美語情景對話 第611期:Best American TV Show 美國最好的電視節目

Wendi: So. I wanna know why you think The Simpsons were so successful?

溫迪：你認爲《辛普森一家》爲什麼能取得這麼大的成功？

Ken: They have a kind of humor that funny to people of all ages. It's funny to people from all different walks of life. So I guess it appeals to the masses more than any other show.

肯：裏面包含了各種幽默，是各年齡層和各個行業的人都覺得好笑的幽默。所以我認爲這部動畫比其他節目更受大衆歡迎。

Wendi: But how do they do that? How do you make something appealing to 8-year olds and fifty-year olds?

溫迪：他們是怎麼做到的？他們是怎麼使這個節目既能吸引8歲的孩子又能吸引50歲的老人？

Ken: Yeah. It's difficult. Like I haven't really thought about it all that much but like they have jokes that only old people would get and they have the fart jokes that, you know, children love at the same time, so. Yeah. So I guess that's what, yeah. It's a phenomenom.

肯：嗯，這很難做到。我沒太想過這點，不過裏面有隻有老年人才能理解的笑話，也有孩子們喜歡的笑話。所以我認爲這就是種現象。

Wendi: It is crazy. The thing that I think is wild about that show, is that just the colors even. Do you know what I mean? It's so basic. Kind of like the lines and the colors. Everything is like incredibly basic, yet it's so, kind of strong and powerful. It's really weird. Do you have any idea of what I'm talking about?

溫迪：這太瘋狂了。我認爲甚至連這個動畫運用的色彩都很瘋狂。你明白我的意思嗎？動畫人物的線條和色彩都太簡單了。所有的元素都非常簡單，但是讓人有種強大有力量的感覺。這太不可思議了。你明白我說的意思嗎？

Ken: Not really. No.

肯：其實不太明白。

Wendi: It's just like a coloring book kind of with bright colors filling in the lines. I don't know. The animation, just the style, all of it. It's just all so simple yet, I don't know, it really works, like the characters and everything.

溫迪：我覺得就像圖畫書一樣，用明亮的顏色填充線條。我也說不好，就是動畫的形式。一切都是那麼簡單，人物形象和各種元素，都很簡單。

Ken: It doesn't have to be visually stimulating, or visually...

肯：不一定非要有視覺刺激……

Wendi: Like sophisticated or anything.

溫迪：比如更復雜一些之類的。

Ken: Sophisticated to be funny, just like South Park isn't at all yet it's one of the more popular shows on TV right now.

肯：用複雜來表現滑稽，《南方公園》是現在最受歡迎的動畫這一，可是《南方公園》的風格也不復雜。

Wendi: But I don't know. I think one of the really funny things about the Simpsons are like the shapes of the people and stuff, like the way like that guy has the big kind of beak, like the bartender guy.

溫迪：我也不太清楚。我認爲《辛普森一家》最有趣的地方是人物和事物的輪廓，比如那個嘴很尖的酒保。

Ken: Oh, yeah, Moe.

肯：哦，他叫Moe。

Wendi: He has like a beak. He almost looks like a duck in a way. And it's like you know. Marges hair and then like Homer's crazy beer belly. It's all just so funny and then like the people that are supposed to be stupid like they look stupid. You know, they have the really like stupic look. Like hammerhead sharks looking.

溫迪：他的嘴很尖。某種程度上說他看起來像一隻鴨子。還有瑪姬的髮型和霍默的啤酒肚。這些都非常搞笑，還有那些看上去很傻的人。你知道，他們看上去真的很傻。長得像雙髻鯊一樣。

Ken: Yeah. Yeah.

肯：嗯，對。

Wendi: It's just all brilliant.

溫迪：這一切都太棒了。

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重點講解：
1. all walks of life 各行各業； 各界；
例句：One of the greatest pleasures of this job is meeting people from all walks of life.
這份工作最大的樂趣之一在於可以接觸到各行各業的人。
2. appeal to 對…有吸引力；使感興趣；
例句：Mr. Green's epicene style of writing appeals to nobody.
沒有人對格林先生軟弱的文體發生興趣。
3. in a way （用於緩和語氣）在某種程度上，在某些方面；
例句：In a way, I suppose I'm frightened of failing.
我想我有點懼怕失敗。
4. be supposed to do sth. 應當，應該，須；
例句：The motorbike is supposed to make annoying noise.
摩托車當然會發出令人感到煩惱的噪音。