A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
卡通
Cartoon
I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.
我就像呆伯特卡通。
Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.
有些漫画一点也不像我。
I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.
我非常喜欢卡通片,因为我不会画卡通片。
Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
乔西需要的不仅仅是卡通人物的性格。
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
如果你只瞄准孩子,你就死定了。无论如何,成年人只是已经长大的孩子。
When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
当你根据新闻标题制作漫画时,你是基于不完整的信息。
I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
我首先提出的想法是根据圣经故事制作一系列漫画。他们不太喜欢。
After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
在我画了几幅我满意的漫画之后,我开始把它们提交给杂志。
George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?
丛林里的乔治是一个卡通人物。他是个整天在藤上荡来荡去的人。你不相信吗?
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
我的许多漫画不是捧腹大笑。我怀念过去,喉咙哽咽,眼睛流泪,心酸。
But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
但现在我全职画漫画,我更像是一个观察者。我正在和正在经历这些事情的人交谈。但这并不像在战壕里。
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
我从来没有因为糟糕的漫画或社论而取消订阅报纸。如果是那样的话,我就没有任何报纸或杂志可读了。
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
你做漫画赚不到钱。这很有趣,让你忙个不停,绝对比在裤子上踢一脚好。但是做配音工作并不会让你变得富有。只是不喜欢。
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
漫画实际上是一个隐喻,在我们痴迷名人的文化中,几乎不可能改变流派,改变你的想法,改变你的脸,你知道吗?