姚安娜的演技，你觉得怎么样？

近日，电视剧《猎冰》热播，“华为二公主”姚安娜的演技成为热议话题。昨晚，姚安娜发文表示：接受善意的批评与建议，尊重所有的喜欢与不喜欢。

🤔️小作业：

1. How did the public react to Annabel Yao's publicity efforts?A) Indifferent.

B) Supportive.

C) Critical.

D) Inspired.

A) Whether she should continue her studies.

B) If her family's wealth would influence her success.

C) How to handle public criticism.

D) The implications of referring to herself as a "princess."

无注释原文：

A Child of China’s Gilded Elite Strikes a Nerve Over Wealth and Privilege

From: The New York Times, Jan. 19, 2021

Annabel Yao is a fresh-faced college graduate with big dreams. She wants to be an entertainer and is putting in the work to make it happen.

She is also a member of China’s rarefied elite, the youngest daughter of the billionaire founder and chairman of the telecommunications giant Huawei.

When Ms. Yao, 23, launched a highly polished publicity blitz last week — including a 17-minute “making of” documentary, a magazine cover and a music video — the response was savage.

Ms. Yao’s tone — opining about her social status, her struggles, her up-by-the-bootstrap pluck — seemed to strike a nerve in the country.

The blitz ignited outrage online about privilege and decorum.

She was ridiculed as self-indulgent, insincere and insensitive. At one point in the documentary about her professional journey, she asks why her older half sister seemed more likable to the public.

“People work for the capitalists during the day and have to be forced to watch their ugly children at night,” one person wrote on Weibo, the social media site, where Ms. Yao posted her music video. The song, sung in a mix of Chinese and English, is called “Backfire.”

Ms. Yao, the daughter from Mr. Ren’s second marriage, unquestionably grew up in privilege, perhaps more than her older half-siblings.

In an interview in 2019, her tycoon father described his admiration for her demanding schedule with studies and ballet lessons — as many as 15 hours a week in middle school. “They have high demands on themselves,” he said of his children.

Ms. Yao, who graduated from Harvard seven months ago, studied computer science and danced with the Harvard Ballet Company. In the documentary, she said she “kept trying different things” after feeling lost following graduation before devoting herself to this career path. She has since signed with TH Entertainment, a promotion company based in Beijing.

Her media blitz was timed with her 23rd birthday, which was last Thursday, and has already landed her a fashion shoot in the Chinese edition of Harper’s Bazaar, a cover of OK and an appearance in an advertisement for Great Wall Motors.

Ms. Yao seemed to anticipate a backlash because of her background. “I have some questions about the word princess,” she says at one point in the documentary, which includes vignettes of dance and voice lessons, gym workouts and meetings about developing her brand. “People on the internet might call me a princess or something, but will it cause some negative emotions if I call myself a princess?”

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为纽约时报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

A Child of China’s Gilded Elite Strikes a Nerve Over Wealth and Privilege

From: The New York Times, Jan. 19, 2021

Annabel Yao is a fresh-faced college graduate with big dreams. She wants to be an entertainer and is putting in the work to make it happen.

年轻的姚安娜是一名有远大梦想的大学毕业生。她想当艺人，并正在努力实现这一目标。

gilded /ˈɡɪl.dɪd/ 1）表示“镀金的;有金色涂层的;涂成金色的”，英文解释为“covered with a thin layer of gold or a substance that looks like gold”举个🌰：The gilded dome of the cathedral rises above the city. 大教堂的金色穹顶高耸于城市上空。

2）表示“富有的；上流社会的，上层阶级的”，英文解释为“rich or of a higher social class”举个🌰：The story revolves around the gilded youth of the 1920s and their glittering lifestyles. 故事围绕一群20世纪20年代的上流社会公子哥儿及其奢华靡丽的生活方式展开。

📍词根“gild-”来自古英语“gyldan”，意味着“覆以金属”，尤其是金。想象一个镀金的框架使画作看起来更加引人注目。近义词: golden（金色的），同根词: gild（镀金），常用短语: gilded age（镀金时代）

She is also a member of China’s rarefied elite, the youngest daughter of the billionaire founder and chairman of the telecommunications giant Huawei.

