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秀蘭·鄧波兒被譽為“美國偶像”、“美國甜心”。在20世紀30年代經(jīng)濟大蕭條時期，她那金黃的小卷發(fā)、水靈俏皮的眼睛、迷人的小酒窩，還有銀幕上載歌載舞的模樣溫暖了無數(shù)美國家庭，就連當時的美國總統(tǒng)羅斯福都稱她是“奇跡小姐”。仿佛落入人間的天使，她讓當時的人們忘卻了生活中的艱難。如今，她把歡笑帶回了天堂……

Shirley Temple, the enchanting singing and dancing child star with the glowing corkscrew curls who saved a Hollywood studio and helped yank America from the throes of the Great Depression, died, at the age of 85,on Feburary 10, 2014.1. 秀蘭·鄧波兒曾是一位歡歌載舞的童星，她長著一頭光澤卷發(fā)，正是她拯救了一家好萊塢電影公司，幫助美國人民度過經(jīng)濟大蕭條時期的艱難生活。她于2014年2月10日去世，享年85歲。corkscrew: 螺旋形的；yank: 猛地一拉，猛拉；throe: 陣痛，劇痛；Great Depression: 大蕭條，是指1929年至1933年之間全球性的經(jīng)濟大衰退。Temple died of natural causes at her Woodside, California, home surrounded by her family and caregivers.2. natural cause: 自然因素，此處指秀蘭·鄧波兒由于高齡而自然死亡；caregiver: 照料者，護工。

Making $1,250 a week at age 6, the incandescent Temple was a veteran of 46 features and one-reelers before she turned 13.3. incandescent: 杰出的，才華橫溢的；veteran: 有豐富經(jīng)驗的人；feature:〈美〉電影長片，故事片；one-reeler:〈美〉單盤影片（如新聞紀錄片、動畫片等）。A huge star in a pint-sized package, she received an average of 16,000 letters a month, and for one birthday, fans sent her 167,000 presents.4. pint-sized: 小型的，小巧的；package: 有關(guān)聯(lián)的一組事物，此處指秀蘭·鄧波兒的身材體形。

A bigger box-of fice draw than Clark Gable (another actor with famous dimples), Temple captivated moviegoers with her furrowed brow, perplexed pouts and unrelenting cheeriness in such films asBright Eyes(1934), in which she belted out her signature song, “On the Good Ship Lollipop.”5. 秀蘭·鄧波兒的票房號召力甚至比克拉克·蓋博（另一個有著迷人酒窩的演員）還大，在《亮眼睛》（1934）等電影中，她緊鎖的眉毛、因不知所措而撅起的小嘴和一如既往的歡樂，迷住了電影觀眾們。正是在《亮眼睛》這部電影中，她演唱了她的那首招牌歌曲《好船棒棒糖》。Clark Gable: 克拉克·蓋博（1901—1960），美國國寶級男影星，電影《亂世佳人》的男主角，被美國電影學會選為百年來最偉大的男演員第七名；unrelenting: 堅定的，不屈不撓的；belt out: 引吭高歌。

“On the good ship Lollipop, it’s a sweet trip to a candy shop. Where bon-bons play, on the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay,”6. bon-bon: 小糖果，棒棒糖；Peppermint: 薄荷糖。she sang. The sheet music7. sheet music: 散頁樂譜，活頁樂譜。sold a half-million copies.

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With the country still reeling from the Great Depression,President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed,8. reel from: 由于……而蹣跚，受到……不好的影響；Franklin Roosevelt: 富蘭克林·羅斯福（1882—1945），第32任美國總統(tǒng)，20世紀20年代到30年代美國經(jīng)濟危機時期和二戰(zhàn)期間的核心人物之一；proclaim: 公開贊揚?！癆s long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” Her in fluence extended to lands far away: even foreign dignitaries sent her such gifts as a miniature, drivable Rolls-Royce (from the Aga Khan in the Middle East) and a kid-size jade elephant (from Asia).9. curry favor with: 拍馬屁，曲意逢迎；dignitary:達官貴人，顯要人物；miniature: 小于普通尺寸的，袖珍的；Rolls-Royce: 勞斯萊斯汽車，一個著名的英國豪華汽車品牌；Aga Khan:阿迦汗，伊斯蘭教伊斯瑪儀派對其首領(lǐng)的稱呼；jade: 玉制的。

