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近日有則奇聞軼事：

美國費城有位“時代錄制者”Marion Stokes，

曾是圖書管理員，

從1977年開始錄制電視新聞節目并逐漸癡迷于此。

2012年去世時，83歲的她已錄下了驚人的

14萬卷電視新聞錄像帶。

這些精心保存的影像被給予了很高評價，

待到將錄影帶全部轉儲為數字格式并永久存放，

這些媒體影像資料對于教育、歷史研究極具意義，

將成無價之寶。

Marion Stokes 所錄制的新聞節目涉獵很廣

幾乎覆蓋全天，8臺VHS錄像機不間斷的記錄來自

CNN、CNBC、福克斯新聞等多家新聞節目，

從伊朗人質事件到卡特里娜颶風皆有涵蓋。

當她逐漸老去無法高強度工作時，

又將兒培養成得力的助手以保證錄制持續進行。

人們未曾料到一個住在小公寓里的普通老婦

對精心保存20世紀最后的影像

擔當了如此重大的責任。

14點電臺直播

主持：京晶 美籍嘉賓：Mark

地道口語 123

時代錄制者與存檔奇人：

十萬卷膠帶錄下30年電視新聞

The : 30 years of TV news

（The Marion Stokes Project）

對話跟讀

: How are you, Mark? new?

京晶：最近可好，馬克？

有什么新鮮事？

Mark

Mark: I'm afraid not, . Just like most people, I'm going through the first-half-of-winter stretch and trying not to fall behind in my work.

馬克：恐怕沒有。就像大多數人一樣，過著前半個冬季的日子，努力不耽誤工作。

: That sounds pretty common. I've had a bit to work on I enjoy, but have mostly been busy keeping up with my regular work. Hey, did you hear about the lady in who 30 years of TV news?

京晶：這很正常。我有一些班上的空閑時間來做我喜歡的項目，但大部分時間都用來忙日常工作了。嘿，你聽說了那個錄了30年電視新聞的費城女人嗎?

Mark

Mark: I heard that story as I was to the news. Do you know much about it?

馬克：我在聽新聞時聽到了這個支線故事。你知道詳情嗎?

: Yeah. I was inonce I started reading the details. First of all, her name is Marion Stokes. She was very active in the 1960s and then wanted to live a more private life.

京晶：是的。當我一開始讀更多細節的時候，我就被深深吸引住了。首先，她的名字是馬里恩·斯托克斯。她在20世紀60年代的（政治運動方面）還非?；钴S，之后就想過一種更默默無聞的生活。

Mark

Mark: Okay. You said 30 years—what years were those?

馬克：好吧。你說30年——具體是哪些年？

: Well, she passed away in 2012. Her first was of a about the Iranian hostage crisis.

京晶：嗯，她在2012年去世了。她的第一個錄像帶是關于伊朗人質危機的《晚間在線》報道。

Mark

Mark: That was in the late 1970s, wasn't it, during Jimmy Carter's .

馬克：那是在20世紀70年代末，對吧？在吉米·卡特總統任期內。

: That's right, 1979. It began in and lasted more than a year.

京晶：沒錯,就是1979年。事件發生在11月，持續了一年多。

Mark

Mark: Wow, it'd be enough just to see of that event. I seeing Ted Koppel, the host of , on TV when I was a kid.

馬克：哇，光是看那個事件的報道就已經很有趣了。我記得小時候在電視上看到過泰德·坎培爾(Ted Koppel)，就是《晚間在線》()的主持人。

: Well, you could see plenty of those big-name news anchors in all the hours of tapes Marion Stokes made.

京晶：對，你可以在斯托克斯錄制的錄像帶中看到很多這樣大名鼎鼎的新聞主播。

Mark

Mark: So,let me get this : she the news once a day for 30 years?

馬克：那么，讓我把這事再弄明白點: 30年來，她每天錄一次新聞?

: No. She started taping all the news from major . This was just at the of the24-hour news cycle. She left her running during the and public service

京晶：不是的。她一開始就錄制的是各大電視網的新聞。那時電視臺才剛剛開始24小時滾動新聞報道。在商業廣告和公益廣告期間，她也讓錄像機一直開著。

Mark

Mark: Wow. If someone puts all that on the , you could visit the website andflip through the 1985 or 1995. It be cool just to sit there and watch real TV that way instead of edited videos.

馬克：哇。如果有人能把這些都放到互聯網上，你就可以訪問網站而且瀏覽查詢1985年或者1995年各個頻道的電視新聞。只坐在那里就能看歷史上真實的電視節目，而不是剪輯過的視頻，這很酷。

: That's like a couch potato, Mark.