姚安娜也是中国为数不多的精英阶层的一员，是电信设备巨头华为的亿万富翁创始人兼董事长的小女儿。

rarefied /ˈreə.rɪ.faɪd/ 1）表示“高深精妙的；曲高和寡的；高高在上的；过于高贵的；脱离现实生活的”，英文解释为“(often disapproving) understood or experienced by only a very small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge or activity”如：the rarefied atmosphere of academic life 阳春白雪的学术生活氛围，举个🌰：She moves in rarefied circles. 她活跃于精英小圈子中。

2）表示“（空气）稀薄的；含氧量少的”，英文解释为“Rarefied air is air that does not contain much oxygen, for example in mountain areas.”如：living at very high altitudes where the atmosphere is rarefied 生活在空气稀薄的高海拔地区。

elite /iˈliːt/ 作形容词，表示“（社会）上层集团的；掌权人物的；精英的；出类拔萃的，精锐的”，英文解释为“belonging to the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society”；

作名词，表示“（社会）上层集团；掌权人物；出类拔萃的人，精英”，英文解释为“the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society”如：the country's educated elite 这个国家受过良好教育的精英。

When Ms. Yao, 23, launched a highly polished publicity blitz last week — including a 17-minute “making of” documentary, a magazine cover and a music video — the response was savage.

当23岁的姚安娜上周发起了一场精心策划的宣传攻势，包括一部题为《破格公主》的17分钟纪录片、登上一本杂志的封面、发布首支单曲后，得到的反应却是激烈抨击。

polished /ˈpɒl.ɪʃt/ 1）表示“优雅而又自信的”，英文解释为“A polished person has style and confidence.”举个🌰：He's suave, polished, and charming. 他文雅、自信，富有魅力。

2）表示“完美的，精良的”，英文解释为“showing great skill”举个🌰：The dancers gave a polished performance. 舞蹈演员的表演很精湛。

publicity /pʌbˈlɪs.ə.ti/ 表示“宣传活动；宣传，推广；关注”，英文解释为“the activity of making certain that someone or something attracts a lot of interest or attention from many people, or the attention received as a result of this activity”举个🌰：We have planned an exciting publicity campaign with our advertisers. 我们和广告人员一起策划了一场十分精彩的宣传活动。

blitz /blɪts/ 1）表示“集中力量的行动；闪电式行动”，英文解释为“a lot of energetic activity”举个🌰：The car was launched with a massive media/advertising blitz, involving newspapers, magazines, television and radio. 该车投放市场时做了大量宣传/广告，投放媒介包括报纸、杂志、电视和广播。

2）表示“（通常伴有飞机轰炸的）闪电战，突袭”，英文解释为“a fast, violent attack on a town, city, etc., usually with bombs dropped from aircraft”

📍此前在一文中提到了“双十一购物狂欢节”，BBC用了the 24-hour shopping blitz 双十一这个千亿大项目，你贡献了多少呢？来表示。

Ms. Yao’s tone — opining about her social status, her struggles, her up-by-the-bootstrap pluck — seemed to strike a nerve in the country.

姚安娜在视频中谈到对自己社会地位的看法，谈到自己的努力和自食其力的勇气，她的语气似乎触动了国人的神经。

tone /təʊn/ 1）表示“（常指对听话人的）语气，腔调，口吻”，英文解释为“a quality in the voice that expresses the speaker's feelings or thoughts, often towards the person being spoken to”举个🌰：I tried to use a sympathetic tone of voice. 我试着用一种同情的语气说话。

2）表示“风格；基调，格调；气氛”，英文解释为“the general mood or main qualities of something”举个🌰：I didn't like the jokey tone of the article - I thought it was inappropriate. 我不喜欢这篇文章的搞笑风格——我觉得这不恰当。

3）表示“色调；明暗；影调”，英文解释为“a form or degree of a colour”，如：warm tones of brown and yellow 棕色和黄色这种暖色调。

up-by-the-bootstrap是源自短语pull oneself up by one's bootstraps的一个变体，意味着依靠自己的努力和资源从困境中自力更生或取得成功。这个短语强调个人的独立性和自我提升的能力，通常用于描述从较低的社会、经济或个人处境中通过自己的努力实现显著进步或成功的过程。

pull/haul yourself up by the/your (own) bootstraps 表示“靠自己的努力取得成功，自力更生”，英文解释为“to improve your situation without any help from other people”举个🌰：He left school at 15 and pulled himself up by his bootstraps to ultimately head up a company. 他15岁就离开了学校，完全靠自己的能力最终成为一家公司的主管。

