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美国国家公共电台 NPR Want To Buy A Vowel? Vanna White Looks Back On 35 Years At The 'Wheel'

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DAVID GREENE, HOST:

Noel, I've got a kind of funny way to introduce our next guests.

NOEL KING, HOST:

OK.

GREENE: The category is game show host.

KING: Game show host.

GREENE: Do you want to buy a vowel1?

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "WHEEL OF FORTUNE")

UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE: "Wheel Of Fortune."

KING: Oh, "Wheel Of Fortune." All right, so if the category is game show hosts, it's got to be Pat Sajak or Vanna White.

GREENE: You got it. It's actually Vanna. I went to meet her at the "Wheel Of Fortune" studios recently in Culver City, Calif.

VANNA WHITE: Hi.

GREENE: Hi.

WHITE: How are you?

GREENE: I'm David Greene.

WHITE: Hey, David, I'm Vanna - nice to meet you.

GREENE: It is so nice to meet you. It's surreal to meet you. I've watched you for so long.

WHITE: (Laughter).

GREENE: It has actually been 35 years I've been watching this show, and that's how long Vanna has been doing it.

So where are we? Is this your dressing2 room that you've been...

WHITE: This is my dressing room. Welcome.

GREENE: Thank you.

WHITE: Yes.

GREENE: How long have you been using...

WHITE: This dressing room - a long time. That little room over there, which is now my office, used to be my son's nursery, and he's 23.

GREENE: Oh, that's...

WHITE: Does that say it all?

GREENE: That gives us a sense for the longevity3. And so we're looking at - I'm looking at a lot of outfits4. You honestly have never worn the same outfit5 on on two shows. Is that...

WHITE: That is correct.

GREENE: That's extraordinary.

WHITE: And I've worn over 6,500 gowns - 6,500 - never the same one twice.

GREENE: Sixty-five hundred shows - I mean, it's amazing to think about how much the world has changed even as Vanna White has been doing the exact same job - turning those letters. No doubt she is one of the most recognizable faces in American entertainment, and we thought her 35-year anniversary was a good time to reflect back with her. Vanna White, who was born in South Carolina, took us back to a difficult decision she made shortly after moving west to look for acting7 work.

WHITE: When I first moved to Los Angeles, I came out here with a thousand dollars to my name. I immediately got a job. I got an apartment. I was barely8 surviving, but I was too embarrassed to ask my dad for rent money, so I did some lingerie shots. Fast-forward many years later, I become famous, so Hugh Hefner buys these pictures and decides to put them on the cover of Playboy and inside Playboy. And I had just - my career was just starting on "Wheel Of Fortune." And I went to him because he was a personal friend. And I said, Hef, if you do this, this could ruin my career. Please, you're my friend. You can stop this from happening. I don't - please don't - don't do that to me. And he did it, and it really hurt my feelings more than anything. There was nothing I could do about it because I did the shots. But when I was - when I was taking those shots with the photographer, I knew it was not right.

Fortunately, America was behind me, and I went on Johnny Carson and explained the situation, and Sony didn't fire me - thank goodness - because they could have, you know. Here's my whatever on the cover of Playboy. And they were - again, the fans and everyone were supportive on that, but it was a great lesson.

GREENE: So what makes this show so enduring? I mean, I - my summers were every afternoon, I mean, being on the beach and then coming in and sitting on the edge of my grandmother's bed and watching you.

WHITE: I think you've said it all right there with saying your grandma because it's a family show. It's 30 minutes when you're spending time with your family. You're solving the puzzles together. You're just being together. There's so much horrible stuff going on in the world right now. To have 30 minutes of quality time with a family member is special.

GREENE: Let me ask you this, Vanna White. The roles of women over 35 years have changed a lot. You see women in roles that you never saw before. And a lot of people see that as progress. It's part of a movement. Where do you fit in to that doing this job, you know, through all those years?

WHITE: It's funny because my job has not really changed in all these years. And Merv Griffin - whatever he saw 35 years ago in this little game show has been around for a long, long time. I think it's - part of it's - it's a cult6 almost, right?

GREENE: What's really complicated for me to work through, and I really want to hear you talk about, is the - you know, a lot of women would say the example we want to see is women who are in roles that men usually play that are not stereotypical9 things like that. And, you know, your relationship with Pat Sajak, it's, very, you know, he's sort of the male host and you're up there.

