【词汇大师】今年吹起复古风（1/2）

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流行每年都在变，语言亦如是。今年吹起什么风？还看复古。
TIPS
本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"In Jonestown."
主持人对话②"Which was not Kool-Aid."
主持人对话③"That's used in a lot of corporate references, isn't it? Sort of like they drank the corporate Kool-Aid."
主持人对话④"I've got to ask you about a term that I've heard forever and I was never sure what it meant: catbird seat. What is a catbird seat?"
HINTS
Kool-Aid
Jonestown
Guyana
Flavor Aid
Jim Jones
Brooklyn Dodgers
Red Barber
Cincinnati
Southern player

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Take a phrase like drink the Kool-Aid. Now that refers back to the 1978 episode where the followers of the Reverend Jim Jones obeyed his orders to commit suicide -- "
"In Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a flavored fruit drink."
"It was not Kool-Aid, it was Flavor Aid. For a long time you didn't hear the phrase drink the Kool-Aid. Then, and I sort of tracked this, you began to see references several years later to drink the Jim Jones Kool-Aid. And now we say drink the Kool-Aid whenever we want to refer to somebody who slavishly follows the orders or the ideology or the path of another person. And I think we'll be using that for quite a while."
"Exactly."
"OK, now a catbird is a bird that sits at the top of a tree and kind of caws and caws and in essence directs the action. And this became a phrase in the South, to be in the catbird seat, to be in charge of things or really in a good place. And the Brooklyn Dodgers  announcer Red Barber began to use this phrase a lot: Are you sitting in the catbird seat? or He's sitting in the catbird seat. He said he picked it up in a poker game in Cincinnati from a Southern player."