访谈录 2011-03-23&03-25 斯蒂夫·马丁与甲壳虫乐队

S: The idea of having Paul McCartney sing a song that I wrote has to be one of the most exciting things of his life.

S: But let me tell you. Let me tell you how this happened. Lorne Michaels who is the...

S: Saturday Night Live.

C: Night Live.

S: Good one. That's why you are there, and I am here. He came to me like a year ago, and he said, you know, Steve, he said you don't impose¹ on your friends enough.

C: Oh,really?

S: Yeah, and I thought. You konw I don't. I am very shy about asking people to do something or something like that. I met Paul McCartney maybe three times in my life. So I can't really call him a friend. But Paul doesn't know that. You know he might think, we are friends. Cause’ he meets so many people , he can't remember who his friends are.

C: How would he know?

S: So I manage to get an email of his, Paul's assistant. So, I wrote, at first I recorded the song in my iphone and played it on the banjo and I sing it myself. So it's a litte modest recording². And, I emailed to his assistant and I waited about a month. I heard nothing. But I knew Paul was on tour. So it was gonna take some time. So about a month later I got an email back from Paul, said:" I am on tour. Haven't any chance to listen the song yet, but don't worry I will." And I sent another. Might three weeks went by and finally he said, I'll do it. And I was, wow, this is fantastic. So we went in to Asheville where we recorded the whole album and we laid down the track. I don't know what they are applauding³ for? We? I?  Laid down? Asheville? I don’t know. What else? And I still don't know what they are applauding for. And I went in and laid down the dummy⁴ track and I sang it again. And then we send that off to Paul. And now it's time to schedule Paul. So I wrote to him and said we got to set a dates, we set a date. And now we are like  three days before we are gonna record Paul in Amagansen.We got an email from his assistant, and the email says that Paw wants to know what part you want him to sing. Oh, and I said, well, we thought the whole thing, and he said well Paul said he was gonna back you up. And I said, I thought, what, and went all the emails, did I mislead him or something you know, and I said well, Ok, but I 'm a terrible singer. So then I got an email back from Paul and he said, well, as a little-know band from Liverpool once said, we can work it out. So I went in and now I record the song again with me singing doing my best efforts. And we did every trick in the book, you know with the echo⁵, the weaver⁶, the every, you know, sound trick, I sang like a "Mormon Tabernacle Choir⁷ ", you know. And we sent that off to him, and so now I haven't heard it back, so we were flying to Armgance and we were waiting for Paul to arrive at this little studio actually in someone's house, very nice person. And then Paul arrives, and he said, you know, when you said you are a terrible singer, I thought you were being a humble⁸, but you weren't.

1 impose   

vt.把…强加于，加重…负担；征收(税款)

参考例句：

• Don't impose yourself on people who don't like you.不要硬缠着不喜欢你的人。
• I don't want to impose on you.我并不想打扰你。

2 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

3 applauding   

v.鼓掌( applaud的现在分词 )；称赞，赞许

参考例句：

• A low and applauding murmur ran through the assembly. 会众中响起了一阵轻轻的赞美声。 来自辞典例句
• The audience showed its approval by applauding. 观众鼓掌以示赞许。 来自辞典例句

4 dummy   

n.假的东西；(哄婴儿的)橡皮奶头

参考例句：

• The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹，只是一个假货。
• The boys played soldier with dummy swords made of wood.男孩们用木头做的假木剑玩打仗游戏。

5 echo   

n.回音，共鸣；vi.发出回声；vt.模仿，附和

参考例句：

• She shouted on the mountaintop and listened for the echo.她在山顶上大声喊着，然后聆听着回声。
• I should like to echo the words of the previous speaker.我想重复前面一位发言者的话。

6 weaver   

n.织布工；编织者

参考例句：

• She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快，而且布的质量很好。
• The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。

7 choir   

n.唱诗班，唱诗班的席位，合唱团，舞蹈团；v.合唱

参考例句：

• The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
• The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。

8 humble   

adj.谦卑的，恭顺的；地位低下的；v.降低，贬低

参考例句：

• In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见，他将在选举中获胜。
• Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。