新闻报道:大佬要让路了！风城热切关注新犯人。人人都在谈论洛茜·哈特--芝加哥有史以来被指控谋杀罪的最可爱的小姑娘。女人希望模样像她。男人想和她谈恋爱。有的小女孩还想把洛茜带回家。不明所以吧，小姑娘。在芝加哥城的另一处，地区律师助理说这名小杀手在年前一定会给绞死。
律师助理: 她在年前一定会给绞死。
新闻报道: 谁知道？如果哈里森律师助理说话算数的话，他将来就有可能成为哈里森州长。回到犯罪现场，人人都想要洛茜·哈特的一点东西。这个冷霜瓶就让她丈夫赚了20美金！说不定娇小可爱的洛茜·哈特还会引领一阵时尚热潮。这段时间，看来人人都对洛茜·哈特着了魔。
场景五：
洛茜被无罪释放后，迅速被媒体冷落。为重新夺回万众瞩目的地位，她和昔日的竞争对手凯丽·威尔玛走到一起。
凯丽：你知道吗，你的表演真不错。
洛茜：对，那又有什么用。你在这做什么？
凯丽：我听说你一直在四处演出。
洛茜：是啊，要是让你来定的话，我现在早给吊死了。
凯丽：好了，我早知道比利迟早会撇下你不顾。你要学会把该忘的忘了。
洛茜：哦，谢谢。等我一找到工作，有了房子和情人，我一定记得把这列在备忘录的头条。
凯丽：你能不能闭嘴听我说话！
洛茜：你亲临此处真让我篷壁生辉……好像你是个混帐蜂王似的，满嘴都是大道理，说给我这个可怜的笨蛋听。我也告诉你，威尔玛·凯丽小姐。我如今有了新生活，这当中最妙不可言的，就是没有你的存在！
凯丽：好吧。我原来还想我们能彼此帮助呢。
洛茜：哦，你可打错了算盘，是不是？
凯丽：喂，听我说，我跟城里的一个家伙聊过。他说现在光一个人跳的爵士舞好看没用了……要双人舞……我们一周就能赚上好几百呢。想想吧，洛茜。我们的头像又回到报纸上，我们的名字打在大幕上“威尔玛·凯丽和洛茜·哈特”。
洛茜∶名字难道不该按字母顺序来排？
凯丽：那也行……几百块。或许我们可以开价一千？我们当之无愧。
洛茜：（犹豫）算了。行不通的。
凯丽：怎么会？
洛茜：因为我恨你！
凯丽：（激她）这世界上只有一件事可以让人无忧无虑。
（在最后一幕中，凯丽和洛茜终于实现了她们的梦想∶自由与名声。）
注释:
1) maximum n. 最大量
2) penalty n. 罚款，处罚
3) chorus n. 合唱歌舞队
4) keep off 离开，不碰
5) aloof a. 冷淡的
6) matron n. 女舍监，女总管
7) slick a. 聪明的
8) dearie n. 可爱的小宝贝
9) take a load off 排除困难，压力
10) grounds n. 理由，根据
11) jury n. 陪审团，陪审员
12) odds n. 可能的机会，成败的可能性
13) puss n. 少女
14) courtroom n. 法庭
15) cravat n. 领结，领巾
16) ruby n. 红宝石
17) stud n. 纽扣
18) satin a. 缎子的
19) spat n. 鞋罩
20) manipulate v. 操控
21) tabloid n. 小报
22) auction n. 拍卖
23) Victrola n. 手摇电唱机的牌子
24) pushover n. 容易打败的对手
25) courtesy n. 礼节
26) hygiene n. 卫生学
27) nun n. 修女
28) refinement n. 精致
29) runaway n. 逃跑
30) cabaret n. 歌舞表演
31) crush v. 压碾
32) acquainted a. 明白的，通晓的
33) downfall n. 衰败，垮台
34) rag n. 喧闹
35) convent n. 女修道院
36) defensible a. 可辩护的
37) Al Capone是芝加哥历史上臭名昭著的一大罪犯
38) marquee n. 大帐幕，大帐篷
39) alphabetical a. 按字母顺序的
★★《2003年07月号-第41期-Disc01-05》★★
Chicago Trivia
Rob Marshall (Chicago Director): It's really about fame and 1)celebrity and about how we, as a culture or as an audience, applaud and celebrate people for not necessarily the right reasons. The concept that we used was, Roxie was the dreamer, Roxie is the dreamer in the movie. She's the 2)wannabe, she wants desperately to be on stage, so she sees her life through musical 3)sequences. And we're constantly 4)cutting back between the story and the reality of the story and these musical sequences, so they become one 5)linear story as we're jumping back and forth between the two realities. And that's, it was embracing the fact that all these numbers took place on stage, instead of trying to sort of 6)disguise that or change that, that made the whole piece fly.
