实战口语情景对话 第480期:Actor's Fear 演员的恐惧

Todd: So, Eucharia, you are into drama?
托德：尤查里亚，你喜欢戏剧吗？

Eucharia: Yes, I have a Masters in drama and theatre and at the moment I am hoping to get onto a PHD programme in drama and theatre.
尤查里亚：喜欢，我是戏剧和剧院方面的硕士，现在我想取得戏剧和剧院方面的博士。

Todd: So what's the thing about drama? What excites you about drama?
托德：那来说说戏剧吧，戏剧的什么地方令你兴奋？

Eucharia: Well I find it's a very communicative way to study things and study about people and you learn how to read people in drama, so usually I can understand what people are saying even though they might be lying, which comes in handy sometimes.
尤查里亚：我认为研究事情、研究人物是一种交流方式，你会学习如何解读戏剧中的人物，所以通常来说我可以理解人们说的话，有时能察觉出人们在说谎，所以这有时很有用处。

Todd: That would be useful!
托德：这肯定有用啊！

Eucharia: Yeah, so erm, I think it's very useful for me as well. I am an English lecturer so I use a lot of drama in my classes such as role plays. And I ask my students to create little plays, little mini dramas so they really respond well because it's a semi-controlled version of English learning in so far asthey can rehearse but it has to sound reasonably natural. So, at the moment I'm hoping to get on to a PHD course which will investigate about drama in the English… in English as a foreign language classroom, so especially I would like to concentrate on a lot of…I would like to concentrate a lot on Asian drama and try to bring Asian theatre to the world's attention. I don't know how successful I will be but here's hoping!
尤查里亚：是啊，我认为这对我来说很有用。我是一名英语讲师，我在我的课堂上会使用大量的戏剧来进行角色扮演。我会要求学生创造小型戏剧或者迷你戏剧，他们的反响非常好，因为这是英语学习中的半自由练习，他们可以进行排练，不过要表演得相当自然。所以我希望能获得博士学位，研究将英语作为外语来学习的课堂上的戏剧，我尤其想关注亚洲戏剧，让全世界关注亚洲剧院。我不知道会不会成功，不过还是有希望的！

Todd: Oh, I'm sure you will be successful! Now, Eucharia, you are into drama. Can you tell…what do you do for stage fright?
托德：哦，我确定你会成功的！尤查里亚，你喜欢戏剧。那你能告诉我你怯场时会怎么办吗？

Eucharia: Ah, stage fright! Well, usually I get stage fright still, it's just… many actors get stage fright, many famous actors get stage fright. I get stage fright every time I'm going to teach a new class. The night before I'm usually throwing up my dinner in the toilet, I can't sleep…
尤查里亚：啊，怯场！我会怯场，许多演员，许多著名演员都会怯场。我在带新班级时就会怯场。教课的前一晚我会在卫生间把晚餐都吐出去，而且睡不着……

Todd: What, for teaching?
托德：为什么，因为讲课吗？

Eucharia: …I'm sweating, yes!
尤查里亚：……我还一直在流汗，是啊！

Todd: No?
托德：不是吗？

Eucharia: Yes! I get really bad stage fright but the minute I step into the classroom or the minute I get onto the stage it just all falls into place. I just feel like 'Yeah this is what I'm made to do' but the night before it is always the worst case scenario so I am always thinking of what can go wrong. So that's my particular brand of stage fright but once I get on stage or once I get in front of the class I will be fine. I know this.
尤查里亚：是！我总是会怯场，不过在我进入教室的那一刻，或者说在我上台的那一刻，事情就会有条紊地进行。我会想“对，这就是我要做的事情”，可是前一晚我会模拟最糟糕的情况，我会想哪个环节会出错。所以这就是我怯场的情况，不过一旦我上台或走进教室，一切都没问题了。我知道会这样的。

Todd: Wow, that's cool.
托德：哇，真酷。