生命中的一年 第10期：罗琳对名利的看法

"The stuff was quite disgusting. As though someone had liquidized bogieflavored Every Flavor Beans. "

“那东西很难喝，好像有人把比比多味豆的味道全混在一起榨成了汁。”

He poses with Jo for photographs.

他和乔拍了照片。

Big eyes are great, Stephen.

睁大眼睛，斯蒂芬。

Jo, keep engaged. Yeah.

乔，保持注意力。

Sorry. It's all right.

对不起。 没关系。

The Chinese have a saying: Be careful what you wish for.

中国有个成语叫做心想事成。

I wondered how much J.K. Rowling wanted all this fame.

我不知道J.K ·罗琳对这些名利有几许期望。

I wished to be published.

我想要我的书被出版。

And I wished more than anything in the world to be a writer.

与世界上任何事相比，我只想成为一名作家。

Did I wish...It never occurred to me in a million years, James that people would search my dustbins pull a longlens camera on me on the beach, you know.

我希望……我从来都没想到过，詹姆士，人们会翻我的垃圾箱，人们会在沙滩上拿着长镜头相机对着我，你知道的。

Never occurred to me a journalist would bang on the door of one of my oldest friends and offer her money to talk about me.

从不会想到还有记者拍我老朋友的门拿出钱来求他们讲我的故事。

Never occurred to me that my children would be scrutinized¹ to see how spoiled they were because their parent was famous.

从未想过我的孩子们被审视，看他们有没有被宠坏，因为他们的父母出了名。

Three weeks before the launch of the final book Jo attends the film premier² of Harry³ Potter and the Order of the Phoenix⁴ the fifth book in the series.

最后一本书发售前的三周乔出席了《哈利·波特与凤凰社》电影的首映这一系列中的第五部。

It's a starry⁵, glamorous⁶ occasion.

这是一个星光熠熠，闪亮迷人的时刻。

And Jo is expected to behave like a film star. But she is a writer.

乔被期待着表现得像一名电影明星。但她是一位作家。

And when she started, she could hardly have expected all this attention.

当初，她很难想到如今的万众瞩目。

1 scrutinized   

v.仔细检查，详审( scrutinize的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The jeweler scrutinized the diamond for flaws. 宝石商人仔细察看钻石有无瑕庇 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop. 我们一起把甜食店里买来的十二块柠檬蛋糕细细打量了一番。 来自英汉文学 - 盖茨比

2 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

3 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

4 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

5 starry   

adj.星光照耀的, 闪亮的

参考例句：

• He looked at the starry heavens.他瞧着布满星星的天空。
• I like the starry winter sky.我喜欢这满天星斗的冬夜。

6 glamorous   

adj.富有魅力的；美丽动人的；令人向往的

参考例句：

• The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊，但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
• It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差，并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。