Richard Gere ("Billy Flynn"): She sees me as a... I'm introduced to her as a protector. I'm the one who can get you off. So she has this kind of vision of me as this guy who's kind of a... of a 7)Lancelot character, just goes around helping women in 8)distress, which is, once you see the movie, is very far from....
Catherine Zeta-Jones ("Velma Kelly"): She's a wannabe who thinks she's made it. She's a star in her mind. And she goes to... she goes to jail and through the, you know, the different characters that she meets where she's on top at one point and then she's down in the gutter, and she builds herself back up as this kind of survival, and an "I will survive" element of it all. And, but she's just so hungry for it, she thinks she has it and she never wants to let it go. I love, I've loved working with Renee so much. I think, I think she just, she just, I keep saying to her it's like she's been plucked out of a black and white photograph of the time, but it's 9)Technicolor. She's, she did a 10)phenomenal job on this. And we, it's great that she's a great person to work off and work with. You have a lot of fun, catty, catty fun together.
Renee Zellweger ("Roxie Hart"): She's so 11)covetous of the idea of acquiring fame because of what she thinks it represents and what she believes it will bring self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, love... all the things that she doesn't have a lot of. And she's sure; sure, sure that if she is 12)lionized in that way by the masses, in the way that Velma Kelly is, she has that thing that she'll be more whole as a person.
《芝加哥》花絮
罗勃·马歇尔(《芝加哥》导演)∶这部电影讲述的是声望和名誉，也讲述我们--无论代表一种文化还是作为一名观众--为一些人喝彩欢呼的理由也许并不恰当。我们用的概念是：洛茜是个梦想者，洛茜在剧中是个有梦想的人。她一心出人头地，花尽心思要登上舞台，所以她在一首首歌曲中幻构自己的生活。我们在片中把故事与现实不断地来回切换，在两个现实间跳跃，渐渐地让歌曲串成剧情。所有的故事都发生在舞台上，我们没有刻意地要去掩饰、改变这点，因此却使得整个影片不同凡响。
理查·基尔（“比利·弗林”）∶ 她（洛茜）把我看成是……我是以保护者身份介绍给她认识的。在片中我很能替人脱罪。所以她就把我看作是，有点像兰斯洛特那种人，总是到处英雄救美，看了这片子，你会觉得超乎想象……
凯瑟琳·泽塔-琼斯（“威尔玛·凯丽”）∶她（凯丽）想出人头地，踌躇满志。在自己的心目中她是个明星。她进了……进了监狱，遇到各种各样的人物，她曾经活得很得意，接着却落魄潦倒，但她重新站了起来，很有一种求生的意志，就是“我一定要活下去”的那种信念。还有，她太渴望得到成功，想着拥有了就绝不再让它失去。我喜欢，我很喜欢和芮妮合作。我觉得她太出色了……我常对她说，她像是黑白片人物跻身进到了彩色电影中。她演得实在出色。和她共事很开心。能得到很多乐趣，和她在一起特别、特别有意思。
芮妮·齐薇格（“洛茜·哈特”）：她（洛茜）太渴望成名了，因为她觉得成名同时也带来了自尊、自重、自我价值、爱情……所有这些都是她缺乏的。她很相信很相信，如果她能成为像威尔玛·凯丽那样的人们的宠儿，那她作为一个人就更完整了。
注释:
1) celebrity n. 名人，名声
2) wannabe n. 赶超崇拜者的人
3) sequence n. 次序，顺序
4) cut back 电影倒叙
5) linear a. 线状的
6) disguise n. 伪装，掩饰
7) Lancelot n. 兰斯洛特，是亚瑟王圆桌武士中的第一位勇士。
8) distress n. 不幸，贫困
9) Technicolor n. （电影）染印法彩色
10) phenomenal a. 显著的
11) covetous a. 贪婪的，妄羡的
12) lionize v. 把……奉为名人
★★《2003年07月号-第41期-Disc01-06》★★
Me and Writing
This was the summer that I think I became a writer. I was thirteen years old. I wore steel-rimmed glasses and I was a very 1)solemn boy. Not that I was sad, but I simply was paying attention. I'd been given a typewriter by my Uncle George, when he got an electric. He gave me his old Underwood typewriter and I set it up in the 2)basement. I had a secret place under the stairs behind a 3)stack of sheet rock. I sat in there and wrote where my parents could not see me because they were worried, you know, that I didn't go outside. And they believed in the 4)illusion of a balanced life, you know, you do a little bit of this, you do a little bit of that. I just wanted to do one thing. I just wanted to find things to write about.
