J: Hey, Elena! Vm over here!

J:喂，伊莲娜我在这边！

E: Hi, James, been waiting long?

E:你好，詹姆斯，等很久了吧？

J: Nope, just got here.

J:设有。我也是刚刚到的。

E: James, what’s wrong with you? You look a little peaky.

E:詹姆斯，不舒服吗？你脸色看起来有点差啊。

J： It doesn’t matter. I just had a sleepless night yesterday.

J:没事，我只是昨晚失眠。

E: Sleepless? Why?

E:失眠？为什么？

J: I watched a movie at first. When I went to bed later, I found I couldn’t stop thinking the story in the movie.

J:开始是看电影，后来躺下就一直在想电影里面的故事情节，怎么也停不下来了。

E： Oh, I see. I always do the same thing. Which movie did you watch? It must be pretty good.

E:哦，明白了。我也总是这样。你看的是哪部影片啊？它一定非常精彩。

J: It was a British romantic comedy film, Four Weddings and a Funeral, making Hugh Grant an overnight international star. Released in 1994，it became the highest-grossing British film to date, with a worldwide box office revenues in excess of $244 million.

J:《四个葬礼与一个婚礼》，这是一部英国浪漫喜剧电影，它使休格兰特一夜 红遍全世界。它于1994年上映后就成为了英国票房最高的电影，迄今为止， 该在全球拥有的票房已经超过2.44亿美元。

E: Four Weddings and a Funerall I have watched this film last year. As I know, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards. It also earned Grant a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor.

E:《四个葬礼与一个婚礼》？我去年就看过这部电影。据我所知，这部影片曾经 两次荣获奧斯卡金像奖提名。而且，格兰特还获得了金球奖最佳表演奖和英 国电影电视艺术学院奖最佳男演员奖。

J: Grant’s performance in the film was perfect. He acted as a debonair but faux pas prone Englishman. It was so funny!

J:格兰特在这部影片中的表演堪称完美。他在里面扮演成一个乐观，但是却经 常出丑的英国人。太有趣了！

E: I agree with you. However, the entirety of Grant’s mainstream movie is almost romantic comedy. It seems that he has stuck to the genre of comedy.

E:我同意你的说法。但是，格兰特的全部主流电影基本上都是浪漫喜剧。好像 他被定格在了喜剧风格上。

J: Really? What other comedies have you watched?

J：是吗？你还看过他演的什么喜剧电影？

E: A great many! For example, Sirens, Sense and Sensibility, Nine Months, Extreme Measures, Notting Hill, and so on. Netting Hill is the most famous among them, which is a romantic comedy acted by Grant and Julia Roberts, a world known American actress.

E:很多啊！像《相约在今生》、<理智与情感》、《怀胎九月》、《非常手段》、《诺丁山》 等等。其中，最出名的是《诺丁山》，一部格兰特与世界知名的美囿女演员某 莉亚?罗伯茨含作的爱情喜剧。

J: Well, it sounds good. I will watch it in my spare time. By the way, which college did Grant graduate from? His acting is marvelous.

J:嗯，这部影片听起来不错，有时间我一定要看看。对了，格兰特演技这么好， 他是哪个大学毕业的？

E: Eh? Let me think... He graduated from the University of Oxford. However, his major was not acting, but English literature.

E:嗯？让我想想他是牛津大学毕业的。但是，他的专业是英国文学，而不 是表演。

J: Really? How did he become an actor?

J:真的吗？那休格兰特是怎么成为一名演员的？

E： It is said that he was interested in acting when he was a university student, so he took part in the Oxford University Dramatic Society. Fortunately, Grant acted in the film Privileged, which was directed by the Department of Theatricals of Oxford. His excellent performance made him renowned in Oxford soon. From then on, he started his career as an actor.

E:据说休格兰特在大学的时候就对表演非常感兴趣，因此他参加了牛津大学 戏剧协会。幸运的是，格兰特参加了学校戏剧系摄制的影片《牛津之爱》的演出。很快，他出色的演技就使他在牛津赫赫有名。从此，休格兰特就开始 了他的演艺生涯。

J: Unbelievable! He is a really talented actor.

J：真是不可思议啊！他可真是一名天才演员。

E: Quite right. He has become a top film star, owning a large number of fans.

E:是啊。休格兰特现在已经成为拥育众多影迷的超级明星了。

J: I guess you are also a fan of him, right?

J：我想你也是其中的一员吧？

E: Absolutely!
 

E:那是绝对的！