2006年VOA标准英语-Nneena Freelon Takes on Billie Holiday Son
时间：2019-01-10 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（三月）
By Doug Levine
Washington
05 March 2006
Blueprint 1 of a Lady
Few jazz vocalists have the courage to take on the Billie Holiday songbook. Those songs evoke 2 such deep feelings - many expressing heartache and others extreme loneliness - that many singers steer 3 clear of the challenge. But one performer not only took the challenge, but did so with flying colors on Portrait of a Lady - Sketches 4 of Billie Holiday.
Though many singers regard the late Billie Holiday as a major influence, only the most seasoned record her songs. For jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon, it was just a matter of time.
Billie Holiday, or "Lady Day," was one of jazz music's most passionate 5 performers, but also one of its most tragic 6. A star on stage, screen and television, Holiday crumbled 7 under the weight of a turbulent life tainted 8 by troubled marriages, drug and alcohol abuse, and prison time. She was almost penniless when she died of liver disease and heart failure at the age of 44 in 1959.
On the anniversary of Holiday's 90th birthday, Nnenna Freelon wanted to make sure Billie's legacy 9 lived on.
Freelon faced a daunting 10 task sorting through the wealth of Billie Holiday material. In the end, she chose standards often linked with Holiday or songs Holiday wrote. An inspired Freelon even wrote a few tunes 11 of her own like "Only You Will Know."
It's not that Nnenna Freelon is the only one who can tackle a Billie Holiday tribute album. It's that she makes it looks so easy.
- All the machine parts on a blueprint must answer each other.设计图上所有的机器部件都应互相配合。
- The documents contain a blueprint for a nuclear device.文件内附有一张核装置的设计蓝图。
- These images are likely to evoke a strong response in the viewer.这些图像可能会在观众中产生强烈反响。
- Her only resource was the sympathy she could evoke.她以凭借的唯一力量就是她能从人们心底里激起的同情。
- If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
- It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。
- The artist is making sketches for his next painting. 画家正为他的下一幅作品画素描。
- You have to admit that these sketches are true to life. 你得承认这些素描很逼真。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He is said to be the most passionate man.据说他是最有激情的人。
- He is very passionate about the project.他对那个项目非常热心。
- The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
- Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
- He crumbled the bread in his fingers. 他用手指把面包捻碎。
- Our hopes crumbled when the business went bankrupt. 商行破产了，我们的希望也破灭了。
- The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
- He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
- He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
- They were faced with the daunting task of restoring the house.他们面临着修复房子的艰巨任务。
- Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.开始一项新工作有时会让人望而却步。