偶像励志英语演讲 47:让父母为你骄傲(7)（在线收听）

　　Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art. And in high school, another form of acting took hold of me. I wanted to learn how to be appealing. So I studied the character I imagined I wanted to be that of the generically pretty high school girl and I researched her deeply, that is to say shallowly, in Vogue, in Seventeen, and in Mademoiselle Magazines. I tried to imitate her hair, her lipstick, her lashes, the clothes of the lithesome, beautiful and generically appealing high school girls that I saw in those pages. I ate an apple a day, period. I peroxided my hair, ironed it straight. I demanded brand name clothes, my mother shut me down on that one. But I did. I worked harder on this characterization really than anyone I think I've ever done since. I worked on my giggle. I lightened it. Because I like it when it went, kind of "ehuh" and the end "eheeh", "ehaeaahaha". Because I thought it sounded child-like, and cute. This was all about appealing to boys and at the same time being accepted by the girls, a very tricky negotiation. Often success in one area precludes succeeding in the other.
移情是表演艺术的核心。高中的时候，我对另外一种表演很着迷：我想学习如何让自己有吸引力。所以，我想象出一个受欢迎的校园美女，深入地研究她，简单地说，就是模仿《时尚》、《十七岁》或者《女王杂志》中那样的女孩。我模仿杂志页上那些温柔的漂亮、而有魅力的校园美女。模仿她们的发型、唇膏、睫毛、服装。我有段时间一天只吃一个苹果，我染了头发，拉直了它。我要买名牌服装，但是我妈妈不同意，事实上我还是买了。我付出比以前任何时候都多的努力来实践这个角色。我还在笑声上下功夫，轻声地咯咯笑，我喜欢这样是因为笑声快消逝的时候，有“嗯哼”或者“嗯哼哼”这样的声音，显得很孩子气，而且很可爱。这一切都是为了吸引男生，同时被其他女生接纳，事实上，这是棘手的事情。通常在一个领域取得成功就会失去在其他领域取得成功的机会。
重点讲解：
1. the heart of
核心；实质；重点；要点；
eg. The heart of the problem is supply and demand.
问题的核心是供求关系。
eg. Money lies at the heart of the debate over airline safety.
资金是空运安全争论中的实质问题。
2. take hold
完全控制；彻底影响；
eg. She felt a strange excitement taking hold of her.
她浑身感到一股莫名的兴奋。
eg. She was determined not to let the illness take hold again.
她决心不让疾病再次击垮自己。
3. child-like
（性格、外貌或举止）孩子般的，单纯的；
eg. His most enduring quality is his child-like innocence.
他最具持久魅力的特质就是他那孩子般的天真无邪。
eg. Her behaviour was child-like and dependent.
她的言行举止像个孩子，依赖性强。
名人简介：
步入老年（上）
扮演意志刚强、作风果断的英国政坛“铁娘子”是斯特里普从影以来面临的最具重量级的角色之一，也是一项巨大的挑战。
为演好这一角色，同撒切尔夫人一样勤奋的斯特里普做了大量功课。
演绎《铁娘子》中撒切尔夫人一角，梅丽尔·斯特里普很是下了一番苦工，她透露一到伦敦就把自己完全封闭起来，让工作人员把食物放在房间门口， “一天24小时，除了很短的睡眠，我做了大量的阅读和分析。我有意体验她是怎么工作的，一样的时间强度、一样的热忱。她做首相的11年也是封闭的生活，我可坚持不了11年。我甚至模仿她拿手提包的方式，包括训斥内阁成员的态度。