隨著改革開放的深入發(fā)展,以及各國間文化的相互滲透,對于英語的使用程度越來越高,畢竟應(yīng)用文英語寫作越來越普遍。那么,在當(dāng)下你知道應(yīng)用文英語寫作該如何著手嗎?對此還感到很困惑的話,小編就帶著你來學(xué)習(xí)下。
應(yīng)用文英語寫作
應(yīng)用文英語寫作范本
We’re going to take a wild guess: the words “Hilary Duff” don’t mean a great deal to you. But, as a follower of emergent2 woman-talent, you’ll know the name. One that began with her debut in the Disney Channel’s teenage drama Lizzie Maguire3. And now, seven years later, she can count five albums and 16 films under her belt4. In the process, she’s more or less cornered the “tween5” market:a large part of the teenage girl market pop that’s worth an estimated£3.1 billion a year in the UK alone. Not bad for the daughter of a convenience store owner.
With her role in the John Cusack’s movie War, Inc., she’s making the transition from teen queen to “older” movies. But she’s done it without going off the rails6, going to prison or getting addicted to anything powdery like many others in Los Angeles. And most importantly,she’s managed it and has grown up to be a beautiful, sexy woman who is still fun, and easy-going. No wonder you voted her the 39th sexiest women on Earth.
All of which leads us critics to conclude that she cannot be as nice as her public persona7 makes out. Somewhere there’s got to be some dirt—a contract taken out on Nicole Richie’s8 life perhaps. Or how about...
There’s a reason why Wikipedia10 lists her as an “actress, pop singer and entrepreneur11”: underneath all that beauty is a calculating12 business woman. Look how she’s managed her “tween queen” status—with a clothing range, Stuff by Hilary Duff (sensible, accessibly priced, not too naughty), a perfume with Elizabeth Arden, her own character in The Sims 2 computer game and a range of accessories all bearing her signature. The result? In three years she’s amassed13 a fortune of $25m.
Q:So what’s the one thing you’ve spent most on if you’re treating yourself?
HD: Handbags are expensive, you know. But I don’t think I would ever spend more than $1,500 on a handbag.
Q:Have you ever downloaded anything illegally?
HD: You know what? I’m so bad on computers, I can never figure out iTunes14!
Q:Okay, if a kid was being prosecuted15 of illegally downloading your album, would you leave them there to get their just punishment?
HD: I don’t think I would want them to get sent to jail, but might wanna give them a piece of my mind. It’s just not cool, because this market is for our music and for an artist to be able to tour and do what we do, you know, now it’s so scarce. We need to be able to make money to be able to have our record label16 support us and go into the studio, make records, shoot great videos. But when people are getting it illegally and not supporting it, they’ve no... It sounds greedy, but it’s not like all that money goes to us, you know.
On Nov. 3, 2006, police arrested Maksim Miakovsky, an 18-year-old Russian immigrant who had come to America purely to meet and become “romantically involved” with Duff. He went about this by threatening to kill her and anyone else who got in his way, and then told a private investigator17 about his plans. Terrifying indeed—especially as she’d only recently stopped living with her mother.
Q:So has that changed how you live?
HD: Definitely. It was hard for a while because I had someone, a security person, living with me and going everywhere with me. It’s, like, you feel so trapped, there’s no freedom, and everything scares you. It was horrible, because I like my independence.
Q:Is it different when you come to the UK?
HD: Yeah! I notice that when people recognize you in England, they’ll come up and maybe ask for a picture or an autograph or something and then they leave you alone. In the States, people want something from you and then they wanna keep staring and watch every move you make... and then video you on their phone.
Q:What’s the worst accident you’ve ever been in?
HD: I got bit on the face by a dog. I was about eight. It was a big dog that had those crooked18 teeth—it was bad, right under my eye. I was over at my friend’s house and I was playing with it... it just snapped19. We went to the hospital and they put stitches20 in one direction and they were pulling my eye down, so then they took out the stitches and put them in the other way, and it was still not working. So they pulled it out and put the skin together. I had no anaesthetic21, no anything. It was crazy.
Q:Have you ever stolen anything?
HD: No, but my friend stole something and I made her return it. I had already moved to LA. And a lot of my girlfriends got into stealing stuff. It wasn’t like they didn’t have the money. It’s a real teenage girl thing I think, like, to see if you can get away with it. I never understood that.
Q:How did you make her take it back?
HD: I was just, like, “Why did you do that? That’s horrible, that’s gonna come back on you, you know. There’s no point, you have the money to be able to go and buy that and it’s not cool.” I didn’t make her take it back to the person, but I made her put it into the store.
Album Dignity is said to be her most personal (possibly because—get this—she actually helped write the lyrics). Excitingly, they offer some comments about famous people. For instance, lyrics such as “Where’s your dignity?/I think you lost it in the Hollywood Hills/” suggest someone less than impressed by the whole Paris Hilton scandals. But the track gaining the most attention is “Gypsy”, which observers claim is a dig24 at Nicole Richie.
