本期雅思聽力提分訓練素材：The Oscar Elders: 3 Octogenarians Make Academy Award History ( 奧斯卡元老：3 個老人創造瞭奧斯卡頒獎典禮歷史 ) ，本聽力素材來自 NPR，NPR 新聞是美國的國傢公共廣播，純公益，所以內容更加去純粹，直擊心靈。可作為雅思聽力泛聽訓練的日常素材，堅持長期聽，除瞭鍛煉英語聽力，還能積累雅思聽力詞匯。
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The Oscar Elders: 3 Octogenarians Make Academy Award History
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
The awards ceremony best known for golden statuettes is looking more silver this year. That mean B.J. Leiderman who writes our theme music will finally be nominated? As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, three of the people nominated for Oscars are among the oldest ever.
NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: We're not talking honorary Oscars. Actress Gloria Stuart was 87 when she was nominated for "Titanic." This year, 88-year-old Christopher Plummer was the oldest person nominated as Best Supporting Actor for the second time. When Plummer won for the movie "Beginners" in 2012, he took the stage and started talking to his Oscar statuette.
我們不是在談論榮譽奧斯卡。女演員格勞瑞亞 · 斯圖爾特 87 歲時，她被提名為 " 泰坦尼克號 "。今年 88 歲的克裡斯托弗 · 普拉莫是第二次被提名為最佳男配角的最年長的人。當 Plummer 在 2012 年贏得瞭電影 " 初學者 "，他上臺，開始談他的奧斯卡小金人。
( SOUNDBITE OF 84TH ACADEMY AWARDS )
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?
ULABY: Over more than six decades, Plummer has appeared in more than 200 films, most famously "The Sound Of Music." But in 2011, Plummer told NPR that aging was an asset for a handsome man who hated being typecast as the lead.
超過六年，Plummer 已經出演瞭 200 多部電影，最著名的 " 音樂之聲 "。但在 2011，Plummer 告訴 NPR，作為一個英俊的老男人，討厭被定型為領袖。
( SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST )
PLUMMER: Finally, I was dissipated enough in my 40s to look like a character actor.
And I enjoyed being a character actor because, of course, the roles were so much more interesting.
ULABY: Roles like the one that got him this Oscar nomination as J. Paul Getty - in the movie "All The Money In The World," the oil baron insists he's too poor to pay for his kidnapped grandson's ransom.
( SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD" )
PLUMMER: ( As J. Paul Getty ) Simply isn't possible.
ULABY: Meanwhile, 89-year-old screenwriter James Ivory is one year older than Plummer. He's been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for his romance "Call Me By Your Name" where the two male leads flirt over arrangements for the piano.
同時，89 歲的編劇詹姆斯 · 伊沃裡比 Plummer 大一歲。他被提名為最佳改編劇本，因為他的浪漫電影 " 請你你的名字呼喚我 "，電影中兩個男性先行者被安排在鋼琴前調情。
( SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "CALL ME BY YOUR NAME" )
ARMIE HAMMER: ( As Oliver ) That sounds different. Did you change it?
TIMOTHEE CHALAMET: ( As Elio Perlman ) I changed it a little bit.
HAMMER: ( As Oliver ) Why?
CHALAMET: ( As Elio Perlman ) I just played it the way Liszt would have played it if he'd altered Bach's version.
ULABY: But Ivory's all of eight days younger than Agnes Varda. This year, she became the oldest person ever nominated for an Oscar.
( SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "FACES PLACES" )
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: ( Speaking French ) .
ULABY: The Belgian-born director discussed making her documentary "Faces Places" on NPR last year with her much younger collaborator, the artist JR.
AGNES VARDA: We calculated we are 55 years difference of age, and it doesn't show in the film. It shows on our faces.
ULABY: Varda helped invent the French new wave. She founded her own production company and - says film scholar Rebecca DeRoo - she directed, edited and wrote most of her more than 50 films.
REBECCA DEROO: So she exercises incredible creative control.
ULABY: Varda's documentary from the year 2000 called "Gleaners And I" dives into the world of people who pick through fields and trash searching for useful or edible scraps. But DeRoo says it's also a profound, personal meditation that touches on the director getting older.
DEROO: And in one scene, she goes to a field where potatoes have been dumped, and they've grown in the shape of a heart.
( SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "GLEANERS AND I" )
VARDA: ( Speaking French ) .
DEROO: And she uses this as a kind of way to reflect on aging as she keeps her heartshaped potatoes in her home. And as they continue to age, they wrinkle. But they also sprout these new shoots and new life.
ULABY: A vibrant metaphor for the creativity of artists as they age.
PLUMMER: You never stop learning.
ULABY: Christopher Plummer says getting older means new chances for reinvention.
ULABY: I feel like I'm starting all over again. Every sort of decade, I feel this. And that's very satisfying.
PLUMMER: Plummer may break his own record as the oldest person to win an acting Oscar this year. And if he's joined by Agnes Varda and James Ivory, those three wins will collectively represent almost two centuries of exemplary filmmaking.
Plummer 作為最年長的人，打破自己的紀錄並贏得瞭奧斯卡。如果他加入瞭 Agnes Varda 和詹姆斯 · 伊沃裡，那三勝將共同代表近兩個世紀的電影制作。
Neda Ulaby, NPR News.
雅思聽力高頻詞匯
sprout 發芽
reinvention 再造
nominate 提名
filmmaking 電影制作
documentary 紀錄片
break record 打破記錄
Best Adapted Screenplay 最佳改編劇本
arrangement 安排
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