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小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供：影视英语 主持人大卫·莱特曼告别深夜秀 “You know what I’m going to devote the rest of my life to?” David Letterman said on his last night as the host of the “Late Show” on CBS. “Social media.” “你知道我将用我的余生拿来干什么吗？”大卫·莱特曼(David Letterman)在他最后一次主持哥伦比亚广播公司的《深夜秀》时自问自答道。“社交媒体。” Mr. Letterman ended his 33-year career in late-night on Wednesday as he had started it — with the irreverence, self-mockery and mischief that made him such an iconoclastic talk-show host. 周三，莱特曼以他开始这个节目的方式结束了自己33年的深夜秀职业生涯，正是他不恭不敬、自我解嘲和恶作剧的特点，使他成为一位非常反传统的脱口秀主持人。 His farewell was much better than the usual mawkish television send-off: He mixed favorite segments like his Top 10 list with clips of classic skits and a few restrained fillips of sincerity and humility. His final show was not at all like the Pharaonic and mushy last bow Johnny Carson took when he left 揟he Tonight Show?in 1992. As could be expected, it was a bracing antidote to the weepy extravaganza that ushered his rival Jay Leno into retirement last year. 他的告别节目比通常自作多情的电视送别好得多：他在节目中穿插了最受喜爱的部分，例如他的10大名单，包括经典小品片段，以及几个有诚意、谦逊的、有克制的时刻。他在最后的节目里一点也不像约翰尼·卡森(Johnny Carson)1992年最后一次主持《今夜秀》时那样以法老自居、且多愁善感。正如所预想的，最后一集《深夜秀》是去年送别他的对手杰·雷诺(Jay Leno)退休时，那种伤感而又铺张华丽表演的清新宜人的解药。 Mr. Letterman’s retirement has gotten an extraordinary amount of focus — a frenzied outpouring of fan devotion, celebrity tributes and nonstop media attention — perhaps because he was so important to the last generation of viewers who grew up watching shows on a television set, and not on a smartphone. 莱特曼的退休已经得到特别大量的关注，粉丝们的忠诚、名人的献礼辞，以及不间断的媒体报道疯狂地迸发，这也许是因为他对在电视机前、而不是在智能手机上看着节目长大的最后一代观众如此的重要。 Mr. Letterman’s crack about younger performers who use Twitter and Facebook was a shout-out to the talk-show host’s core audience, the late-night viewers who decades ago defined themselves as the insurgents who preferred Mr. Letterman to Mr. Leno. 莱特曼对年轻表演者使用Twitter和Facebook的敲打，是这位脱口秀主持人向核心观众发出的呼喊，这些观众几十年前用选择莱特曼、而不是莱诺把自己定位为反叛者。 All Mr. Letterman had t