英語聽力材料《艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林》

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艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林是美國流行音樂歌手,生於流行音樂聖城孟菲斯。進入歌壇至今已經超過四十個年頭的艾瑞莎富蘭克琳,被尊為“靈魂音樂女王”,她曾經獲得總數多達十九座的葛萊美獎,其中包括了終身成就獎,這個紀錄到2012年還沒有任何一位女性藝人可以超越。下面,我們跟着這篇英語聽力去認識這位傳奇的女性。

英語聽力材料《艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林》

All the stars want to be slim, but American queen of soul Aretha Franklin is different. Miss Franklin couldn’t be happier, she says, I’m proud to be a Big Woman.

When she sang about Respect for the first time in 1967, Aretha Franklin was a svelte brunette. Forty years on, she is almost unrecognisable.

In a blonde wig, spilling out of a low-cut gown, a much larger Queen of Soul appeared at a gala dinner in Washington. And Miss Franklin couldn’t be happier. For the first time, she says, the real Aretha is on stage—a “big woman” who loves her food.

The 63-year-old has revealed she spent decades starving herself to stay slim.

“For a long time I suffered so much trying to be what other people expected me to be and look like.”

“I definitely was never meant to be a modeltype walking down a runway -- I’m just Aretha singing what she feels in her heart and soul. So far, people seem to understand...”

The audience at the National Association of Black-Owned Broad-casters gala dinner certainly seemed satisfied, giving the mother of four a standing ovation.

明星們都希望能擁有美好苗條的身形,然而美國靈魂歌后艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林卻與眾不同。她不但一點也不為自己胖胖的體形發愁,而且她説很樂意做個胖女人。

1967年,當艾瑞莎·弗蘭克林首次唱響《尊重》這支成名曲時,她還是個身材苗條的年輕女子。然而,差 不多40年過去了,她現在的身材已和從前大不一樣。

當身穿低胸長裙,頭戴金色假髮的弗蘭克林出現在華盛頓一個慶祝宴會上時,人們看到的是一個體形肥碩的靈魂歌后。然而,這可能是弗蘭克林最開心的時刻。她第一次公開表示,真實的艾瑞莎就在舞台上——她是個貪戀食物的“胖女人”。

63歲的弗蘭克林透露稱,為了保持苗條動人的身材,她一直忍飢挨餓幾十年。

“很長一段時間裏,我為了變成別人所期望的'樣子遭受了很多痛苦。”

“我絕沒打算像天橋上的模特那樣輕盈漫步,我就是要唱出自己內心和靈魂所感的艾瑞莎。現在,人們似乎已經明白了…”

而那天前來參加美國黑人廣播學會慶祝宴會的觀眾顯然對弗蘭克林感到非常滿意,他們對她報以長時間的熱烈掌聲。

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