人物：利普·托恩：1931 - 2019

Rip Torn: 1931-2019

利普·托恩：1931 - 2019

The Larry Sanders Show and Men in Black star had a wild streak¹ but an even wilder talent

《拉里·桑德斯秀(Larry Sanders)》和《黑衣人》(Men in Black)的演员有着狂野的风格，但更有狂野的天赋

Rip Torn, an actor who combined gruff bearishness² with razor-sharp comic timing³, found his greatest success late in his career: He earned five Emmy nominations⁵ and one win as Artie, the take-charge talk show producer on Garry Shandling's classic HBO series The Larry Sanders Show (1992-98).

瑞普·斯特里普是一位集粗暴的熊脾气和犀利的喜剧时机于一身的演员，他在职业生涯的后期获得了最大的成功：他获得了五项艾美奖提名，其中一项获奖是在加里·山德林(Garry Shandling)主演的HBO经典剧集《拉里·桑德斯秀》(the Larry Sanders show, 1992-98)中担任谈话节目制作人的阿蒂(Artie)。

Torn, who died at 88 in Lakeville, Conn., July 9 (no cause of death was revealed), played the part with a barking energy that would have been terrifying if it weren't so funny.

托恩于7月9日在康涅狄格州莱克维尔去世，享年88岁(死因尚未公布)。他扮演的角色能量十足，如果不搞笑一点，会有一点吓人。

In fact, alpha males in business suits were something of a specialty⁶ for him, providing him scene-stealing moments in Men in Black and on NBC's 30 Rock.

事实上，西装革履的男性领袖是他的专长，在《黑衣人》(Men In Black)和NBC的《我为喜剧狂》(30 Rock)中为他赚足镜头。

Born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. in Temple, Texas—"Rip" was a common nickname for men in his family—he liked to say that his acting⁷ credo was to "play drama as comedy, and comedy as drama."

他出生在德克萨斯州坦普尔的小艾尔莫尔·鲁尔·斯特里普(Elmore Rual Rip Jr.)——“Rip”是他家里男人的一个常见绰号——他喜欢说他的表演信条是“把戏剧当喜剧来演，把喜剧当戏剧来演。”

Married three times (to actresses Ann Wedge-worth, Geraldine Page and Amy Wright), he could be a hard-drinking hell-raiser.

他结过三次婚（分别是女演员安·韦奇沃斯(Ann Wedge-worth)、杰拉尔丁·佩奇(Geraldine Page)和艾米·赖特(Amy Wright)），他可能是个嗜酒如命的人。

During the filming of writer Norman Mailer's 1970 movie Maidstone, he attacked Mailer with a hammer, and Mailer bit his ear while the cameras were rolling.

1970年，作家诺曼·梅勒(Norman Mailer)的电影《梅德斯通(Maidstone)》在拍摄过程中，他用锤子袭击了梅勒，在摄像机滚动时，梅勒咬了他的耳朵。

"I have certain flaws in my makeup," he once admitted. "Something called irascibility." He was too much of a nonconformist for standard Hollywood success (his younger cousin Sissy Spacek has fared better).

“我的化妆有些瑕疵，”他曾经承认。“有些暴躁。”对于好莱坞的成功标准来说，他太不墨守成规了(他的表妹西丝·史派塞克(Sissy Spacek)的表现要好一些)。

But he seldom failed to impress critics or fans—and won a Supporting Actor nomination⁴ for 1983's Cross Creek⁸.

但他很少给评论家和影迷留下深刻印象，1983年凭借《跨溪》获得最佳男配角提名。

Remembering him, friend Elizabeth Ashley (Russian Doll) lovingly described Torn to the New York Post as "broken crystal," then added: "If there is a God, Rip is in hand-to-hand combat with him, because Rip will argue his way in and fight his way out."

想起他，朋友伊丽莎白·阿什利(俄罗斯娃娃)在给《纽约邮报》的信中深情地将他描述为“破碎的水晶”，然后补充道:“如果真有上帝的话，瑞普会和他肉搏战，因为瑞普会为自己辩护。”

1 streak   

n.条理，斑纹，倾向，少许，痕迹；v.加条纹，变成条纹，奔驰，快速移动

参考例句：

• The Indians used to streak their faces with paint.印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。
• Why did you streak the tree?你为什么在树上刻条纹？

2 bearishness   

粗鲁，笨拙

参考例句：

• They show whether the overall bullishness or bearishness is rising or falling. 它们表明市场总体的多头或空头是上涨或下跌。 来自互联网

3 timing   

n.时间安排，时间选择

参考例句：

• The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
• The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。

4 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

5 nominations   

n.提名，任命( nomination的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Nominations are invited for the post of party chairman. 为党主席职位征集候选人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Much coverage surrounded his abortive bids for the 1960,1964, and 1968 Republican Presidential nominations. 许多消息报道都围绕着1960年、1964年和1968年他为争取提名为共和党总统候选人所做努力的失败。 来自辞典例句

6 specialty   

n.(speciality)特性，特质；专业，专长

参考例句：

• Shell carvings are a specialty of the town.贝雕是该城的特产。
• His specialty is English literature.他的专业是英国文学。

7 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。

8 creek   

n.小溪，小河，小湾

参考例句：

• He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
• People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。