歌坛长青树麦当娜的人生观

Literally¹ when I was watching you onstage, I thought to myself, that you put everything you have into that performance, so there is nothing left in your side.

Yes, this is true. I had pushed myself till there's nothing left.

What is inside to you that says "I still have to put every ounce² of what I have on the stage?

Well, I mean the fact that my...my record is number one in 29 countries is, er, it means that,er, I'm connecting to people so when I go to that city and I do a show. I wanna give them my all, 'coz they are giving me their all by buying my record.

Since I've had the opportunity in the last year or two that these little windows, to (moments)kind of come and see you,(huh huh) you strike me as a person who leaves nothing to chance, who lives every day as if it's her last day on Earth.

Well, that's the way I should be living in my life. I would love to get to the end of every one of my days and think did I do everything I meant to achieve. Am I happy this is. . . if this were the last day of my life on Earth , would I be happy about it? I'd say 75% of the time, I'm um, it's YES , but 25% no.

Where's that come from?

Being aware, being more conscious of the way I am with people, being more responsible for myself. And how I interact³ with people, being more grateful. I think that's the main thing - being more grateful and appreciative⁴.

What are you most grateful for?

My family, yeah, 'coz my family keeps me grounded and keeps it all at real.

It is said you are also grateful for this response to this record?

Oh, yes, I'm grateful for that, too. Yes.

Because of the the award. . .

That's ephemeral, I mean.

Right, yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, but from the standpoint⁵ that you are an artist, you work, you clearly put everything you have (Yeah. ) into what you do (Yeah. ) sometimes it's widely successful?

And sometimes it's not. And I'm grateful for the ability to be able to write that because, you know, there is, there is another side to success and that's, well, that's perceived⁷ as, as a failure. But I don't perceive⁶ it that way. I think. . . . .

Like your last, like the previous CD.

Yeah, which, which is the worst selling album of my career, but one of my favourite records ever. But I, what I am grateful for is the ablility to just keep, keep doing what I do, and just you know, okay, people were, you know, people didn't accept that, fine, pick my crown⁸ of buffa flower, put it back on my head and keep going.

ha ha ha. . .

It's all all right?

Madonna says there is a very good possibility she will tour next summer.

1 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

2 ounce   

n.盎司，英两

参考例句：

• He poured in every ounce of power but couldn't make it.他竭尽了全力却无济于事。
• He has used up the last ounce of oil.他已用完最后一滴油。

3 interact   

vi.相互作用，相互影响，互通信息

参考例句：

• All things are interrelated and interact on each other.一切事物互相联系并相互作用。
• The policeman advised the criminal to interact with the police.警察劝罪犯与警方合作。

4 appreciative   

adj.有鉴赏力的，有眼力的；感激的

参考例句：

• She was deeply appreciative of your help.她对你的帮助深表感激。
• We are very appreciative of their support in this respect.我们十分感谢他们在这方面的支持。

5 standpoint   

n.立场，观点

参考例句：

• We should look at this from a historical standpoint.我们应从历史的观点看待这事。
• From my standpoint,this thing is just ridiculous.依我看来，这件事简直荒唐。

6 perceive   

vt.感知，感觉，察觉；意识到，理解

参考例句：

• Did you perceive a red colour or a green one?你看出来是红颜色还是绿颜色？
• I can't perceive any difference between these coins.我看不出这些硬币的区别。

7 perceived   

v.感觉( perceive的过去式和过去分词 )；视为；认为；理解为

参考例句：

• I perceived a change in his behaviour. 我注意到他举止有些改变。
• On entering his house, we at once perceived him to be tasteful. 我们一进他的房子，立刻感觉到他是个高品位的人。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 crown   

n.王冠，王权，顶点；v.使...成王，加冕，居...之顶

参考例句：

• He won the crown in 1973.他荣获1973年冠军称号。
• They wanted to crown Caesar king.他们想立凯撒为王。