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    Who Wants to be a Millionaire

    What a jackpot(1) and here’s how it sounded on ABC’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as Kevin Olmstead, a forty-two year-old environmental engineer, from Ann Arbor of Michigan was given this question.

    Host: Who is credited with inventing the first mass-produced helicopter?

    Olmstead: I know this. It was the Sikorsky helicopter. My final answer.

    Host: Just won two million.

    That’s $2,180,000, the richest prize ever awarded by an American game show. I told Olmstead in a later interview, it must have been pretty mind-boggling.

    Olmstead: It is for me, yes, quite mind-boggling, like winning the lottery(2) , I suppose.
    Olmstead, a former Jeopardy【美国一游戏节目名】 champion is a co-founder(3) of a University of Michigan quiz bowl group.

    Olmstead: I’ve always been a sponge(4) for this sort of material; I hope that I won’t change in terms of personality. Maybe pick up a few more tabs【账单;费用】, maybe, I don’t know.

    By the way, Olmstead helped coach millionaires last million dollar winner and youngest 24-year-old David Goodman, and like Olmstead also a University of Michigan graduate.

    I’m a Bill Deal.


    听音瓶颈词汇

    1. jackpot[]n.头奖;累积奖金
    2. lottery [] n. 彩票
    3. co-founder [] n. 共同创办人
    4. sponge[]n.海绵;知识丰富的人

    听音高级短语

    mass-produced 大批量生产的
    mind-boggling 难以置信的
    in terms of 在…方面

    听音超级句型

    …is credited with…
    …被誉为…

    I’ve always been a sponge for …
    我总是比较擅长/精通记忆…

    参考译文

    谁想成为百万富翁

    什么是头等大奖?让我们来听听来自密西根42岁的环境工程师Kevin Olmstead在ABC《谁想成为百万富翁》节目中是怎样面对这样一个问题的。
    主持人:第一架大规模生产的直升机是谁发明的?

    阿姆斯戴德:这个我知道,是西科斯基直升飞机,我的最后答案。

    你刚刚赢了两百万美圆!

    218万美圆,那是有史以来美国游戏类节目中最高的奖金。我在随后的一个采访中告诉阿姆斯戴德,这一定令你大吃一惊。

    阿姆斯戴德:是的,这对于我来说,确实令人难以置信,就像中了彩票一样。

    阿姆斯戴德是游戏节目Jeopardy的前任冠军,也是密西根大学quiz bowl的创办人。

    阿姆斯戴德:我比较擅长记忆这种类型的题目。我希望我的个性不会因此而改变。或许我会买很多东西,我自己也不知道。

    顺便提及的是阿姆斯戴德曾指导过上次获奖的百万富翁戴维•古德曼,他年仅24岁,是一位最年轻的获奖者,跟阿姆斯戴德一样,他也毕业于密西根大学。

    我是比尔•帝尔。

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