最强英音:Helena Bonham Carter 自信地老去

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(Music: I dreamed a dream/Les Misérables by Anne Hathaway)

   

今天我来和大家说说Helena Bonham Carter。看到她,可能想到的就是一个神经兮兮的老女人,或者经常作怪的恶人。Helena Bonham Carter出演的不少角色似乎都比较另类,但没有很好的功底,真的做不到即怪诞又不浮夸。


Helena Bonham Carter从小基本都靠自己打拼出来。她在全英国写作大赛上获奖,并用这个奖金参加了表演艺术的课程,那个时候她13岁。她父母身体似乎都不好,母亲在她5岁时患上了精神疾病,并持续了3年时间才最终康复。她母亲经历了这段经历后,在精神康复方面成为了专家,并在帮助Helena Bonham Carter分析那些角色性格方面起了很大的作用。她的父亲在一次中风后半身瘫痪。由于她的两个哥哥在大学读书,因此她留下来陪伴母亲一起照顾坐上轮椅的父亲。



Helena Bonham Carter是大戏小戏都接。比较出名的有《哈利波特》、《国王的演讲》、《爱丽丝梦游仙境》、《查理的巧克力工厂》、《远大前程》、《悲惨世界》、《灰姑娘》等等。小制作的也不在少数。在神经质甚至让人害怕的角色之余,她的语言能力出众。她能说一口流利的法语,而母语英语的发音则更为纯正。这也是今天我要和大家分享的地方。


在这段视频中,Helena Bonham Carter谈了自己对于女人的老去、自信、友情和爱情的一些观点。谈吐中,她说话的状态似乎有气无力,但是对于每个细节的把握都做得很精确。因此,在练习英音的过程中,要留意各种自然的语言现象,不要一味追求速度,那最多可能只能变成炒豆子。

最强英音


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Helena Bonham Carter 's interview

In my 53 years, what’ve I learned about confidence?


Confidence comes and goes in life, different ages, different times. It’s a bit like a… what are those things that come in and out…tides! You definitely get more of it as you get older. I’d say depending on your…on what’s happened to you. So you can look forward to that. That’s always the basic thing as you get older you lose lots of things like the function of basic organs, the whole you know youth collagen thing but you get the confidence.


Friendship? I learned about friendship in 53 years. Well, it is the most important thing of all dear people. And I am definitely made… I’m here today because of my friendships. They’re the most precious things that I have. Don’t take it for granted. I’m very good at taking friendship.I’m not sure if I’m very good at giving it back. The thing is people need time. It’s very difficult to give all your friends that the time they deserve particularly when you’ve got the children. So people take and they deserve the time but I always feel I haven’t got enough not to give people, not every friend that I have the time they deserve.


Love is the best and you’re lucky to get it but even if you don’t get in it you can still give it. And the person I really admire when in doubt I go to Maya Angelou but she said something about you can always be…it’s a bit cheesy…about being a rainbow, somebody else’s cloud but it is the same sort of gist of what my mom always taught me it’s like you can feel like shit but you can…there’s not a day and you couldn’t…you might not be able to change your own circumstances but you can help somebody else’s so that’s a good thing to live by.


collagen /ˈkɒl.ə.dʒən/ n. 胶原蛋白

cheesy /ˈtʃiː.zi/ adj. 庸俗的


音标来源/ Longman Pronunciation Dictionary & Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary

英音发音要点

  1. 在语气较弱时,也不要忘记that该用梅花音时必须要用,同时保证它的饱满和英式特征。

  2. 要留意three的处理,需要时刻控制好长元音/iː/的准确性。

  3. granted等处的长元音/ɑː/配合鼻辅音时要留意适度,不要过分饱满从而变成了做作的grot音。

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