I liked to write about 5)tornadoes: Tornadoes, which come out of a peaceful summer day in the Midwest. And the sky's blue and then suddenly it's dark as night and this great snake-like cloud comes slithering across the 6)landscape, 7)smashing houses at random, destroying this one, leaving this standing. I liked that idea.
I wrote a story, a sort of 8)autobiographical story, about a family from New York, a microbiologist and his actress wife, and their son, who looked, and walked, and talked, and thought, and felt exactly like me. I sat in the 9)backseat and they were driving across the Midwest, and they forgot me... at a gas station. We stopped for a rest stop... and they forgot me, and they drove away. I walked up the road that they had driven and suddenly the sky turned dark and... a tornado came up and it picked me up and it carried me and dropped me, uninjured, in the yard of a 10)sanctified 11)Brethren family. I knocked on the door and a woman in a white 12)satin gown holding a flaming 13)torch came out and asked me what I wanted. And I was going to tell them that I had to leave to look for my parents and then the dog spoke to me. The dog said, "Stay." So, I stayed. But still, I missed the life of 14)glamour that I had known on New York's 15)exclusive Upper West Side. I love to write stories like that.
I sat there at my Underwood typewriter, but I wished that something real would happen.
That was the summer that my cousin, Helen-Marie, came to stay with us suddenly. She was seventeen. She was four years older than I and I'd always admired her. She was lovelier than the rest of us. The rest of us had our family's looks; we had 16)homely faces and she was pretty. She had 17)blonde hair, a rarity in our family.
Then I wrote a story about her; about a girl who is cooking lunch at home one day and a woman in a white satin dress holding a flaming torch bursts in through the door, and it startles the girl so much that she drops the 18)cast iron skillet on her dog and the dog bites her and she gets an 19)incurable blood disease from this. Doctors give her two weeks to live, and then, on top of everything, a tornado comes in and it blows the roof off the house and it 20)impales four blades of grass in her side. And there's something on that grass that cures that blood disease. Medical science has never seen anything like it. She's cured. She comes home. And that night the dog 21)scratches on her door, and the dog says, "Aren't you curious to know what it was on the grass that cured that blood disease?" I sort of liked the story.
