访谈录 2011-08-08&08-10 “好脾气”的里奇·格威斯

 -Ican’t believe this. You had a birthday and it's 50 years old.You’re not 50 years old. Are you really 50 years old?

-Yeah,50, 50. Yeah.

-Imean you look tremendous¹. You look like you’re thirty-five. Butsomebody asked me how... old. I said thirty-five. Thirty-five,honestly,  you look exactly like you did in the first, except you arein better shape. Remember you used² to come out, you're sort³ of pairshape when you come out. Now you look great. You look …

-Youdidn’t say that at that time though, did you?

-No,I didn’t know (See.) I didn't know what to think. 

-Well,now, you said you look good now, because I looked awful before,that’s all your saying. I need you to say it before. You are inpair shape, better work, how faster, but now...

-Buthow do you feel at your fifty? Good, right?

-Well,yeah. I’m grumpier. I think I’m grumpier. (Grumpier?) Yeah, yeah,I understand you a lot more. Now, if you know what I mean, no.

-Really?

-No,really, I saw, I saw, a nowhere⁴ you’re coming from now. I haswondered why. And that, but it happens so... 

-Youwondered why. 

-Youknow what I mean, I’m in that club now. I’m in that club, thatgrumpy club. I will tell all of you. No, no. I mean the young people,they go, when they never like them, you know, but they will be. Theywill be. It happens. I was at yesterday. But now, I’m in that club,that grump old club. I like it.

-I’ma grumpy old man.

-Soam I.

-Doyou think maybe it's sixty, it’ll get even worse?

-Idon't know, because you said I look bad and I did it for it.

-Oh,you look much better than you did when I first met you.

-Yeah,so this carries on. If you look at a graph⁵, I should be, I'd likeJohnny Depp when I'm about seventy.

-That’sright. Yeah. Hum. Yeah. You could call me what that happens.

1 tremendous   

adj.巨大的，极大的；很好的，非常好的

参考例句：

• This book was the outcome of a tremendous amount of scientific work.这本书是大量科学研究工作的成果。
• There is a tremendous difference between them.他们之间有着极大的差别。

2 used   

adj.用旧了的，旧的；习惯于…；过去惯/经常

参考例句：

• I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
• He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。

3 sort   

v.排序，挑选，分拣；n.种类，类别，性质，程度

参考例句：

• She was a strange sort of person.她这个人有些古怪。
• I don't much care for that sort of man.我不太喜欢那种人。

4 nowhere   

adv.任何地方都不；无处，到处都无

参考例句：

• There's nowhere else I really want to go to.没有别的地方是我真正想去的。
• He had nowhere to go,so I took him in.他无处可去，所以我收留了他。

5 graph   

n.图表，图解，曲线图

参考例句：

• Such a graph is defined to be a contact network.我们把这样的图定义为一个接触网络。
• Our soundings are displayed in the form of a graph.我们的调查结果已用图表列出。