京晶：馬克，那可真是個電視迷的想法。

Mark

Mark: I bet her project is more than that. What do you think of it, .

馬克：我打賭她做錄制這事的意義可比這個大多了。你覺得呢，京晶。

: I had a lot of ideas as I was reading the story. Let me pull it up on my here while we're talking, so that I get the facts right.

京晶：當我看到這個故事的時候有很多想法。我們說話的這會讓我用電腦再多找點資料了解一下，這樣能把事件信息了解得更準確。

Mark

Mark: Sure. No rush.

馬克：當然可以，不急。

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New words : 習語短語

(noun) 支線 副線

an or story, often-times as a link or in a news , so that people can reading the story under the current and the for the story to read later

pulled in

(phrasal verb) 被某物吸引

become in , want to keep reading

let me get this

讓我先把這點搞清楚 （請你說清楚）

(a way of asking for and ) (usually after this, the person asking repeats what he/she thinks he/she just heard in words)

24-hour news cycle(noun)

24小時滾動新聞報道，24小時不間斷新聞

(the word “cycle” is an echo from when TV news aired every evening and a fat Sunday meant in-depth of issues several days or weeks) the current of , since the by cable news and the world-wide web: a rush to publish stories and catch readers with flashy , a general toward and fear-

flip through the (verb phrase)

切換頻道瀏覽節目

use a remote control to watch a few seconds or minutes of TV on each station, then over to another, without to watch any one full show

: Ok. So here's the first article I saw.

京晶：好了。這是我看到的第一篇文章。

Mark

Mark: Oh, that's a good website. I get a lot of my news from there.

馬克：哦，這網站真不錯。我經常在這里看新聞。

: Right. And here's the webpage for the movie. It's : the Marion Stokes Project.

京晶：對。你看這個是關于電影的網頁。它被稱為錄像機:馬里恩斯托克斯項目。

Mark

Mark: Wait, what? There's a movie about a person who TV?

馬克：等等，你說什么？她錄制電視新聞這件事還有一部電影嗎?

: There is. I haven't seen it. But the footage of major world events is enough to make a movie. It's cool to see what looked like in eras, don't you think?

京晶：有的。但我沒看過。這些世界重大事件的腳本鏡頭足以拍成一部電影?？吹讲煌甏碾娨暿呛芸岬模悴挥X得嗎?

Mark

Mark: Well, I think it's wetake for , because can be kept in .

馬克：對，我想這是我們如今認為理所當然的事了，因為一切東西都可以保存在數字檔案中。

: Yes, but in the 1980s and 90s, even were their own old and reusing the tapes.

京晶：是的，但在20世紀80年代和90年代，就連電視臺也得刪除那些舊資料重新再錄。

Mark

Mark:Wow, now that you mention tapes, I'm how many it would take to record 30 years of non-stop footage on three or more TV .

馬克：哇，既然你提到了錄像帶，我很好奇不間斷地錄制三個或更多的電視頻道30年的腳本鏡頭需要多少錄像帶？

: Hold on, I saw that number... Here it is: 70,000 tapes.

京晶：等一下，我看到了那個數字……在這：七萬卷錄像帶。

Mark

Mark: Whoa! Where did she put all of them?

馬克：天??！她把這些錄像帶放在哪里了？

: She sent them out to a . She didn't want people to know about her project. So, she even had the new tapes in small batches.

京晶：她把它們寄存在一個倉庫里。她不想讓別人知道她在做什么。所以，她甚至讓人把新錄像帶偷偷地分撥送過來。

Mark

Mark: Wow, a project that kept her busy for three decades—and hardly anyone knew about it!

馬克：哇，這個事情讓她忙了三十多年——而且還沒人知道!

: Yep. And she also read 11 per day, and saved most of those.

京晶：是啊。她還每天讀11份報紙，并留下了大部分。

Mark

Mark: I've heard of people like that in where I've lived and visited—people who never throw away. But here it sounds like her work turned out to be the best kept record of world events in the era media.

馬克：在我住過和去過的小區，我也聽說過像這樣的人——他們從不扔任何東西。但在這里，聽上去她的辛勤工作成為了數字媒體時代之前世界大事的最佳記錄。

: Yeah. Who would have known an old lady in a small could take so much for the last quarter of the 20th century?

京晶：是的。誰能想到一個住在小公寓里的老婦人會對保存20世紀最后25年的影像承擔了如此大的責任呢?

Mark

Mark: Well, I'll keep my eyes open for that movie about her. there's also a website where people can watch the footage.

馬克：好吧，我會好好留意那部關于她的電影。希望還能有一個網站讓人們可以觀看這些腳本視頻。

: I'd watch it too.

京晶：我也會去看的。

Mark

Mark: Thanks for sharing the story, !