偶像励志英语演讲 第81期:做真正的自己(3)

　　Anyway, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and the way I ended up on this path was from a very tragic 1 event. I was maybe 19, and my girlfriend at the time was killed in a car accident. And I passed the accident, and I didn't know it was her and I kept going, and I found out shortly after that, it was her. And I was living in a basement apartment, I had no money, I had no heat, no air, I had a mattress 2 on the floor and the apartment was infested 3 with fleas 4. And I was soul-searching, I was like, why is she suddenly gone, and there are fleas here? I don't understand, there must be a purpose, and wouldn't it be so convenient if we could pick up the phone and call God, and ask these questions.

总之，当时我不知道自己这一辈子要干什么，最后因为一件十分悲惨的事情，我找到了自己的人生目标。大约是在19岁时，我的女朋友在一次车祸中身亡。我路过事故现场时不知道是她，就继续走。但不久我发现，那就是她。当时我住在地下室的公寓里，我没有钱，没有暖气，没有新鲜空气，只是在地板上铺一个垫子，房间里到处都是跳蚤。我感到困惑不已。我在想，“为什么她突然走了？为什么我住在满是跳蚤的房子里？”我无法理解，但一定有理由的，要是能直接拿起电话问上帝的话不是太好了吗？

And I started writing and what poured out of me was an imaginary conversation with God, which was one-sided, and I finished writing it and I looked at it and I said to myself, and I hadn't even been doing stand-up, ever, there was no club in town. I said, "I'm gonna do this on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson"at the time he was the king-"and I'm gonna be the first woman in the history of the show to be called over to sit down." And several years later, I was the first woman in the history of the show, and only woman in the history of the show to sit down, because of that phone conversation with God that I wrote. And I started this path of stand-up and it was successful and it was great, but it was hard, because I was trying to please everybody and I had this secret that I was keeping, that I was gay. And I thought if people found out they wouldn't like me, they would laugh at me.

于是我开始写东西，脑海中涌现出一段与上帝的对话，那是只有我一个人的独白。写完之后，我看着我写的东西，对自己讲话。那时，我还没有开始做单人脱口秀节目，因为当时新奥尔良没有俱乐部。我说，我将要在“今夜秀”上和约翰尼·卡森一起表演这一段。他当时是主持界天王，我将成为该节目史上第一个和他一起坐下被访问的女性。数年之后，我成了该节目史上第一位、也是唯一一位和约翰尼一起坐下被访问的女性，完全是因为我写的“与上帝打电话对话”的剧本。从此我开始做单人脱口秀节目，并且非常成功。但也非常艰难，因为我想取悦每一个人。我守着一个秘密，那就是我是一个同性恋，我想人们要是发现了，就不会喜欢我了，还会嘲笑我。

重点讲解：

1. be infested with

多得成灾；

eg. The apartments were infested with rats and roaches.

公寓里面到处都是老鼠和蟑螂。

eg. The town used to be infested with bandits in the old days.

这个镇从前常遭到匪帮的骚扰。

2. soul-searching

自我剖析；深刻反省；

eg. My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life.

这一年来，我真的进行了许多深刻的反思，努力地找出自己的生活中到底哪里出了问题。

eg. After days of soul - searching he finally came to the decision to leave home.

他经过几天的反躬自问，最终决定离家而去。

3. pour out

涌出；倾吐，倾诉，毫无保留地诉说（思想、感情或经历）；

eg. The fabulous 5 statistics continued to pour out of the telescreen.

电幕上神话般的数字不断奔涌出来。

eg. I poured my thoughts out on paper in an attempt to rationalize my feelings.

为了对自己的感情作出合理的解释，我把想法全都写在纸上。

4. one-sided

单方面的，一边的；

eg. I begin to suspect that this is a one-sided love.

我开始怀疑，这是一种单相思。

eg. Imposing 6 one-sided adjustment on erstwhile debtors 7 will not work.

让昔日债务人单方面调整不会有多大效果。

5. stand-up

单人滑稽表演；单口相声；

eg. When did you start doing stand-up?

你什么时候开始表演独白喜剧的？

eg. He does all kinds of accents, he can do jokes—he could be a stand-up comic.

他会模仿各种口音，还会讲笑话——他可以当个独角喜剧演员。

6. laugh at

嘲笑；讥笑；

eg. He may laugh at our discomfiture 8 now, but before long he'll be laughing on the other side of his face.

他现在可以对我们幸灾乐祸，但是要不了多久他就会转喜为忧。

eg. To rub salt into her wounds, he began to laugh at her.

为了加深她的创痛，他开始嘲笑她。