美国国家公共电台 NPR Hugh Hefner: Looking Back At A Controversial Life
时间：2018-12-17 作者：英语课 分类：2017年NPR美国国家公共电台10月
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Hugh Hefner made history and then tripped over it. When I was growing up in Chicago, the formidable women who were my mother's friends considered Playboy a good place to work for a single woman. Women at the Playboy Club were well-paid, got chauffeured 1 home in cabs. And customers - stars, politicians, even, it was rumored 2, spoiled Middle Eastern princes - were thrown out if they weren't gentlemen. My Auntie Abba trained Playboy bunnies. When Gloria Steinem and others said the bunny costume, which wrenched 3 a woman's bodice upwards 4 so her chest resembled ice cream scoops 5, were Exhibit A in the way Hugh Hefner made women into idealized sex objects, my Auntie Abba sniffed 6 and said - well, there were some pretty ridiculous costumes at the Metropolitan 7 Opera, too.
Hugh Hefner was considered progressive and hip 8 in a time of buttoned-down shirts and bigotry 9. Playboy printed articles by Nobel laureates on the flip 10 side of foldouts. He hired the late Dick Gregory and other black comics to work the Playboy Clubs when nightclubs were largely segregated 11. He put long, crucial interviews with James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King front and center in his magazine when it had 7 million readers. He hired Lenny Bruce to play his clubs and paid his legal bills. He promoted jazz and financed legal cases for free speech, civil rights and abortion 12 rights.
Hugh Hefner saw the sexual revolution as companion to the movements for civil rights and free speech. But this leading figure of the sexual revolution couldn't see the feminist 13 revolution. Hef went from being acclaimed 14 an icon 15 of cool to being denounced an oppressive pig. The criticism wasn't just rhetoric 16. Bill Cosby allegedly raped 17 several young women at the Playboy Mansion 18 where drug use was rife 19. Numerous playmates said they were abused, too. Free nudity on the Internet ultimately diminished the Playboy empire, but its cachet of cool had long disappeared. We talked about that when we profiled Hugh Hefner on Playboy's 50th anniversary. He often sounded defensive 20 and called his critics prudes.
When the interview was over, I told him he'd known some members of my family, and Mr. Hefner brightened. He took me through his personal archives to go through photos and even found a couple of my father. It was a gracious act that seemed to bring him back to the time when he wasn't a controversial old figure in a mansion but a hipster in a stodgy 21 culture. Hugh Hefner's life reminds us that the cutting edge can grow dull.
(SOUNDBITE OF CY COLEMAN'S "PLAYBOY'S THEME")
- He was chauffeured to all his meetings. 他由司机开车送去参加所有的会议。
- He was chauffeured away soon thereafter with no public statement. 在那之后他没有做出任何公开声明，很快被车送离。 来自互联网
- It is rumored that he cheats on his wife. 据传他对他老婆不忠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- It was rumored that the white officer had been a Swede. 传说那个白人军官是个瑞典人。 来自辞典例句
- The bag was wrenched from her grasp. 那只包从她紧握的手里被夺了出来。
- He wrenched the book from her hands. 他从她的手中把书拧抢了过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
- The smoke rose straight upwards.烟一直向上升。
- two scoops of mashed potato 两勺土豆泥
- I used three scoops of flour and one(scoop)of sugar. 我用了三杓面粉和一杓糖。 来自辞典例句
- When Jenney had stopped crying she sniffed and dried her eyes. 珍妮停止了哭泣，吸了吸鼻子，擦干了眼泪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The dog sniffed suspiciously at the stranger. 狗疑惑地嗅着那个陌生人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Metropolitan buildings become taller than ever.大城市的建筑变得比以前更高。
- Metropolitan residents are used to fast rhythm.大都市的居民习惯于快节奏。
- The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
- The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
- She tried to dissociate herself from the bigotry in her past.她力图使自己摆脱她以前的偏见。
- At least we can proceed in this matter without bigotry.目前这件事咱们至少可以毫无偏见地进行下去。
- I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
- Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。
- a culture in which women are segregated from men 妇女受到隔离歧视的文化
- The doctor segregated the child sick with scarlet fever. 大夫把患猩红热的孩子隔离起来。
- She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
- A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
- She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
- From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。
- They acclaimed him as the best writer of the year. 他们称赞他为当年的最佳作者。
- Confuscius is acclaimed as a great thinker. 孔子被赞誉为伟大的思想家。
- They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
- Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
- Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
- Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
- A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
- We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
- The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
- The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。
- Disease is rife in the area.疾病在这一区很流行。
- Corruption was rife before the election.选举之前腐败盛行。