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Helen Mirren pens memoir¹

The Oscar winning actress talks about her new book “In the Frame²,” her mother and what a palm reader predicted for her

You know why people say about Helen Mirren when she came to her success later on in life. But you had an experience, Matt alluded³ to it at the top of this half hour. When you were 23, that made you realize (Yes) ok, I might get success later on?

Well yes, I was very confused at the age of twenty-three, I think the twenties was a very difficult time, actually much more difficult in your teens. You don’t know whether your dreams are gonna come true or not. You, suddenly reality strikes you in the face, you’ve got to do with life and all its difficulties. And I was very unhappy and confused, and I went to a shrink⁴ first, and that didn’t work out for various reasons that I described in the book. So then I was told about a hand..a guy who reads hands, so I went to this guy, and he was a funky⁵ little old guy in the backstreet in London. And he said write this down, because you’ll forget what I am going to say to you, and he gave me sheets of paper and a pencil, and he started, he spoke⁶ really fast. And I wrote wrote wrote wrote wrote, like paper after paper after paper. And I worked out. Then I had this huge sheaf of papers. It was absolutely right. I could hardly remember what he said, but my whole life as it was to be revealed⁷ was there in these papers and I looked at them and I thought, you know what? I don’t want to know, I don’t want to know, I want my life to be an adventure and surprise. And I found the first rubbish bin⁸ I could find, trash can as you say, and I throw it into the trash can, but I did remember one thing that he said. And he said you will achieve fame and fortune but it won’t happen until (your) until you’re in your forties.

And you certainly did, I mean boy we know you are here in this country really as the queen. That’s how everybody thinks we…

No, before you knew Miss Jane Tennison, remember it?

Well, that’s true, too. But...

I will prefer being the police detective to the queen, it’s quite....you could

Right, but I am looking through the book, and I can’t even show these pictures, you know these picture.

Yes, yes…

Hello, very very racy pictures of a young woman.

Well, I lived with a wonderful photographer for four years, and we did erotic photographic work together. And that’s some of it, the small part of it.

But you’ve always been comfortable too in film with nudity. It’s ever been a big deal?

No, I was never comfortable.

No?

It's never comfortable to have you to be the only person on a set of a hundred and forty people and mostly men, and to be the only person with your cloth off. That’s never very comfortable situation, but I’ve dealt with it, and to got on with it. You know.

Yes. Congratulations on that Academy⁹ Award, by the way I’ve never had a chance to say that to you in person. Where is it?

Thank you, thank you, it’s in England actually. I took it back to England. And that’s enough for the Midland and America. I thought he he had to live in England. He's got a little gold scarf that was knitted¹⁰ by a fan, and I thought that was a very nice present for him.

And this is a lovely present for any of your fans. Great read, Helen Mirren, thank you.

Thank you, thank you very much.

So, Mirren's new book “In the Frame, My Life in Words and Pictures" available in bookstores right now.

shrink：Slang for a psychiatrist¹¹.

1 memoir   

n.[pl.]回忆录，自传；记事录

参考例句：

• He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他刚刚出了一本传记来纪念他的队长。
• In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那个女演员的自传中，她写到了自己苦乐掺半的初恋。

2 frame   

n.框架，结构，体格；vt.构成，设计，制定，使适合，陷害； 框架，（是指在数据链路层中，将网络层数据包加上开始与结尾信息包组成一个框架）

参考例句：

• The house has a wooden frame which is faced with brick.这个房子是木质结构的砖瓦房。
• We must frame up that picture.我们必须给那幅画装上框。

3 alluded   

提及，暗指( allude的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• In your remarks you alluded to a certain sinister design. 在你的谈话中，你提到了某个阴谋。
• She also alluded to her rival's past marital troubles. 她还影射了对手过去的婚姻问题。

4 shrink   

n.收缩，萎缩；vi.收缩，退缩，萎缩；vt.使收缩

参考例句：

• Washing wool in hot water will shrink it.在热水中洗毛织品会使其缩水。
• This cloth won't shrink when it's washed.这种布下水不缩。

5 funky   

adj.畏缩的，怯懦的，霉臭的；adj.新式的，时髦的

参考例句：

• The kitchen smelled really funky.这个厨房有一股霉味。
• It is a funky restaurant with very interesting art on the walls.那是一家墙上挂着很有意思的绘画的新潮餐馆。

6 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

7 revealed   

v.显示( reveal的过去式和过去分词 )；揭示；泄露；[神学]启示

参考例句：

• They revealed to me that the experiment had failed. 他们向我透露试验失败了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His insincerity is revealed by the quick goggle of his eyes. 他眼睛的快速转动泄露了他的不诚。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

9 academy   

n.(高等)专科院校；学术社团，协会，研究院

参考例句：

• This is an academy of music.这是一所音乐专科学院。
• I visited Chinese Academy of Sciences yesterday.我昨天去访问了中国科学院。

10 knitted   

v.（使）愈合( knit的过去式和过去分词 )；编结；（使）紧密地结合；织平针

参考例句：

• I knitted this cardigan myself. 我自己织的这件开襟毛衣。
• Our two nations are knitted together by common concerns. 共同关心的问题使我们两国团结一致。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 psychiatrist   

n.精神病专家；精神病医师

参考例句：

• He went to a psychiatrist about his compulsive gambling.他去看精神科医生治疗不能自拔的赌瘾。
• The psychiatrist corrected him gently.精神病医师彬彬有礼地纠正他。