Aaron Sorkin的剧信息量大，缺少娱乐性，最适合闭关学习了。第一集开头开了三遍，每次都发现新信息。
第一集
1.We have sets tucked into the walls along the sides.
2We start with a cold open and then we smash into our VTR
A cold open (also called a teaser) in a television program or movie is the technique of jumping directly into a story at the beginning or opening of the show, before the title sequence or opening credits are shown. On television this is often done on the theory that involving the audience in the plot as soon as possible will reduce the likelihood of their switching away from a show during the opening commercial
3.From the ABC smash hit Desperate Housewives
4.I'm trying to save us all a lot of tsuris.(trouble, distress)
5.this sketch is funny
6.What do you want me to say to the people who'll go out of their minds as soon as it airs?
7.Peripheral Vision Man 附加的，次要的
8.Because if you still had the muscle to do it, you wouldn't have asked.
9.It killed at dress. It was smart.
10.Making it longer was the missing ingredient in making it funny.
11.monologue 独白
12. primo 最初的，最好的
13.satire
14.throw in the towel
15.Snuff film
A snuff film is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual death or murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation
16.Four years at NBC,where she saw to it that Jay Leno spanked David Letterman on a regular basis.
see to it that:确保
17.Unprecedented success.
18.hijacked tonight's broadcast
19.faux人造的
20.I don't wanna start throwing my weight around.
21.muzzles on the cast
22.They're not gonna like the crack about having theme music and a logo for the war.
23.affiliates子公司
24.actionable：giving someone a reason to bring a case to court
25.Cable shows will have non-stop roundtables about how Hollywood's taking our national culture to hell.
26.Hiring Matt and Danny is a tacit admission of guilt and silent act of contrition.
发飙全文：
It's not gonna be a very good show tonight.And I think you should change the channel.Or better yet, turn off the Tv, okay?I know it seems like this is supposed to be funny but tomorrow,you're gonna find out that it wasn't and by that time, I'll have been fired.This is not a sketch.
This show used to be cutting edge political and social satire.but it's gotten lobotomized by a candy-ass broadcast network hell-bent on doing nothing that might challenge their audience.We were about to do a sketch that you've seen already about 500 times.No one's gonna confuse George Bush with George Plimpton, now, we get it.
We're all being lobotomized by this country's most influential industry.It's just thrown in the towel on any endeavor they do. Anything that doesn't include the courting of 12-year-old boys.Not even the smart 12-year-olds, the stupid ones, the idiots,of which there are plenty,thanks to this network.So why don't you just change the channel? Turn off the TV. Do it right now, go ahead.
Between art and commerce.There's a struggle between art and commerce.Now, I'm telling you, art is getting its ass kicked.And it's making us mean and it's making us bitchy.It's making us cheap punks.That's not who we are!People are having contests to seehow much they can be like Donald Trump?We're eating worms for money.Who Wants to Screw My Sister?Guys are getting killed in a war that's got theme music and a logo?That remote is a crack pipe.Oh, yeah. Every once in a while,we pretend to be appalled .Pornographers.It's not even good pornography.They're just this side of snuff films.And that's what's next.because that's all that's left.And the two things that make them scared gutless are the FCC and every psycho-religious cult that gets horny at the very mention of a boycott!Prissy, feckless, off-the-charts greed-filled whorehouse.This thoroughly unpatriotic...
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1.heterosexual 异性恋的
2.dosage:the administration of a drug or agent in prescribed amounts and at prescribed intervals
3.I'm all about the truth, partner.
4.Wrap is a phrase used by the director in the early days of the film industry to signal the end of filming. Nowadays, the call is more commonly "that's a wrap!" Films have used this since the 1920's when the filming was done and it just needed to go into production.
5.Star-Spangled Banner星光闪耀的横幅
6.standing ovation
7.national anthem国歌
8.patronizing
9.follow-spot
10.faced off
11.the calming voice of wisdom
12.TI'm the one who's high as a paper kite right now, but legitimately.he information interests me only if it means you're available.
13.indefensible
14.For the record
15. postpone 延缓
16.I sang for his audience,not every one of whom is necessarily
the grotesque stereotype you'd like them to be.
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1.I'm not sure that male or female has as much to do with it as you might think.
2.I believe that quality is not anathema to profit.
anathema:A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication.
3.segment:Any of the parts into which something can be divided
4.flagship program of NBS
5.peculiar.
6.gear up
7.kegger
8.I told the truth instead of having it come in drips, which is what was gonna happen.
9.credential
10.circulation
11.You think it should be the policy to exclude religious publications
12.fiery pit
13.If anyone can think of any ways to screw up that we haven't tried already I'll be in my office. Shelly.
14.there couldn't be a worse possible time not to be good at this.
15.Wes's eloquent and courageous sign-off last week should've served as the final nail in the show's coffin.
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1.You'd think they'd be rooting us on.
2.How did the editor-in-chief of Total Nutbar Magazine get mobilized this fast?
3.newsflash
4.I'm bulletproof on Friday
5.I won't be told what to put on my air by amateurs of any stripe.
6.You want me to be grateful because you're slumming in TV?
7.Don't grip it too tight, it's just Tuesday.
8.Self-deprecating, an acknowledgement and an acceptance.
9.would you just enjoy the moment?Would you please just live
in what's happening right now?and not time travel to the next?
10.I'm gonna need you to level with me about Harriet.
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1.a demographic distinction
2.mug shot.
3.I've been meaning to ask,how do you like the job so far?
4.Disgruntled
5.Any chance you might come down from your horse and stop being pissed at us for something that happened four years ago, and work with us?
6.It casts Christians in a bad light.
7.slumber party
8.here's where it gets good.
9.They wanna see you take fewer whacks at Bush.
10.You think I'm gun-shy?
11.Can we cut to the chase?
12.It's the time to adopt a playful attitude?
13.No comedian you admire has ever been afraid of silence.
-I'm three years younger and I'm faster than you, old man!
-I'm three years older and I'm stronger than you, little boy.
- You put the question in there!
- Yes, I did.
- Why?
- Because it worked! It's not gonna be like it was fouryears ago. I won't let it happen.After what you did for me.I won't let it happen.
-Are people looking at us right now?
- I think they are.
- Could you punch me in the face or something?Because, to a casual observer, this appears a little homoerotic for my comfort.
-I definitely hear you on that.What should we do?
- Get off me.
- All right, just play it cool.
- Yeah.
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1.The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis
2.insurmountable obstacle
3.ambivalent - uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow; "was ambivalent about having children"
4.Now that I've had time to reflect upon it,you might be right.
5.off-chance
6.seasickness
7.So I'm curious to find out how that ruleis only applied unilaterally.
