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《中英對照讀新聞》Movie director Robert Altman finally gets his Oscar 電影導演勞勃．阿特曼終獲奧斯卡 ◎ 鄭寺音2006/1/21
Maverick movie director Robert Altman is to receive his first Oscar, an honorary award saluting his 55-year career.
特立獨行的電影導演勞勃．阿特曼將得到他的首座奧斯卡獎，一座向他55年電影生涯致敬的榮譽獎項。
The 80-year-old writer and filmmaker has directed 86 films, including such classics as the Korean War drama "M*A*S*H," as well as "The Player" -- which pokes fun at Tinseltown -- "Short Cuts" and "Gosford Park."
這名80歲的作家兼電影創作者執導過86部電影，
But despite keeping Hollywood at arms length for decades, the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organizes the Oscars, has voted to present him with an honorary award on March 5.
雖然阿特曼數十年來都與好萊塢保持距離，
Famed for his eclectic work, fierce cinematic independence and his often-cynical social and political eye, Altman has been responsible for a staggering variety of films.
以不拘一格、強烈的電影獨立性、
"My films may not satisfy a mass audience, but they were never made to do that," the director, who has produced 39 and written 37 of his 86 films, once told an interviewer.
這名導演有一次接受訪問時表示：「
新聞辭典
maverick︰不服從的人；持不同意見的人。
Tinseltown︰指「好萊塢」或是好萊塢式的電影、
poke fun at︰ 戲弄、嘲弄。The children often poke fun at him because of his stammer. （孩子們常譏笑他有口吃）。
keep （somebody） at arms length ︰疏遠，保持距離。
eclectic adjective FORMAL
Methods, beliefs, ideas, etc. that are eclectic, combine whatever seem the best or most useful things from many different areas or systems, rather than following a single system:
an eclectic style/approach
an eclectic taste in literature
staggering
adjective
very shocking and surprising:
It costs a staggering $50 000 per week to keep the museum open to the public.
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Obituary: Robert Altman
Colourful, maverick film-maker who refused to toe the studio line.
Jonathan Romney
Tuesday November 21, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
Robert Altman: made the impossible look easy
Success in Hollywood came late to Robert Altman, and by the time he became a celebrity at 45, it seemed he had already settled into the role that suited him - the grand old man, cantankerous and wayward. He was compared to Fellini, as a creator of a cinematic world entirely his own, to Welles and to Stroheim. Like the latter two, he knew spectacular decline after glory, but unlike them, had a journeyman's pragmatism that allowed him to carry on, and more than once to resurface triumphantly.
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(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
toe (OBEY) verb
toe the line to do what you are ordered or expected to do:
Ministers who wouldn't toe the party line were swiftly got rid of.
toe the line [〈米〉 mark] スタートラインにつく; 命令［規則，習慣］に従う.
cantankerous
adjective
arguing and complaining a lot:
He's getting a bit cantankerous in his old age.
wayward
adjective OLD-FASHIONED
(especially of a person's behaviour) changeable, selfish and difficult to control
resurface (APPEAR)
verb [I]
1 to rise to the surface of the water again:
When the divers did not resurface after an hour, three crew members dived down to look for them.
2 to appear again after being lost, stolen or absent:
Please contact me if any of the stolen paintings resurface.
Jill resurfaced last week, after spending the past few months doing research in the library.
3 If a memory resurfaces, you remember it again after you had forgotten about it:
Memories of his childhood resurfaced when he saw the photographs.
re·sur·face (r
-sûr
f
s)
arguing and complaining a lot:
He's getting a bit cantankerous in his old age.
adjective
- 発音記号[kæntǽŋkərəs]
wayward
adjective OLD-FASHIONED
(especially of a person's behaviour) changeable, selfish and difficult to control
ADJECTIVE
- Difficult to control or predict because of wilful or perverse behaviour.‘a wayward adolescent’figurative ‘his wayward emotions’
Origin
Late Middle English: shortening of obsolete awayward ‘turned away’; compare with froward.
resurface (APPEAR)
verb [I]
1 to rise to the surface of the water again:
When the divers did not resurface after an hour, three crew members dived down to look for them.
2 to appear again after being lost, stolen or absent:
Please contact me if any of the stolen paintings resurface.
Jill resurfaced last week, after spending the past few months doing research in the library.
3 If a memory resurfaces, you remember it again after you had forgotten about it:
Memories of his childhood resurfaced when he saw the photographs.
re·sur·face (r
-sûrfs)
v. re·sur·faced, re·sur·fac·ing, re·sur·fac·es
v.tr.
To cover with a new surface: resurfacing a road; resurfaced the floor.
v.intr.
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To come to the surface again; reappear: The rumor has resurfaced.
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