《种地吧》你觉得怎么样？

近日，综艺《种地吧》节目组发布招聘启示引发热议。目前，其官方微博粉丝数已暴跌数十万。

7月20日，节目组回应称：没有人会拆散十个勤天，更没有人能阻止种地，我们仍会坚持对的方向，用我们的节目去带给更多人力量，我们也会和孩子们一起创造更多的传奇。

今天你练听力了吗？

🤔️小作业：

1. Which of the following is NOT a theme highlighted in the show “Become a Farmer”?

A) Responsibility and grit

B) Dependence on food imports

C) Abandoning arrogance and pampering

D) Reforms in rural areas

A) To entertain viewers with the failures of city-dwellers trying to farm.

B) To increase awareness about food security issues in China.

C) To revive the love for farming and nature among young people.

D) To promote the use of high-tech farming equipment.

无注释原文：

A Chinese reality-TV show about farming

From: The Economist, Jun 29th 2023

A young man drives a harvester through a rice field. Slow down, a farmer chides him. But he zooms on—then gets stuck in the mud. Welcome to “Become a Farmer”, the hit reality-tv programme on iqiyi, a Netflix-like Chinese service. The show transplants ten preppy actors and musicians from the city to the countryside in Zhejiang province, where they must live together and try their luck at farming.

The 20-something men arrive wheeling giant suitcases, only to find what one calls “inhuman” living conditions, an outdoor toilet and endless mud. Audiences are entertained as they work things out and embrace the task at hand. (The group has six months to turn a profit from about ten hectares of farmland.)

Today young Chinese are exhorted to show “responsibility and grit” and to focus on collective goals. “Become a Farmer” embraces these messages. “When you see me again, I'll be a real tough man,” says a star in the show's trailer. Indeed, he is soon seen mucking in with his teammates, who support each other. “It's always right to rely on the crowd,” says one.

Other priorities, such as food security, are reflected in the show, too. Episodes remind viewers that China depends on imports. “Every piece of grain, every grain of rice, is hard to come by,” says the narrator in the premiere.

In recent years, millions of Chinese have joined the “new farmer” movement. Many are young graduates who grew tired of the rat race or couldn't find jobs. The state, which supports the newbies, hopes their skills will lead to increased production. On the show, stars gush over cool machines and high-tech methods. “I think the farmers are great,” says one.

The series aims to revive audiences' love for the soil and nature, said a producer earlier this year. However, the messages of “Become a Farmer” are as obvious as its product placement. For example, the men engage in manual labour all day but drink only a zero-calorie beverage. The show emphasizes that young people need to “abandon arrogance and pampering.”

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为机器翻译并非一一对应，仅供参考

含注释全文：

A Chinese reality-TV show about farming

From: The Economist, Jun 29th 2023

A young man drives a harvester through a rice field. Slow down, a farmer chides him. But he zooms on—then gets stuck in the mud. Welcome to “Become a Farmer”, the hit reality-tv programme on iqiyi, a Netflix-like Chinese service. The show transplants ten preppy actors and musicians from the city to the countryside in Zhejiang province, where they must live together and try their luck at farming.

一个年轻人驾驶着收割机在稻田里穿梭。一个农民提醒他开慢点，但他却继续加速前进，结果陷入泥潭中。这是爱奇艺（类似中国版Netflix）上一档热播的真人秀节目《种地吧》（Become a Farmer）。这档节目将十名来自城市的年轻演员和音乐人带到浙江省的乡村，他们必须在那里共同生活，并尝试种地。

harvester /ˈhɑː.vɪ.stər/ 表示“收割机”，英文解释为“a machine for harvesting crops”

chide /tʃaɪd/ 表示“责骂，呵斥，训斥”，英文解释为“to speak to someone severely because they have behaved badly”举个🌰：She chided him for his bad manners. 她训斥他没有礼貌。

zoom /zuːm/ 作动词，1）表示“快速移动”，英文解释为“to move very quickly”举个🌰：They got into the car and zoomed off. 他们钻进汽车一溜烟地开走了。

