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口音
Accent
There is a formal poetry perfect only in form...the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wanted-they come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.
有一种正式的诗,只有在形式上才完美……音节的数量,指定的和需要的重音,如果需要押韵,这些都与填字游戏的技巧有关。
I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.
我想你应该以不同的方式对待这些角色当他们是真实存在的人时,这就是区别。在这种情况下,准确的口音或头发并不重要。
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
外国口音是一种承诺,事实上,在全国各地,欧洲的进口为科学、艺术和其他领域增添了情趣。一个人付出的并不比他得到的少。
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
眼睛里有口音,而不是舌头上的,苍白的嘴唇说出的故事比耳朵听到的要多。正是这种遥远情绪的伟大和痛苦,使他们避开了声音的途径。
I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.
我只是不认为有任何规则来着色。你有一个没有窗户的小空间?把灯放进去,让它看起来有戏剧性,把天花板涂成黑色。做点什么吧。如果是黑暗的,强调黑暗。
Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.
不像其他大多数孩子,特别是不像今天的孩子,他们渴望尽快成为男人和女人,我对长大有一种恐惧,随着年龄的增长,这种恐惧变得越来越强烈。
On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
另一方面,只有那么多的人真正知道她是什么样的人,比如她的口音听起来是什么样的,以及她在第一次经营哈丽特巷时得了严重的耳聋。
The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.
奇怪的是,如果你现在让我学口音,我会发现很难,除非我也在演那个角色,因为我把它和进入这个角色和进入别人的位置联系在一起。
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
无论你得到什么,你都要强调。在我的整个职业生涯中,我一直在不停地使用我的女性名片,因为我生活在一个男人的世界里。它由女性工作,但由男性拥有。那时我是我那块地唯一的女主人。
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
幸运的是,我自己的梦想在这种伟大的状态下实现了。我成了宇宙先生;我成了一个成功的商人。尽管有些人说我说话仍然带着轻微的口音,但我已经达到了演艺事业的顶峰。
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。
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
为了说明我的意思,一个灵巧的舞者可能与那个特定群体中的其他人完全一致,同时揭示出舞蹈的气质、节奏或技术上的差异;她可能措辞、强调或实际上解释不同。
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I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.
我觉得任何带有南方口音的东西听起来都不错。
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.
在巴黎,人们总是想起自己是个外国人。如果你把车停错了地方,重要的不是它停在人行道上,而是你说话带口音。
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。
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
如果一门科学的发展倾向于强调现有的财富分配不平等,或更直接地促进对人类生命的破坏,那么这门科学就是有用的。
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
祖父去世后,我开始模仿他的口音,让自己想起他。致敬。他是一位战争英雄,他的双手非常棒。
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
学习语言之后,我从来没有发现口音有什么困难。