2006年VOA标准英语-Cowboy Romance Brokeback Mountain Leads Os

By Mike O'Sullivan
Los Angeles
31 January 2006

The cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain" leads the Academy Award nominations², announced in Los Angeles early Tuesday. The film earned eight nominations, including for best picture, best director, and best leading actor.

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Brokeback Mountain
  

Ang Lee earned a directing nomination¹ for Brokeback Mountain, a tale of unexpected love between two cowboys.

Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger³ was among the nominees⁴ for best actor, announced by actress Mira Sorvino at an early morning news conference. Other best-actor nominees include Philip Seymour Hoffman for his role as writer Truman Capote in Capote, and Joaquin Phoenix⁵, who played singer Johnny Cash in Walk the Line.

David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck  
  
"The nominees for best performance by an actor in a leading role are Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote; Terrence Howard in Hustle⁶ & Flow; Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain; Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line; and Davidin Good Night, and Good Luck, announced Sorvino.
 
  
  
Among best actress nominees is Reese Witherspoon, who played the singer June Carter, wife of Johnny Cash, in Walk the Line. Other nominees are Judi Dench for the World War II-era comedy Mrs. Henderson Presents, Felicity Huffman for her role as a man about to undergo a sex change operation in Transamerica, Keira Knightley for Pride and Prejudice and Charlize Theron for North Country.

 
Scene from Syriana 
  
George Clooney received an acting⁷ nomination for his supporting role in Syriana, in which he played a CIA undercover agent, and for best director and co-writer of Good Night, and Good Luck. That film tells the story of reporter Edward R. Murrow and his battles with Communist-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy.
 
  
  
Directing nominees include Steven Spielberg for Munich. The film about the aftermath of the 1972 killing⁸ of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics earned five nominations, including best picture.

The film Crash, an ensemble⁹ story that explores racial and ethnic¹⁰ tensions, received six nominations, including best picture and best supporting actor for Matt Dillon.

Nominees for best foreign language film include a Palestinian film on the last hours of a pair of suicide bombers¹¹, called Paradise Now.  Other foreign film nominees include the tale of an anti-Nazi resister, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, from Germany; the Italian film Don't Tell, Joyeux Noel from France and Tsotsi from South Africa. 

 
Actress Mira Sorvino, left, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis announce nominations for Best Picture for 78th annual Academy Awards Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006
  
The Academy Awards, or Oscars, are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and will be handed out in Hollywood March 5.

1 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

2 nominations   

n.提名，任命( nomination的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Nominations are invited for the post of party chairman. 为党主席职位征集候选人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Much coverage surrounded his abortive bids for the 1960,1964, and 1968 Republican Presidential nominations. 许多消息报道都围绕着1960年、1964年和1968年他为争取提名为共和党总统候选人所做努力的失败。 来自辞典例句

3 ledger   

n.总帐，分类帐；帐簿

参考例句：

• The young man bowed his head and bent over his ledger again.那个年轻人点头应诺，然后又埋头写起分类帐。
• She is a real accountant who even keeps a detailed household ledger.她不愧是搞财务的，家庭分类账记得清楚详细。

4 nominees   

n.被提名者，被任命者( nominee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
• A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。 来自互联网

5 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

6 hustle   

v.推搡；竭力兜售或获取；催促；n.奔忙(碌)

参考例句：

• It seems that he enjoys the hustle and bustle of life in the big city.看起来他似乎很喜欢大城市的热闹繁忙的生活。
• I had to hustle through the crowded street.我不得不挤过拥挤的街道。

7 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

8 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

9 ensemble   

n.合奏(唱)组；全套服装；整体，总效果

参考例句：

• We should consider the buildings as an ensemble.我们应把那些建筑物视作一个整体。
• It is ensemble music for up to about ten players,with one player to a part.它是最多十人演奏的合奏音乐，每人担任一部分。

10 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
• The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。

11 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》