Lowest common denominator
批判大众传媒的低级趣味
This is too hard! I give up!
这也太难了!我放弃!
ASCII characters are the lowest common denominator for computers nowadays and practically every modern computer can interpret binary data into these characters.
ASCII码是当今电脑最基本的编码标准,基本上任何一台现代电脑都可以将二进制的数据转换成这种编码。
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.
如果你把工作的电邮地址和自己的Hotmail地址都列在名片上,你会发现大多数人更喜欢用后者来联系你,因为Hotmail确实是网上一族最基本、最普及的联方式。
Gosh,there is so mush sex on TV these days!
天哪,现在的电视上有太多关于性的东西了!
It's like whatever channel I switch to a sex scene will come up within a minute!
似乎无论转到哪个台,不出一分钟就会看到床戏。
What do you except?
你以为呢?
It all comes down to the advertising dollars and how do you get that?
说到底就是要拉广告费。怎么拉到呢?
Make sure your TV programming apeals to the lowest common denominator.
让你的节目吸引尽可能多的观众,哪怕走低级趣味的路线。
Yeah,pathetic,but true,after all,sex sells.
是啊,很可悲但事实就是这样。毕竟性能吸引眼球。
There you go.
说到点子上了。