We authors work such long hours for such little pay that being invited onto a TV book-interview show is the sort of warm and happy experience we
eagerly anticipate.
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们这些作家工作时间很长,获得的报酬却少之又少,但获邀参加电视台的读书访谈节目是我们热切期盼的温馨愉快的经历。
Being on those shows is usually like being a proud mama at a
gathering of ladies all cooing at your new baby.
参加这些节目,常常感觉就像是一个自豪的母亲参加女人们的聚会,大家都在满怀爱意地谈论自己刚出生的孩子。
Usually.
情况通常都是如此,除非你遇到我这样的情况。前不久,我毫无戒心地登上了北京电视台《书香北京》栏目精美的舞台,走进了该栏目执行制片人徐春昕精心策划的"埋伏"之中。她显然更喜欢访谈型的节目风格,而不是电视真人秀风格的攻击。
Unless, that is, you were me, recently walking unsuspectingly onto the beautiful set of BTV's书