2）表示“（价格或销售额）猛涨”，英文解释为“If prices or sales zoom, they increase suddenly and quickly.”举个🌰：House prices suddenly zoomed up last year. 去年房价突然飙升。

📍Zoom也是个在线视频会议平台。

mud /mʌd/ 表示“泥，泥土；烂泥，泥浆；淤泥”，英文解释为“earth that has been mixed with water”举个🌰：The vehicles got bogged down in the heavy mud. 车辆陷到了淤泥里动弹不得。

hit /hɪt/ 表示“（唱片、电影或戏剧的）成功；很受欢迎的人（或事物）”，英文解释为“If a CD, film, or play is a hit, it is very popular and successful.”举个🌰：The song became a massive hit in 2024. 这首歌在2024年取得了巨大成功。

transplant /trænˈsplɑːnt/ 表示“（尤指器官的）移植”，英文解释为“a medical operation in which a new organ is put into someone's body”如：a liver/kidney transplant 肝脏/肾脏移植。也可以表示“移栽;（使）移居”，英文解释为“to move something, or to be moved, from one place or person to another”举个🌰：The plants should be grown indoors until spring, when they can be transplanted outside. 这些植物应该先种在室内，到了春天就可以移栽到外面。

preppy /ˈprep.i/ 作名词，表示“（上私立学校的）富家子弟；预备学校学生，预备学校毕业生（指有私立学校学生派头的人）”，英文解释为“a young person who goes or went to an expensive private school and who dresses and acts in a way that is thought to be typical of such a school”也可作形容词，用于形容着装和举止。

📍“preppy”是一个用来描述穿着或行为风格的词，通常指代那些穿着整洁、时尚、具有学院派风格的年轻人，尤其是那些来自富裕家庭、上私立学校的人。在这个上下文中，“preppy”描述的是这些城市中的年轻演员和音乐人，他们的风格和农村的环境形成了鲜明对比。

The 20-something men arrive wheeling giant suitcases, only to find what one calls “inhuman” living conditions, an outdoor toilet and endless mud. Audiences are entertained as they work things out and embrace the task at hand. (The group has six months to turn a profit from about ten hectares of farmland.)

这些20多岁的年轻人拖着巨大的行李箱来到这里，却发现生活条件非常艰苦“不人道”，比如户外厕所和无尽的泥泞。观众们被他们的努力和对手头任务的热情所感染。（他们有六个月的时间从约十公顷的农田中获利。）

-something后缀，表示“（用于数字后指年龄或某个年龄段的人）…多岁，…多岁的人”，英文解释为“used after a number like 20, 30, etc. to refer to the age of a person who is between 20 and 29, 30 and 39 years old, etc., or to a person who is of this age”举个🌰：I'd guess she's thirty-something. 我猜她三十多岁。

wheel /wiːl/ 作动词，表示“推，推动（有轮子的东西）”，英文解释为“to push an object that has wheels so that it moves in a particular direction”举个🌰：I saw her last night wheeling a buggy along Green Lane. 昨天晚上我看见她推着婴儿车沿着格林小道走过。

hectare /ˈhek.teər/ 表示“公顷”，英文解释为“a unit of measurement of an area of land”

📍1公顷 (ha) = 15亩；1亩 = 0.0666667公顷(ha)

Today young Chinese are exhorted to show “responsibility and grit” and to focus on collective goals. “Become a Farmer” embraces these messages. “When you see me again, I'll be a real tough man,” says a star in the show's trailer. Indeed, he is soon seen mucking in with his teammates, who support each other. “It's always right to rely on the crowd,” says one.