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Temple at age 6 with the first Juvenile Academy Award “in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.”10. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: 美國電影藝術(shù)與科學學院，奧斯卡金像獎的主辦單位，由電影界的專業(yè)或資深人士組成的非營利組織；Juvenile Academy Award: 奧斯卡青少年獎，由美國電影藝術(shù)與科學學院裁定并頒發(fā)給18歲以下且在熒幕上有杰出表現(xiàn)的青少年表演者；grateful: 致謝意的，出于感激的；recognition: 認可，承認。She is the youngest person ever to receive an Oscar statuette11. statuette: 小雕像，此處指奧斯卡的小金人獎杯。, miniature or otherwise.

Temple appeared in six other features that year,including the musicalStand Up and Cheer!12. Stand Up and Cheer!: 電影《起立歡呼》。She only had a small part in that movie—the plot sees the U.S.government creating a “Department of Amusement” to shake the nation from its Depression doldrums—but the movie quickly made Foxrealize what a valuable asset it had on its hands.13. doldrums: 萎靡不振，意志消沉；Fox: 美國?？怂闺娪肮?，成立于1935年，是20世紀30年代到40年代美國八家大電影公司之一。

On the verge of bankruptcy and tens of millions of dollars in debt, Fox merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, and studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck made the adorable tot his No. 1 priority.14. on the verge of: 在……的邊緣，瀕臨于……；tot: 小孩；priority: 優(yōu)先權(quán)，優(yōu)先考慮的事。He put the finest talents to work on her pictures, and the Shirley Temple Development Division at one time employed 19 writers.

Four of Temple’s most memorable films were released in 1935, includingThe Little Colonel, a Civil War musical drama where she tap-danced with Bill Robinson on a staircase in one of the most enchanting cinematic sequences of all time.15. 秀蘭·鄧波兒有四部最令人難忘的電影在1935年上映，其中包括《小上?！贰徊恳悦绹鴥?nèi)戰(zhàn)為故事背景的音樂劇。在這部電影里，她與比爾·羅賓遜在樓梯上跳踢踏舞的這一段插曲成為了歷史上最迷人、最經(jīng)典的一個電影瞬間。Civil War: 南北戰(zhàn)爭，美國歷史上最大規(guī)模的內(nèi)戰(zhàn)；tap-dance: 跳踢踏舞；sequence: （電影）插曲。

She followed up that year withOur Little GirlandCurly Top—which introduced another of her songs that became a classic, “Animal Crackers in My Soup”—andThe Littlest Rebel, in which she and Robinson appeal to President Lincoln for help in another Civil War saga.16. appeal to: 向……上訴，呼吁；President Lincoln: 亞伯拉罕·林肯（1809—1865），第16任美國總統(tǒng)。在其總統(tǒng)任期內(nèi)，美國爆發(fā)內(nèi)戰(zhàn)，林肯廢除了南方各州的奴隸制度；saga: 冒險故事，傳奇。

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A gold mine with glowing locks—her mother Gertrude did her hair for each movie, with 56 corkscrew curls each time—the plucky Temple was No. 1 at the box of fice for four straight years, from 1935 through 1938.17. gold mine: 金礦，此處指秀蘭·鄧波兒是?？怂构镜拇筘斣矗籰ocks: 頭發(fā)；plucky: 有勇氣的，大膽的。During this stretch18. stretch: 一段時間，（時間上的）連續(xù)。, Fox reworked her contract to pay her $50,000 per film.

The studio saw monstrous earnings from Temple’s pictures, with the girl endorsing such products as dresses, cereal and soap.19. monstrous: 巨大的，數(shù)量龐大的；endorse: 為（產(chǎn)品等）做廣告；cereal:谷物食品。Her dolls sold at a rate of 1.5 million a year. She lost her innocence, or at least her belief in Santa Claus, “when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph,” she once said.20. department store: 〈美〉百貨公司，百貨商店；autograph: 親筆簽名。

In a 1988 interview withPeoplemagazine, she admitted she didn’t realize how famous she was.“I really didn’t know it,” she said.“When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said,‘We love you,’ she would dust it off21. dust off: 〈口〉拋置一邊，丟棄一邊。by saying, ‘Your work makes them happy.’ She never let it go to my head22. go to one’s head: 沖昏頭腦，使自負。.”

