076 卓别林

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Good day, young lady

您好，年轻的小姐。

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It's nice to meet you

很高兴见到你。

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Who are you?

你是谁？

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Who am I? My name is Charlie Chaplin

我是谁？我叫查理·卓别林。

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I was the most famous silent movie actor in the world

我曾经是世界上最著名的默片演员。

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What are silent movies?

什么是默片？

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Silent movies were the first kind of movie

默片是最早的电影类型。

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In silent movies, the actors do not talk

默片里，演员不说话。

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No talking? That sounds boring

不说话？听起来很无聊。

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Absolutely not! Silent movies are exciting and funny

绝对不是！默片既精彩又有趣。

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Millions of people saw my movies

成千上万的人看过我的电影。

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Everyone loved them

大家都喜欢它们。

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Really?

真的吗？

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Do you like to read storybooks?

你喜欢读故事书吗？

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Well, silent movies are like storybooks

嗯，默片就像故事书一样。

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But they are much better because the pictures move

但它们要好得多，因为画面会动。

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That's why they are called movies — because they have moving pictures

这就是为什么它们被称为电影——因为它们有会动的画面。

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Movies have moving pictures. Ha-ha!

电影有会动的画面。哈哈！

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Why did you stop making silent movies?

你为什么不再拍默片了？

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These days, people don't want to see silent movies; everyone wants talkies

现在，人们不想看默片了；大家都想看有声电影。

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Talkies?

有声电影？

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That's the word people first used for talking movies

那是人们最初用来指代有声电影的词语。

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Movies where the actors talked were called talkies

演员开口说话的电影叫做有声电影。

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Did you come from Hollywood?

你来自好莱坞吗？

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No, I was born far away from Hollywood

不，我出生在远离好莱坞的地方。

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I came from England

我来自英国。

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I was born on April 16, 1889, in London

我于1889年4月16日出生在伦敦。

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Like me, my father and mother were both entertainers

像我一样，我的父亲和母亲都是演艺人员。

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Were they rich and famous?

他们富有而出名吗？

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No, we were very poor

不，我们非常贫穷。

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But my parents gave me something better than money

但我的父母给了我比金钱更宝贵的东西。

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They gave me the talent to entertain people

他们给了我娱乐大众的天赋。

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When I was very young, they taught me how to sing and dance

在我很小的时候，他们就教我如何唱歌跳舞。

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When I was five years old, I sang and danced in front of many people

我五岁那年，就在许多人面前又唱又跳。

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Did they like you?

他们喜欢你吗？

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Of course, they did

当然，他们喜欢。

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They loved me and they threw money at me

他们非常喜爱我，还朝我扔钱呢。

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That must have been exciting

那一定很令人兴奋吧。

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It was. My mother said I would be the most famous person in the world

是的。我母亲说，我会成为世界上最出名的人。

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But then, sadly, my father died when I was twelve years old

但后来，不幸的是，我十二岁时父亲去世了。

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When he died, my mother became very sick as well

他去世后，我母亲也病得很重。

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After that, my brother and I had to go to the workhouse

在那之后，我和哥哥不得不去了济贫院。

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What is a workhouse?

济贫院是什么？

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It was a terrible place where poor children had to go when their families had no money

那是个很可怕的地方，穷人家的孩子没钱时就得去那里。

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The children had to work very hard from morning until night

孩子们必须从早到晚拼命干活。

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How did you become a famous movie star?

那你是怎么成为著名电影明星的呢？

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First, I became a stage actor

首先，我成为了一名舞台剧演员。

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Then, I joined the Casey Circus as a mime

然后，我加入了凯西马戏团，当了一名哑剧演员。

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Mime? What's that?

哑剧？那是什么？

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A mime is an actor who uses only his body and his face

哑剧演员就是只用身体和面部表情来表演的演员。

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Watch! I'll show you!

看着！我表演给你看！

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Ha-ha! You're funny

哈哈！你真滑稽。

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That's what everyone said

大家都这么说。

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They said I was a very funny mime

他们说我是一个非常滑稽的哑剧演员。

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So I decided to become a silent comedian

所以我决定成为一名无声喜剧演员。

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I made everyone laugh

我让每个人都笑了。

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Soon, I went to the United States and started making movies

不久，我去了美国，开始拍电影。

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In 1914, I acted in my first full-length silent movie

1914年，我出演了我的第一部完整长篇无声电影。

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It was called Making a Living

那部电影叫《谋生》。

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Then I created my most famous character, the Tramp

后来我创造了我最著名的角色——流浪汉。

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With my funny little suit, mustache, and cane, I made the whole world laugh

穿着我滑稽的小西装，留着小胡子，拄着手杖，我让全世界都笑了。

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I guess everyone loved you

我猜人人都喜欢你。

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No, not everyone liked me

不，不是每个人都喜欢我。

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In the United States, some policemen thought that I was a troublemaker

在美国，一些警察认为我是个惹麻烦的人。

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Some of my movies made them angry, so I had to go back to England

我的一些电影让他们很生气，所以我只好回到了英国。

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Did you ever go back to America?

你后来又回过美国吗？

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Yes, I went one more time

是的，我又回去过一次。

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In 1972, I was given a great honor at the Academy Awards

1972年，我在奥斯卡颁奖礼上获得了一项莫大的荣誉。

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That was one of the happiest moments of my life

那是我一生中最快乐的时刻之一。