這波疫情宅在家
我像是讓自己放了假
剛才早安新聞還跟小路說感覺好像在過年
因為通常我只有春節假期會通宵追劇

來推薦好劇學英文啦，筆記大整理📒

蘋果原創自製的影集 The Morning Show
卡司超強，大咖飆戲就是好看
美國演員公會獎SAG最佳女主角
艾美獎最佳男配

因為自己週一到週五都在做直播新聞節目
看戲裡面跟新聞有關的討論特別有感
至於職場勾心鬥角，我真的就是看戲
因為我們團隊超級和諧，感恩的心

嚴格說起來
整齣戲以新聞為背景但重點不是新聞
而是 #MeToo
談性別與職場文化，多樣不扁平
如果喜歡女力議題值得一看
第二季正在拍了

劇本文筆很好，我覺得捕捉到新聞人（news people）講話用字精簡偏難的特點，很值得學進階對話英文

總之我覺得很好看，就一口氣把十小時看完了

跟你們分享我的筆記
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✏️實用口語
You can’t let it get to you. 不能中招
We need eyeballs. 眼球代表收視率

✏️漂亮表達法
He lit up the room. 讚美
He made everyone feel like family. 溫馨
Her comment has lit a fire in the debate nationwide. 生動
Were there any repercussions? 後續影響
Bring this one home. 好好完成，不是帶回家
This stays with us. 講膩 between you and me 可以用
We’re in this together. 同理心
Don’t annihilate yourself in the process just for the sake of pushing the buttons you’re not supposed to push. 很兇可是很帥，不要為求大膽而白目引火自焚/自毀前程
spit out your bones and some grizzle 把你啃噬殆盡
That ship is sailing as we speak. 木已成舟
A self-serving pile of shit 自私的人渣
I’m talking to you about you. 為了你好
go against the grain 違反常理
Keep your back to the wall without an opening and watch for sb 慎防小人
Don’t believe your own press. 不要自我陶醉
Don’t surround yourself with yes people. 很好的句子
Look your best 命令別人dress up
go unchecked 默許
I know where your skeletons are buried, my friend. 知道你不堪的秘密

✏️專業說法
especially in the 18-34 demo(demographic)
特別是18-34歲族群
hitting live numbers we haven’t seen in years
即時收視率達到近年高峰
And we’re out. Back in two minutes. 直播現場用語，簡單帥氣
mic sb. 別麥克風，動詞
sexual predator 性掠食者
Put sb’s head on a spike 斬首示眾

✏️進階口語詞彙
agency 自主權
insidiously 潛伏地
Incongruous 不一致/不和諧
sexual innuendo 性暗示
honor the rules 守規矩
culpable 有罪
complicity 共犯
corroborate 證實
fall guy 代罪羔羊
To lay a guilt trip 道德綁架，罪惡感勒索
car crash 災難現場，表示很悲劇
hit by a bus 表示很慘
quid pro quo 禮尚往來
oversized ego 自我膨脹
scintillating 耀眼精彩的
titillating 引人興奮的

✏️社交英文
Look who it is! It’s XXX. 熱絡感
There she is! Kelly Clarkson’s truth-teller. 引用別人講的話創造連結
Big, big day. 共襄盛舉
Nice scrub. I like it. 稱讚鬍子
I could use a favor. 需要你幫忙
When in Rome. 直接省略後半句，入境隨俗

✏️文化知識
crate training （狗狗的）籠子訓練
We all speak a little French. 法文借代髒話哈哈
royal we 皇室用we自居
Mazel tov! （猶太的）恭喜

✏️Quotes
How nice it is to be so comfortable with someone that you can just sit in silence and not have to talk. 真！

Desperation is not a strong position to make a big move.

People get their horrible news delivered to the palm of their hand 24/7, and they get it the way that they like it, colored the way that they want it. And news is awful, but humanity is addicted to it, and the whole world is depressed by it.

