得模糊不清。

2 scrambling   

v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Scrambling up her hair, she darted out of the house. 她匆忙扎起头发，冲出房去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• She is scrambling eggs. 她正在炒蛋。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 shear   

n.修剪，剪下的东西，羊的一岁；vt.剪掉，割，剥夺；vi.修剪，切割，剥夺，穿越

参考例句：

• Every spring they shear off the sheep's wool and sell it.每年春天他们都要剪下羊毛去卖。
• In the Hebrides they shear their sheep later than anywhere else.在赫伯里兹，剪羊毛的时间比其他任何地方都要晚。

4 pandemonium   

n.喧嚣，大混乱

参考例句：

• The whole lobby was a perfect pandemonium,and the din was terrific.整个门厅一片嘈杂，而且喧嚣刺耳。
• I had found Adlai unperturbed in the midst of pandemonium.我觉得艾德莱在一片大混乱中仍然镇定自若。