美语情景对话 第480期:Actor's Fear 演员的恐惧

Todd: So, Eucharia, you are into drama?

托德：尤查里亚，你喜欢戏剧吗？

Eucharia: Yes, I have a Masters in drama and theatre and at the moment I am hoping to get onto a PHD programme in drama and theatre.

尤查里亚：喜欢，我是戏剧和剧院方面的硕士，现在我想取得戏剧和剧院方面的博士。

Todd: So what's the thing about drama? What excites you about drama?

托德：那来说说戏剧吧，戏剧的什么地方令你兴奋？

Eucharia: Well I find it's a very communicative way to study things and study about people and you learn how to read people in drama, so usually I can understand what people are saying even though they might be lying, which comes in handy sometimes.

尤查里亚：我认为研究事情、研究人物是一种交流方式，你会学习如何解读戏剧中的人物，所以通常来说我可以理解人们说的话，有时能察觉出人们在说谎，所以这有时很有用处。

Todd: That would be useful!

托德：这肯定有用啊！

Eucharia: Yeah, so erm, I think it's very useful for me as well. I am an English lecturer so I use a lot of drama in my classes such as role plays. And I ask my students to create little plays, little mini dramas so they really respond well because it's a semi-controlled version of English learning in so far asthey can rehearse but it has to sound reasonably natural. So, at the moment I'm hoping to get on to a PHD course which will investigate about drama in the English… in English as a foreign language classroom, so especially I would like to concentrate on a lot of…I would like to concentrate a lot on Asian drama and try to bring Asian theatre to the world's attention. I don't know how successful I will be but here's hoping!

尤查里亚：是啊，我认为这对我来说很有用。我是一名英语讲师，我在我的课堂上会使用大量的戏剧来进行角色扮演。我会要求学生创造小型戏剧或者迷你戏剧，他们的反响非常好，因为这是英语学习中的半自由练习，他们可以进行排练，不过要表演得相当自然。所以我希望能获得博士学位，研究将英语作为外语来学习的课堂上的戏剧，我尤其想关注亚洲戏剧，让全世界关注亚洲剧院。我不知道会不会成功，不过还是有希望的！

Todd: Oh, I'm sure you will be successful! Now, Eucharia, you are into drama. Can you tell…what do you do for stage fright?

托德：哦，我确定你会成功的！尤查里亚，你喜欢戏剧。那你能告诉我你怯场时会怎么办吗？

Eucharia: Ah, stage fright! Well, usually I get stage fright still, it's just… many actors get stage fright, many famous actors get stage fright. I get stage fright every time I'm going to teach a new class. The night before I'm usually throwing up my dinner in the toilet, I can't sleep…

尤查里亚：啊，怯场！我会怯场，许多演员，许多著名演员都会怯场。我在带新班级时就会怯场。教课的前一晚我会在卫生间把晚餐都吐出去，而且睡不着……

Todd: What, for teaching?

托德：为什么，因为讲课吗？

Eucharia: …I'm sweating, yes!

尤查里亚：……我还一直在流汗，是啊！

Todd: No?

托德：不是吗？

Eucharia: Yes! I get really bad stage fright but the minute I step into the classroom or the minute I get onto the stage it just all falls into place. I just feel like 'Yeah this is what I'm made to do' but the night before it is always the worst case scenario so I am always thinking of what can go wrong. So that's my particular brand of stage fright but once I get on stage or once I get in front of the class I will be fine. I know this.

尤查里亚：是！我总是会怯场，不过在我进入教室的那一刻，或者说在我上台的那一刻，事情就会有条紊地进行。我会想“对，这就是我要做的事情”，可是前一晚我会模拟最糟糕的情况，我会想哪个环节会出错。所以这就是我怯场的情况，不过一旦我上台或走进教室，一切都没问题了。我知道会这样的。

Todd: Wow, that's cool.

托德：哇，真酷。

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重点讲解：
1. come in handy
派上用场；
eg. That key will come in handy if you lock yourself out.
要是你把自己锁在了屋外，那把钥匙就派上用场了。
eg. The $20 check came in very handy.
那张20美元的支票正好派上了用场。
2. in so far as
在…的范围内；到…的程度；只要；
eg. You are qualified in so far as you don't cause problems.
就你不会制造麻烦而言，你是合格的。
eg. He can be trusted in so far as he has never yet told a lie.
他是可以信任的，因为他从未说过谎。
3. concentrate on
全神贯注；集中（心思）；
eg. You should concentrate on the road when you're driving.
开车时注意力应集中在路上。
eg. Clock watchers can never concentrate on their work.
老是看时间等下班的人决不会专心致志地工作。
4. throw up
呕吐；呕出；
eg. This smell is enough to make you throw up.
这种气味令人呕吐。
eg. If you are going to throw up, be sure to do it in the sick bag.
如果您想吐的话，一定要吐到呕吐袋里。
5. fall into place
（情况）豁然开朗；（事件等）自然而然地按所希望的方式发生；
eg. Once the decision was made, things fell into place rapidly.
一旦作出决定，事情就立刻顺理成章地发展下去了。
eg. When the reasons behind the decision were explained, of course, it all fell into place.
当然，在这一决定背后的原因得到解释之后，一切就变得