英語名人堂：艾西瓦婭·雷,艾西瓦婭·巴克罕

艾西瓦婭·雷,艾西瓦婭·巴克罕(也譯：艾西瓦婭·巴沙坎、愛絲維婭·巴克罕，1973年11月1日-，天城文：???????? ?????，英語：Aishwarya Bachchan，娘家名：莉(???，Rai)，或譯：愛絲維婭·莉)是一位著名的印度女模特、演員，近年來已是寶萊塢最高薪酬的影、視、歌、舞巨星。她的成名作為《何日君能知我心》(Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam - 1999年)以及《胭脂淚》(Devdas - 2002年)。曾獲得1994年度的世界小姐，在2000年，被選為最美麗的世界小姐。

Aishwarya “Rai” Bachchan is one of India’s best known and best loved actresses. She was born in 1973 and was a very bright pupil at school. She worked part-time as a model while studying architecture. She planned to be an architect. Things changed all of a sudden in 1994 when she entered and won the Miss World contest.

Rai became a full-time model after her year’s duties as Miss World. She is still called the most beautiful woman in the world. She is also multi-lingual and can speak five languages. She made her movie debut in ‘Iruvar,’ a 1997 Tamil film. It didn’t do very well. Her first commercial success came a year later in another Tamil movie, ‘Jeans’.

The Bollywood movie industry took an instant like to her and she starred in several very successful Hindi movies. In 1999 she won the Filmfare Best Actress Award. She has acted in over 40 movies in the past decade in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and English. She also landed the lead female role in 2009’s ‘Pink Panther 2’ movie in Hollywood.

She gained popularity overseas and was one of ‘Time’ magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2004. That same year, a wax figure of Rai was put on display in London's Madame Tussaud's museum. In 2007, she married Indian actor Abhishek Bachchan in a spectacular Hindu ceremony. In Indian culture, Rai is considered a 'Mangalik', which according to the stars is a destructive influence in married life.

1 full-time

adj.滿工作日的或工作周的，全時間的

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A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。

I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顧家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何對付的。

2 debut

n.首次演出，初次露面

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That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老匯登臺，扮演一個溫文而雅的電臺記者。

The actress made her debut in the new comedy.這位演員在那出新喜劇中首次登臺演出。

3 popularity

n.普及，流行，名望，受歡迎

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The story had an extensive popularity among American readers.這本小說在美國讀者中贏得廣泛的聲望。

Our product enjoys popularity throughout the world.我們的產(chǎn)品飲譽(yù)全球。

4 influential

adj.有影響的，有權(quán)勢的

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He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他總是試圖巴結(jié)最有影響的人物。

He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是個很有影響的人物。

5 spectacular

adj.引人注目的，出色的，與眾不同的

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This is a spectacular film.這是一部場面壯觀的電影。

This is the most spectacular financial crash of the decade.這是10年里最引人注目的金融破產(chǎn)事件。

6 destructive

adj.破壞(性)的，毀滅(性)的

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In the end,it will be destructive of our whole society.它最終會毀滅我們整個社會。

It is the most destructive storm in 20 years.這是20年來破壞性最大的一次風(fēng)暴。