雅思听力提分训练素材：奥斯卡上的元老们（配MP3）

本期雅思听力提分训练素材：The Oscar Elders: 3 Octogenarians Make Academy Award History(奥斯卡元老：3个老人创造了奥斯卡颁奖典礼历史)，本听力素材来自NPR，NPR新闻是美国的国家公共广播，纯公益，所以内容更加去纯粹，直击心灵。可作为雅思听力泛听训练的日常素材，坚持长期听，除了锻炼英语听力，还能积累雅思听力词汇。

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The Oscar Elders: 3 Octogenarians Make Academy Award History

SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

The awards ceremony best known for golden statuettes is looking more silver this year. That mean B.J. Leiderman who writes our theme music will finally be nominated? As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, three of the people nominated for Oscars are among the oldest ever.

NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: We're not talking honorary Oscars. Actress Gloria Stuart was 87 when she was nominated for "Titanic." This year, 88-year-old Christopher Plummer was the oldest person nominated as Best Supporting Actor for the second time. When Plummer won for the movie "Beginners" in 2012, he took the stage and started talking to his Oscar statuette.

我们不是在谈论荣誉奥斯卡。女演员格劳瑞亚·斯图尔特87岁时，她被提名为“泰坦尼克号”。今年88岁的克里斯托弗·普拉莫是第二次被提名为最佳男配角的最年长的人。当Plummer在2012年赢得了电影“初学者”，他上台，开始谈他的奥斯卡小金人。

(SOUNDBITE OF 84TH ACADEMY AWARDS)

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

ULABY: Over more than six decades, Plummer has appeared in more than 200 films, most famously "The Sound Of Music." But in 2011, Plummer told NPR that aging was an asset for a handsome man who hated being typecast as the lead.

超过六年，Plummer已经出演了200多部电影，最著名的“音乐之声”。但在2011，Plummer告诉NPR，作为一个英俊的老男人，讨厌被定型为领袖。

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)

PLUMMER: Finally, I was dissipated enough in my 40s to look like a character actor.

And I enjoyed being a character actor because, of course, the roles were so much more interesting.

ULABY: Roles like the one that got him this Oscar nomination as J. Paul Getty - in the movie "All The Money In The World," the oil baron insists he's too poor to pay for his kidnapped grandson's ransom.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD")

PLUMMER: (As J. Paul Getty) Simply isn't possible.

ULABY: Meanwhile, 89-year-old screenwriter James Ivory is one year older than Plummer. He's been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for his romance "Call Me By Your Name" where the two male leads flirt over arrangements for the piano.

同时，89岁的编剧詹姆斯·伊沃里比Plummer大一岁。他被提名为最佳改编剧本，因为他的浪漫电影“请你你的名字呼唤我”，电影中两个男性先行者被安排在钢琴前调情。

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "CALL ME BY YOUR NAME")

ARMIE HAMMER: (As Oliver) That sounds different. Did you change it?

TIMOTHEE CHALAMET: (As Elio Perlman) I changed it a little bit.

HAMMER: (As Oliver) Why?

CHALAMET: (As Elio Perlman) I just played it the way Liszt would have played it if he'd altered Bach's version.

ULABY: But Ivory's all of eight days younger than Agnes Varda. This year, she became the oldest person ever nominated for an Oscar.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "FACES PLACES")

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Speaking French).

ULABY: The Belgian-born director discussed making her documentary "Faces Places" on NPR last year with her much younger collaborator, the artist JR.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)

AGNES VARDA: We calculated we are 55 years difference of age, and it doesn't show in the film. It shows on our faces.

ULABY: Varda helped invent the French new wave. She founded her own production company and - says film scholar Rebecca DeRoo - she directed, edited and wrote most of her more than 50 films.

REBECCA DEROO: So she exercises incredible creative control.

ULABY: Varda's documentary from the year 2000 called "Gleaners And I" dives into the world of people who pick through fields and trash searching for useful or edible scraps. But DeRoo says it's also a profound, personal meditation that touches on the director getting older.

DEROO: And in one scene, she goes to a field where potatoes have been dumped, and they've grown in the shape of a heart.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "GLEANERS AND I")

VARDA: (Speaking French).

DEROO: And she uses this as a kind of way to reflect on aging as she keeps her heartshaped potatoes in her home. And as they continue to age, they wrinkle. But they also sprout these new shoots and new life.

ULABY: A vibrant metaphor for the creativity of artists as they age.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)

PLUMMER: You never stop learning.

ULABY: Christopher Plummer says getting older means new chances for reinvention.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)

ULABY: I feel like I'm starting all over again. Every sort of decade, I feel this. And that's very satisfying.

PLUMMER: Plummer may break his own record as the oldest person to win an acting Oscar this year. And if he's joined by Agnes Varda and James Ivory, those three wins will collectively represent almost two centuries of exemplary filmmaking.

Plummer作为最年长的人，打破自己的纪录并赢得了奥斯卡。如果他加入了Agnes Varda和詹姆斯·伊沃里，那三胜将共同代表近两个世纪的电影制作。

Neda Ulaby, NPR News.

雅思听力高频词汇

sprout 发芽

reinvention 再造

nominate 提名

filmmaking 电影制作

documentary 纪录片

break record 打破记录

Best Adapted Screenplay 最佳改编剧本

arrangement 安排

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