PBS高端访谈:著名女歌手南茜·威尔森去世

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Finally tonight, we close with a remembrance of the great singer Nancy Wilson, who died yesterday. Wilson was a legend who crossed so many different styles and won over a generation of fans. Wilson released more than 60 albums in a career spanning five decades. She won three Grammys, and had many hits. She was a civil rights activist¹ who marched in Selma. She hosted her own TV variety show in the 1970s. But it was her ability to dazzle audiences across so many musical genres², jazz, pop, Broadway standards and ballads³, that really set her apart. In fact, she called herself a song stylist. In 2004, when Jeffrey Brown interviewed her, he asked what she meant by that.

NANCY WILSON, Musician: Give me the freedom to be a pop singer, R&B singer, jazz singer. It's really about the lyric⁴, as opposed to the melody. And that's my approach to the music, is lyrically. I love the song. I love what it says. And I think song stylist gives me the freedom to sing any, all kinds of things and not be put in a box, necessarily.

JEFFREY BROWN: What makes a great song?

NANCY WILSON: I want to tell you a story. I want the song to have legs. I want it to mean something to you 10 years from now. It's kind of like acting⁵. You know, you go there. You do little vignettes. Each song is a play. That's always been my approach to it, you know? I can close my eyes and go where that song goes.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Nancy Wilson was 81 years old.

威廉·布兰汉姆：今晚的最后，让我们向伟大的歌手南茜·威尔森致敬。她已于昨天去世。威尔森是传奇人物，他尝试过很多不同的风格，征服了一代又一代歌迷。威尔森在长达50年的职业生涯期间发布了60多张专辑。她曾三次获得格莱美奖，有多首歌曲红遍各地。她是人权活动家，曾在塞尔玛游行示威。上世纪70年代，她还主持过自己的综艺节目。但她真正的才华还是在于她能用各种音乐流派迷倒万千观众，包括爵士、流行音乐、百老汇准音乐、民谣，这让她独树一帜。实际上，她称自己为设计师。2004年，杰弗里·布朗曾采访过她。布朗当时问了设计师这个定义的含义。

南茜·威尔森，音乐家：就是可以自由地选择做流星音乐、R&B还是爵士音乐的歌手。重点在于歌词，而非调调。这是我对音乐的理解，是从歌词层面去理解的。我喜欢一首歌，我就一定喜欢它的歌词。我认为歌曲设计师让我可以自由地唱任何种类的音乐，而不是囿于窠臼。

杰弗里·布朗：您觉得成就一首好歌的要素是什么呢？

南茜·威尔森：我想分享一件事——我喜欢传唱度高的歌曲。我指的是歌曲发布10年后依然经久不衰。这就像是表演——每次演唱都是表演一些片段。每首歌都是一部小剧。我对唱歌这件事一直是这样理解的。我可以闭上眼睛，追随音乐一起向前。

威廉·布兰汉姆：南茜·威尔森享年81岁。

1 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

2 genres   

（文学、艺术等的）类型，体裁，风格( genre的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Novel and short story are different genres. 长篇小说和短篇小说是不同的类别。
• But confusions over the two genres have a long history. 但是类型的混淆，古已有之。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译

3 ballads   

民歌，民谣，特别指叙述故事的歌( ballad的名词复数 )； 讴

参考例句：

• She belted out ballads and hillbilly songs one after another all evening. 她整晚一个接一个地大唱民谣和乡村小调。
• She taught him to read and even to sing two or three little ballads,accompanying him on her old piano. 她教他读书，还教他唱两三首民谣，弹着她的旧钢琴为他伴奏。

4 lyric   

n.抒情诗，歌词；adj.抒情的

参考例句：

• This is a good example of Shelley's lyric poetry.这首诗是雪莱抒情诗的范例。
• His earlier work announced a lyric talent of the first order.他的早期作品显露了一流的抒情才华。

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。