一次。美国伊利诺斯州的一对新人在报纸上刊登了一则结婚广告，标题是Normal Man Weds Oblong Woman(智力正常的俊男和椭圆形的靓女喜结良缘)。这条广告使初来乍到的外地人哗然，后经解释才释疑。原来该州确实有两座城镇叫Normal(智力正常的)和Oblong(椭圆形的)，根据外国地名汉字译写规则，应分别音译成“诺默尔”和“奥布朗”。在美国的四万多个地名中。
On a warm April afternoon,my wife Ellen and I walked our six-year-old son,Luke,from our apartment in Manhattan to the boat pond in Gentral Park.It was going to be a big day.Luke had pleaded with me for weeks to junk the two little training wheels that stabilized his bike.And while I thought his persistence was more impressive than his skills,he insisted he was “ready to ride”.
One night, when I had just begun working at NBC News, I called my dad Tim Russert, Sr.—he's known as Big Russ. As usual, we talked about what was going on with my job.
I'd had a bad headache for a couple of weeks. Though I'd been trying to ignore it, by the evening of the Emmy Awards it was like the devil himself was inside my brain. As far as I knew at that moment, everything was perfect in my life. All I had to do was to enjoy it to the fullest extreme.
