英语听力：奥普拉：脱口秀女王-8

 We do a show based on somebody's mother.

 

You know, my mother said she saw ,and we’d end up doing it.

 

Who has comments about the stories they just heard? Raise your hand.

 

We go to beauty shops where we all, you know, got our hair done and got your nails done and whatever. It is instinctive¹ and organic from the very beginning.

 

Oprah Winfrey now dominates the talk show circuit, both in the ratings and popularity.

 

I never had any doubt once we made the decision to be syndicated that they would work. Never. What's shocked to me is how much money you can make. I remember the very first time I got a million dollars. I was like sitting around, photographed, like oh my god, this is amazing. They are gonna give it to you ahead of time. So Gale² and I were taking pictures, running around my apartment with it.

 

Seven, six, five, four, three, applause.

 

I never did it for the money. I never did it for the money. I was always doing it to prove myself, to grow myself, and to see how far I could be stretched.

 

No, no, no, no, no, no...This is a welfare system that you’re airing, and people are on because there are just more of you.

 

No. You breed more. You took over, you took over Chicago in 20 years. You took over Chicago with whole 65 years, Chicago was proved mainly white, 20%. In 20 years, you're 80% black. So you have to be breeding, man! You have to be breeding, very well.

 

Let me tell you this. I haven't bred one person, not one, not one.

 

When you're 12 and 13 years old, you don't know what you want. And if you are in a family where you trust your father, you love your father, you love your mother, and you want to be loved and trusted, you have no idea when you're put in bed to have sex with your father, the consequences. Do you understand that, Mr. Eliot? Do you...do you understand that's you are a slime?  ''Wait,Wait a moment,what's say...."

 

Any idea, any topic, any kind of experience that you wanted to have, you could create, you could just create it for yourself. It was amazing.

 

Let's meet them, the Husbands of the Year.

 

We flew them to Chicago. And the story hit the news when women stormed the airport to get first dibs on their Alaskan men. 

 

Ok, Oprah, I need to practice this. I don't have my contacts on. So I need to rely on integrity and honesty at this point. I really need that from young ladies, so who would like to step forward and...

 

Just any, old buddy³!

1 instinctive   

adj.(出于)本能的；直觉的；(出于)天性的

参考例句：

• He tried to conceal his instinctive revulsion at the idea.他试图饰盖自己对这一想法本能的厌恶。
• Animals have an instinctive fear of fire.动物本能地怕火。

2 gale   

n.大风，强风，一阵闹声（尤指笑声等）

参考例句：

• We got our roof blown off in the gale last night.昨夜的大风把我们的房顶给掀掉了。
• According to the weather forecast,there will be a gale tomorrow.据气象台预报，明天有大风。

3 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！