英伦广角 2011-05-28 奥普拉最后的演出

After a quarter of century on air, this was the surprising low key finale of ABC’s Oprah Winfrey show .
“This last hour is really about me saying Thank you.”
With 48 Emmy awards and an average audience in the final season of 6.4 million people ,perhaps this star of whole thing feel she had nothing left to prove. Using the opportunity instead to speak with some emotion directly to her viewers.
“You and the show have been the great love of my life.”
Oprah pioneered the confessional TV talk show format¹, revealing the personal details of her own life to the audience.
“I have lost as of this morning 67 pounds since july 7.”
It was the formula and atmosphere that helped others to let go and do the same.
“Im in love.”
Thought however intimate the style ,her show became a culture phenomenon, her sofa was the destination for big name interviews and even bigger audience gave away.
“Every single one of you desperately² needs a brand new car!”
For one US Television legend Oprah’s popularity is driven by a single key skill.
There are a lot glass in TV ,the lens has glass the screen has glass ,glass is a very thick hard thing to penetrate³ with you know the personality and She just goes right through it.
The young girl grew up in rural Mississippi without a TV is now a media mogo thought be worth around 2 billion pounds ranked as the third most powerful woman in the world by Fobes magazine last year. The First lady of US TV isn’t hanging up her microphone just yet. She has ended her show to concentrate on building up her very own cable channel the Oprah Winfrey netwrok.
“I won’t say goodbye , I will just say until we meet again.”

1 format   

n.设计，版式；[计算机]格式，DOS命令:格式化(磁盘)，用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据；v.使格式化，设计，安排

参考例句：

• Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
• The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。

2 desperately   

adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地

参考例句：

• He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
• He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。

3 penetrate   

v.透(渗)入；刺入，刺穿；洞察，了解

参考例句：

• Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.西方观念逐渐传入东方。
• The sunshine could not penetrate where the trees were thickest.阳光不能透入树木最浓密的地方。