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卡马乌·贝尔谈到比尔·考斯比复杂的人生

Kamau Bell Addresses Bill Cosby’s Complex Legacy¹

In 2018 actor and comedian² Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated³ indecent assault and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.He was released last summer after Pennsylvanias supreme⁴ court overturned his conviction on a procedural issue.Cosby has denied the allegations by dozens of women who say he drugged and raped⁵ them.

2018年，演员兼喜剧演员比尔·科斯比被判三项严重猥亵罪，并被判处10年监禁。去年夏天，在宾夕法尼亚州最高法院推翻了他在程序问题上的定罪后，他被释放。科斯比否认了数十名女性的指控，她们说他给她们下药并强奸了她们。

This was complicated, how do we talk about Bill Cosby, its complex come out you know.Comedian Kamau Bell says it was a difficult decision to make the docu-series we need to talk about Cosby.Like a lot of people as I say in the series like I had a hard time reckoning with all this stuff.Bell describes himself as a Cosby child one of many who grew up watching the entertainers programs, as a comedian, he says he was inspired by Cosby,but after the revelations he says he had a hard time admitting it.And Id be like I cant⁶ say Bill Cosby but then I was like but if I dont say Bill Cosby as a black man of my age,Ill look insane like how did not reckon with Bill Cosby, and so I started to say the artist formerly⁷ known as Bill Cosby,as a way to indicate that I knew there was a lot going on there and that generally satisfied people,but that sort of was the beginning of me trying to reckon with it publicly.Bells Tokyo series follows Cosbys meteoric⁸ rise from a stand-up comic in 1960 San Francisco to the beloved father figure in the internationally famous the Cosby show.

这很复杂，我们怎么谈论比尔·考斯比，这很复杂。喜剧演员卡莫·贝尔表示，制作我们需要谈论科斯比的纪录片系列是一个艰难的决定。就像纪录片中说的很多人一样，我很难考虑到所有这些东西。贝尔称自己是科斯比的孩子，和其他许多人一样，他是看着这位娱乐明星的节目长大的。作为一名喜剧演员，他说他受到了科斯比的启发但在这些爆料之后，他说他很难承认这一点。我不能说比尔·科斯比，但是如果我不说比尔·科斯比是我这个年龄的黑人的话我会看起来很疯狂，就像我没有和比尔·考斯比打交道一样，所以我开始说，这位以前被称为比尔·考斯比的艺术家，作为一种表明我知道那里有很多事情发生，人们普遍满意的一种方式，但这在某种程度上是我试图公开对待这件事的开始。贝尔的东京系列讲述了科斯比从1960年旧金山的单口喜剧演员迅速崛起为国际知名的科斯比秀中受人爱戴的父亲形象的故事。

It was the number one show in South Africa or a hit show in South Africa because the government of South Africa saw it as safe.Because its sort of like this anodyne⁹ family sitcom¹⁰ but the the white mostly white government South Africa,but the black people of South Africa saw it as revolutionary because he was putting up Nelson Mandela images,the kids, the grandkids were named Winnie and Nelson and there was apartheid stuff,and also it showed black people living in the full thrust of their blackness proudly.All the while Cosbys accusers who agreed to be interviewed for the series described how he drugged and raped them.Spanish fly the girl would drink it and hello America.Actress Eden Turl is one of them.

这是南非排名第一的节目，或者说是南非的热门节目，因为南非政府认为它是安全的。因为这有点像一个平淡的家庭情景喜剧，但是南非政府大部分是白人但南非黑人认为这是革命性的，因为他张贴了纳尔逊·曼德拉的照片，孩子们，孙子们被取名为温尼和纳尔逊，那里有种族隔离的东西，它也展示了黑人骄傲地生活在他们的黑人生活中。在此期间，同意接受该系列采访的科斯比的原告描述了他是如何给她们下药和强奸的。那个女孩喝了，就会说“你好，美国”。女演员伊登·图尔就是其中之一。

A lot of people knew because you cant do what he did unless you have other people supporting what youre doing.And the people who are higher up are prioritizing a hit project over a safe and supportive and effective work environment.According to rollingstone. com after Bells Tokyo series was released, Cosbys rep Andrew Wyatt called Bell a pr hack¹² and said Cosby had been the target of numerous media that have for too many years distorted and omitted truths intentionally¹³.Bell says he stands by the women who have come forward to tell their stories.Nobody could deal with the gap between who they thought Bill Cosby was and who he was revealing himself to be.