#EZTALK #你不知道的美國大小事
#redskin #football

🏈 The Washington Redskins
美國平權爭議燒向🔥美式足球：華盛頓紅皮隊隊名爭議

在進入文章之前，先來看幾個單字～✍
1. NFL「美式足球聯盟」：National Football League，是世界最大的職業美式足球聯盟，Super Bowl「超級盃」則是NFL的年度冠軍賽，一般在每年1月最後一個或2月第一個禮拜天舉行，當天也稱為Super Bowl Sunday，觀看超級盃足球賽可以說是全美運動。
2. criticism「批評」：當名詞，動詞為criticize
3. activist「社運人士」
4. settler「殖民者，開拓者」
5. negative「負面的」
6. stereotype「刻板印象」
7. offensive「冒犯的，歧視的」
8. poll「民意調查」
9. call on「呼籲，訴求」
10. merchandise「商品」

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If you’re a fan of American football, you’re sure to be familiar with the Washington Redskins. Since joining the NFL in the early 1930s, the Redskins have won two NFL Championships and three Super Bowls. Only five teams have appeared in more Super Bowls than the Redskins—the New England Patriots, Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos and San Francisco 49ers.
如果你是美式足球迷，想必對華盛頓紅皮隊不陌生。從1930年代初期加入美國職業美式足球聯盟NFL以來，紅皮隊已經拿下兩次NFL冠軍以及三次超級盃冠軍。目前只有五個球隊出現在超級盃的次數能超過紅皮隊──新英格蘭愛國者隊、達拉斯牛仔隊、匹茲堡鋼人隊、丹佛野馬隊，以及舊金山49人隊。

In recent years, however, the Redskins have come under increasing criticism. Although the Redskins’ last Super Bowl appearance was in 1992, this criticism isn’t about their performance on the field, but rather their name.
不過最近幾年，紅皮隊卻受到越來越多的批評聲浪。即使紅皮隊最近一次現身在超級盃已經是1992年的事情了，不過這個批評其實跟他們球場上的表現無關，而是跟他們的隊名有關。

Where does the term “redskin” come from? In the 18th century, French settlers in the Mississippi River Valley translated a word used by local Indians to refer to themselves into peau rouge. This was later translated into English as redskin, a term that was used for many years with no negative meaning, even by Indians themselves. But during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, American Indian activists began to feel that words like redskin promoted negative stereotypes about Native Americans.
「紅皮膚redskin」這個詞是怎麼來的？十八世紀移居到密西西比河流域的法國人，將當地印地安人用來自稱的字翻成peau rouge，這個法文詞後來翻成英文redskin「紅皮膚」，當時這個字並沒有任何負面含意，也這樣相安無事用了許多年，連印地安人自己也在用。不過，到一九六〇年代人權運動時期，美國印第安社運人士開始覺得，這個字會引起大家對美國原住民的負面刻板印象。

Today, most dictionaries define redskin as an offensive term, but it’s not that simple. A number of polls have shown that the majority of football fans, the general public, and even American Indians, don’t find the word redskin offensive. And Redskins owner Dan Snyder has said the name was chosen back in 1933 to honor Native Americans, including the head coach—who was part Sioux—and four of the team’s players.
如今，多數字典都將redskin這個字定義成歧視字眼，不過事情可沒這麼簡單。一連串針對美式足球觀眾、一般大眾、甚至對美國印地安人所做的民意調查顯示，他們並不覺得redskin這個字有歧視意味。而紅皮隊老闆丹施耐德也說了，這個隊名是他們在1933年為了表彰隊上的美國原住民隊員而選定的，包含身為蘇族的總教練以及其4名球員。

But following the police killing of George Floyd, a group of investors wrote letters to Redskins sponsors like FedEx, Nike and PepsiCo urging them to put pressure on the team to change its name. On July 2, FedEx publically called on the team to change its name, and Nike removed all Redskins merchandise from its website. The next day, the team announced that it would be reviewing its name, and on July 13 made an official statement that they would retire the Redskins name and logo.
然而，發生佛洛依德之死事件之後，一群投資人寫信給FedEx、Nike、百事可樂等紅皮隊的贊助商，希望他們對紅皮隊施加壓力更改隊名。7月2日，FedEx公開呼籲紅皮隊改名，Nike則是撤下官網上所有有紅皮隊隊徽的產品。隔日紅皮隊宣布會審慎檢討隊名，並在7月13日做出官方說明，表示他們會讓紅皮隊這個名字與隊徽走入歷史。
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#blacklivesmatter

