英語名人堂：奧黛麗·赫本

奧黛麗·赫本(Audrey Hepburn)，1929年5月4日出生于比利時布魯塞爾，英國電影和舞臺劇女演員。

1948年，赫本在一部時長僅39分鐘的荷蘭風光紀錄片《荷蘭七課》中出鏡，開始電影生涯。1954年，她在影片《羅馬假日》中第一次出演女主角，并獲得奧斯卡最佳女主角獎。同年，她因在舞臺劇《美人魚》中的表演，獲得托尼獎的最佳女主角。1955年，她憑借電影《龍鳳配》再度獲得奧斯卡最佳女主角獎的提名。1961年，她主演了電影《蒂凡尼的早餐》。1964年，她主演了歌舞片《窈窕淑女》。1989年，息影多年的奧黛麗客串出演最后一部電影《直到永遠》。

晚年時，奧黛麗·赫本投身慈善事業(yè)，是聯(lián)合國兒童基金會親善大使的代表人物，為第三世界婦女與孩童爭取權益。1992年被授予美國“總統(tǒng)自由勛章”，1993年獲奧斯卡人道主義獎[1] 。1993年1月20日，奧黛麗·赫本因闌尾癌病逝，享年63歲。

赫本一生中共獲得五次奧斯卡最佳女主角提名。1999年，她被美國電影學會評為“百年來最偉大的女演員”第三位。2002年5月，聯(lián)合國兒童基金會在其紐約總部為一尊7英尺高的青銅雕像揭幕，雕像名字為奧黛麗精神(The Spirit of Audrey)，以表彰赫本為聯(lián)合國所做的貢獻。

Audrey Hepburn was an award-winning actress. The American Film Institute considered her to be the third greatest actress of all time. She also became a fashion and cultural icon, and continues to be so today. She was also a magnificent humanitarian. The memories of World War II horrors shaped her desire to help children and so she served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Hepburn was born in 1929 as Audrey Ruston in Brussels, Belgium. She was the only child of an Englishman and a Dutch aristocrat. She was educated at a private school in England. Her parents divorced in 1935 and her father left. His leaving was the most traumatic moment of her life. After World War II, Hepburn studied ballet in London.

Audrey was too tall to be a ballerina and went into acting. In 1951, her first big break came when she starred as Gigi in a London theatre. She won an award and lots of publicity. Her second break came two years later in the movie classic ‘Roman Holiday’, for which she won an Oscar for best actress.

Hepburn became one of Hollywood's most successful stars and starred in many unforgettable movies. She used her fame to work with UNICEF for several decades. She declared, "I have a broken heart”, after seeing Ethiopia’s famine in 1988. She also famously said: “'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world.” Hepburn died in 1993 but remains a much-loved legend.

1 icon

n.偶像，崇拜的對象，畫像

參考例句：

They found an icon in the monastery.他們在修道院中發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個圣像。

Click on this icon to align or justify text.點擊這個圖標使文本排齊。

2 humanitarian

n.人道主義者，博愛者，基督凡人論者

參考例句：

She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她擁有很多慈善事業(yè)，并作了很大的貢獻。

The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英國政府現(xiàn)已暫停對這一地區(qū)的人道主義援助。

3 goodwill

n.善意，親善，信譽，聲譽

參考例句：

His heart is full of goodwill to all men.他心里對所有人都充滿著愛心。

We paid ￡10,000 for the shop,and ￡2000 for its goodwill.我們用一萬英鎊買下了這家商店，兩千英鎊買下了它的信譽。

4 aristocrat

n.貴族，有貴族氣派的人，上層人物

參考例句：

He was the quintessential english aristocrat.他是典型的英國貴族。

He is an aristocrat to the very marrow of his bones.他是一個道道地地的貴族。

5 acting

n.演戲，行為，假裝;adj.代理的，臨時的，演出用的

參考例句：

Ignore her,she's just acting.別理她，她只是假裝的。

During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

6 publicity

n.眾所周知，聞名;宣傳，廣告

參考例句：

The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.這位歌星的婚事引起了公眾的關注。

He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理會這件事，只當它是一種宣傳手法。

7 remains

n.剩余物，殘留物;遺體，遺跡

參考例句：

He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。

The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.殘羹剩飯喂狗了。