偶像勵志英語演講 46:讓父母為你驕傲(6)

[00:00.01]I remember very clearly my own first conscious attempt at acting. 我很清楚地記得自己第一次有意識地嘗試演戲的情景。 [00:05.29]I was six, placing my mother's half slip over my head 那時我六歲，把媽媽的半裙罩在頭上， [00:10.49]in preparation to play the Virgin Mary in our living room. 正準備在客廳里扮演圣母瑪利亞。 [00:15.40]As I swaddled my Betsy Wetsy doll, I felt quiet, holy, 當我抱著我的洋娃娃，我感覺安靜、神圣。 [00:26.26]actually, and my transfigured face and very changed demeanor captured on super-8 by my dad, 事實上，我容光煥發(fā)的表情和不同往常的行為被父親用八毫米的攝像機記錄了下來。 [00:32.51]pulled my little brother Harry to play Joseph and Dana too, a barnyard animial, into the trance. 我還把弟弟哈利也拉進來扮演約瑟，也拉來了小動物達納。他們被我的表演迷住了， [00:42.08]They were actually pulled into this little nativity scene by the intensity of my focus, 我的專注把他們帶入了耶穌誕生的場景中。 [00:52.15]in my usual technique for getting them to do what I want, 這就是我想讓他們幫忙時常用的小把戲， [00:54.59]yelling at them would never ever have achieved 跟他們吼叫是沒有用的。 [00:57.35]and I learned something on that day. 而且那天我還學到了一些其他經驗。 [01:03.09]Later when I was nine, I remember taking my mother's eyebrow pencil 之后，記得當我九歲的時候，我拿起媽媽的眉筆， [01:08.21]and carefully drawing lines all over my face, replicating the wrinkles that I had memorized on the face of my grandmother whom I adored 仔細地照著我曾記得的外婆臉上的皺紋，在自己臉上畫上了和她一樣的皺紋，畫了一臉， [01:20.26]and made my mother take my picture 然后讓我媽媽拍照留念。 [01:23.24]and I look at it now, and, of course,I look like my grandmother then. 今天當我再看到當年拍攝的那張照片時，當然比起那時，現在的我更像那時的外婆了。 [01:30.32]But I really do remember in my bones how it was possible on that day to feel her age. 但是我從骨子里記得，當時我是如何感受到了她的年紀。 [01:39.51]I stooped, I felt weighted down but cheerful, 我的背駝了，身子也感覺到沉重而向下墜，但是我卻很高興， [01:46.00]you know I felt like her. 因為，我覺得自己模仿得很像外婆。

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