广播电视英语短句 第 162 课：沙发土豆-1

Some unusual words describe how a person spends his or her time. 某些不常见的词语（可用来）形容一个人是怎样度过他或她的时间的。

For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato. 例如，喜欢花大量时间坐下或躺下看电视的人，有时就被称作a couch potato. （“沙发土豆”）。

A couch is a piece of furniture that people sit on while watching television. “couch”是人们看电视时坐在上面的一件家具。

Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the term couch potato in nineteen seventy-six. 一位来自加利福尼亚的艺术家Robert Armstrong于1976年使“沙发土豆”这个名词有了新的含义。

Several years later, he listed the term as a trademark with the United States government. 几年后，他同美国政府将这个名词列为了一个商标。