A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
口音
Accent
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
如果我的口音暴露了我的外国血统,在制片人的想象中,它也会让我成为一个敌人。
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
我的口音仍然很糟糕。对我来说,和一个不认识的人交谈是非常困难的。
The accent of the place in which one was born lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one’s speech.
一个人出生的地方的口音就像说话一样,萦绕在他的脑海和心中。
I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.
我总觉得自己像个为女人设计的女人。我知道你想强调什么,想隐藏什么。
My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
当我讲口音或方言时,我要做的就是愚弄当地人。如果我愚弄了当地人,那么我就完成了我的工作。
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
我说英语没有口音,我说西班牙语没有口音。我真的是两全其美。
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
我知道高贵的口音和清晰、不可避免的节奏;但我也知道,黑鸟与我所知道的有关。
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
我是那种没人认为能成功的人。我的波士顿口音很滑稽。我发不出R的音。我不是个美人。
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
除非是某种特定的口音,或者你必须改变身体的某些东西,否则我通常不是一个有意识的演员。
I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
这些年来我一直在强调这一造型。作为一个喜剧演员,你会尝试一些东西,如果成功了,你就会坚持下去,把它磨碎。
If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.
如果出现了一个很棒的部分,而且这个人的口音是东欧口音,那就太好了;但如果这是一个坏的部分,我不会接受。
Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's your shoulders or your long legs!
每个人都有自己的特点,所以找一些衣服和配饰来突出这些特点,无论是你的肩膀还是你的长腿!
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.
你是在暗示我该把它扔掉吗?我可以不带口音;我只需要专注于我所说的。我必须慢慢地说。
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.
随着日子一天天过去,鸿沟越来越宽,我的孤立感越来越强烈。在这种情况下,我发现我的经历并不是独一无二的,它也曾是其他西班牙知识分子的经历,这对我来说变得非常重要。
I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.
我是白人,我的口音很重。
I haven’t been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.
我在国外待的时间不长,现在几乎可以说一口没有口音的英语了。
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
我愿意从有欧洲口音的女人那里买任何乳液、化妆品或长生不老药。
I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.
我喜欢模仿口音,做类似的事情,很有趣。它是乐趣。