Who Wants to be a Millionaire

What a jackpot(1) and here’s how it sounded on ABC’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as Kevin Olmstead, a forty-two year-old environmental engineer, from Ann Arbor of Michigan was given this question.

Host: Who is credited with inventing the first mass-produced helicopter?

Olmstead: I know this. It was the Sikorsky helicopter. My final answer.

Host: Just won two million.

That’s $2,180,000, the richest prize ever awarded by an American game show. I told Olmstead in a later interview, it must have been pretty mind-boggling.

Olmstead: It is for me, yes, quite mind-boggling, like winning the lottery(2) , I suppose.
Olmstead, a former Jeopardy【美国一游戏节目名】 champion is a co-founder(3) of a University of Michigan quiz bowl group.

Olmstead: I’ve always been a sponge(4) for this sort of material; I hope that I won’t change in terms of personality. Maybe pick up a few more tabs【账单；费用】, maybe, I don’t know.

By the way, Olmstead helped coach millionaires last million dollar winner and youngest 24-year-old David Goodman, and like Olmstead also a University of Michigan graduate.

I’m a Bill Deal.


听音瓶颈词汇

1. jackpot[]n.头奖；累积奖金
2. lottery [] n. 彩票
3. co-founder [] n. 共同创办人
4. sponge[]n.海绵；知识丰富的人

听音高级短语

mass-produced 大批量生产的
mind-boggling 难以置信的
in terms of 在…方面

听音超级句型

…is credited with…
…被誉为…

I’ve always been a sponge for …
我总是比较擅长/精通记忆…

谁想成为百万富翁

什么是头等大奖？让我们来听听来自密西根42岁的环境工程师Kevin Olmstead在ABC《谁想成为百万富翁》节目中是怎样面对这样一个问题的。
主持人：第一架大规模生产的直升机是谁发明的？

阿姆斯戴德：这个我知道，是西科斯基直升飞机，我的最后答案。

你刚刚赢了两百万美圆！

218万美圆，那是有史以来美国游戏类节目中最高的奖金。我在随后的一个采访中告诉阿姆斯戴德，这一定令你大吃一惊。

阿姆斯戴德：是的，这对于我来说，确实令人难以置信，就像中了彩票一样。

阿姆斯戴德是游戏节目Jeopardy的前任冠军，也是密西根大学quiz bowl的创办人。

阿姆斯戴德：我比较擅长记忆这种类型的题目。我希望我的个性不会因此而改变。或许我会买很多东西，我自己也不知道。

顺便提及的是阿姆斯戴德曾指导过上次获奖的百万富翁戴维•古德曼，他年仅24岁，是一位最年轻的获奖者，跟阿姆斯戴德一样，他也毕业于密西根大学。

我是比尔•帝尔。