WHITE: Sure. I think what you're saying in this world, men seem to have more of an advantage. In my particular situation of my job, oh, I'm just a letter turner. I'm up there, you know, turning letters, so what does that mean? It means I feel that I'm just as equal as Pat. Even though he is the host of the show, I'm the co-host. That doesn't make me any smaller than him or any bigger than him. I feel that the way America has put us together as a team has made us equal. And I will be the first to make fun of my job. I turn letters for a living. Really? And in the beginning, I was put down quite a bit for that. But I've made the best of my job. I love my job. I've turned it into, I think, a different kind of job. Hey, you can't solve the puzzle if I don't turn the letter, so they need me there. And I don't think of it as anything negative or less than Pat's job. We're a team.

GREENE: I was reading some of the early criticism. I mean, it - words like bimbo and robotic.

WHITE: Oh, yeah, yes, yes.

GREENE: I mean, did - how much did that hurt?

WHITE: In the beginning, it did because I felt invisible. I felt what did these people think of me? It made me feel like I'm not a human being. So again, everybody's entitled10 to their own opinion. And I think that I just maybe proved them wrong because even though I hardly talk on the show and I just turn letters, I will say I am a businesswoman. So I've taken my job, which has given me the chance to be in the public eye and have a name for myself, and I have turned that into other things. I have my own line of yarn11. I mean, if I wasn't on TV, I wouldn't have that. So yes, I do this silly little job on the show, but I have made something out of it.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BRASS12 IN POCKET")

THE PRETENDERS: (Singing) Got brass in pocket.

GREENE: That was Vanna White. She is marking 35 years as the co-host of "Wheel Of Fortune."

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BRASS IN POCKET")

THE PRETENDERS: (Singing) Intention I feel inventive. Gonna make you, make you, make you notice. Got motion, restrained emotion. I've been driving, Detroit leaning. No reason, just seems so pleasing. Gonna make you, make you, make you notice. Gonna use my arms. Gonna use my legs...


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1 vowel eHTyS     
n.元音;元音字母
参考例句:
  • A long vowel is a long sound as in the word"shoe ".长元音即如“shoe” 一词中的长音。
  • The vowel in words like 'my' and 'thigh' is not very difficult.单词my和thigh中的元音并不难发。
2 dressing 1uOzJG     
n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料
参考例句:
  • Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
  • The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
3 longevity C06xQ     
n.长命;长寿
参考例句:
  • Good habits promote longevity.良好的习惯能增长寿命。
  • Human longevity runs in families.人类的长寿具有家族遗传性。
4 outfits ed01b85fb10ede2eb7d337e0ea2d0bb3     
n.全套装备( outfit的名词复数 );一套服装;集体;组织v.装备,配置设备,供给服装( outfit的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • He jobbed out the contract to a number of small outfits. 他把承包工程分包给许多小单位。 来自辞典例句
  • Some cyclists carry repair outfits because they may have a puncture. 有些骑自行车的人带修理工具,因为他们车胎可能小孔。 来自辞典例句
5 outfit YJTxC     
n.(为特殊用途的)全套装备,全套服装
参考例句:
  • Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
  • His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。
6 cult 3nPzm     
n.异教,邪教;时尚,狂热的崇拜
参考例句:
  • Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书,但有一定的崇拜者。
  • The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。
7 acting czRzoc     
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。
8 barely gyFz0w     
adv.仅仅,几乎没有,几乎不
参考例句:
  • The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
  • He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。
9 stereotypical af5b561e94abd66f688fbfcccaffdce3     
n.常规
参考例句:
  • Personas should be typical and believable, but not stereotypical. 人物角色应该是典型和可信赖的,但不是一成不变的。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Anything could be stereotypical, so I guess it could be criticism. 任何东西都可以变的老套,所以我猜那就是一种批评。 来自互联网
10 entitled 8tWzka     
有资格的
参考例句:
  • You will be entitled to your pension when you reach 65. 你到65岁就有资格享受养老金。
  • He entitled us to enter his office at any time. 他授权给我们可以随时进入他的办公室。
11 yarn LMpzM     
n.纱,纱线,纺线;奇闻漫谈,旅行轶事
参考例句:
  • I stopped to have a yarn with him.我停下来跟他聊天。
  • The basic structural unit of yarn is the fiber.纤维是纱的基本结构单元。
12 brass DWbzI     
n.黄铜;黄铜器,铜管乐器
参考例句:
  • Many of the workers play in the factory's brass band.许多工人都在工厂铜管乐队中演奏。
  • Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。
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