胡楊選譯
Who is Bruce Lee?
李小龍是誰?
Bruce Lee is an actor and martial arts1 instructor2.
李小龍是一名演員兼武術(shù)教練。
Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco, California. His father was a Hong Kong Cantonese opera3 singer, moved with his wife, and children to the United States in 1939. Lees name, Bruce, was given to him by a nurse4. The future5 star showed up in his first film in 1941 when he was just three months old.
1940年11月27日,李小龍出生于加利福尼亞州的舊金山。他的父親是一名香港粵劇演員,1939年他的父親和妻子、孩子移居美國。李小龍的名字叫“布魯斯”,是一位護(hù)士給他取的。這位未來之星1941年第一次在電影中亮相,當(dāng)時(shí)他只有三個(gè)月大。
When he grew up, he started to learn kung fu to protect6 himself. In 1953, he started to study kung fu. Later, he moved back to the U.S. to live with family friends in Seattle, Washington. At that time he also learned dance lessons and became a good cha-cha dancer. In 1958 he got the Hong Kong cha-cha championship7. He also found a job teaching Wing Chun, which he learned in Hong Kong.
長大后,他開始學(xué)習(xí)功夫來保護(hù)自己。1953年,他開始學(xué)習(xí)功夫。后來,他搬回美國,在華盛頓州西雅圖與家人朋友住在一起。在那個(gè)時(shí)候,他也學(xué)習(xí)舞蹈課程,成為了一名優(yōu)秀的恰恰舞者。1958年,他贏得了香港恰恰舞公開賽冠軍。他還找到了一份教授詠春拳的工作,他是在香港學(xué)的。
Through8 his teaching, he met Linda Emery, whom he married9 in 1964. By that time, he had opened his own martial arts school in Seattle. Lee and Linda soon moved to California. Lee and Linda have two children—Brandon, born in 1965, and Shannon, born in 1969.
在教學(xué)過程中,他認(rèn)識(shí)了琳達(dá)·埃默里,并于1964年和她結(jié)婚。那時(shí),他已經(jīng)在西雅圖開辦了自己的武術(shù)學(xué)校。李小龍和琳達(dá)很快搬到了加利福尼亞。李小龍和琳達(dá)有兩個(gè)孩子——1965年出生的布蘭登和1969年出生的香農(nóng)。
Bruce Lee has many well-known movies. By the end of 1972, he was a great movie star in Asia and he also taught so many Hollywood10 stars.
李小龍有很多著名的電影。到1972年底,他已經(jīng)是亞洲一名偉大的電影明星,他還培養(yǎng)了許多好萊塢明星。
Bruce Lee once said:
李小龍?jiān)?jīng)說過:
Empty11 your mind
清空你的思想
Be formless12, shapeless13
化作無形
Like water
如水一般
Water can flow14
水能柔
Or it can crash15
亦能剛
Be water my friend
變成水,朋友
Bruce Lee died in July 20, 1973, Hong Kong, China, at the age of 32, but his death16 still is a question.
李小龍于1973年7月20日在中國香港去世,享年32歲,但他的死因仍然存在疑問。
(英語原文選自:msn.com)
1. martial art n. 武術(shù) 2. instructor [] n. 教練;導(dǎo)師
3. opera [? ? ? ] n. 歌劇 4. nurse [? ? ?] n. 護(hù)士
5. future [] adj. 將來的,未來的 6. protect [? ? ? ? ? ] v. 保護(hù)
7. championship [? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ] n. 冠軍 8. through [? ? ?] prep. 貫穿
9. marry [? ? ? ? ] v. (和某人)結(jié)婚 10. Hollywood [? ? ? ? ? ?] n. 好萊塢
11. empty [? ? ? ? ] v. 使成為空的 12. formless [? ? ? ? ? ] adj. 無定形的
13. shapeless [? ? ? ? ?] adj. 不成形的 14. flow [? ? ?] v. (使)流動(dòng),涌流;流通
15. crash [? ? ? ] v. 碰撞;(使)墜毀;(使)摔碎;使發(fā)出巨響
16. death [? ? ?] n. 死亡