因此，在这个上下文中，up-by-the-bootstrap pluck指的是姚女士通过自己的坚韧和努力，克服挑战，改善她的社会地位和生活条件的精神或态度。这个表达强调了个人的坚持和自我提升的能力。

pluck /plʌk/ 作动词，1）表示“拨，弹（乐器的弦）”，英文解释为“to pull and then release the strings of a musical instrument with your finger to play notes”举个🌰：He sat on the bed, idly plucking (at) the strings of his guitar. 他坐在床上，随意地拨着吉他琴弦。

2）表示“摘（花）”，英文解释为“to collect flowers by breaking or cutting their stems; pick”

3）表示“使…脱离险境，解救”，英文解释为“to remove someone quickly from a dangerous or difficult situation”举个🌰：The last passengers were plucked from the ship just seconds before it sank. 最后一批游客在船沉没前几秒钟被救起。

作名词，表示“胆识，勇气”，英文解释为“courage and a strong wish to succeed”举个🌰：She showed a lot of pluck in standing up to her boss. 她顶撞老板，显示出了很大的勇气。

touch/strike/hit a (raw) nerve表示“触及（某人）痛处，使（某人）难过”，英文解释为“to upset someone”举个🌰：The newspaper article touched a raw nerve - people still resent the closure of the local school. 报纸上的文章触到了人们的痛处——人们仍然对关闭当地学校一事愤愤不平。

The blitz ignited outrage online about privilege and decorum.

这场宣传攻势在网上激起了人们对特权和不知羞耻的愤怒。

ignite /ɪɡˈnaɪt/ 1）表示“激起”，英文解释为“If something or someone ignites your feelings, they cause you to have very strong feelings about something.”举个🌰：There was one teacher who really ignited my interest in words. 曾经有一位老师真正激起了我对文字的兴趣。

2）表示“点燃；着火”，英文解释为“When you ignite something or when it ignites, it starts burning or explodes. ”举个🌰：The bombs ignited a fire which destroyed some 60 houses. 炸弹引起了一场火灾，烧毁了大约六十间房屋。

outrage /ˈaʊt.reɪdʒ/ 本身可以作动词，表示“（尤指不公平的行为或言论）使感到义愤，使愤慨，激怒”，也可以作名词，表示“愤怒；义愤；愤慨”，英文解释为“a strong feeling of shock and anger”举个🌰：The judge's remarks caused public outrage. 裁判的话引起了公愤。

outraged作形容词，表示“愤怒的；愤慨的，义愤填膺的”，英文解释为“feeling outrage”举个🌰：Outraged viewers jumped onto social media to complain about the ending of the series. 许多愤怒的观众纷纷在社交平台上对连续剧的结局表示不满。

📍词根“out-”表示“外”，“rage”表示“愤怒”，整体意味着超出正常范围的“愤怒”或“暴行”。近义词：fury（狂怒），同根词：outrageous（令人震惊的），常用短语：express outrage（表达愤怒）

privilege /ˈprɪv.əl.ɪdʒ/ 1）可数名词，表示“特殊利益；优惠待遇”，英文解释为“a special right or advantage that a particular person or group of people has”举个🌰：You can enjoy all the benefits and privileges of club membership. 你可以享受俱乐部成员的一切福利和优惠。

2）不可数名词，表示“（有钱有势者的）特权，特殊待遇”，英文解释为“(disapproving) the rights and advantages that rich and powerful people in a society have”举个🌰：As a member of the nobility, his life had been one of wealth and privilege. 身为贵族中的一员，他过着有钱有势的生活。

3）常用单数，表示“荣幸；荣耀；光荣”，英文解释为“something that you are proud and lucky to have the opportunity to do”举个🌰：I hope to have the privilege of working with them again. 但愿有幸与他们再度合作。

decorum /dɪˈkɔː.rəm/ 表示“礼貌得体；稳重，端庄”，英文解释为“behaviour that is controlled, calm, and polite”举个🌰：I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation. 整个调查当中我受到了礼遇和尊重。

📍词根“decor-”来自拉丁语“decorus”，意味着“美丽的”，引申为行为或外观上的“得体”和“适宜”。近义词：propriety（适当），同根词：decorate（装饰），常用短语：observe decorum（遵守礼仪）

She was ridiculed as self-indulgent, insincere and insensitive. At one point in the documentary about her professional journey, she asks why her older half sister seemed more likable to the public.

