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张曼玉(Maggie Cheung)出席爱丁堡电影节时接受的英文采访。讲述了她来爱丁堡参加电影节的原因:是收到了一封题为“Because”的邮件,写满了她应该有此一行的原因。
"This is what life is about in the way: because you try to do somebody a favor, but in the end, I think I got most of it."
这是不是常说的“助人者助己,成人者成己”呢?
下面大家一起就这个视频练习下英语听力吧,张曼玉的英式英语还是挺有味道的噢。
张曼玉英文简介
Maggie Cheung Man yuk (born 20 September 1964) is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. Some of her most commercially successful work was in the action genre1, but Cheung once said in an interview that of all the work she has done, the films that really meant something to her are Song of Exile, Centre Stage, Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love. As Emily Wang in Clean, her last starring role to date, she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Cheung is multilingual, having learned to speak English, Mandarin2 and French. Her native language is Cantonese.
She married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998. The pair divorced in 2001 but their relationship remained amicable3. In 2004, Cheung made her award-winning film Clean with him. As part of her portrayal4 of the drug-addicted aspiring5 singer Emily Wang in Clean, Cheung performed songs written by David Roback of Mazzy Star.
She had a relationship with Hong Kong film director Derek Yee in the 1980s.
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n.中国官话,国语,满清官吏;adj.华丽辞藻的 | |
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adj.有志气的;有抱负的;高耸的v.渴望;追求 | |
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