超人氣女星卡梅倫·迪亞茲(Cameron Diaz)風光上榜2004年最新版本的《吉尼斯世界紀錄》。在吉尼斯世界紀錄娛樂項目中，卡梅倫·迪亞茲成為“年收入最高的電影女演員”，她在2001年里總共收入4000余萬美元，在全世界女明星當中高居第一。

我想，大家對《吉尼斯世界紀錄》一定不會陌生，去年王菲不也因為970萬的唱片總銷量成為《吉尼斯世界紀錄》“亞洲銷量最高女歌手”嗎？
不過，要是說到“吉尼斯”的英文拼寫，恐怕很多人就不知道了吧，Steven先賣個小關子，先來看看國外的媒體是如何談到cameron破紀錄的這條消息的。注意“吉尼斯”，還有“收入最高女演員”的英文都是怎么說的。

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle star Cameron Diaz is going into the record books as Hollywood's highest earning actress ever. The former model overtook longtime champ Julia Roberts with the help of the nearly $40 million she earned last year, according to the 2004 edition of the Guinness Book Of Records.

好了，聽到了嗎？對了，“the Guinness Book Of Records”就是我們通常說的《吉尼斯世界紀錄大全》（g-u-i-n-n-e-s-s）或者我們可是說"The Guiness World Records"簡稱GWR，而“收入最高女演員”就是 highest earning actress.

[背景介紹]
其實，Guinness本是緣自Guinness Brewery--一家愛爾蘭啤酒廠的名字，當年Guinness啤酒廠的常務董事Huge Beaver去參加一個射擊晚會，在晚會上偶然和人爭論到哪種獵鳥飛的最快時，突然來了靈感，如果有這樣的一本書，里面提供各種各樣的世界紀錄就好了。 這樣后來，才有了the Guinness Book Of Records的說法。有關the Guinness Book Of Records的詳盡英文介紹，請大家在今天的節目后，參閱Steven在頁面下方為大家提供的短文。

[提問]
Guess how long is the longest fingernail in the world?
請大家猜猜看世界上最長的手指甲到底有多長呢。

[補充材料]
In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, went on a shooting party and became involved in an argument. Which was the fastest game bird in Europe? The golden plover or the grouse? He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. He was right!

Sir Hugh's idea became reality when Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London, were commissioned to compile what became The Guinness Book of Records. The first edition was bound on August 27, 1955, and went to the top of the British bestseller lists by Christmas that year.

Since then, Guinness World Records has become a household name and the global leader in world records. No other enterprise collects, confirms, accredits and presents world record data with the same investment in comprehensiveness and authenticity.

The book has gone on to become a record breaker in its own right. With sales of more than 94 million copies in 100 different countries and 37 languages, Guinness World Records?is the world's best ever selling copyright book!

參考答案:

The longest fingernail is 6.15m long.