A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
电视
Television
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
看电视就像给你的第三只眼睛涂上黑色喷漆。
Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.
电视:一个媒介。之所以这么叫，是因为它既不稀有，也不好吃。
You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
你不能用跳舞的女孩和闪烁的灯光来愚弄电视观众。
Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.
正如你所知，电视可能会把你抛入一个全新的世界。
I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.
我看了一会儿电视，但大部分时间我只是画画和看杂志。
You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.
没有什么比上国家电视台称体重更勇敢的了。
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
电视节目在最坏的情况下做了太多，以至于它无法做到最好。
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
在电视节目中，你使用这个操作系统时，你会觉得它是一个废物。
What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.
电视使我烦恼的是，它往往使我们的思想从我们的思想。
I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.
我不知道电视真人秀是做什么的，但它会破坏人际关系。
Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
罗纳德•里根之于电视，显然就像富兰克林•罗斯福之于广播一样。
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
电视上有那么多喜剧。这在街上引起喜剧吗?
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I want to bring more gymnastics on television.
我想把更多的体操节目搬上电视。
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
电视传播了即时反应的习惯，激发了人们对即时结果的希望。
I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
我在电视上从来都不是最好的。在你和观众之间有一排摄像机，这非常奇怪，非常令人困惑。
There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.
现在没有理由不上电视。你可以住在家里，而不是一直在路上，他们给你的薪水还不错，写作也不错。你不会为此妥协的。
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
电视有一些可爱的方面，也有一些可怕的方面，但剧院本身是一个了不起的发明。
I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
我是一个作家。现在我开始上电视了。我有一张大嘴。他们说，我有很好的看电视的牙齿。