世界名人简介 第160期:成龙

 　　Jackie Chan is a true action movie great. He has appeared in dozens of movies and is a screen legend. He had a simple beginning as a Chinese refugee¹ in Hong Kong. His early yearswere, perhaps, a sign of things to come. His parents nicknamed² him ‘Pao-Pao', which means cannonball, because he had so much energy.

　　成龙是一位真正的动作电影大师。他出演过几十部电影，是一位屏幕传奇人物。成龙开始时只是一个在香港的中国难民。也许他小时候就有成名的迹象。因为他精力旺盛，他的父母给他起了一个小名“炮炮”，意思是他像炮弹一样。

　　Chan enrolled³ in the China Drama Academy to study opera while still in his teens. He spent ten years there and worked part-time as a stuntman⁴ in the kung fu movie industry. He soon earned the reputation as Hong Kong's most fearless stuntman. He moved into acting⁵, but his first two films were both flops⁶. He quit the movie business and moved to Australia.

　　成龙十几岁时进入中国戏剧学院学习歌剧。他在这里待了十年，业余时在功夫电影行业做武师。不久，他就获得了香港最无畏武师的荣誉。成龙进入演艺圈，但最初的两部电影都失败了。他退出了电影界，搬到了澳大利亚。

　　Several years later, director Ng Than Chan asked Jackie to appear in the movies 'Snake in Eagle's Shadow'and 'Drunken Master'. Both were smash⁷ hits at the box office and Jackie Chan was now a star in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, a former director tried to tie Chan to an old contract. He sent the Hong Kong mafia to Chan's movie sets to frighten him. Chan moved to Hollywood.

　　几年后，导演袁和平请成龙主演电影《蛇形刁手》和《醉拳》。两部影片都在票房上引起了轰动，成龙在香港成为一位明星。不幸的是，之前的一位导演试图用旧合同束缚成龙。他派香港的黑手党到成龙的电影剧组去威胁他。成龙搬到了好莱坞。

　　He was not successful in Hollywood, so he returned to Hong Kong. He learnt a lot about movie-making while in America and used this knowledge to make many successful movies for the Chinese market. He also became a pop star. He returned to Hollywood and made the movie ‘Rush Hour' in 1998. It made him a worldwide star.

　　但成龙在好莱坞并不成功，所以又回到了香港。他在美国学到了很多电影制作的知识，并运用这些知识为中国观众制作了很多部成功的影片。在这里成龙成为受欢迎的明星。他在1998年回到好莱坞，制作了电影《尖峰时刻》，这使他成为世界级明星。

1 refugee   

n.难民，流亡者

参考例句：

• The refugee was condemned to a life of wandering.这个难民注定要过流浪的生活。
• The refugee is suffering for want of food and medical supplies.难民苦于缺少食物和医药用品。

2 nicknamed   

vt.给…起绰号（nickname的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• 'The human sound-track' he nicknamed her in his own mind. 在心里他给她个绰号，就叫"人体录音带"。 来自英汉文学
• People said that he had jaundice and urchins nicknamed him "Yellow Fellow." 别人说他是黄胆病，孩子们也就叫他“黄胖”了。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

3 enrolled   

adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 stuntman   

n.特技演员

参考例句：

• The stuntman will double for the main actor during the action scenes.一些动作场景中，特技演员代替主演。
• The stuntman flew the aircraft upside-down within a hair's breadth of the rooftops.那位做电影演员替身的杂技演员驾驶着飞机翻过来又倒过去，差一点撞着平顶房的屋顶。

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。

6 flops   

n.失败( flop的名词复数 )v.（指书、戏剧等）彻底失败( flop的第三人称单数 )；（因疲惫而）猛然坐下；（笨拙地、不由自主地或松弛地）移动或落下；砸锅

参考例句：

• a pair of flip-flops 一双人字拖鞋
• HPC environments are often measured in terms of FLoating point Operations Per Second (FLOPS) . HPC环境通常以每秒浮点运算次数(FLOPS)加以度量。 来自互联网

7 smash   

v.粉碎，打碎；n.轰动的演出，巨大的成功

参考例句：

• We heard the smash of plates breaking in the kitchen.我们听到厨房里盘子破碎的声音。
• The gifted author wrote one smash after another.这个天才作家创作了一篇又一篇轰动一时的作品。