家庭的意义大学英语综合教程4课文翻译大学英语fame课文翻译
道德经第九章
【大学英语fame课文】
Fame is very much like an animal chasing its own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what el to do but to continue chasing it. Fame and the exhilarating celebrity that panies it, force the famous person to participate in his or her own destruction. Ironic isn't it?
Tho who gain fame most often gain it as a result of posssing a single talent or skill: singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. The successful performer develops a style that is marketed aggressively and gains some popularity, and it is this popularity that usually convinces the performer to continue performing in the same style, since that is what the public ems to want and to enjow. But in time, the performer es bored singing the same songs in the same way year after year, or the painter es bored painting similar scenes or portraite, or the actor is tired of playing the same character repeatedly. The demand of the public holds the artist hostage to his or her own success, fame. If the artist
attempts to change his or her style of writing or dancing or singing, etc., the audience may turn away and look to confer fleeting fickle fame on another and then, in time, on another , and so on and so on.
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Who cannot recognize a Tenne Williams play or a novel by John Updike or Ernest Hemingway or a poem by Robert Frost or W. H. Auden or T. S. Eliot? The same is true of painters like Monet, Renoir, Dali or Picasso and it is true of movie makers like Hitchcock, Fellini, Spielberg, Chen Kai-ge or Zhang Yimou. Their distinctive styles marked a significant change in the traditional forms and granted them fame and forturn, but they were not free to develop other styles or forms becau their audience demanded of each of them what they originally prented. Hemingway cannot even now be confud with Henry James or anyone el, nor can Forst be confud with Yeats, etc. The unique forms each of them created, created them. No artist or performer can entirely escape the lure of fame and its promi of endless admiration and respect, but there is a heavy price one must pay for it.
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大小梅沙 Fame brings celebrity and high regard from adoring and loyal fans in each field of endeavor and it is heady stuff. A performer can easily e to believe that he or she is as good as his or her press. But most people, most artists do not gain fame and fortune. What about tho performers who fail, or anyone who fails? Curiously enough, failure often rves as its own reward for many people! It brings sympathy from others who are delighted not to be you, and it allows family and friends to lower their expectation of you so that you need not pete with tho who have more talent and who cceed. And they find excus and explanations for your inability to succeed and e famous: you are too nsitive, you are not interested in money, you are not interested in the power that fame brings and you are not interested in the loss of privacy it demands, etc. __all excus, but forting to tho who fail and tho who pretend not to notice the failure.
History has amply proven that some failure for some people at certain times in their lives does indeed motivate them to strive even harder to succeed and to continue believing in themlves. Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward, Anger rejected 39 times before it was finally published and launched his care
新公司though和although的区别er and created his fame. Beethoven overcame his tyrannical father and grudging acceptance as a musician to e the greatest, most famous musician in the world, and Pestalozzi, the famous Italian educator in the 19th century, failed at every job he ever had until he came upon the idea of teaching children and developing the fundamental theories to produce a new form of education. Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in fourth grade, at about age 10, becau he emed to the teacher to be quite dull and unruly. Many other cas may be found of people who failed and ud the failure to motivate them to achieve, to succeed, and to e famous. But, unfortunately, for most people failure is the end of their struggle, not the beginning. There are few, if any, famous failures.
Well then, why does anyone want fame? Do you? Do you want to be known to many people and admired by them? Do you want the money that usually es with fame? Do you want the media to notice everything you do or say both in public and in private? Do you want them hounding you, questioning you and trying to undo you? In American politics it is very obvious that to be famous is to be the target of everyone who disagrees with you as well as of the media. Fame turns all the lights on and while it gives power and prestige,
it takes the you out of you: you must be what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could be. The politician, like the performer, must plea his or her audiences and that often means saying things he does not mean or does not believe in fully. No wonder so few people trust politicians. But we have not answered the question at the beginning of this paragraph: why does anyone want fame? Several reasons e to mind: to demonstrate excellence in some field; to gain the admiration and love of many others; to be the one everyone talks about; to show family and friends you are more than they thought you were. Probably you can list some other reasons, but I think are reasonably mon.
