访谈录 Interview 2007-08-20&08-21, "成为简·奥斯汀"女主角亮相脱口秀（下）

M:But most of the population leaves, of... will you stay during this... or you do leave during August.
F: I actually (yeah, you'll leave) actually during August. yeah, but...but yesterday, it was...er.... a couple of days ago, actually I was so, oh, I was so nice and I am, I, I was auditioning² for (beautiful), I have, well, had an audition¹ for character. And I don't, she is not a stripper but she is definitely into like burlesque³ in the bedroom. So, em , yeah. So I... that really doesn't deserve applause... So I decided⁴ that I really wanted to buy a Dita Von Teese's book, the art of the tease. That's a good book. And, um, and so there is only one place that sells it which is the Upper West Side, and I had to go. Well, my brother and I decided , we, we were gonna, I have a dog, we were gonna take her for a walk. It was great it was like 40 blocks to Central Park and across town. And on the way back we stumbled upon a naked marathon.
M: Whoa
F: Yeah!
M: Really, a naked marathon?
F: Okay, it wasn't quite naked. It was a skimpy marathon. But, I got your attention.
M: Yeah.
F: But it was, it was a marathon where people did it in their underwears, bras and panties. The boys too.
M:I mean, what's the...It's a what, I don't understand the point of that, really?
F: Neither do I, but it was a New York moment.
M: Yeah, And how, how many people seemed to be participating?
F:A couple hundred , probably. (Really?) Maybe a little over a thousand. And it was kind of I, I'm gonna sound really terrible for saying this, but you know with marathons you always get people of different commitment level, different levels of fitness. And in this case, as they pulled ahead, the American got progressively less toned as people came up. And you just wanted to, you wanted to cheer extra hard for the stragglers.
M:I just, I, I can't really get my mind around this, the idea is we are gonna run some lengths, some designated mileage⁵.
F: well, 27 miles.
M: yeah, but, but We are gonna be partially⁶ (nude) naked (yeah!),I mean so what ,I meant what is?
F: Well, you know ,it was sponsored by *(此处为一家墨西哥餐馆的名字，未能查出来，十分抱歉！若有听友查到请跟帖完善，谢谢！), so everyone got free Mexican at the end.

1 audition   

n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)

参考例句：

• I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音，可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
• At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初，他们说他太小，但后来他们叫他去试听。

2 auditioning   

vi.试听（audition的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• She was auditioning for the role of Lady Macbeth. 她试演了麦克佩斯夫人的角色。
• Which part are you auditioning for? 你试音什么角色？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 burlesque   

v.嘲弄，戏仿；n.嘲弄，取笑，滑稽模仿

参考例句：

• Our comic play was a burlesque of a Shakespearean tragedy.我们的喜剧是对莎士比亚一出悲剧的讽刺性模仿。
• He shouldn't burlesque the elder.他不应模仿那长者。

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 mileage   

n.里程，英里数；好处，利润

参考例句：

• He doesn't think there's any mileage in that type of advertising.他认为做那种广告毫无效益。
• What mileage has your car done?你的汽车跑了多少英里？

6 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。