英语翻译One of the most fascinating things about television is t

英语翻译
One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience.A novel can be on the best sellers list with a sale of fewer than 100,000copies,but a popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers.TV can make anything or anyone well known overnight.
This is the principle behind quiz or game shows,which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for the prize and money.A quiz show can make anyone a star,and it can give away thousands of dollars just for fun.But all of this money can create problems.For instance,in the 1950s,quiz shows were very popular in the U.S.and almost everyone watched them.Charles Van Doren,an English instructor,became rich and famous after winning money on several shows.He even had a career as a television personality.But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating.It turned out that the show's producers,who were pulling the strings,gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand.Why?Because if the audience didn't like the person who won the game,they turned the show off.Based on his story,a movie under the title Quiz Show is on 40 years later.
Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV.But game shows are still here,though they aren't taken as seriously.In fact,some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible.There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together,or that try to cause newly-married couples to fight on TV,or that punish losers by humiliating them.The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV.People still win money,but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.

电视最引人注意的地方在于其观众的规模.一部销售量不到100,000的小说也许会被列入畅销书的行列,但是一档热剧的观众却可能会达到七千万.电视可以使任何东西或任何人一夜成名.
这就是那些答问比赛和游戏节目背后的原则.这些节目实际上是将一些普通人聚集在电视上玩游戏来赚取奖品或钱..一个问答比赛可能使得任何人成为明星,也可能仅仅为好玩而浪费数千美元.但是所有的这些钱都会带来问题.例如,19世纪60年代,问答比赛在美国非常流行,几乎每个人都看这种节目.一名叫查尔斯.凡.德仑(Charles Van Doren)的教师在参加多个此类节目而获奖后变得富有而出名.他甚至得到了一份与电视有关的职业.但是,一名它的手下败将证明他作弊了.结果证明,起穿针引线作用的节目的制片人事先已将答案给了最受欢迎的参赛者.他为什么要这样做?因为,如果观众不喜欢获胜者他们就会换台.40年后,这个故事就被改编成了电影叫做-机智问答秀（Quiz Show ）.
查尔斯.凡.德仑不再与电视有关系.但是游戏秀节目现在任然存在,虽然它并不被严肃对待..事实上,有一些这种节目却尽力办的荒谬.有些节目是让陌生人一起假日旅游,有些是让新婚夫妇在电视上吵架,或者以羞辱的方式来惩罚失败者.这时的娱乐在于看看人们为了上电视还能做出些什么事情来.人们任然在赚钱,但是真正的奖励却是能够被数百万的观众看到.
累死了.以后不做这种赔本买卖了.哥们,你该加分地.