Lowest common denominator
批判大眾傳媒的低級趣味
This is too hard! I give up!
這也太難了!我放棄!
ASCII characters are the lowest common denominator for computers nowadays and practically every modern computer can interpret binary data into these characters.
ASCII碼是當今電腦最基本的編碼標準,基本上任何一臺現(xiàn)代電腦都可以將二進制的數(shù)據(jù)轉(zhuǎn)換成這種編碼。
If you list your work e-mail and Hotmail your card, you will find that most people prefer using the latter, as Hotmail is truly the lowest common denominator of the connected masses.
如果你把工作的電郵地址和自己的Hotmail地址都列在名片上,你會發(fā)現(xiàn)大多數(shù)人更喜歡用后者來聯(lián)系你,因為Hotmail確實是網(wǎng)上一族最基本、最普及的聯(lián)方式。
Gosh,there is so mush sex on TV these days!
天哪,現(xiàn)在的電視上有太多關于性的東西了!
It's like whatever channel I switch to a sex scene will come up within a minute!
似乎無論轉(zhuǎn)到哪個臺,不出一分鐘就會看到床戲。
What do you except?
你以為呢?
It all comes down to the advertising dollars and how do you get that?
說到底就是要拉廣告費。怎么拉到呢?
Make sure your TV programming apeals to the lowest common denominator.
讓你的節(jié)目吸引盡可能多的觀眾,哪怕走低級趣味的路線。
Yeah,pathetic,but true,after all,sex sells.
是啊,很可悲但事實就是這樣。畢竟性能吸引眼球。
There you go.
說到點子上了。