Madonna Celebrates 50th Birthday 麥當娜慶壽

Madonna, the best selling female artist in the world and a chart-topper for over 20 years, turns 50 today. Sky's Sara Merchant reports on a career as diverse and difficult to define as the icon herself.

("Got no boundaries and no limits...")

The Madonna hitting the big 50 is just an excuse for a party.

("Give it to get the love, arrest me...")

But even she is not planning to pause for a reflection, an icon reaching the half century milestone prompts much musing on how the queen of pop manages to cling onto her crown in an industry that rewards youth.

"Every time she needs to reinvent herself, she manages to do it. From the sexy kind of symbolism that she brings to her clothing to this more sophisticated glamour now. I mean, I mean she is ever-changing. "

The material girl has gone from lace to leotards, Marilyn to conical bras, and dominatrix to lady of the manor.

I would like people to think of me as a revolutionary.

("Like a Virgin，Hey，touch for the very first time.."）

As a mistress of reinvention she defies convention,

("Faster than the speeding light she's flying")

and even her own expectations,

I wanted to be a dancer and quite frankly had no idea that my life was going to turn out the way that it did.

"The view then was: oh it's just another white girl singing soul, you know. I then said:" no, she has a bit more to this one." I fixed up to interview her, to first interview her, it was in England, first in the afternoon. No one else turned up."

("You must be my lucky star...")

That same young singer went on to become a super star,

("Music makes the people come together...")

She’s now sold 200 million records.

("Don't cry for me Argentina")

Her film career has been inconsistent, but her taste for controversy hasn’t. Religion, sex, there are few taboos. And she defied international disapproval in 2006 by adopting a young boy from Malawi.

("Tick up, tick up, break that…")

Fortunately for Madge, the high priests of Kabbalah have calculated her spiritual age and may make her just 36. But for those who count in human years, the clock is definitely ticking.

And yet Madonna's greatest skill is making sure nothing she does ever gets old.

Sara Merchant, Sky News.

leotard: n. A leotard is a tight-fitting piece of clothing, covering the body but not the legs, that some people wear when they practise dancing or do exercise.

dominatrix: n. A female dominator or ruler.

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世界最賣座女明星，20年來都位于音樂榜首的麥當娜今天迎來50歲生日。來自Sky的SaraMerchant報道說她的演藝之路多樣化而且充滿艱辛。

“沒有界限，沒有限制……”

麥當娜的50歲大壽只是開派對的一個接口而已。

即使她不計劃停下來反思，這昭示這她已經走過了生命的半個世紀的里程碑也使人們好奇，在這個吃青春飯的行業里，這位流行音樂天后怎樣一直保持了天后的皇冠的。

“每次她需要徹底改造自己的形象，她都成功的做到了。從她的性感的著裝路線到現在的成熟世故的魅力。我的意思是，她是千變萬化的?！?/P>

物質型的女孩的衣服從蕾絲到緊身短裝，從“瑪麗蓮”到圓錐體型的胸罩，從控制型的女人到莊園女主人。

我希望人們把我當做一個革命者。

“就像一個處女，第一次接觸……”
甚至就連她自己也期待，“我想做舞蹈演員，非常坦白的說，我不知道我的生活會是現在這個樣子?！?/P>

“他們的觀點是：她是又一個歌唱自己的靈魂的女孩。我說，不，她不僅僅如此。我安排了在英國對她的一個采訪，第一次是在下午。沒有其他人?！?/P>

（“你一定非常幸運……”）

同是那一個年輕的歌唱者現在變成了超級巨星。

“音樂把大家聚在了一起……”

“她現在已經出售了2億多張唱片”

（“阿根廷不要為我哭泣”）

她的電影演藝生涯并不一致，但是她對爭議的口味一直沒有變化。宗教，性，當然有一些禁忌。2006年的時候她不顧國際輿論的反對，收養了馬拉威的一個小男孩。

“但是時間一點一點的過去，永不停止……”

“對馬奇來說幸運的是，Kabbalah的神父幫她計算了精神年齡，說她只有36歲。但是對于一個普通人來說，她的年齡確實已經比較大了?！?/P>

但是，麥當娜最大的本領就是確保她做的一切都不會變老。

單詞注解：

leotard：緊身的，通常無腿的衣服，通常人們跳舞或者運動時穿著。
dominatrix：女性統治者。