PBS高端访谈:96岁杰出女演员逝世

JUDY WOODRUFF: Last night, Regina King sent out a tweet, saying: "Queen somehow just doesn't capture Ms. Tyson. She paved a way that created a space for girls like me to feel the light." Ms. Tyson was, of course, the great Cicely Tyson, a towering and transformative actor who died yesterday at the age of 96. Vice¹ President Kamala Harris today tweeted: "She inspired the world with her art, activism and altruism²." From her Harlem roots, Tyson went on to appear in more than 100 film, television and stage roles. Jeffrey Brown is back with our look.

CICELY TYSON, Actress: Look at me.

JEFFREY BROWN: It was a career notable for powerful performances and a refusal to accept roles that demeaned Black people. Cicely Tyson began acting³ in the 1960s, but her breakout came in the 1972 film "Sounder," as the wife of a Louisiana sharecropper. Two years later came the TV movie that won her widest fame, "The Autobiography⁴ of Miss Jane Pittman." Tyson won the Emmy for best lead actress, the first African American to capture that award. In a 2008 ABC interview, she spoke⁵ of her resolve to avoid characters she considered ugly stereotypes⁶.

CICELY TYSON: I remember going home and thinking, my God, Cicely, you cannot afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were so many issues that I felt that I had to address, and I used my career as my platform.

JEFFREY BROWN: Among her many on-screen roles, Kunta Kinte's mother in "Roots." She returned to the stage in 2013 after a three-decade absence from Broadway, in a production of "The Trip to Bountiful," winning a Tony Award, and, in 2015, at age 90, joined James Earl Jones, a youngster at 84, in "The Gin Game." The following year, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama and, in 2018, an honorary Oscar.

CICELY TYSON: I know that you didn't want me to do this.

JEFFREY BROWN: She recalled her religious mother, who didn't want her to go into acting.

CICELY TYSON: But I did.

JEFFREY BROWN: Just this week, Tyson published a memoir⁷, "Just as I Am," the story of an extraordinary life that left a mark.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Simply extraordinary, she was.

朱迪·伍德乐夫：昨晚，雷吉娜·金发了一个推特，说：用“女王”来形容泰森女士都有过之而无不及，她为像我这样的女孩创造了一个可以感受阳光的空间。当然，泰森女士就是伟大的西西莉·泰森，一位杰出的变革型演员，她于昨天去世，享年96岁。副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯今天发推特说：“她用她的艺术、行动主义和利他主义激励了世界。”泰森出身于哈莱姆区，后来出演了100多部电影、电视和舞台剧。下面由杰弗里·布朗带我们观看。

西西莉·泰森，女演员：看看我。

杰弗里·布朗：这是一个以强大的表演和拒绝接受贬低黑人的角色而著称的职业生涯。西西莉·泰森于20世纪60年代进入演艺行业，但其演艺生涯在1972年的电影《声音》才有所突破，她在里面饰演一位路易斯安那州佃农的妻子。两年后，她出演了一部电视电影《简·皮特曼小姐自传》，这部电影令她名声大噪。泰森获得了艾美奖最佳女主角奖，成为首位获此殊荣的非裔美国人。在2008年ABC的一次采访中，她谈到自己决心要避开她认为的那些丑陋的刻板印象的角色。

西西莉·泰森：我记得回家后我想：天哪，西塞莉，你不能只做一个女演员。当时我觉得有很多问题需要解决，我以我的职业生涯作为平台。

杰弗里·布朗：在她众多的银幕角色中，有昆塔·肯特在《根》中的母亲。2013年，她在离开百老汇30年后重返舞台，出演了《通往慷慨之旅》并赢得了托尼奖。2015年，90岁的她与84岁的年轻人詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯一起出演了《金酒游戏》。第二年，她获得了巴拉克·奥巴马颁发的总统自由勋章，并于2018年获得了奥斯卡终身成就奖。

西西莉·泰森：我知道你不想让我这么做。

杰弗里·布朗：她回忆起自己虔诚的母亲，她的母亲不希望她从事演艺事业。

西西莉·泰森：但是我做了。

杰弗里·布朗：就在本周，泰森出版了回忆录《我就是我》，讲述了他留下印记的非凡人生。

朱迪·伍德乐夫：她真是太了不起了。

1 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 altruism   

n.利他主义，不自私

参考例句：

• An important feature of moral behaviour is altruism.道德行为一个重要特点就是利他主义。
• Altruism is crucial for social cohesion.利他主义对社会的凝聚是至关重要的。

3 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。

4 autobiography   

n.自传

参考例句：

• He published his autobiography last autumn.他去年秋天出版了自己的自传。
• His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography.这两卷引人入胜的自传小说详述了他的生平。

5 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。

6 stereotypes   

n.老套，模式化的见解，有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化，使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
• It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调，我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

7 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。