当今，中国年轻人被鼓励展现“责任感和毅力”，并专注于集体目标。《种地吧》正是体现了这些理念。“当你再次看到我时，我会成为一个真正的硬汉，”节目预告片中一位明星说。很快，他就和队友们一起努力，互相支持。“依靠集体总是对的，”其中一人说。

exhort /ɪɡˈzɔːt/ 表示“激励；规劝；敦促”，英文解释为“to strongly encourage or try to persuade someone to do something”举个🌰：The governor exhorted the prisoners not to riot. 典狱长告诫犯人们不要闹事。

grit /ɡrɪt/ 表示“勇气，毅力”，英文解释为“courage and determination despite difficulty”

trailer /ˈtreɪlə/，表示“（电影或电视节目的）预告片”，英文解释为“a series of short scenes from a film/movie or television programme, shown in advance to advertise it”。

📍常出现的还有一个词叫teaser，词典里的意思是“前导广告，悬念式广告（含蓄而引人好奇）”，英文解释为“an advertisement for a product that does not mention the name of the product or say much about it but is intended to make people interested and likely to pay attention to later advertisements”。也可以用来指“预告”，“预热”片。

muck /mʌk/ in 表示“一起出力，一起合作；参加”，英文解释为“to share the work that needs to be done”举个🌰：She doesn't mind mucking in with the rest of us when there's work to be done. 当有工作要做时，她不介意和我们大家一起干。

Other priorities, such as food security, are reflected in the show, too. Episodes remind viewers that China depends on imports. “Every piece of grain, every grain of rice, is hard to come by,” says the narrator in the premiere.

其他诸如粮食安全等重要命题也在节目中得到体现。节目提醒观众中国依赖粮食进口。“每一粒米、每一颗粮都来之不易，”先导片中旁白说道。

priority /praɪˈɒr.ə.ti/ 表示“优先考虑的事”，英文解释为“something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things”举个🌰：The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a priority. 管理部门似乎并不认为应优先考虑办公室安全问题。

在电视/电影节目中，episode /ˈep.ɪ.səʊd/ 表示“一集，一节，片断”（one of the single parts into which a story is divided, especially when it is broadcast on the television or radio），也可以指“事件；（相关的）一连串事件；一段经历”，英文解释为“a single event or group of related events”举个🌰：This latest episode in the fraud scandal has shocked a lot of people. 诈骗丑闻最新爆出的这一事件让很多人瞠目结舌。

还可以指「疾病的发作，发病」，英文解释为：a finite period in which someone is affected by a specified illness. 补充：

📍第几集用的是Episode，第几季则为Season. 你下载美剧时可能就会看到S01E02，就是指的第1季第2集。最后一集 finale：the last part of a piece of music or of a show, event etc （演出的）终场，最后一幕；（音乐的）终曲；（事件等的）结尾。

🎬还有，看剧时新一集开头通常会有的一个说法：previously on ...，...的前情提要，前情回顾。

import /ɪmˈpɔːt/ 可用作动词，也可以作名词，表示“进口”，英文解释为“to buy or bring in products from another country”举个🌰：We import a large number of cars from Japan. 我们从日本进口大量的汽车。

反义词：

📍export表示“出口；输出”，英文解释为“to send goods to another country for sale”。

narrator /nəˈreɪ.tər/ 表示“（书或电影中的）叙述者，讲述者，旁白者”，英文解释为“the character who tells you what is happening in a book or film”

premiere /ˈprem.i.eər/ /prɪˈmɪr/ 可以作动词和名词，表示“首映，首演，首次上演/映”，英文解释为“the first public performance of a play or any other type of entertainment“。

📍这里要注意的是这个词去掉末尾的 e 就变成了 premier“首相，总理”；另外，premier作为形容词则表示“首位的，首要的”（best or most important），举个🌰：He's one of the nation's premier scientists. 他是该国最重要的科学家之一。

In recent years, millions of Chinese have joined the “new farmer” movement. Many are young graduates who grew tired of the rat race or couldn't find jobs. The state, which supports the newbies, hopes their skills will lead to increased production. On the show, stars gush over cool machines and high-tech methods. “I think the farmers are great,” says one.