Q:You seem to be remarkably well adjusted, compared to some of your peers. Why do you think that is?
HD: It’s just who I am as a person. Plus, how my mom handled me. I didn’t get special privileges growing up, and I didn’t get everything that I wanted and I wasn’t the one supporting the family, so I wasn’t like the boss. I think that has a lot to do with it. And then growing up around lots of young people that were so talented, and seeing them getting involved in stuff and not really having anyone around to tell them how to handle it.
Q:Do you ever look at more high-profile25 similarities, like Britney, and think“that could have been me”?
HD: I don’t look at them and think “that could have been me” because I’m me and I’m not like that. I know that it can be really hard and there’s lots of pressure with everyone watching you. But I don’t think that excuses some behavior.
Professionalism26? Restraint? Good manners? Alarmingly, it seems like Duff actually is as nice as she makes out. We have one last try and ask about her school life. After all, by the age of six she was a ballet dancer with Columbus Ballet Met.
Q:What’s your strangest school memory?
HD: Some kid threw up on me when we were doing square dancing. I had to go home.
Q:Was it from the square dancing, or were they just over-excited?
HD: I think he was over-excited. It was third grade and we did square dancing instead of gym during February. My partner threw up on me; it was just after lunch. I had to go home because I didn’t have a change of clothes.
Q:You know he’s still saying, “I threw up on Hilary Duff” to this day, right?
HD: Oh my gosh! I hope not. It’s not the greatest claim ever. Is it?
應(yīng)用文英語寫作
中文翻譯:
我們來做個(gè)大膽的猜想:你并未把“希拉里·達(dá)芙”這個(gè)詞很當(dāng)回事。但是,你若關(guān)注橫空出世的才女,就該知道這個(gè)名字。她在迪斯尼頻道的青春劇《平民天后》中嶄露頭角,7年后的今天,她已推出5張專輯,16部電影。其間,她基本拿下了青少年市場:僅在英國,她獨(dú)自占據(jù)年利潤約31億英鎊少女流行市場的很大一部分份額。這對一個(gè)便利店老板的女兒來說可真不賴哦。
憑借她在約翰·庫薩克的電影《戰(zhàn)爭公司》中的角色,達(dá)芙正從青春片影后向“成人”電影轉(zhuǎn)型。然而她卻沒出格,不像洛杉磯的其他明星那樣進(jìn)監(jiān)獄或染上毒癮。更重要的是,她已成功轉(zhuǎn)型,成長為一位美麗、性感且依然趣味十足、輕松隨和的成熟女子。難怪你會(huì)選她為全球第39位最性感的女人呢。
所有這一切都會(huì)導(dǎo)致我們這些評論者得出這樣的結(jié)論:她的真實(shí)生活絕不會(huì)像她的公眾形象表現(xiàn)得那樣好。某個(gè)地方總該藏有不可告人之處吧——比如也許發(fā)誓要整死妮可·里奇。或關(guān)于……
維基百科把達(dá)芙稱為“演員、流行歌手和企業(yè)家”有其道理。美麗的外表之下她是個(gè)精明的女商人??纯此鯓永盟?ldquo;少女天后”地位——推出系列品牌“希拉里·達(dá)芙制作”(實(shí)用,價(jià)格適中,不太出格),與伊麗莎白·雅頓聯(lián)合推出一款香水,在電腦游戲《模擬人生2》中加入以自身為藍(lán)本的虛擬形象,以及設(shè)計(jì)一系列帶有她簽名的飾品。結(jié)果?三年之內(nèi)她已賺了2,500萬美元。
問:如果想犒勞一下自己,你會(huì)在哪樣?xùn)|西上花最多的錢?
答:手袋,但是手袋很貴。所以我想,如果一個(gè)手袋超過1,500美元我就不會(huì)去買了。
問:你非法下載過什么東西嗎?
答:你知道嗎,我對電腦一竅不通,我甚至搞不清什么是iTunes!
問:那么,如果有個(gè)孩子被起訴非法下載你的專輯,你會(huì)任他們接受應(yīng)有的懲罰嗎?
答:我可不想讓他們因此而進(jìn)監(jiān)獄,但也許我愿意給他們一點(diǎn)建議。這樣下載并不酷,因?yàn)檫@個(gè)市場是為我們的音樂,是為藝人能巡回演出、能搞音樂而存在的。你知道,現(xiàn)在市場非常小。我們需要賺錢去獲得唱片公司的支持,才能進(jìn)錄音棚灌唱片、拍錄像。但如果人們通過非法途徑獲取音樂而不花錢,他們就沒有支持……聽起來似乎我很貪心,但你知道,賺的錢并不都進(jìn)我們的腰包。
2006年11月3日,警方逮捕了18歲的俄羅斯移民馬克西姆·麥爾科夫斯基,他來美國僅僅是為了見到達(dá)芙并和她建立“浪漫關(guān)系”。他這樣追求達(dá)芙:威脅說要?dú)⑺约叭魏蔚K事的人,還把他的計(jì)劃告訴了一個(gè)私人偵探。的確很可怕呀——特別是達(dá)芙最近才剛剛離開母親獨(dú)居。
問:這件事影響到你的生活了嗎?
