英语新闻视频：张曼玉英文访谈(视频)

张曼玉（Maggie Cheung）出席爱丁堡电影节时接受的英文采访。讲述了她来爱丁堡参加电影节的原因：是收到了一封题为“Because”的邮件，写满了她应该有此一行的原因。

　　"This is what life is about in the way: because you try to do somebody a favor, but in the end, I think I got most of it."

　　这是不是常说的“助人者助己，成人者成己”呢？

　　下面大家一起就这个视频练习下英语听力吧，张曼玉的英式英语还是挺有味道的噢。

　　张曼玉英文简介

　　Maggie Cheung Man yuk (born 20 September 1964) is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. Some of her most commercially successful work was in the action genre¹, but Cheung once said in an interview that of all the work she has done, the films that really meant something to her are Song of Exile, Centre Stage, Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love. As Emily Wang in Clean, her last starring role to date, she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Cheung is multilingual, having learned to speak English, Mandarin² and French. Her native language is Cantonese.

　　She married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998. The pair divorced in 2001 but their relationship remained amicable³. In 2004, Cheung made her award-winning film Clean with him. As part of her portrayal⁴ of the drug-addicted aspiring⁵ singer Emily Wang in Clean, Cheung performed songs written by David Roback of Mazzy Star.

　　She had a relationship with Hong Kong film director Derek Yee in the 1980s.

1 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

2 Mandarin   

n.中国官话，国语，满清官吏；adj.华丽辞藻的

参考例句：

• Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
• Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。

3 amicable   

adj.和平的，友好的；友善的

参考例句：

• The two nations reached an amicable agreement.两国达成了一项友好协议。
• The two nations settled their quarrel in an amicable way.两国以和睦友好的方式解决了他们的争端。

4 portrayal   

n.饰演；描画

参考例句：

• His novel is a vivid portrayal of life in a mining community.他的小说生动地描绘了矿区的生活。
• The portrayal of the characters in the novel is lifelike.该书中的人物写得有血有肉。

5 aspiring   

adj.有志气的；有抱负的；高耸的v.渴望；追求

参考例句：

• Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
• He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句