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EJ: You’re kind of drab-looking in this picture. Is it freeing not to have to look glamorous and gorgeous in every scene?
Kidman: It’s freeing to be given the opportunity to do it. I have to say Stephen Daldry is so bold, because a lot of directors would’ve shied away from it and he didn’t. He sort of ran with it. And he’s such a brilliant director. He is the spearhead for this whole film, you know. And the intellectual weight that it carries is because of him, and the look of it. He put us all together, and it’s his baby.
Get Lost in It
Last year she wowed audiences in Moulin Rouge, and this year she unwows them as dowdy literary lioness Virginia Woolf in the Hours, the National Board of Review pick for best picture. Here Nicole Kidman talks about her current projects and how the pain of her private life informs her art.
Less Meat, Less Heat—Fewer Steaks May Save Planet 少吃红肉，拯救地球
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Eating too much red meat is not only bad for your health-it is also bad for the planet, according to scientists. Worldwide, agricultural activity accounts for about a fifth of total greenhouse-gas emissions and livestock production has a particularly big impact because of the large amount of methane emitted from belching cattle. Tony McMichael of the Australian National University in Canberra and John Powles of the University of Cambridge, writing in the Lancet journal, said worldwide average meat consumption could be realistically reduced by 10 percent. This would help in the battle against global warming and also reduce health risks associated with excessive consumption of red meat, they said. Global average meat consumption is currently 100 grams per person a day but there is a tenfold variation between high-consuming and low-consuming populations.
红肉吃得太多不仅危害你的健康，而且还危害我们的地球，科学家们如是说。 在世界范围内，农业活动排放的温室气体占温室气体排放总量的1/5左右，其中畜牧业生产对环境影响尤其巨大，因为牛打隔会排放出大量的甲烷。 堪培拉澳大利亚国立大学的托尼?麦克迈克尔和剑桥大学的约翰?鲍威尔斯在《柳叶刀》杂志上撰文写道，全球肉类平均消耗量实际上可以减少10%。他们说，这将有利于阻止全球变暖，还可以减少因过量食用红肉引起的健康隐患。 目前，全球肉类平均消耗量为每人每天100克，但在高消耗和低消耗的人群之间有10倍的差异。 Remarks： 我们破坏生态环境的能力，已经大大超出我们的预料，但无视这些现实与困境，永远比做出改变容易许多。
EJ: You were the bold one.
Kidman: I didn’t feel bold, I just felt like, "Wow, I get this opportunity to really go and do something I’ve never done before, and sort of exist within a character in a completely different way." And it was just at this time in my life when I was sort of umpin’ ’n’ roarin’ off to do it, and everything kind of came together. But it was frightening at times.
The Olympic Torch today is ignited several months before the opening celebration of the Olympic Games at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia[2], Greece. Eleven women, most of them actresses, representing the roles of priestesses, perform a ceremony in which one lights the flame, by placing a torch in a parabolic mirror which concentrates rays from the sun. The torch is then transported to the host city of the upcoming Olympics by a torch relay, which ends on the day of the opening ceremony in the central stadium of the Games. The final carrier is often kept secret until the last moment, and is usually a sports celebrity of the host country. The final bearer of the torch runs towards the cauldron, usually placed at the top of a grand staircase, and then uses the flame to start the torch in the stadium. It is generally considered a great honor to be asked to light the Olympic Flame.
Nicole Kidman 妮可·基德曼——迷失在电影中★★★
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摘自：《魔力英语》2004年第4辑
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EJ: It seemed like what you were going through in your personal life was so raw, to play a role like this . . .
Kidman: Yeah, I didn’t want to. No, I tried to pull out. I have to say I wasn’t as bold as you would think, ’cause I actually called my agent and said, "I can’t do it. I don’t want to work. I don’t want to do this. This isn’t the right thing for me to do. If it’s too much at this stage, and I just need to sort of hibernate." And he and my friends all said, "Get on the plane and go. Go do it. Go and get lost in it." And that’s what the art is for at this stage, is actually to let it have some sort of cathartic effect on you.
The Olympic Flame and Olympic Torch are symbols of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus,[1] it originated from ancient Greece, when a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the Olympics in 1928, and it has been part of the modern Olympic Ga的象征。奥运圣火起源于古希腊，为的是纪念普罗米修斯从希腊主神宙斯处盗取天火的事迹。当时，古代奥运会的赛场上就会有一束始终不灭的火焰。1928年，奥运会重新启用圣火仪式，它从此就成为了现代奥运会的一个组成部分。