人们嘲笑她任性、虚伪、麻木不仁。在关于自己如何走上这条职业道路的纪录片中，姚安娜问道，为什么她同父异母的姐姐似乎更受公众喜爱。

ridicule /ˈrɪd.ɪ.kjuːl/ 可以作动词，也可以作名词，表示“嘲笑；奚落；戏弄”，英文解释为“unkind words or actions that make someone or something look stupid”举个🌰：She was treated with scorn and ridicule by her colleagues when she applied for the job. 她申请那份工作时，受到了同事们的嘲弄和奚落。

self-indulgent /ˌself.ɪnˈdʌl.dʒənt/ 表示“自我放纵的；任性的”，英文解释为“allowing yourself to have or do anything that you enjoy”举个🌰：I know it's self-indulgent of me, but I'll have another chocolate. 我知道这有些自我放纵，但我还是要再吃一块巧克力。

insincere /ˌɪn.sɪnˈsɪər/ 表示“虚伪的；不诚恳的”，英文解释为“pretending to feel something that you do not really feel, or not meaning what you say”如：an insincere apology 虚情假意的道歉。

insensitive /ɪnˈsen.sɪ.tɪv/ 1）表示“（人或其行为）未意识到（他人感受）的;漠不关心的”，英文解释为“not feeling or showing sympathy for other people's feelings, or refusing to give importance to something”

2）表示“不敏感的；无感觉的”，英文解释为“not showing any reaction to something, or unable to feel something”举个🌰：The protective covering must be insensitive to light and heat. 保护罩必须对光和热不敏感。

“People work for the capitalists during the day and have to be forced to watch their ugly children at night,” one person wrote on Weibo, the social media site, where Ms. Yao posted her music video. The song, sung in a mix of Chinese and English, is called “Backfire.”

“白天给资本家打工，晚上给资本家的女儿打投，”有人在社交媒体网站新浪微博上写道。姚安娜用中英文混合演唱的歌曲《Backfire》也发在这个平台上。

capitalist /ˈkæp.ɪ.təl.ɪst/ 作名词，表示“资本主义者”，英文解释为“someone who supports capitalism”或者表示“资本家”，英文解释为“someone who has a large amount of money invested (= given hoping to get more back) in a business”；作形容词，表示“资本主义的”，英文解释为“based on the system of capitalism”如：a capitalist economy/country 资本主义经济/国家。

mix /mɪks/ 1）表示“混合；结合”，英文解释为“a combination”举个🌰：There was an odd mix of people at the party. 派对上有形形色色的人。

2）表示“（常为粉状的）配料，混合料”，英文解释为“something that is sold in the form of a powder to which a liquid, such as water, can be added later”如：cake/cement mix 蛋糕粉/水泥配料。

3）表示“混音，混录”，英文解释为“a version of a recorded piece of music”举个🌰：A new mix of their hit single is due to be released early next month. 他们热门单曲的新混音版唱片定于下月初发行。

backfire /ˌbækˈfaɪər/ 1）表示“（引擎）发生回火”，英文解释为“(of an engine) to make a loud noise as a result of fuel burning too early”举个🌰：I was woken by the sound of a truck backfiring. 卡车引擎的回火声把我惊醒了。

2）表示“事与愿违，（计划或行动）发生意外，产生事与愿违的结果”，英文解释为“if a plan or action backfires, it has the opposite effect to the one you intended”举个🌰：The company's new policy backfired when a number of employees threatened to quit. 公司的新政策事与愿违，有好几名员工威胁说要辞职。

🎬电影《被拒人生》（Freeheld）中的台词提到：Listen to me, listen to me, this is a circus, it's gonna backfire. 听我说，这有些儿戏了，会适得其反的。

Ms. Yao, the daughter from Mr. Ren’s second marriage, unquestionably grew up in privilege, perhaps more than her older half-siblings.

姚安娜来自任正非的第二段婚姻，无疑在特权的环境下长大，也许比她同父异母的姐姐和哥哥享有的更多。

unquestionably /ʌnˈkwestʃənəbli/ 表示“无可非议地；确凿地，肯定地”，英文解释为“in a way that is obvious and impossible to doubt”

In an interview in 2019, her tycoon father described his admiration for her demanding schedule with studies and ballet lessons — as many as 15 hours a week in middle school. “They have high demands on themselves,” he said of his children.

