名人认知系列 演员明星8：Natalie Portman 娜塔莉·波特曼

Natalie Portman

娜塔莉·波特曼

She is the graduate from the department of psychology¹ in Harvard University.

她是哈佛大学心理学学士。

She starred in the film of the Professional.

她曾以《这个杀手不太冷》红遍全球。

She also portrayed² the combination of white swan and black swan.

她塑造的黑天鹅和白天鹅的合体让人印象深刻。

She is Natalie Portman, the newly best actress for the 2011 Academy Award.

她就是2011年第83届奥斯卡新科影后娜塔莉·波特曼。

17 years ago, she cast the role of Mathilde in the film the Professional. Since then, she was hailed as a child star with uncommonly³ skilled performance. For most people, young Natalie easily achieved this role for her uniqueness, however, things didn’t seem like that.

17年前，娜塔莉·波特曼以《这个杀手不太冷》的小萝莉的角色迅速蹿红，很多人都认为这一切都是上天的眷顾。可是这一切并不如大家想象的那般美好。

Though she was discovered at the age of 10 by a modeling scout⁴ when she expressed her interests in acting⁵ rather than modeling, she was sent to the acting agents then she got the chance to take a screening test in the Professional. She wasn’t approved by the director until she begged him for another chance to play a new scene. And finally she got the chance to let the world remember her.

尽管在10岁时，被模特星探相中，但极具个性的小波特曼立即就表明了自己只对表演感兴趣，这才有了试镜《这个杀手不太冷》的机会。虽然在梦想的带领下，波特曼却并没有一举获得出演角色的机会，而是在恳求再加试一段后才最终被相中。最终她得到了得以让世界记住她的角色。

Maybe all these experiences just express a little part of her distinctions.In 1999 when she had already filmed in Star War, Heat, Beautiful Girls etc and costarred with many film stars, she entered Harvard at the age of 18 after graduation from high school to study psychology.

也许这些经历只是她诸多天赋中的一小部分。1999年时，波特曼高中毕业，而此时的她已出演过包括《星战》在内等多部电影，也与无数大牌明星同台合作，但波特曼却意外地选择进入哈佛大学心理学系深造。

Natalie Portman was Jewish and she began the dancing training when she was 4 years old and kept training since then, which won her profound advantages in starring in the film Black Swan. She is an advocate for animal rights and has been a vegetarian⁶ since childhood and she does not eat animal products or wear fur, feathers, or leather. Meanwhile Portman has also supported antipoverty activities. For this she is called Audrey Hepburn the second.

娜塔莉·波特曼是犹太人。她四岁起就开始坚持学习舞蹈，这为她在黑天鹅中的出色表演增色不少。娜塔莉·波特曼还是动物权益的维护者，她从小吃素、不穿皮草。她也积极倡导节能行为。因此，她也被人们称为奥黛丽·赫本第二。
 

1 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

2 portrayed   

v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 )；描述；描绘；描画

参考例句：

• Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中，他始终把自己说成是受害者。
• The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 uncommonly   

adv. 稀罕(极，非常)

参考例句：

• an uncommonly gifted child 一个天赋异禀的儿童
• My little Mary was feeling uncommonly empty. 我肚子当时正饿得厉害。

4 scout   

n.童子军，侦察员；v.侦察，搜索

参考例句：

• He was mistaken for an enemy scout and badly wounded.他被误认为是敌人的侦察兵，受了重伤。
• The scout made a stealthy approach to the enemy position.侦察兵偷偷地靠近敌军阵地。

5 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。

6 vegetarian   

n.素食者；adj.素食的

参考例句：

• She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
• I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。