美国国家公共电台 NPR Actor Kirk Douglas Turns 100

 

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: 

Kirk Douglas turned 100 years old yesterday. He was born with a name that would have been a little harder to fit on a marquee - Issur Danielovitch. He changed his name, but he kept that cleft¹ in his chin. Kirk Douglas became one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the big screen era, especially in the 1950s and '60s. He played a boxer², a hard-bitten detective, a cynical³ reporter, Doc Holliday, Vincent Van Gogh, a French colonel, an American colonel who halts a coup⁴ and the leader of a slave revolt in ancient Rome. Kirk Douglas also became a producer who helped break the Hollywood blacklist. Most people have some favorite Kirk Douglas moments. Here are ours, starting with "Spartacus."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "SPARTACUS")

KIRK DOUGLAS: (As Spartacus) What are we becoming - Romans? Have we learned nothing? What's happening to us? We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

NICK DENNIS: (As Dionysius) When you've got wine, you don't need bread.

(LAUGHTER)

DOUGLAS: (As Spartacus) You can't just be a gang of drunken raiders.

DENNIS: (As Dionysius) What else can we be?

DOUGLAS: (As Spartacus) Gladiators - an army of gladiators.

SIMON: "Ace⁵ In The Hole."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "ACE IN THE HOLE")

DOUGLAS: (As Charles Tatum) Leo Minosa is dead. He died a quarter of an hour with a drill just 10 feet away. There's nothing we can do anymore. Now go on home, all of you. The circus is over.

SIMON: "The Bad And The Beautiful."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL")

DOUGLAS: (As Jonathan Shields) Get that look off your face. Who gave you the right to dig into me and turn me inside out and decide what I'm like? How do you know how I feel about you - how deep it goes? Maybe I don't want anybody to own me - you or anybody. Get out. Get out. Get out.

SIMON: "Champion."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "CHAMPION")

DOUGLAS: (As Midge) You're going to be a good little girl 'cause if you aren't, I'll put you in the hospital for a long, long time. I've got to change now, but don't be here when I come out.

SIMON: "Lust⁶ For Life."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LUST FOR LIFE")

DOUGLAS: (As Vincent Van Gogh) Look at the fresh graves of the children in the cemetery⁷, scrub floors and pick coal with the women, get those fine clothes dirty with the blood and sweat of dying miners, then come here and lecture me about Christianity, hypocrite - hypocrite.

SIMON: "Detective Story."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DETECTIVE STORY")

DOUGLAS: (As Detective James McLeod) I'd just as soon Schneider died. I'd rather go to jail for 20 years than find out my wife was a tramp.

SIMON: "Lonely Are The Brave."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LONELY ARE THE BRAVE")

DOUGLAS: (As Jack⁸ Burns) It's 'cause I'm a loner clear down deep to my very guts⁹. Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him. A guy like that - he'd kill a woman like you 'cause he couldn't love you, not the way you are loved.

SIMON: Kirk Douglas turned 100 years old yesterday and looks like he could still lead an uprising of gladiators.

(SOUNDBITE OF "SPARTACUS" FILM SCORE)

1 cleft   

n.裂缝；adj.裂开的

参考例句：

• I hid the message in a cleft in the rock.我把情报藏在石块的裂缝里。
• He was cleft from his brother during the war.在战争期间，他与他的哥哥分离。

2 boxer   

n.制箱者，拳击手

参考例句：

• The boxer gave his opponent a punch on the nose.这个拳击手朝他对手的鼻子上猛击一拳。
• He moved lightly on his toes like a boxer.他像拳击手一样踮着脚轻盈移动。

3 cynical   

adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的，不信世道向善的

参考例句：

• The enormous difficulty makes him cynical about the feasibility of the idea.由于困难很大，他对这个主意是否可行持怀疑态度。
• He was cynical that any good could come of democracy.他不相信民主会带来什么好处。

4 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。

5 ace   

n.A牌；发球得分；佼佼者；adj.杰出的

参考例句：

• A good negotiator always has more than one ace in the hole.谈判高手总有数张王牌在手。
• He is an ace mechanic.He can repair any cars.他是一流的机械师,什么车都会修。

6 lust   

n.性(淫)欲；渴(欲)望；vi.对…有强烈的欲望

参考例句：

• He was filled with lust for power.他内心充满了对权力的渴望。
• Sensing the explorer's lust for gold, the chief wisely presented gold ornaments as gifts.酋长觉察出探险者们垂涎黄金的欲念，就聪明地把金饰品作为礼物赠送给他们。

7 cemetery   

n.坟墓，墓地，坟场

参考例句：

• He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
• His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。

8 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

9 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》