新视野大学英语1快速阅读4、5单元翻译.docx

Unit4 2、Dolly Parton 多莉。帕顿 Dolly Parton was the fourth of twelve children. She was born in a small house near the Little Pigeon River near the tiny town of Locust Ridge, Tennessee. Dolly Rebecca Parton came into the world on January 19th, 1946, and because her family was very poor, the doctor who delivered her, Robert F. Thomas, was paid with a sack of corn. Of course, the doctor did not know that Dolly would write a song about him, or that she would become not only a beautiful woman, a multimillionaire, and a Hollywood star, but perhaps the most famous female country singer of all time. 多莉。帕顿的第四个十二个孩子。 她出生在一个小房子附近的小镇附近 的小鸽子河蝗虫岭，田纳西州。多莉丽贝卡 帕顿走进世界在1月19 日,1946年由于她的家庭很穷，医生给她，罗伯特f托马斯，支付了一袋 玉米。当然，医生不知道多莉会对他写一首歌，或者，她不仅会成为一个美 丽的女人，一个千万富翁，和好莱坞明星，但也许最著名的女性的乡村歌 手。 How did Dolly get from Locust Ridge to Hollywood? It was a result of her natural ability and strong determination. A family member remembers "she began singing just about the same time she began talking". She made her first guitar from an old mandolin and two extra guitar strings. Even before she went to school, Dolly made up songs and stories and asked her mother to write them down so she could remember them. 多莉怎么从蝗虫岭到好莱坞？这是由于她的天生的能力和强大的决心。 家庭成员记得 她开始唱歌几乎同一时间她开始说话 ”。她从一个老曼陀 林和两个额外的第一把吉他吉他弦。甚至在她上学之前 ，多莉由歌曲和 故事，问她妈妈写下来，这样她就可以记住它们。 She became a local star at age ten, appearing on a TV show in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1957, she took a long-distance bus to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where she made her first record, "Puppy Love". A year later, she made her first public appearance at Nashville 's country music hall, but not as a singer: she played the drums with the Sevier High School Marching Band. 她十岁成为当地的一个明星，出现在一个电视节目在诺克斯维尔，田纳西 州。1957年,她花了查尔斯湖的长途汽车，路易斯安那州，在那里她发行 了她的第一张唱片，早恋” 一年后，她在纳什维尔后首次公开亮相的年 代乡村音乐大厅，但不是作为一个歌手:她的鼓Sevier高中军乐队。 Dolly loved Nashville! However, she was still in high school, so she couldn't go there often. She had to work long and hard before graduating in 1964. The day after the graduation ceremony, she