2006年VOA标准英语-Brokeback Mountain, Walk the Line Earn Top

By Mike O'Sullivan
Los Angeles
17 January 2006

The gay cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain and the story of country singing legend Johnny Cash, Walk the Line, have earned top honors at Hollywood's Golden Globe Awards. That gives both films a boost in the competition leading up to the Oscars.

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Brokeback Mountain, a story of hidden love between two rugged¹ cowboys, received four Golden Globes, including one as best film drama.

The gay themed film breaks new ground for a large-scale Hollywood production. Ang Lee, named best director for the film, said this has been an amazing year for American movies. 
 

Ang Lee  
  
"So I just want to give my first thanks to my fellow filmmakers for strengthening my faith in movies, in the power of movies to change the way we are thinking. Thank you," he said.

Felicity Huffman won the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama for her role in Transamerica, playing a transsexual man on the eve of a sex-change operation.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was named best actor in a drama for portraying² writer Truman Capote in the film Capote.  The movie also deals in part with the issue of sexuality, in this case, of a gay writer.

Walk the Line, a film about country music greats Johnny Cash and June Carter, was named best musical or comedy.

Joaquin Phoenix³, who played Cash, and Reese Witherspoon, who played Carter, were honored as best actor and actress in a musical or comedy.

 
Reese Witherspoon
  
Witherspoon, a southerner from Baton⁴ Rouge⁵, Louisiana, said the movie about the romance between the country singers had a special meaning for her.

"It's about where I grew up. It's about the music I grew up listening to," she said. "So it's very meaningful, and I just wanted to thank the people who created this opportunity for me."

The Palestinian film Paradise Now  was named best foreign language film. It tells the story of two Arab friends in the hours before they attempt on a suicide bombing. 

Anthony Hopkins  
  
Anthony Hopkins, star of such classic films as The Silence of the Lambs, was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement.

The Golden Globes are presented by the 80-member Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and are watched closely because they sometimes suggest winners at the more prestigious⁶ Oscars. Those awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will be given out in Hollywood on March 5.

1 rugged   

adj.高低不平的，粗糙的，粗壮的，强健的

参考例句：

• Football players must be rugged.足球运动员必须健壮。
• The Rocky Mountains have rugged mountains and roads.落基山脉有崇山峻岭和崎岖不平的道路。

2 portraying   

v.画像( portray的现在分词 )；描述；描绘；描画

参考例句：

• The artist has succeeded in portraying my father to the life. 那位画家把我的父亲画得惟妙惟肖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Ding Ling was good at portraying figures through careful and refined description of human psychology. 《莎菲女士的日记》是丁玲的成名作，曾引起强烈的社会反响。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

3 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

4 baton   

n.乐队用指挥杖

参考例句：

• With the baton the conductor was beating time.乐队指挥用指挥棒打拍子。
• The conductor waved his baton,and the band started up.指挥挥动指挥棒，乐队开始演奏起来。

5 rouge   

n.胭脂，口红唇膏；v.(在…上)擦口红

参考例句：

• Women put rouge on their cheeks to make their faces pretty.女人往面颊上涂胭脂，使脸更漂亮。
• She didn't need any powder or lip rouge to make her pretty.她天生漂亮，不需要任何脂粉唇膏打扮自己。

6 prestigious   

adj.有威望的，有声望的，受尊敬的

参考例句：

• The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
• You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。