D-list.
我们来说说D-list这个词。

A few years ago, a US entertainment journalist called James Ulmer worked out a scale to assess how valuable movie stars were.
几年前，一名叫James Ulmer 的娱乐新闻记者制定了一套评价明星的等级体系。

He called it the Ulmer Scale and it became very popular, a lot of people use it now.
他称其为Ulmer体系，Ulmer等级体系很快便流行起来，至今仍有很多人在用它。

And the top movie stars, you know, people like Tom Hanks, are A-list - they are the tops, they are the stars, they are the real ones.
像是Tom Hanks这一类的顶尖电影明星，他们位居名单的顶端 ,他们是一流演员是名副其实的明星。

Movie stars that are not quite so valuable are B-list.
比他们要逊色一些的电影明星被称之为B-list。

And then ones that are still less valuable are C-list.
比B-list更掉价的是C-list。

I mean, obviously, everybody wants to be on the A-list but, inevitably, you get A, B and C.
很明显，大家都想往A-list上面挤，但是，B-list和C-list的存在是不可避免的。

But that's where the list stops.
等级也就只分A，B，C三个等级。

There is no 'D-list'.
D-list是不存在的。

And, of course, as soon as people realized that, they invented precisely such a word!
但是，当人们意识到这一点的时候，他们反而把这个词搬到了实际生活中。

'A D-list', in other words, is a celebrity who is so obscure that he or she doesn't even get on to the scale.
一个D-list是无名小卒--名不见经传，所以压根就评不上等级。

In other words, 'a D-list' is a bottom-of-the-heap kind of situation.
换句话说，一个D-list就是最次被用来垫底的那种人。

Well, of course, it immediately attracted some kudos because some people who were really quite well known, didn't get on to the list for whatever reason and made the most of this.
恩，理所当然的，这个词吸引了许多名流的注意力--特别是那些已经很出名但是却不知为何没有评上级别的明星，他们用这个词大做文章。

There was a 2005 TV show called - by Kathy Griffin - called 'My Life on the D-list' which was very popular - it was a satirical take on the whole business of Hollywood and listings and things like that.
2005年的时候， Kathy Griffin主持的电视节目--《卡希真人秀》就讽刺了发生在好莱坞的一些现象，比如这种用排名方法。

And now, in a kind of inverted-snobbery sort of way, there are all kinds of D-list things.
现在，大家好像更喜欢反着干，随处可见D等级的东西。

There are D-list celebrity T-shirts, D-list cartoons, D-list blogs.
有印着D-list名人的T恤，D-list卡通片以及D-list博客等。

This particular program is not, however, on the D-list!
但是，我们的节目可不是什么D-list。