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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…