Host: Welcome back, music lovers, to ”I Love That Song”! The game show where we test your musical knowledge to the extreme! Let’s get started! Team A... Guess this tune:
Team A: Carrying Your Love with Me by George Straight! The genre is country music!
Host: You are right! One hundred points to team A! Now, for our next cut.
Team B:Thong Song by Sisqo! I believe the genre is R&B？
Host: One hundred big points for team B! For all our viewers the acronym R&B stands for Rhythm and Blues. On that note, DJ, play our next song!
Team B: Superstar by The Carpenters!
Host: And the genre?
Team B: Um... Um... Adult Contemporary?
Host: That’s right! A hundred points! Uh oh! That sound means it’s double or nothing! The songs are more difficult and the points are doubled! Let’s hear our next song!
Team A: Too easy! That song is Kinslayer by the Finnish power metal group, Nightwish!
Host:You are correct! Very impressive team A! And it seems we have a tie! It’s time now for the tie-breaker round! Each team will be played three songs and they must tell us the genre of each song in less than five seconds! Team A, are you ready?
Team A: Ready!
Host: Let’s hear it!
Team A: Hip Hop, Classical and Gothic metal!
Host: You are right! Team B, the pressure is on, if you get all of them right, we will move on to sudden death. If you miss one, you lose! DJ, Let’s hear it!
Team B: Rap, Disco and... and... genre
词汇注释
genre n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格
acronym n. 首字母简略词，简称
stand for 代表
I stand for everything Boswell doesn't.
我代表Boswell所不赞成的那些立
double or nothing要么得分加倍要么一分没有
impressive adj. 给人深刻印象的
tie-breaker n. 正赛未分胜负后的加赛
the pressure is on 胜负取决于你；看你的
sudden death 加时来决定胜负
参考译文
主持人:音乐迷们欢迎收看“我爱歌曲”。游戏能展示你的极限音乐知识。我们现在就开始，A组，猜下旋律。
A组: 是George Straight唱的《爱相随》，风格是乡村音乐。
主持人：完全正确。给A组加100分。下一轮。
B组: Sisqoc唱的Thong Song。种类是R&B？
主持人：给B组加100分。给观众解释下，R&B是“节奏布鲁斯”的缩写。DJ,放一首歌。
B组: Carpenters!唱的Superstar。
主持人：种类呢？
Team B:恩……成人流行乐？
主持人：正确，加一百分。喔，这是双倍积分题。歌曲比较难，分数也翻倍。一起来听下首歌。
A组: 太简单了。是Finnish power metal group, Nightwish唱的Kinslayer。
主持人：正确。A组令人印象深刻。进入加时赛。每组将要听3首歌，必须在5秒内说出歌曲的种类。A组，准备好了吗？
A组:准备好了。
主持人：开始。
A组：歌曲是Hip Hop，古典哥德式金属音乐。
主持人：正确。B组，胜败就看你了。如果你全答对了，将进入加时赛决定胜负。如果你说错一个，你就输了。DJ，放歌曲。
B组: 歌曲是Rap, Disco……种类……
