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Part 1 Somebody So Different 與眾不同的大明星
She was born Barbara Joan Streisand on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. Her father died when she was 15 months old. Her childhood was a distinctly unhappy one. She once said her only toy was a hot-water bottle she dressed in doll's clothes.
After her mother remarried, she experienced conflicts with her stepfather. He once told her she could not have any ice cream because she was too ugly. She was not popular with other children, either. But she was an excellent student, consistently ranking to the top 10 of her class. When she was 13, she recorded two songs. She once worked as a cashier in a Chinese restaurant and as a receptionist in an ad agency.
She changed the spelling of her first name – from Barbara to Barbra – for her nightclub debut. She gained initial public notice with her performance as Miss Marmelstein in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. On opening night she received a standing ovation. She released her debut recording the following year. It proved immensely popular and was awarded the Grammy for Album of the Year. She was 21.
Around the same time she appeared in the stage version of Funny girl, which quickly became a huge success. She was 25 when she appeared in the film version, which was also a box-office triumph. The salary and contractual agreements she received for her next movie, Hello, Dolly, made her the highest-paid performer in films at the time.
She was famously self-absorbed, "Barbra's favorite subject is Barbra," an intimate has observed. According to Streisand, her aloofness and reserve stem from a basic shyness, "Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss," she once said. Her perfectionism has alienated some co-workers. Her well-known disinclination for live performances began when she forgot the words to several songs during a concert appearance.
She was the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a mainstream Hollywood film: Yentl. She has won two Academy Awards, one in 1976 as the composer of the Best Original Song (“Evergreen”). The other was in a rare tie for the Best Actress (1968), along with Katharine Hepburn. She won for Funny Girl. She has also won a Tony, several Grammys, and handful of Emmys and Golden Globes, one of the very few performers to do so.
1942年4月24日，Barbara Joan Streisand出生于紐約布魯克林。她父親在她15個月大的時候就去世了。她的童年毫無樂趣可言。Barbra曾說，她小時候唯一的玩具就是被她套上洋娃娃衣服的一個熱水瓶。她母親再婚后，她和繼父之間經常發生沖突，有一次她的繼父告訴她，她不能吃冰淇淋，因為她長的太丑了。她在其他孩子中間也不受歡迎。不過，她卻是一個優秀的學生，在班上的成績總是名列前茅。Barbra13歲的時候，灌制了兩首歌曲，她曾在一家中國餐館當過收銀員，也在廣告代理公司當過接待員。
為了她在夜總會的首場演出，她把名字的拼法從Barbara 變成Barbra。她以《我可以用批發價賣給你》這出音樂劇中的“Miss Marmelstein”這個角色，引起了公眾的注意。在首演的那個晚上，全場觀眾為她起立鼓掌。第二年，她發行了她的首張唱片。這張專輯大受歡迎，為她贏得了格萊美年度最佳唱片的獎項。當時她只有21歲。
大約在同一時期，她也在舞臺劇版的《妙女郎》中演出，這出戲好評如潮。演出電影版的《妙女郎》時，她也只有25歲，而這部電影的票房大獲全勝。她在下一部電影《我愛紅娘》中獲得的酬勞使她成為當時電影屆片酬最高的藝人。
她強烈的自我意識也是眾所周知的。她的一位密友說：“Barbra最喜歡的話題就是Barbra。” 據她本人說，她的冷漠和自我隱藏來自于自己害羞的本性，她曾經說：“和不相識的人相處，我簡直就是不知所措。”她的完美主義也使她和一些合作者關系疏遠。Barbra對現場表演的厭惡也是有名的，這是因為她在一次現場演唱會上忘記了幾首歌的歌詞。
Barbra是第一位在好萊塢主流電影 Yentl 中自編、自導、自演的女性。她曾兩次獲得奧斯卡金像獎，一次是1976年電影《常青樹》的最佳原著音樂獎。另外一次是1968她以影片《俏女郎》和Katharine Hepburn共同獲得最佳女主角獎。她也曾獲得過一個電影安東尼獎，數個格萊美獎，和好幾個艾美獎和金球獎，是享有這么多殊榮的極少數演員中的一位。
Dialogue Script 對話原文
Jane: Do you know who Sammo Hung is?
Peter: Of course. He is now in his fifties. And he started out studying aerobics, singing, dancing and martial arts at age of nine, and has starred in 140 kung fu movies. He has also become an independent producer and director.
Jane: You know only one aspect of him. Do you know what he would do in the kitchen?
Peter: I have no idea. Come on! Tell me.
Jane: In the kitchen, with his wife by his side he still puts on quite a dinnertime show.
Peter: What does he do there?
Jane: Imagine a chef chopping vegetables on fast forward. Picture a man making a stir-fry, tossing the mixture up in the air, and then catching it, every last bit, in his work. And his culinary motto is "Enjoy the moment."
講解：
1. 對話中Jane 告訴了Peter Sammo Hung在廚房里是如何表現的。那么大家知道誰是Sammo Hung嗎？給大家一點提示，他是一位非常著名的香港影星、武術指導及導演，是當年著名的“七小福”中最重要的成員之一。胖胖的身材，卻很靈巧，主演過《龍父虎子》等影片，現在也在好萊塢發展。他就是洪金寶，在電影中他是很能打的一個人，他在美國拍過一個系列劇，叫做《過江龍》，英文名稱是Martial Law，他在里面扮演了一個智勇雙全的警察。
2. 其實在廚房里他也是一把好手。洪金寶今年已經50多歲了，Now he is in his fifties. 那么如果說某人已經多少歲但是沒有具體的年齡就可以用in one's + 十進位的數字的復數來表示，例如：She is in her sixties. 她已經60多歲了，但具體是六十幾也不知道。注意一定要用數字的復數。
3. 洪金寶9歲的時候就開始學習健美、唱歌、跳舞和武術。他出演過140部功夫電影并成為獨立的制片人和導演。真的是不簡單。這里說一下start out這個詞組，是“啟程，出發”的意思，可以是start out on something，例如：We started out on a 20-mile walk. 我們開始走一段20英里長的路程。What time did you start out? 你們是幾點鐘動身的？
4. 那么在對話中start out這個詞組表示的是“開始，邁出最初的幾步”，例如：He started out in business in 1958. 他1958年開始經商。也可以是start out to do something，Cathy is starting out to write a novel. Cathy正要動筆開始寫一部小說。對話中的studying aerobics, singing, dancing and martial arts at age of nine 是作為start out這個動作的伴隨狀語。
5. 但是洪金寶并不光是一個武打高手，在廚房里也能一顯身手，做出一系列的“驚險”動作。他切菜的速度非常快，就像在放快鏡頭一樣。on fast forward，就是放快鏡頭的意思。炒菜的時候把炒鍋里面的東西拋向空中，然后再用炒鍋接住，而且一點都不會漏掉。make a stir-fry，表示“炒菜”，stir-fry也可以單獨做動詞。mixture這里指炒菜的時候炒鍋里面的東西，有青菜、油、調料什么的。
6. 洪金寶烹調的座右銘是“Enjoy the moment.”，享受每一刻。享受每一刻，就是享受生活，其實這不僅僅是烹調時應有的心態，也應該是他在演藝圈和生活中的心態。