The Statue Debate 美國拆除雕像事件

最近的黑人權利抗議已經延燒到拆除雕像上，本週美國大小事，跟你細數美國近年的拆除雕像事件。進入文章前，先來看看相關的單字～

1. Confederate「南方邦聯（的）」：指美國南北戰爭時期代表南方的南方邦聯政府。
2. monument「紀念碑」
3. honor「表彰」
4. slavery「奴隸制」：slave指「奴隸」。
5. relic「遺跡」
6. take down「拆除」：相似的動詞片語還有tear down, poll down。
7. Founding Father「美國開國元勳」：指對美國建國有重大意義的偉大人物，具體來說，就是簽署美國獨立宣言和美國憲法的政府領導人以及參與美國革命的領袖。
8. contribution「貢獻」

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing movement in the U.S. to remove monuments to Confederate soldiers and politicians from public places. Those who support removal believe that statues honoring Confederate figures, who fought against their own country to preserve slavery, shouldn’t be allowed to stand. Those who are against removal say that historic relics, even those that are symbols of a dark period in the country’s history, should remain as a reminder to future generations.
過去幾十年來，美國掀起了拆除南方邦聯軍人及政治人物雕像的運動，拆除雕像的運動也越演越烈。支持拆除的民眾認為，南方邦聯為了保留蓄奴制度而跟自己國家對抗，因此表彰南方邦的雕像不應該保存。反對拆除雕像的人則認為，這些具歷史意義的遺跡即使代表某個黑暗歷史，也應該保留下來，讓後世作為警惕。

The pace of statue removal began to increase around 2009, and reached a peak in 2017, when a total of 36 were taken down. That year, the mayors of both New Orleans and Baltimore had all of the Confederate statues in their cities removed. And since the police killing of George Floyd in May, 2020, a new wave of removals has begun.
拆除雕像活動大約在2009年開始增加，並在2017年達到高峰，那一年有36座雕像遭到拆除，而紐奧良與巴爾的摩市長雙雙將自家城市裡的南方邦聯雕像全數拆除。2020年5月發生警察殺死佛洛依德事件之後，新一波的拆除雕像活動又開始了。

Some of these actions have been legal. A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was removed from the Kentucky State Capitol on June 13, and a statue of slave-owning politician John C. Calhoun was taken away from a public square in Charleston, South Carolina on June 24.
有些拆除行動是合法的。如位於肯塔基州議會大廈的南方邦聯總統傑佛遜紀念雕像，便在6月13日拆除，又或是站立在南卡羅萊納州查爾斯頓市公共廣場上的蓄奴政客凱爾宏的雕像，也在6月24日拆除。

But in other cases, protestors have taken matters into their own hands. Protestors tore down a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in front of a high school in Montgomery, Alabama on June 1, toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia on June 10, and removed two statues from the North Carolina Confederate Monument in Raleigh on June 19.
不過，其他可就是由抗議者自己動手解決了。6月1日，阿拉巴馬州蒙哥馬利市一所高中前的南方邦聯將軍李羅伯特雕像遭到抗議者拆毀；6月10日，維吉尼亞州里奇蒙市的傑佛遜總統雕像遭推倒；6月19日，北卡羅納州羅利市南方邦聯紀念碑的兩座雕像也遭拆毀。

But protestors haven’t stopped at the removal of Confederate statues. On June 14, a group of demonstrators pulled down a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of a high school in Portland, Oregon. And several days later, in another part of Portland, a crowd gathered around a statue of George Washington, lit an American flag on his head, and then pulled it down with a rope.
不過，這些反對者沒有把拆除目標局限在南方邦聯雕像。6月14日，一群抗議者將奧勒岡州波特蘭一所中學前的湯瑪斯傑佛遜總統雕像拆毀。幾天之後，群眾聚集在波特蘭另一處的華盛頓總統雕像前，將一面美國國旗放在雕像頭上並點火，接著用繩子將雕像拉倒。

Why would anyone want to tear down statues of these two Founding Fathers? Despite their many contributions to America’s founding, they both owned hundreds of slaves during their lifetime, although Washington did free his slaves in his will. Should statues of historic figures like Washington and Jefferson remain because of their positive achievements, or should they be removed because they owned slaves? This is a debate with no easy answers.
為什麼會有人想毀壞這兩位開國元勳的雕像呢？雖然他們對建立美國有許多貢獻，但他們兩人在世時皆擁有數百名奴隸，儘管華盛頓在遺囑上寫了釋放他的奴隸。華盛頓和傑佛遜這類歷史人物的雕像該因為正面貢獻保留，還是該因為他們蓄奴而拆除？這項爭論恐怕沒有簡單的結論。

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