我笔下的奇异世界
我想当作家的念头是在这个夏天冒出来的。那年我十三岁了，戴着一副银边眼镜，是个不苟言笑的男孩。倒不是因为心情不好，我只是在琢磨事儿。乔治叔叔买了一台电打字机后，就把手打打字机给了我。他给我的是一台安德伍牌老式打字机，我把它架在地下室里。楼梯下石砖墙后是我的密室。我坐在里面写东西，爸妈看不到我，你知道，我之所以要秘密行事是因为他们担心我总不出门。他们相信生活应该有多方面平衡，就是让你做做这个又做做那个。而我只想做一件事--练笔。
我想写写龙卷风：一个平静的夏日里，在中西部骤然刮起了龙卷风。蔚蓝的天空霎时间变得像夜晚一样漆黑，蛇一般的巨大烟云卷过地面，将房屋揉得粉碎，摧毁了这间，放过了那间。我太喜欢写龙卷风了。
我写了一个故事，自传式的故事，说的是一个纽约家庭，家里有一个微生物学家，当演员的妻子，还有他们的儿子--那孩子的模样和走路、说话、思考的方式简直跟我一样。我坐在汽车的后座，他们开车穿越中西部，后来他们把我忘在了一个加油站。我们停车休息，然后他们就把我给落下了，开车走了。我沿着他们车驶去的方向走着，突然间，天空暗了下来， 龙卷风大作，风卷起我吹啊吹，毫发不伤地把我扔在一个圣教徒家的后院里。我敲敲门，一个身穿白色缎袍的女人举着一把熊熊的火炬，走出来问我想干什么。我正想说我想去找我的爸妈，一条狗冲着我说话了：“留下来吧。”于是，我就留下了。但是，我还是很怀念在纽约高尚住宅区的好日子。我就喜欢写这样的故事。
我坐在安德伍牌打字机前，想写些真实的事儿。
那年夏天，我的表姐海伦-玛莉突然来我们家住下。她十七岁，比我大四岁，我很喜欢她。她比我们家的其他人都可爱。其他人都有着家族的容貌特征，脸蛋儿一点儿也不起眼，她却很漂亮。那一头金发在我们家族里是极少见的。
于是我就写了一个关于她的故事，说的是有一天，一个女孩正在家里做午饭时，有个穿着白色缎袍的女人手里举着熊熊的火炬从门外闯了进来，女孩吓了一大跳，把铁锅砸到了她的狗，狗咬了她一口，她从此就得了一种没法治的血液病。医生说她只能活两个星期了，这时，一股龙卷风刮了进来，它掀掉屋顶，四片草叶子刺到她的身上。草叶子上面的什么东西就把她的血液病给治好了。医学上从来没有见过这种奇事。她痊愈了，回到了家。那天晚上，小狗抓挠着她的房门，那狗问她说：“你难道不想知道草叶子上面是什么东西治好了你的血液病吗？”我喜欢这样的故事。
注释:
1) solemn a. 严肃的
2) basement n. 地下室
3) stack n. 堆，叠，书架
4) illusion n. 幻想
5) tornado n. 龙卷风，旋风
6) landscape n. 风景，地形
7) smash v. 打碎，粉碎
8) autobiographical a. 自传体的
9) backseat n. 后座
10) sanctified a. 神圣化的
11) Brethren n. 同胞，兄弟
12) satin n. 绸缎
13) torch n. 火炬
14) glamour n. 魅力，魔力
15) exclusive a 唯一的，高级的
16) homely a. 不好看的
17) blonde a. 金发的
18) cast iron n. 铸铁
19) incurable a. 不能治愈的
20) impale v. 刺穿
21) scratch v. 刮，擦
★★《2003年07月号-第41期-Disc01-07》★★
My Friend, Sherlock Holmes
Thank you. It's a great 1)privilege to be invited to address such an 2)august body. I only wish that Holmes could be here too, but, as you may know, he has now retired to the country to study the art of 3)apiary - 4)beekeeping, as it's more commonly known. Now, my memory has never been entirely reliable but I will do my best to answer the question, which I think is on everybody's lips, "What was he like to know?" Sherlock Holmes.
Well, of course, we have the case histories. Holmes, very kindly, allowed me to retell our adventures in a series of late 5)Victorian 6)publications, of which Strand Magazine in London and Colliers in the United States of America, are the best known.
We lived, of course, in Baker Street, in west London. Ahh, happy days. Two twenty-one B was the 7)epitome of a comfortable late Victorian residence, and around him, Holmes kept those items essential to his profession and to our relaxation.
He recognized his amazing powers of 8)deduction when he pointed out that I had just returned from Afghanistan. How did he know? Well, he explained later: I'd been introduced to him as a doctor, but I also had the air of a military man. My skin was 9)tanned, but my face was 10)haggard, clearly the result of a 11)tropical disease. He also noticed that I carried my left arm in an unnatural manner, which he deduced, quite correctly, was the result of a recent injury. Afghanistan, he concluded was the only place in the tropics where an English army doctor at that time could recently have sustained such an injury. 12)Elementary!