在2019年的一次采访中，姚安娜的大亨父亲表露了对女儿的赞赏，说女儿上中学时，在繁重的学业之外，每周还要上15个小时的芭蕾舞课。“他们自己对自己的要求很高，”他提到子女时说。

tycoon /taɪˈkuːn/ 表示“（商界或企业界的）巨头，大亨”，英文解释为“a person who has succeeded in business or industry and has become very rich and powerful”如：a business/property/shipping tycoon 商业/地产业/船业巨头。

类似的还有：

📍mogul /ˈməʊɡəl/表示“（尤指新闻、影视界的）大人物；大亨”，英文解释为“A mogul is an important, rich, and powerful businessman, especially one in the news, film, or television industry.”如：an international media mogul一位国际传媒大亨。

📍magnate /ˈmæɡneɪt, -nɪt/ 表示“大亨，巨头”，英文解释为“a rich and powerful person in industry or business”。

📍giant表示“巨头，大公司”，英文解释为“Giant is often used to refer to any large, successful business organization or country.”如：Japanese electronics giant, Sony 日本的电子业巨头——索尼公司。

📍conglomerate /kənˈglɒmərɪt/ 表示“联合大公司；企业集团”，英文解释为“A conglomerate is a large business firm consisting of several different companies.”如：the world's second-largest media conglomerate 世界第二大传媒集团。

📍behemoth /ˈbiːhɪmɒθ/ 表示“巨头（指规模庞大、实力雄厚的公司或机构）”，英文解释为“a very big and powerful company or organization”。

📍titan表示“巨人；巨头”，英文解释为“If you describe someone as a titan of a particular field, you mean that they are very important and powerful or successful in that field.”

demanding /dɪˈmɑːn.dɪŋ/ 表示“费时费力的，耗费精力的”，英文解释为“needing a lot of time, attention, or energy”举个🌰：She's a very demanding child. 她是个特别不让人省心的孩子。

Ms. Yao, who graduated from Harvard seven months ago, studied computer science and danced with the Harvard Ballet Company. In the documentary, she said she “kept trying different things” after feeling lost following graduation before devoting herself to this career path. She has since signed with TH Entertainment, a promotion company based in Beijing.

姚安娜是七个月前从哈佛大学毕业的，主修计算机科学，曾在哈佛大学芭蕾舞团跳舞。她在出道纪录片中说，毕业后“不断尝试”，在投身这条职业道路之前曾感到迷茫。她说，后来与北京的天浩盛世娱乐公司签了约。

devote sth to sth/someone 1）表示“将…贡献给，把…奉献给”，英文解释为“to give all of something, especially your time, effort, or love, or yourself, to something you believe in or to a person”举个🌰：She has devoted all her energies/life to the care of homeless people. 她为照料无家可归者倾注了全部心血/奉献了一生。

2）表示“将…用于”，英文解释为“to use a space, area, time, etc. for a particular purpose”举个🌰：The report recommends that more resources be devoted to teaching four-year-olds. 该报告建议投入更多的资源用于4岁儿童的教育。

Her media blitz was timed with her 23rd birthday, which was last Thursday, and has already landed her a fashion shoot in the Chinese edition of Harper’s Bazaar, a cover of OK and an appearance in an advertisement for Great Wall Motors.

姚安娜的媒体攻势始于上周四她23岁生日那天。她已经登上了《时尚芭莎》中文版的封面、《OK》杂志的封面，还出现在了长城汽车的广告中。

Ms. Yao seemed to anticipate a backlash because of her background. “I have some questions about the word princess,” she says at one point in the documentary, which includes vignettes of dance and voice lessons, gym workouts and meetings about developing her brand. “People on the internet might call me a princess or something, but will it cause some negative emotions if I call myself a princess?”

由于自己的背景，姚安娜似乎预料到了会出现强烈抵制。“我对‘公主’这个词有些疑问，”她在出道纪录片中这样说，纪录片中穿插着舞蹈课、声乐课、健身训练，以及与打造品牌有关的会议。“可能说网上的人会叫我说什么公主之类的，但如果我自己管自己叫公主，会不会就是产生一些负面的情绪？”

backlash /ˈbæk.læʃ/ 表示“强烈抵制，集体反对”，英文解释为“a strong negative reaction by a large number of people, for example to sth that has recently changed in society”如：the backlash against xx 对xx的强烈反对。

📺美剧《无耻之徒》（Shameless）第一季中的台词提到：There will be a backlash if people don't stop 字幕组翻译为：如果人们不停止...的话，迟早会出大事。

vignette /vɪˈnjet/ 表示“（清晰描述特点的）短文，片段，小插曲”，英文解释为“a short piece of writing, music, acting, etc. that clearly expresses the typical characteristics of something or someone”举个🌰：She wrote several vignettes of small-town life. 她写了几篇关于小镇生活的短文。

princess /prɪnˈses/ 表示“（孙）公主；王妃；亲王夫人”，英文解释为“an important female member of a royal family, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a king and queen, or the wife of a prince”

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