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Marty: Effie White, this is Max Washington.
Effie: Hi, Max. Marty said you needed a singer.
Marty: I was just telling Max that youre serious aboutworking.He knows all about you.
Effie: You do, huh? Daddy, you dont know the half. Onenightafter you hire me, well sit down and Ill tell you all abouthow Iblew through half a million dollars in two years!
Marty: Hey, come on.
Effie: Drinking.
Marty: You dont want to take up too much of the mans time.Now,Carl knows all the songs.
Effie: Carl? Wheres Bernard?
Marty: He has a job in Evanston.
Effie: But I cant sing with someone I dont know.
Marty: Effie. You got to.
Max: Marty, I dont have the time.
Marty: Max, please. Just give me a minute. Now, you listen,EffieWhite. For four months, Ive been your money. Ive taken youtoevery club in this freezing town, and Im telling you that thisisit. Its time that you stop making excuses so that you donthaveto prove anything. Youre gonna have to start proving it, justlikethe rest of us. I dont know. Maybe Curtis was center aboutyou. Youwant all of the privileges but none of theresponsibilities. Hey,Max. Thanks anyway, man. Sorry for wastingyour time.
Effie: Do you know the song?
Max: I told you I didnt want to see her.
Effie: Well, you are, mister. You are.
Look at me
Look...
Jimmy: Sooner or later, the time comes around
For a man to be a man
Take back his sound
I gotta do somethin to shake things up
I like Johnny Mathis
But I cant do that stuff
Jimmy got soul, Jimmy got soul
Jimmy got S-O-U-L soul!
I cant do rock, I cant do roll
What I can do, baby, is show my soul
Jimmy got soul, Jimmy got soul
Jimmy got, Jimmy got, Jimmy got soul!
Man: Take it out. Ladies and gentlemen, please stay in yourseats.Were back live in two minutes.
Jimmy: Whatd you think of my show, baby?
Curtis: You made a fool out of yourself.
Jimmy: What are you talking about, man? I was just beingJimmy.Lorrell, will you please tell him, if you can?
Lorrell: Jimmy keeps begging you for something new, but all youdois ignore him. Of course hes confused. It dont take a whiz toknowthat only a desperate man would drop his pants in living coloronnetwork television.
Jimmy: Thanks, Lorrell. You told it like it is.
Lorrell: Yeah, well, that aint all I got to say toyou,sugar.
Curtis: My brother, were through.
Jimmy: What you talking about? What do you mean,werethrough?
Curtis: Come on, Jimmy, your time has passed.
妙語佳句，活學活用1. Blow
Blow 在口語中可以表示To spend (money) freely andrashly大手大腳地花錢，例如：Heblew a fortune on racing cars.
2. take up
這裡的take up指的是佔用，佔有，即可以指佔用時間，也可以指佔用空間，例如：The extradutiestook up most of my time.
This desk takes up too much space in the office.
3. Shake up
意思是Subject to drastic rearrangement orreorganization把……打散後重新組合，例如：New management was bent on shaking upeach division.（新領導集中全力對公司進行整頓。
）
此外，shake up 還可以表示受驚嚇，例如：Even though no one was hurt, hewasgreatly shaken up by the accident.
4. Make a fool out of
這個片語也寫作 make a fool of，make an ass or monkey outof，意思是Causesomeone or oneself to look foolish or stupid，例如：Johndoesnt mindmaking a fool of himself at parties.
文化面面觀 永遠的抒情大師--Johnny Mathis 考考你 趁熱打鐵1
影片對白 Its time that you stop making excusessothat you dont have to prove anything. 文化面面觀 永遠的抒情大師--Johnny MathisBirth Name: John Royce Mathis
Genre: Vocal Music
Active: 50s - 2000s
Instrument: Vocals
One of the last and most popular in a long line oftraditionalmale vocalists who emerged before the rock-dominated1960s, JohnnyMathis concentrated on romantic readings of jazz andpop standardsfor the ever-shrinking adult contemporary audience ofthe 60s and70s. Though he debuted with a flurry of singles-chartactivity,Mathis later made it big in the album market, where adozen of hisLPs hit gold or platinum and over 60 made the charts.While heconcentrated on theme-oriented albums of show tunes andtraditionalfavorites during the 60s, he began incorporating softrock by the70s and remained a popular concert attraction well intothe90s.
Unsurprisingly, given his emphasis on long sustained notesandheavy vibrato, Johnny Mathis studied with an opera coach priortohis teenage years, and was almost lured into the profession;hisother inspirations were the smoother crossover jazz vocalistsofthe 1940s -- Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, and LenaHorne.Mathis was an exceptional high school athlete in SanFrancisco, butwas wooed away from a college track scholarship and apotentialspot on the Olympic squad by the chance to sing. He wassigned to amanagement contract by club owner Helen Noga, whointroduced thesinger to George Avakian, jazz producer for ColumbiaRecords.Avakian signed him and used orchestras conducted by TeoMacero, GilEvans, and John Lewis to record Mathis self-titleddebut album in1957. Despite the name talent and choice ofstandards, it wasmostly ignored upon release.
Johnny Mathis in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort inSantaYnez, California, on May 25, 2006.
Columbia A&R executive Mitch Miller -- known forhisdesperately pop-slanted Sing Along albums and TV show --decidedthe only recourse was switching Mathis to Millers brand ofpopballadry, and the formula worked like a charm; the LPWonderful,Wonderful didnt include but was named after a Top 20 hitlater in1957, which was followed by the number five Its Not forMe toSay and his first number one, Chances Are. From that pointon,Johnny Mathis concentrated strictly on lush ballads foradultcontemporary listeners.
Though he charted consistently, massive hit singles were rareforJohnny Mathis during the late 50s and 60s -- half of hiscareerTop Ten output had occurred in 1957 alone -- so he chose tofocusinstead on the burgeoning album market, much like FrankSinatra,his main rival during the late 50s as the most populartraditionalmale vocalist. Mathis moved away from show tunes andtraditionalpop into soft rock during the 70s, and found his secondnumber onesingle, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late, in 1978.Recorded as aduet with Deniece Williams, the single prompted Mathisto begintrying duets with a variety of partners (including DionneWarwick,Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, and Nana Mouskouri), thoughnone ofthe singles enjoyed the success of the original. Mathiscontinuedto release and sell albums throughout the 90s -- hisfifth decadeof recording for Columbia -- among them 1998s BecauseYou LovedMe: Songs of Diane Warren and 2000s Johnny Mathis onBroadway.(John Bush, All Music Guide)
考考你用今日所學將下面的句子譯成英語。
1． 他買新家庭影院花了很多錢。
2． 你的車得要多大的地方放？
3． 看他怎麼涮這個業餘棋手吧。
Dreamgirls《追夢女郎》（精講之五）考考你 參考答案1. 他得修正自己的行為，遵守規定。
Hell have to clean up his act and obey the rules.
2. 各個機構聯合起來對抗非法藥品的使用。
Various agencies gang up to combat the use of illicit drugs.
3. 她下定了決心戒菸。
She resolved to lay off smoking.
影片對白 Its time that you stop making excuses so thatyoudont have to prove anything.2