And he, himself, was most interested in the origins of his own ability. In The Greek Interpreter, for example, he attributed it to heredity on the grounds that his brother, Mycroft, 13)possessed it to an even greater degree than he did. In A Study in Scarlet, on the other hand, he refers to "Long habit", which, he said, enabled him to reach his 14)lightning conclusions. In acknowledging the roles both of inherited and 15)acquired learning, he was well ahead of today's research into the origins of intelligence.
No biography of Holmes would be complete without an examination of his greatest triumph, in The Hound of the Baskervilles. My friends, his life was packed full of adventure and 16)intrigue and it has been my pleasure to act as his 17)Boswell.
我的朋友 歇洛克·福尔摩斯
非常感谢。能给各位德高望重的人士讲话，我倍感荣幸。我十分希望福尔摩斯本人也能到场，可是大家也知道，他正在乡下隐居研究养蜂术。我的记忆并不完全牢靠，但我会竭尽所能吐露一切所知，而我想，人人最想问的一个问题就是：“他了解的有多少？” 歇洛克·福尔摩斯。
当然了，我们接手的案子都有记录。福尔摩斯很慷慨地允许我将我们的历险记发表在维多利亚时代晚期的一系列刊物上，其中以英国的《线索》杂志和美国的《科利尔》杂志最为人熟知。
我们住在伦敦西部的贝克街。啊，那段时光太愉快了。贝克街221B号是维多利亚时代晚期的典型建筑，福尔摩斯在房间里摆放着他的职业必需品和我们休闲放松的物件。
他在指出我刚从阿富汗回来时，承认了自己有推理天赋。他是怎么知道的呢？事后他对我进行了一番解释∶尽管我是以医生的身份介绍给他认识的，但我身上有一股军人气质。我的皮肤给晒得黧黑，面容憔悴，显然是因某种热带病而起。他还注意到我的左臂姿势不自然，并准确地推断出那是近伤所致。能让一名英国军医在近期内受伤的热带地区，在当时就只有阿富汗，这是他得出的结论。太容易了！
他对自身拥有这样能力的来由甚感兴趣。例如，在《希腊翻译员》故事中，他将之归功于遗传，因为他哥哥麦克罗夫特在这方面的才能还更高。但是在《血字的研究》中，他又称他能以闪电速度推论出结果是“长期习惯”使然。是遗传因素也好，是习惯造成也好，他对智力起源的研究已遥遥领先于当今一流水准。
如果不提及他最伟大的胜利--《巴斯克维尔庄园的猎犬》，福尔摩斯的传记就称不上完整。朋友们，他的一生中充满了惊心动魄的故事和阴谋诡计，我能成为他的忠实代笔人，真是三生有幸。
注释:
1) privilege n. 特权，特别待遇
2) august a. 威严的
3) apiary n. 养蜂房，养蜂场
4) beekeeping n. 养蜂
5) Victorian a. 维多利亚女王时代的
6) publication n. 出版物
7) epitome n. 典型
8) deduction n. 演绎，推论
9) tan v. 晒黑
10) haggard a. 形容憔悴的
11) tropical a. 热带的
12) elementary a. 简单的，基本的
13) possess v. 拥有，占有
14) lightning a. 闪电的
15) acquired a. 已成习惯的，后天通过自己的努力得到的
16) intrigue n. 阴谋，诡计
17) Boswell n. 为密友写传记的人
★★《2003年07月号-第41期-Disc01-08》★★
Madonna
Musician 1: I think she is 1)chameleon like. I think she has the ability to absorb what's going on around her and make it her own and learn about it and then use it to advance to the next 2)phase of her career.
Musician 2: At certain points in your career, you need different kinds of influences to move to the next level. I think she is smart about what she wants to do, what step she wants to take and the kind of people she needs to surround herself with, people that know what they’re doing in that particular field and she learned from them. And then if it makes sense for what she is trying to do then it works for her.
