访谈录 2011-08-26&08-28 迷恋拼字比赛的罗斯·波恩

 -I'm doing a film in Schenectady in New York in which I can act...

-What did you say like there?

-Well, look

(giggle)

-Can you spell Schenectady?

-I'm not sure. Can you?

-Yeah.

-Alright, I'll try. S, C, H, E, sche, sche, N, A, D, schenad, T, E, te. I'll try again. S, C, H, E, N, schen, E, C, T, A, D, Y.

(bingo)

-This guy.

-You poeple and Schenectady can suck it. Come on, come on.

-Amazing! That one gets off the hook¹. I didn't expect get that right.

-Let you spell Indianapolis.

-I...eh...I am an Austrilian, so it's, you kown, oh get ou! Really? Amazing! Yeah.

-Indianapolis!

-Sorry, eh...I, N, D, I, A, N, A, P, po, O, L, O.

-Wow

-I am so sorry.

-It's so close. Tr it again, try it again. And pick it up at the L, O. L...

-Indianapo...

-Indianapo...

-L, A?

-Eh

-This is going from bad to worse. I am really apologize. Indianapo...

-Indianapo...Indianapo...O, L...

-Indianapo...

-You wanna buy a...What do you wanna buy? You wanna buy...

-I wanna buy some help. Could someone...Oh ah, A, ah, E, I?

-You're gonna like spell like an eye, so I'm going for an E.

-I'm sorry. I'm going for an I.

-I, I, I.

-Indianapolis!

-Indianapolis.

-It's easier than spelling Schenectady. So there...

-It is not easier than spelling Schenectady.

-Oh, absolutely easier than spelling Schenectady.

-I disagree. I think Schenectady is fine.

-Fine. Habitat way.

-Seriously, this C could be K?

-What are you doing in Schenectady anyway.

-I am doing a film called The Place Beyond The Paradise². S R is gonna sing, and B Q and A M. And yeah it's...

-What about the title? It's from a book of the same man? It's original?

-Oh, no, it's an original screen script³. 

-It's a lovely title already.

-It's a beautiful, beautiful title. And we get a lot of crowds in the town. Around the trellis, you know, there are big stars.

-Wait a moment. You are not a big star?

-What, I mean, no, no. I am not at all. I mean they have to barricade⁴ these women there screaming "Brandly Wow, Brandly yeah yeah" You know when I open the door, there are like "Brandly" What's that? What's that? You kown, I may just go back. There couldn't be my place!

1 hook   

vt.钩住；n.钩子，钩状物

参考例句：

• The blacksmith forged a bar of iron into a hook.铁匠把一根铁条锻造成一个钩子。
• He hangs up his scarf on the hook behind the door.他把围巾挂在门后的衣钩上。

2 paradise   

n.伊甸乐园，天堂

参考例句：

• My house had a small backyard,the paradise of children.我那幢房子有一个小后院，那是孩子们玩耍的乐园。
• On a hot day a dip in the sea is sheer paradise.热天洗个海水澡是十分令人惬意的事。

3 script   

n.剧本，广播稿；文字体系；笔迹，手迹

参考例句：

• It's easy to identify his script.他的笔迹容易辨认。
• The script is massaged into final form.这篇稿子经过修改已定稿。

4 barricade   

n.路障，栅栏，障碍；vt.设路障挡住

参考例句：

• The soldiers make a barricade across the road.士兵在路上设路障。
• It is difficult to break through a steel barricade.冲破钢铁障碍很难。