近年来，数百万中国人成为“新农人”。其中许多是年轻毕业生，他们厌倦了激烈的竞争，或者找不到工作。国家支持这些新人，希望他们的技能能提高粮食产量。在节目中，明星们对炫酷的机器和高科技方法感到惊叹。“我觉得农民们非常了不起，”其中一人说。

the rat race /ˈræt ˌreɪs/ 表示“（现代社会人们为权利和金钱进行的）你死我活的竞争，激烈竞争，永无休止的竞争”，英文解释为“a way of life in modern society, in which people compete with each other for power and money”举个🌰：He decided to get out of the rat race, and went to work on a farm. 他决定逃离这你死我活的竞争，到农场去工作。

newbie /ˈnjuː.bi/ 表示“新手”，英文解释为“someone who has just started doing an activity, a job, etc.”举个🌰：The guide helps newbies understand the latest social networking sites and apps. 这本指南帮助网络新手了解社交网络的网址与应用。

gush /ɡʌʃ/ 1）表示“夸张地表达，感情充沛地说，装腔作势地说（尤指赞扬的话）”，英文解释为“to express a positive feeling, especially praise, in such a strong way that it does not sound sincere”举个🌰："You're just so talented!" she gushed. “你可真是个人才！”她夸张地说。

2）表示“喷出，涌出，冒出”，英文解释为“to flow or send out quickly and in large amounts”举个🌰：Blood was gushing from his nose. 他的鼻子流血不止。

The series aims to revive audiences' love for the soil and nature, said a producer earlier this year. However, the messages of “Become a Farmer” are as obvious as its product placement. For example, the men engage in manual labour all day but drink only a zero-calorie beverage. The show emphasizes that young people need to “abandon arrogance and pampering.”

该节目的制片人今年早些时候说，节目旨在唤起观众对土地和大自然的热爱。然而，《种地吧》所传达的信息与其广告植入一样明显。例如，这些人整天从事体力劳动，却只喝零卡路里的饮料。节目强调，年轻人需要“摒弃骄娇二气”。

revive /rɪˈvaɪv/ 表示“（使）苏醒，复活；（使）复兴；（使）重新流行”，英文解释为“to become, or to make sb/sth become, conscious or healthy and strong again”举个🌰：The flowers soon revived in water. 这些花见了水很快就活过来了。

product placement /ˈprɒd.ʌkt ˌpleɪs.mənt/ 表示“产品安插（在电影或电视节目中插播产品广告），插入式广告”，英文解释为“a way of advertising a product by supplying it for use in films or television programmes”

manual /ˈmæn.ju.əl/ 1）表示“用手做的；手工的”，英文解释为“done with the hands”如：the manual sorting of letters 手工分拣信件。

2）表示“体力的”，英文解释为“involving physical work rather than mental work”如：unskilled manual labour 无需技能的体力劳动。

3）表示“（机器）用手操作的，手动的”，英文解释为“A manual machine is operated with the hands rather than by electricity or a motor.”举个🌰：He still works on an old manual typewriter. 他还在用一台老式手动打字机。

calorie /ˈkæl.ər.i/ 表示“卡，卡路里（测量食物所含热量的单位）”，英文解释为“a unit of energy, often used as a measurement of the amount of energy that food provides”举个🌰：There are about 50 calories in an apple. 一个苹果大约含有50卡路里的热量。

beverage /ˈbev.ər.ɪdʒ/ 表示“饮料”，英文解释为“a drink of any type”举个🌰：Hot beverages include tea, coffee, and hot chocolate. 热饮包括茶、咖啡和热巧克力饮料。

arrogance /ˈær.ə.ɡəns/ 表示“傲慢”，英文解释为“the quality of being unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people”举个🌰：She has a self-confidence that is sometimes seen as arrogance. 她有一种有时被视为傲慢的自信。

pamper /ˈpæm.pər/ 作动词，表示“细心照顾，精心护理；纵容，娇惯”，英文解释为“to give someone special treatment, making that person as comfortable as possible and giving them whatever they want”举个🌰：She pampers her dog with the finest steak and salmon. 她给她的狗吃上好的牛排和鲑鱼，太娇惯了。

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