答:當(dāng)然。有段日子很難過,因?yàn)槲夜土藗€(gè)保鏢,和我待在一起,我到哪兒他就跟到哪兒。那感覺就像是被困住了,沒有自由,什么都會(huì)嚇你一跳。太可怕了,因?yàn)槲蚁矚g我行我素。
問:當(dāng)你來到英國情況有沒有改變?
答:有!我注意到在英國,人們認(rèn)出你,他們會(huì)走上前來,可能要張照片或簽名什么的就走開了。在美國,人們找你要了東西,然后就不停地回頭注視著你的一舉一動(dòng)……還用手機(jī)把你拍下來。
問:你所經(jīng)歷的最糟意外是什么?
答:我的臉被狗咬了,當(dāng)時(shí)我大概8歲。那狗挺大,長著一口彎牙——咬得很厲害,正好在眼睛下面。當(dāng)時(shí)我在朋友家玩,正逗它……它忽然一口咬下來。我們?nèi)チ酸t(yī)院,醫(yī)生先朝一個(gè)方向縫針,這樣針線就把我的眼睛往下拉,所以他們又拆了線從另一個(gè)方向縫,還是不行。于是他們又拆了線把皮膚擠攏。我沒打麻藥,什么藥都沒用。真是不可思議。
問:你偷過東西嗎?
答:沒有,但我的朋友偷過,我讓她還回去了。那時(shí)我已搬到洛杉磯。我的很多女朋友開始偷東西,她們并不是因?yàn)橘I不起。那只是十幾歲女孩子的沖動(dòng),我想,比如,就想看看自己能不能僥幸成功。我無法理解這種行為。
問:你怎么讓她還回去的?
答:我只是說:“你為什么要這么做呢?這糟透了,要知道,你會(huì)遭報(bào)應(yīng)的。你沒理由偷東西,你有錢去買,這種行為并不酷。”我沒讓她還給店主,而是讓她把東西放回商店。
據(jù)說《尊嚴(yán)》是達(dá)芙最個(gè)人化的一張專輯(可能因?yàn)?mdash;—這么說——實(shí)際上她參與了撰寫歌詞)。有意思的是,歌詞中有些對名人的批評。比如,像“你的尊嚴(yán)在哪里?/我想你把它丟在了好萊塢/”暗指某些不為帕里斯·希爾頓丑聞所動(dòng)的人。但專輯中最引人注意的是單曲《吉普賽女郎》,好事者認(rèn)為這首歌是對妮可·里奇的譏諷。
問:比起同齡人,你似乎特別能調(diào)整好自己。你覺得這是為什么呢?
答:那只是我的為人本色,還加上媽媽對我的教導(dǎo)。成長過程中我沒享受什么特殊待遇,我不是想要啥就有啥,我也不是養(yǎng)家糊口的人,所以家里不是我說了算,我想這些有很大關(guān)系。之后我在一群才華橫溢的年輕人中成長,看著他們遇到問題,周圍卻沒人告訴他們到底該怎樣處理。
問:你會(huì)不會(huì)看著那些比你更受矚目的明星,比如布蘭妮,想著“我也許會(huì)和她一樣”?
答:我不會(huì)看著她們想著“我也許會(huì)和她們一樣”,因?yàn)槲揖褪俏?,我不是她們。我知道做明星不容易,每個(gè)人都在注視著你,會(huì)給你壓力。但我認(rèn)為,這不能成為替某些行為開脫的借口。
爐火純青?談吐節(jié)制?彬彬有禮?令人驚訝的是,看來達(dá)芙的真實(shí)形象與她表現(xiàn)出來的確實(shí)相符。我們最后試一下,來問問她的學(xué)生生活。畢竟,6歲時(shí)她已是哥倫布芭蕾舞團(tuán)的芭蕾舞演員了。
問:關(guān)于學(xué)校你最特別的回憶是什么?
答:當(dāng)我們跳方塊舞時(shí),一個(gè)孩子吐在我身上。我不得不回家。
問:他是因?yàn)樘綁K舞跳得吐了,還是僅僅興奮過頭?
答:我想他是興奮過頭了。那時(shí)我上三年級,二月我們不做體操而是跳方塊舞。我們剛吃過午飯,我的搭檔就吐在我身上。因?yàn)闆]有衣服換我不得不回家。
問:你知道直到今天他還在說:“我曾吐在了希拉里·達(dá)芙身上”,對嗎?
答:哦,天哪!但愿別這樣。這可沒什么值得吹噓的,不是嗎?
以上便是小編為各位所分享的關(guān)于應(yīng)用文英語寫作范本,希望能給各位網(wǎng)友帶來幫助。針對應(yīng)用文英語寫作在我們網(wǎng)站也推出不少篇幅以及寫作技巧,歡迎各位前來學(xué)習(xí)。