很多人都知道，因为你不能做他做的事情，除非你有其他人支持你正在做的事情。更高级别的人会优先考虑一个热门项目，而不是安全、支持和有效的工作环境。据Rolingstone.com报道，贝尔的东京系列剧发布后，科斯比的代表安德鲁·怀亚特称贝尔是公关黑客，并表示科斯比多年来一直是许多媒体故意歪曲和遗漏真相的目标。贝尔说，他支持那些挺身而出讲述她们故事的女性。没有人能够处理好他们所认为的比尔·考斯比和他所展现的自己之间的差距。

Wed¹¹ never dealt with a gap that large before because whatever you think about most of the men if not all the men who fell during the Metoo amendment¹⁴ movement.

我们以前从未处理过这么大的差距，因为不管你怎么看，在Metoo修正案运动中倒下的大多数男人

Nobody none of them were international cultural icons¹⁵, heroes and also specifically none of them were anybodys childhood heroes the way Bill Cosby was.

他们中没有人是国际文化偶像、英雄，也没有人像比尔·考斯比那样成为任何人童年时代的英雄。

Bell says the docudrama does not offer easy answers but it provides enough material to allow viewers to process how to deal with someone who meant so much to them.

贝尔说，这部文献并没有提供简单的答案，但它提供了足够的材料，让观众能够处理如何与对他们意义重大的人打交道。

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1 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

2 comedian   

n.喜剧演员；滑稽演员

参考例句：

• The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
• The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。

3 aggravated   

使恶化( aggravate的过去式和过去分词 )； 使更严重； 激怒； 使恼火

参考例句：

• If he aggravated me any more I shall hit him. 假如他再激怒我，我就要揍他。
• Far from relieving my cough, the medicine aggravated it. 这药非但不镇咳，反而使我咳嗽得更厉害。

4 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

5 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

6 cant   

n.斜穿，黑话，猛扔

参考例句：

• The ship took on a dangerous cant to port.船只出现向左舷危险倾斜。
• He knows thieves'cant.他懂盗贼的黑话。

7 formerly   

adv.从前，以前

参考例句：

• We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
• This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。

8 meteoric   

adj.流星的，转瞬即逝的，突然的

参考例句：

• In my mind,losing weight is just something meteoric.在我眼中，减肥不过是昙花一现的事情。
• His early career had been meteoric.他的早期生涯平步青云。

9 anodyne   

n.解除痛苦的东西，止痛剂

参考例句：

• It was their delight,their folly,their anodyne,their intellectual stimulant.这是他们的人生乐趣，他们的一时荒唐，他们的止痛药，他们的脑力刺激剂。
• Friendship is not only the condiment but also the anodyne of life.友谊是人生的调味品，也是人生的止痛药。

10 sitcom   

n.情景喜剧，（广播、电视的）系列幽默剧

参考例句：

• This sitcom is produced in cooperation with Hong Kong TV.这部连续剧是同香港电视台联合制作的。
• I heard that a new sitcom is coming out next season.我听说下一季会推出一个新的情境喜剧。

11 wed   

v.娶，嫁，与…结婚

参考例句：

• The couple eventually wed after three year engagement.这对夫妇在订婚三年后终于结婚了。
• The prince was very determined to wed one of the king's daughters.王子下定决心要娶国王的其中一位女儿。

12 hack   

n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳

参考例句：

• He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
• Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。

13 intentionally   

ad.故意地，有意地

参考例句：

• I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
• The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所，因此没有资格再获得提供住房。

14 amendment   

n.改正，修正，改善，修正案

参考例句：

• The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
• The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。

15 icons   

n.偶像( icon的名词复数 )；（计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的）符号，图像

参考例句：

• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下，后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