世界名人简介 第73期:昆汀·塔伦蒂诺

 Quentin Tarantino is an award-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He is known for his stylish¹ and violent movies. He rose to fame in the early 1990s for his unique directing method that relied heavily on dialogue. His screenplays are usually full of unforgettable lines and scenes. He has become a cult² director around the world while achieving superstar status.

昆汀·塔伦蒂诺是一名屡获嘉奖的美国导演、编剧以及演员。他的电影独具风格，并因拍摄暴力电影而被人们所熟知。20世纪90年代，他的“人物对白”拍摄法使他声名大噪。他的剧本总会出现许多经典台词，经典场景。在成就巨星的同时，他也成为了一名风靡一时的当红导演。

Tarantino was born in Tennessee in 1963. He dropped out of high school when he was 15 to learn acting³. He got a job in a video rental⁴ store and spent all day watching and analyzing⁵ films. He had long discussions about them with customers. For Tarantino, this proved to be an education in directing that he would bring to his own moviemaking.

1963年，塔伦蒂诺出生在田纳西州。15岁那年，塔伦蒂诺高中辍学，学习表演。他在一家录像租赁店工作，每天观看电影，对电影进行分析。与顾客展开长时间讨论。对于塔伦蒂诺来说，这样的经历教会了他如何导演，并最终拥有了自己的电影作品。

Tarantino met a movie producer at a Hollywood party who encouraged him to write a screenplay. In January 1992 ‘Reservoir Dogs’ came out and Tarantino instantly became a cult legend. He then wrote the screenplays for the box-office hits ‘True Romance’ and ‘Natural Born Killers’. In 1994, Tarantino made his classic ‘Pulp Fiction’ and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

在一次好莱坞派对上，塔伦蒂诺结识了一位电影制作人，他鼓励塔伦蒂诺创作剧本。1992年1月，《落水狗》上映，他立即成为了传奇偶像。之后，两部热门影片《真实的浪漫》《天生杀人狂》都是塔伦蒂诺的编剧。1994年，他编导了《低俗小说》，并获得戛纳电影节金棕榈最佳影片奖。

Tarantino made a few more films before writing and directing the ‘Kill Bill’ movies. These films combined the movie styles of Chinese martial⁶ arts, Japanese drama, spaghetti westerns and Italian horror. They confirmed him as one of Hollywood’s elite⁷ directors. Tarantino once said: "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘No, I went to films.’”

在编导《杀死比尔》系列电影之前，塔伦蒂诺又制作了几部影片。这些影片结合了中国武打片、日本戏剧、意大利式西部片以及意大利恐怖片。这些电影作品成就了他好莱坞杰出导演的称号。塔伦蒂诺曾说：“当有人问我是不是电影学院毕业时，我说没有，我说我“毕业”于电影。”

1.film director 电影导演

例句：I knew we were on to something, and that I was working with a powerful, visionary film director.

我知道我们在做的事情。 我也知道我是在跟一位很强大的，有远见的电影导演合作。

2.drop out of 退出

例句：If your cards don't promise a winning outcome, you can drop out of the game without great loss.

如果你的牌不能保证可以获得胜利的输出，你可以退出游戏而不会损失太多。

3.encourage to 鼓励

例句：I encourage to join the list and contribute your thoughts to the project.

我鼓励您加入这个列表，并提供您对这个项目的想法。

4.martial arts 武术

例句：Song Zhifei and Li Guoqiang, martial arts students, spar in the their teacher's underground training room.

宋志飞和李国强是学武术的学生，他们在老师的地下训练室里练拳。

1 stylish   

adj.流行的，时髦的；漂亮的，气派的

参考例句：

• He's a stylish dresser.他是个穿着很有格调的人。
• What stylish women are wearing in Paris will be worn by women all over the world.巴黎女性时装往往会引导世界时装潮流。

2 cult   

n.异教，邪教；时尚，狂热的崇拜

参考例句：

• Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书，但有一定的崇拜者。
• The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。

3 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。

4 rental   

n.租赁，出租，出租业

参考例句：

• The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
• We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。

5 analyzing   

v.分析；分析( analyze的现在分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析n.分析

参考例句：

• Analyzing the date of some socialist countries presents even greater problem s. 分析某些社会主义国家的统计数据，暴露出的问题甚至更大。 来自辞典例句
• He undoubtedly was not far off the mark in analyzing its predictions. 当然，他对其预测所作的分析倒也八九不离十。 来自辞典例句

6 martial   

adj.战争的，军事的，尚武的，威武的

参考例句：

• The sound of martial music is always inspiring.军乐声总是鼓舞人心的。
• The officer was convicted of desertion at a court martial.这名军官在军事法庭上被判犯了擅离职守罪。

7 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。