【词汇大师】出口成章(2/2)

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是不是也别羡慕那些对着众人演讲就能夸夸其谈的人？看过《演讲与口才》吗？今天专家教你怎样去掉讲话中那些讨厌的“嗯，啊，那个……”
TIPS
本篇只有嘉宾的话，都需要听写。听过之后就有答案了。
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uh
um"Well, maybe it's a particularly American concern, and I went looking in some of the nineteenth century literature about how people could improve their vocabulary, improve their pronunciation, get rid of their regional dialects, and there was no discussion of 'uh' or 'um' either. It doesn't really appear until the early twentieth century, particularly after the advent of radio, but certainly after the phonograph.
"And so what I think had happened was that the phonograph was people's first opportunity to hear their own voices recorded back to them. And that really becomes an issue in the age of radio. And it turned out that one of the important aspects of the radio performance was to remove the 'uhs' and the 'ums', I think because it didn't sound right somehow. But there was also the fact that the radio broadcasts were commercial. They were selling things, selling advertising on the radio, and the 'uhs' or the 'ums' would take up valuable time that you could use to sell pet food and mattresses and whatever other sorts of sponsorships."