偶像励志英语演讲 第89期:凯特·温斯莱特获得第66届金球奖剧情类最佳女主角(1)（在线收听）

　　Ok! I am so sorry. Mery, Christine. Oh, God! Who is the other one? Angelina. This is a-ok. Now forgive me. Gather. This is really happening. Ok! I'm gonna try and do this off the cuff. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Oh, God! Please wrap up. You have no idea how much I'm not wrapping up! Ok. Gather. Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press. This is absolutely extraordinary. I've had an amazing couple of years. I got to play these two remarkable women. And I want to thank my beautiful agent Hilda Dallas. I've known her since I was fifteen. And they really brought the script to me, helped me to hang on to it. My gosh! Ok, who comes next? OK, I want to thank Richard Yates, the late great Richard Yates for writing this remarkable novel and for creating a role for a woman that I just can't believe it came to my way and falling to my hands like this. I want to thank remarkable cast and our crew, they all know who they are.
好的！我感到十分抱歉，梅丽尔，克里斯丁。哎呀，天啊！另一位是谁？安吉丽娜。这是一个——好的，不好意思。天啊，这是真的！好吧，那么我就试着随便说几句吧。非常感谢你们，非常感谢。请安静！你们不知道我内心有多激动。哎呀，天啊！感谢好莱坞外国记者协会。这对我来说是一个莫大的惊喜。这几年我过的极不平凡。我有幸扮演这两位杰出的女性。我想要感谢我的美丽的经纪人希尔达·达拉斯，我从十五岁就认识她了。事实上是他们选的剧本帮助我进入角色。哎呀，接下来感谢谁呢？好的，我想要感谢理查德·耶茨。感谢已经过世的了不起的理查德·耶茨创作了这部优秀的小说，并为一个女性创造了一个角色。我简直不敢相信我会受到青睐，有幸出演这个剧本。感谢伟大的剧组成员，他们都很尽职尽责。
重点讲解：
1. off the cuff
未经准备（或思考）的；即兴的；
eg. I didn't mean any offence. It was a flippant, off-the-cuff remark.
我并无冒犯之意。那只是随口说出的一句轻率话。
eg. Mr Baker was speaking off the cuff when he made those suggestions.
贝克先生临时提出那些建议。
2. wrap up
（俚）住口；掩饰，隐藏；
eg. She tried to wrap up a censure in a polite formula.
她试图用客套的话掩饰指责之意。
eg. I wish he would wrap up.
我真希望他住口。
3. hang on to
守住；抓住；坚持；
eg. John did not like his job, but he decided to hang on to it until he found a better one.
约翰不喜欢他的工作，但他决定干下去，直到找到更好的工作。
eg. In an impossible situation you hang on until night to get away.
如果碰到无可奈何的情况，你得一直坚持到晚上才能脱身。