访谈录 2010-03-05 汤姆汉克斯Morning Joe访谈(一)

Welcome back to Morning Joe, this is a part of our show we do it everyday（Yeah）. Speech therapy with Tom Brokaw, Tom, thank you so much for being with us. Tom. So, we brought him in because we care about you. (I am here to play the part of Forrest Gump this morning). You are a member of the family we’ve brought in a specialist to help you break up your syllables¹ and pronounce your consonants². Tom Hanks.
I really have to be careful with show business because the person you made fun of last night on nationwide television, you’ll now have to apologize to in the morning on nationwide television, Tom had every respect for everything (If we had anything to do with that…Tom Hanks)
So, welcome to the show.
Nice to be here.
You know…
It's mayhem, it’s like a ping out party first thing in the morning. What’s the topic we’re gonna batter³ about.
You are in the Wisconsin, you have no idea who we are, but we love you.
You are in the Wisconsin, you have no idea who we are, but we love you.

I periodically, I’ve seen you in hotel rooms around the countries.

Yeah, well, (Oh, I don’t, we should talk about that part) you know, you and a lot of other people, but that’s another story. But Katy knows nothing about it. So let’s talk about…

By the way, go after the Katy. That’s always good, that’s a good journalist. That was a surprised By the way, go after the Katy. That’s always good, that’s a good journalistic avenue for… That was a prized footage, that was called, that was called, ur, what they call it? A scoop⁴.
Yeah, that is a scoop. So what you wait, let’s talk about The Pacific. Band of Brothers like, I think, Tom and I were talking about how Band of Brothers I think touched so many Americans and especially it help get lot of us through a really tough time (Yeah) 9/11. You now released “The Pacific”, and when my wife and I saw a billboard⁵ in New York, I almost started tearing up, just look “Oh, my god”. How do you follow up something that was as special as Band of Brothers to so many people?
Well, it’s the stories. I constantly read history particularly read the stories of that era that I am somewhat connected to, because I was born in 1956, so everybody that was, every grown-up that I knew as I was growing up had a distinct connection to these times of war.
Your dad fought them?
My dad, well, my dad fixed⁶ things in the war. My dad was a machinist, he hated being in the navy, he didn’t have it, there was nothing romantic about it for him. But, his life was uprooted⁷ and for five years he didn’t know where he was gonna be, for how long he was gonna be there. But we found the stories of these memoirs⁸. That is the Eugene Sledge's and Robert Leckie's. And it just so happened that they were in the same place at the same time for a while.

 

1 syllables   

n.音节( syllable的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a word with two syllables 双音节单词
• 'No. But I'll swear it was a name of two syllables.' “想不起。不过我可以发誓，它有两个音节。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

2 consonants   

n.辅音，子音( consonant的名词复数 )；辅音字母

参考例句：

• Consonants are frequently assimilated to neighboring consonants. 辅音往往被其邻近的辅音同化。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants. 元音比辅音响亮。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 batter   

v.接连重击；磨损；n.牛奶面糊；击球员

参考例句：

• The batter skied to the center fielder.击球手打出一个高飞球到中外野手。
• Put a small quantity of sugar into the batter.在面糊里放少量的糖。

4 scoop   

n.铲子，舀取，独家新闻；v.汲取，舀取，抢先登出

参考例句：

• In the morning he must get his boy to scoop it out.早上一定得叫佣人把它剜出来。
• Uh,one scoop of coffee and one scoop of chocolate for me.我要一勺咖啡的和一勺巧克力的。

5 billboard   

n.布告板，揭示栏，广告牌

参考例句：

• He ploughed his energies into his father's billboard business.他把精力投入到父亲的广告牌业务中。
• Billboard spreads will be simpler and more eye-catching.广告牌广告会比较简单且更引人注目。

6 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

7 uprooted   

v.把（某物）连根拔起( uproot的过去式和过去分词 )；根除；赶走；把…赶出家园

参考例句：

• Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着，树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 memoirs   

n.回忆录；回忆录传( mem,自oir的名词复数)

参考例句：

• Her memoirs were ghostwritten. 她的回忆录是由别人代写的。
• I watched a trailer for the screenplay of his memoirs. 我看过以他的回忆录改编成电影的预告片。 来自《简明英汉词典》