Sunday, December 30, 2012

Radio City Music Hall

The largest indoor theater in the world celebrates 80 years of entertainment
無線電城音樂廳 - 世上最大的室內劇院歡慶八十年來的娛樂饗宴.

Hollywood once boasted of having more stars than the heavens. Radio City Music Hall could make the same claim. Many, many stars from music and film have appeared on the stage or screen of the theater. The hall in Midtown Manhattan was built by John D. Rockefeller and his partner Radio Corporation of America Radio City is the largest, grandest theater in the world. Nothing blocks the audience's view of the stage. Each seat is a great one - all 6,000 of them.

Radio City opened on December 27, 1932, with an impressive stage show. In 1933, the theater switched to a plan that lasted until 1979. It offered a movie and a complete stage show for one price. In 1979, Radio City became a place for popular concerts, stage shows and special events. Its most popular show - the Radio City Christmas Spectacular - is part of New York's Christmas tradition. The show regularly sells out as more than one million people enjoy it each season.

Everyone loves Radio City - both audiences and performers.

Grammar Tips:
Hollywood once boasted of having more stars than the heavens.
*Start a sentence with more creative and interesting way.
*Instead of say the biggest music hall in the world we found in New York.
*Start with something in common, that bring people more attention to this music hall.

Vocabulary Tips:
boast-以。。自豪。something is very specail, not every other  owns or have it.
*Hawaii boasts its white-sand beaches and tropical fruits. 以。。自豪
*The bookstore boasts the widest collection of children's literature.
boast -自夸。吹嘘。
*Tom kept boasting about his salary and title.夸口,自夸。
claim -自称,宣称,主张。。。apply, what it is true.
*I don't believe his claim of being a retired doctor.
*The candidate's claim to be an equal rights fighter was soon proved to be false.
sell out -(动词片语)销售一空。产品麦完了,东西卖光了。things have been bought, no more left.
*The U2 concert tickets sold out within an hour.
*The baseball cards sold out as soon as they were released. 一发行,一推出。
grandest - most fancy and beautiful.
impressive - real good on something. if you are an impressive person, that mean people like you very much.
spectacular - very good with more exciting, more color or more things in it, hard to describe.

Chat Room:
stage show is same as variety show, not just perform a single type of performance. 综合艺术性的舞台表演, 某某人的个人演唱会不能说是
stage show/ variety show -舞台上的综合艺术性表演/电视里面的综艺性节目。
the show must go on - determine to do it, no any excuse, no matter what you got to do it. 演员之间的鼓励话。不管发生什么事,演出还是必须要继续。延伸出“持之以恒,再接再厉,负责任”之意。





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