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A: Happy New Year! 歡迎大家來到2012年第一期的美語訓練班! 我是楊琳！
B: 我是 Kat! Happy New year everyone! First, Let's see what we're going to learn today!
A: 好！今天，咱們要揮動大斧子砍木頭，要被老師請家長，要看看如何處理辦公室里的流言蜚語，還要告訴大家怎么用美語說“必備單品”，和“瞎指揮”。
B: Sounds interesting！
A: 不過咱們還是先來學個詞兒！
Learn A Word: thorny
今天我們要學的詞是thorny. Thorny is spelled t-h-o-r-n-y, thorny. Thorn 本身是刺的意思，而 thorny 變成形容詞，意思是棘手的，富有爭議的。最近美國聯邦貿易委員會宣布要對Facebook 臉譜網站是否侵犯用戶個人隱私進行調查。Facebook's privacy problem has always been a thorny issue. 臉譜網站的隱私設置一直是一個有爭議的議題。In the post Cold War era, missile defense is still a thorny question in Russia-US relations. 后冷戰時期，導彈防御仍然是美俄關系中的棘手議題。 The super-committee failed to reach an agreement on the thorny deficit problem. 美國超級委員會沒能就棘手的赤字問題達成一致。好的，今天我們學習的詞是thorny, thorny, thorny.
A: 明年是美國總統大選年，現在，參選人經常辯論，There are a lot of thorny issues in their debates.
B: Yes, and their campaign teams spend a lot of time preparing them for those debates so that they know what to say when those thorny questions come up.
A: Wow, 所以真正厲害的人不是那些政客，而是他們身后的campaign managers？
B: Well, to some extent, that's true.
A: 不過，不知道這些Politicians能不能忍受別人指導他的一舉一動。
B: Well, these campaign managers or consultants know what they're doing. They're professionals, not backseat drivers.
A: backseat drivers?
B: 聽下面的popular American, and you'll know what I mean!
Popular American: All ears; Back seat driver