Shirley Jane Temple was born in Santa Monica on April 23,1928. Her father, George, was a banker, and her mother was a homemaker23. homemaker: 操持家務(wù)者，家庭主婦。. She had two older brothers. Her mom claimed that her baby’s very first words were a lyric to a Rudy Vallee song, and she enrolled her incredibly bright daughter in dance school.24. lyric:（民歌、流行音樂等的）歌詞；Rudy Vallee: 魯?shù)稀ね呃眨?901—1986），美國流行歌手、演員；enrol:注冊參加。

At age 5, Temple signed with Fox, meteorically ascending from contract player to full- fledged star afterStand Up and Cheer!played theaters.25. 五歲時，鄧波兒與?？怂构竞灱s。電影《起立歡呼》在影院上線后，她從一個合同演員快速成長為一名成熟的明星演員。meteorically: 迅速地，快速地；ascend: 上升，攀登；full- fledged:羽翼豐滿的，經(jīng)過充分訓練的。

The studio kept its biggest star sheltered in her own bungalow in an effort to preserve her natural childlike charm.26. shelter: 庇護，使不受侵害；bungalow: 小屋，平房；preserve:保持，維持?！癐f I lost my innocence,” she recalled a studio executive telling her, “it would show in my eyes.”Her films were always filled with boundless optimism and an uncanny ability to melt the hardest of hearts.27. boundless: 無限的，無窮盡的；optimism: 樂觀精神；uncanny:不可思議的，異乎尋常的。

From 1937 to 1940, she toplined28. topline: 出演主角。such films asHeidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Little Miss Broadway, The Little Princess, The Blue Bird and Young People. Those last two films,though, were flops29. flop: （戲劇、電影、書等的)徹底的失敗，崩潰。. Soon, Mickey Rooney,another youngster, was king of the box of fice,and Fox and Temple ended their association in 1940.30. Mickey Rooney: 米基·魯尼（1920— ）， 美國電影演員和藝人。他曾獲得多個獎項，包括一個奧斯卡青少年獎，一個奧斯卡終身成就獎，兩個金球獎等；youngster: 年輕人，少年。Her parents placed the 12-year-old Temple in a school for girls, and her last professional af filiation31. af filiation: 聯(lián)系，交往。with show business was in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, when she hosted and sometimes starred inShirley Temple’s StorybookandThe Shirley Temple Showon television.

A Republican, Temple unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1967, supporting America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.32. Republican: 共和黨人；Congress: （美國）國會，美國的立法機構(gòu)，位于國會大廈；Vietnam War: 越南戰(zhàn)爭，是二戰(zhàn)以后美國參戰(zhàn)人數(shù)最多、影響最重大的戰(zhàn)爭。A year later, President Nixon appointed her a U.S. delegate to the United Nations.33. President Nixon: 理查德·尼克松（1913—1994），第37任美國總統(tǒng)，由于“水門事件”而被迫辭職；delegate: 代表，此處指美國在聯(lián)合國的代表官員。She later served as the U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia and as the State Department’s chief of protocol.34. Ghana: 加納，非洲西部的一個國家；Czechoslovakia: 捷克斯洛伐克，位于歐洲中部，于1992年解體為捷克和斯洛伐克；State Department’s chief of protocol: （美國）禮賓司司長。

In 1988, Temple published her best-selling

autobiography,Child Star, and received Kennedy Center honors35. Kennedy Center honors: 肯尼迪中心榮譽獎，用以表彰終身為美國文化作出貢獻的杰出人士。. She accepted the Screen Actors Guild’s (SAG)Life Achievement Award36. Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award: 美國演員工會終身成就獎，由美國影視演員協(xié)會頒發(fā)的年度獎項，專門針對在電影與電視節(jié)目的杰出表現(xiàn)而設(shè)置。in 2006 but stayed out of the public eye in her final years.

“When I was 3 years old, I was delighted to be told that I was an actress, even though I didn’t know what an actress was,” she said to much laughter at the SAG

presentation.“I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award:Start early!”