VOA常速英语:Getting the Scare:’ Behind the Scenes in Maryland Haunted Forest

Disorienting, creepy. Would you like to be my friend? Disturbing. But all part of the experience.Hello, lovely. Welcome to Markoff’s Haunted Forest, where your deepest nightmares become true.Creating these nightmares and making sure they are done safely is all part of Paul Brubacher’s work at Markoff’s Haunted Forest, in Dickerson, Maryland.
迷茫,令人毛骨悚然。你愿意做我的朋友吗? 令人不安。但这都是经历的一部分。你好, 美人。欢迎来到马尔科夫的闹鬼森林，在这里你最可怕噩梦将变成现实。在马里兰州迪克森的马尔科夫鬼魂森林，保罗·布鲁贝克的工作就是制造这些噩梦并确保它们安全完成。

As an American population we are very fortunate to live in relative safety 99% of the time and I think we get complacent and we need to have that jostle in our bodies so we’re willing to pay money to go out and have somebody chase us around with the chainsaw.The official season begins in October but training begins earlier when more than 200 actors and staff members reunited for the start of a new season.Thank you for being here, thank you for committing to the Haunted Forest and joining our family, we love it.
作为美国人我们很幸运,生活在相对安全99%的时间,我认为我们自满,我们的身体里有种要释放的冲动，所以愿意支付钱给拿着锯子追着我们砍的人。正式一季从10月开始，但训练开始得更早，超过200名演员和工作人员在新一季开始时重聚。感谢你们来到这里，感谢你们来到闹鬼的森林，感谢你们加入我们的大家庭，我们喜欢这里。

Then the acting coaches get to work teaching actors the art of the scare. Keep them moving.Teaching new ways to keep them moving. Don’t do it by yelling words like get out or boo.Before nightfall actors select the proper costumes and props; then they head for the makeup artist chair.We have quite a tight system where we have 120 people filtering upstairs and we basically have about five to ten minutes per person each artist on hence what we use airbrushes because any other method of trying to do this was just too slow.
然后，表演教练开始教演员们恐惧的艺术。一定要动。正教他们怎么保持运动。别喊“滚出去”或“嘘”这样的话。在夜幕降临之前，演员们会选择合适的服装和道具，然后他们将在化妆师的椅子上坐好。我们有一个非常严格的系统，我们有120个人在楼上进行分流，基本上每个艺术家每人有5到10分钟的时间，因此我们使用喷枪，因为其他试过的方法都太慢了。

And once the action starts it doesn’t stop until the last customer leaves.We’re on our feet for eight hours and we stay in character the entire time.We’re using, we really strain our voice; we’re talking; we’re constantly using improv because we don’t have scripts.But actors say getting the scare makes everything worth it. When you’re like a 5.5 small, you know, a little girl, it’s really fun, to scare people who are huge towering man. As for the customers they seem to enjoy it because they keep coming back year after year.
一旦行动开始，一直到最后一个客户离开之前都不会结束。我们要站8个小时，而且我们要一直入戏。我们要一直大声说话，确保声音够大;我们说，我们总还要即兴创作，因为我们没有剧本。但演员们说，看到惊吓的力量后，就感觉一切都是值得的。你是个5.5英尺身高的，你懂得，一个弱女子，所以吓唬那些比你高大太多的人，简直超级好玩。至于顾客，他们似乎很喜欢，因为他们每年都回来。

Jill Craig, VOA News, Dickerson, Maryland.
吉尔·克雷格，美国之音新闻，马里兰州迪克森报道。