时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


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First Madonna did it and now Kylie's doing it. Two of the world's best known pop divas have been branching out. Instead of performing concerts in packed stadiums around the world and recording 1 multi-million selling albums, they have turned their attention to the more gentle world of children's publishing.


Madonna's book "The English Roses" came out in 2003 and now Kylie Minogue's novel "The Showgirl Princess", a story about one girl's journey to stardom, has just been published.


Both women are already famous for being multi-talented. Both are well-known world-wide for their singing, dancing and acting 2 but now it's their writing skills that they are keen to share with the rest of us.


Kylie began acting on Australian TV when she was 11 years old but it was her role as the teenage "Charlene" in the soap opera "Neighbours" that really put her on the international map.


Her on-screen boyfriend (played by Jason Donovan) in "Neighbours" became her off-screen love and when the two of them recorded the duet "Especially for You" in 1989 it seemed that romance, pop music and success were all Kylie's for the taking.


16 years later her charmed life was shattered with the news that she had breast cancer. Her world tour was cancelled and she underwent surgery in May 2005.


It was while she was recovering from her breast cancer treatment that she wrote "The Showgirl Princess". She said it was "therapeutic 3 to be working on something" while she was recuperating 4.


Madonna said one of the reasons for writing "The English Roses" was that she wanted to do something for her children. Kylie's reason is rather different. She admits the idea of the book came from her actor boyfriend Oliver Martinez but that she has always had an interest in writing. "Way back when I was in primary school" she said, "I used to do little drawings and stories. My dad always said that one day I'd write a children's book".


Kylie Minogue is due to start her next tour in Australia in November 2006.


GLOSSARY 词汇表


pop divas 超级流行女歌星


branching out 另辟新境   


packed stadiums 座无虚席的演出会场  


turned their attention to 把注意力转向 


stardom 明星地位


published 出版发行 


multi-talented 多才多艺的


keen to share with the rest of us 迫切与众分享  


soap opera 肥皂剧


put her on the international map 将她推上国际舞台 


on-screen 银幕上 


off-screen 幕下 


duet 二重唱  


for the taking 供…抓取,伸手可得 


her charmed life was shattered 她光彩迷人的生活被粉碎了


breast cancer 乳腺癌


cancelled 取消


therapeutic 治疗的


underwent surgery 经过手术


recuperating 康复



n.录音,记录
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
adj.治疗的,起治疗作用的;对身心健康有益的
  • Therapeutic measures were selected to fit the patient.选择治疗措施以适应病人的需要。
  • When I was sad,music had a therapeutic effect.我悲伤的时候,音乐有治疗效力。
v.恢复(健康、体力等),复原( recuperate的现在分词 )
  • He's still recuperating from his operation. 他动了手术,还在恢复。
  • He is recuperating from a serious back injury. 他背部受了重伤,目前正在康复中。 来自辞典例句
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