GRE阅读练习：嘲讽特朗普成美国媒体新趋势.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：嘲讽特朗普成美国媒体新趋势 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：嘲讽特朗普成美国媒体新趋势 GRE考试精品课程指导  Lessons in civics from comedians.  从喜剧中获得的公民经验。  Barack Obama was bad for satirists, even if few seemed to mind.  讽刺作家很难拿巴拉克.奥巴马开刀，即使很少有人在乎这点。  Moderate, upstanding and cool, the first black president gave close observers of human ridiculousness little to work with.  第 一位黑人总统以温和、正直又潇洒的形象使得那些身边的滑稽糗事观察者少有可乘之机。  Most gave up and welcomed him admiringly onto their shows.  于是他们大部分都放弃了，并且在自己的节目中用钦佩的眼光欢迎奥巴马的到来。  “I can’t believe you’re leaving before me,” Mr. Obama, appearing on “The Daily Show” for the seventh time, told its outgoing host, Jon Stewart.  “我不敢相信您会比我先离开这里。”奥巴马第七次出现在“每日秀”的舞台上时对即将卸任的主持人乔恩.斯图尔特说。  It was not the relationship to power the acerbic Mr. Stewart would have liked.  尖刻的斯图尔特不会喜欢被强迫出现这种关系。  Thankfully, Donald Trump is making satire great again.  而值得庆幸的是，唐纳德.特朗普使得嘲讽再次复兴。  The most conspicuous beneficiary, “Saturday Night Live” (SNL), a hitherto jaded platform for comedy skits on NBC, is seeing its best ratings in over 20 years.  最明显的受益者，迄今为止已老生常谈的NBC搞笑平台的《周六夜现场》(SNL)，20年来创最佳收视率。  This is partly thanks to Alec Baldwin’s parody of the president as an irascible halfwit.  这在一定程度上归因于亚力克.鲍德温的拙劣模仿，他将总统模仿成一个易怒的笨蛋。  But the chaos in the month-old administration has provided additional targets.  然而一场爆发在刚刚成立一个月的川普政府中的争论提供了另外一种可能。  On February 4th SNL unveiled a hilarious parody of Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, as a gum-chewing maniac.  2月4日，“周六夜现场”节目曝光了白宫新闻秘书斯宾塞滑稽地模仿一位嚼口香糖的疯子的事件。  The belligerent Mr. Spicer has since appeared cowed.  自此，干练好强的斯宾塞先生大为受挫。  There are a couple of lessons here for more sober political commentators.  对于头脑尚清醒的政治评论员而言，可以从中学到很多。  One is to abandon the complacency about Mr. Trump that, until Mr. Baldwin took over in October, had rendered SNL’s portrayal of him toothless and pointless.  一个经验是可以让