《瘋狂英語》精選輯:邁克爾.杰克遜——我的故事，我的心
Michael Jackson: My Honest Truth
Well if I sat here and played some 1)chords whatever and say I’m going to write the best song I’ve ever written, nothing happens. Something in the heavens has to say, “Look, this is the time that this is going to be laid on you, and this is when I want you to have it” Artists seem to get in the way of the music, get out of the way of the music, you know, don’t, write the music. Let the music write itself.
You know he practiced us with a belt in his hands and if you missed a step he would 2)tear you up. I got it a lot of times, he was 3)tough. I don’t think he realized to this day how scared, so scared that we would 4)regurgitate.
That's why to this day I don’t 5)lay a finger on my children. I don’t want them to ever feel that way about me, ever. And he didn’t allow us to call him Daddy. You know I wanted to call him Daddy so bad. He said I’m not Daddy, I’m Joseph. I don’t allow my children to call me Michael; I say I’m Daddy, just the opposite. So when people say the 6)abuse, abuse?--That’s not true!
I've said it many times. My greatest inspiration comes from kids, every song I write, every dance I do, all the poetry I write is all inspired from that level of 7)innocence, that 8)consciousness of purity and children have that. I see God in the face of children, and, I just love being around that all the time.
I've had no 9)plastic surgery on my face, just my nose, it helped me breathe better so I can hit higher notes-as I can remember, just two.
Everybody in Hollywood get plastic surgery. Plastic surgery wasn’t invented for Michael Jackson. Just that though, not the whole face, just the nose, they try to say, “Why did you change it?” It’s not true-it’s just the nose.
I was changing, I’m telling you the honest truth: I don’t do anything to my face.
邁克爾•杰克遜——我的故事，我的心
我的音樂態(tài)度
呃，如果我坐在這里，彈彈和弦什么的，說我要寫出自己有史以來最棒的歌，那什么都出不來。天堂里有把聲音會(huì)說，看，這就是我要把它交給你的時(shí)候了，就是這時(shí)候我想你得到它。藝術(shù)家似乎參與音樂但又逃離音樂，也就是，不要去寫音樂。讓音樂自己發(fā)揮出來。
我的童年陰影與兒童的關(guān)系
他（爸爸）訓(xùn)練我們時(shí)手里拿著根皮帶。如果你踏錯(cuò)了一個(gè)舞步他會(huì)把你撕個(gè)粉碎。我挨了好多次揍了，他脾氣暴躁得很。我覺得他時(shí)至今日都意識(shí)不到那是怎樣的害怕，我們（兄弟們）害怕得老是惡心嘔吐。
就因?yàn)檫@，我到今時(shí)今日也不會(huì)對(duì)我的孩子動(dòng)手。我不想他們對(duì)我也有同樣的感覺，永遠(yuǎn)也不要。他不讓我們叫他“爸爸”，你知道啊，我想叫他“爸爸”想得多厲害。但他說，我不是“爸爸”，我是“約瑟夫”。我不準(zhǔn)我的孩子叫我“邁克爾”，我說我是“爸爸”，剛好相反。所以別人說我虐待（孩子），虐待？沒那回事！
我說過好多次了。我最偉大的靈感源自小孩子。我寫的每首歌，我跳的每段舞以及我寫的所有詩(shī)都來自對(duì)那種天真和那份純潔的感悟，而那正是小孩子所擁有的。我從小孩子的臉上看到了上帝，我總是喜歡在其周圍。
我對(duì)自己的臉的辯解
我從沒在我的臉上動(dòng)過手術(shù)，只是我的鼻子動(dòng)過，因?yàn)樗奖阄液粑?，讓我可以唱出更高的調(diào)子—就我記得的，就只是動(dòng)過兩次。
好萊塢的每個(gè)人都動(dòng)過整形手術(shù)。整形手術(shù)并不是為邁克爾•杰克遜而發(fā)明的。不過就只是鼻子而已，不是整張臉。只是鼻子，他們總是問，你為什么老是整容？那不是真的，僅僅鼻子而已?！?/p>
我那時(shí)一直（因成長(zhǎng)）改變著，我現(xiàn)在告訴你的是確鑿的事實(shí)：我不會(huì)對(duì)自己的臉做什么。
注釋:
1) chord n. 弦, 和音
2) tear up 撕碎
3) tough a. 兇惡的, 粗暴的
4) regurgitate v.(使)涌回,(使)反芻
5) lay a finger on 動(dòng)手打
6) abuse n. 虐待, 辱罵
7) innocence n. 清白
8) consciousness n. 意識(shí),覺悟
9) plastic surgery 整形手術(shù)
