2013年最有影响力的青少年

2014-04-01 14:41文/Fromtime.com译/张静
新东方英语·中学版 2014年4期
关键词:兰登洛德巡回赛

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1 Hailee Steinfeld

Steinfeld had nearly no previous acting experience when she was nominated for an Academy Award at age 13 in 2010 for her role in True Grit. Now she's playing a student at a military space academy in the sci-fi film Ender's Game. "I still consider myself very much a beginner," she told the Guardian.

2 Lorde

The just-turned 17-year-old New Zealander rocketed to international fame in 2013 with the release of her first album, Pure Heroine. The child prodigy1)—she signed with a label at 13—is already competing with pop's biggest stars, surpassing Miley Cyrus in September for the top spot on iTunes with "Royals". The singer-songwriter, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O'Connor, is forging her own path, turning down an opportunity to join Katy Perry on tour because, as she said at the time, it "didn't feel right".

1 海莉·斯坦菲尔德

斯坦菲尔德13岁时凭借在影片《大地惊雷》中出演的角色获得2010年奥斯卡提名(编注:最佳女配角),此前她几乎没有任何表演经验。现在她在科幻片《安德的游戏》中扮演太空战斗学院的一名学生。在接受英国《卫报》采访时,她说:“我在很大程度上依然觉得自己是个新手。”

2 洛德

2013年,洛德的首张专辑《纯粹女英雄》一经发行,就让这个刚刚17岁的新西兰女孩迅速蹿红,名扬世界。洛德是个音乐天才,13岁时就签约一家唱片公司,现已开始和顶级流行乐巨星一起角逐,并在9月凭借单曲“Royals”击败麦莉·赛勒斯,夺得苹果公司iTunes歌曲下载排行榜冠军。这位本名埃拉·叶利奇·欧康纳的创作型歌手正在打造自己的职业之路,为此拒绝了参加凯蒂·佩里演唱会巡演的机会,据她本人当时说,因为参加别人的演唱会“感觉不对”。

3 Lydia Ko

A New Zealand golfer born in South Korea, 16-year-old Lydia Ko has multiple LPGA2) wins. She turned pro3) in 2013—the LPGA waived4) the age requirement for her to join—and she's already fifth in women's world rankings after just 23 tournaments. She's the youngest person ever to win a professional golf tour event and the youngest person ever to win an LPGA Tour event (and the only amateur to ever win two LPGA Tour events).

4 Nick D'Aloisio

When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer decides to buy your app for $30 million, you know you're doing pretty well. When you're only 17 at the time, "doing pretty well" is an understatement5). Programming whiz kid6) Nick D'Aloisio sold Summly, a news-reading and summarizing app, to Yahoo in March, 2013.

5 Missy Franklin

The 18-year-old won six gold medals at the 2012 Olympics and in doing so not only claimed the title of winningest female swimmer ever at a world meet7), but also became the fifth swimmer to capture six or more golds at Worlds or the Olympics. She won the Women's Sports Foundation's Sportswoman of the Year award this year. And, she joined the Cal swim team, turning down millions of dollars of endorsements8) to get a college degree.endprint

6 Ionut Budisteanu

The 19-year-old scientist's design for a low cost, self-driving car won first place and $75,000 at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair9) for high school students in May, 2013. The prototype10) signals the potential of manufacturing autonomous driving vehicles to the masses, costing only $4000 to build as opposed to Google's $75,000 self-driving car. Budisteanu, a student in Romania, used artificial intelligence technology and a mounted11) camera on the car to identify traffic lanes, curbs12), cars, and even people.

7 Maya Van Wagenen

The 15-year-old author rose to fame for keeping a diary in her quest to become popular, following tips from the 1950s self-help book, Betty Cornell's Glamour Guide for Teens. Her musings13) about applying lessons such as always wearing white gloves and pearls landed14) her a six-figure Penguin15) book deal for Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek. As if that wasn't impressive enough, in November DreamWorks optioned16) the rights for the novel, making the budding author the "youngest non-actor to ever make a deal" at the film studio.

8 Beth Reekles

The Welsh high school student was looking for something to read other than stories about vampires and werewolves when she decided to write her own teen fiction book. The then-15-year-old used story-sharing site Wattpad to release her novel, The Kissing Booth, which earned more than 19 million views and caught the attention of Random House17) Children's Publishers U.K. The author, now 17, scored a three-book deal with the U.S. arm of Random House and has since appeared on the Today show. But writing remains a hobby for the teenaged literary sensation, who plans to major in physics in college.

3 高宝

16岁的高宝是在韩国出生的新西兰高尔夫球手,已多次在美国女子职业高尔夫协会管理的比赛中夺冠。她于2013年成为职业选手(美国女子职业高尔夫协会为她破了例,没有严格执行年龄规定),仅参加了23场锦标赛便在世界女子高尔夫球手中排名第五。她是迄今为止世界上最年轻的职业高尔夫球巡回赛冠军,也是迄今为止最年轻的美国女子职业高尔夫巡回赛冠军,还是该巡回赛史上唯一一个两次夺冠的业余选手。

4 尼克·达洛伊西奥

当雅虎首席执行官玛丽莎·梅耶尔决定以3000万美金买下你的应用软件时,你知道自己干得还不赖。但如果那时你只有17岁,只说“干得还不赖”就太过低调了。编程神童尼克·达洛伊西奥在2013年3月把他的Summly——一个可以阅读新闻和生成新闻摘要的应用软件——卖给了雅虎。

5 米西·富兰克林

18岁的米西·富兰克林在2012年奥运会上斩获了六枚金牌,这不仅让她获得“单届奥运会夺金最多的游泳女将”的称号,也让她成为世界上第五位在世界游泳锦标赛或奥运会中夺得六枚或更多金牌的人。她还获得了世界女子运动基金会评选的“2013年度女运动员”奖。而且,她加入了加利福尼亚大学校游泳队,并为了完成大学学业拒绝了数百万美元的各种代言机会。

6 约努茨· 布迪什泰亚努

这位19岁的小科学家设计出了成本低廉的无人驾驶汽车,赢得了2013年5月举办的英特尔国际科学与工程大奖赛高中组的一等奖,获得奖金7.5万美元。他设计的无人驾驶汽车造价仅4000美元,而谷歌设计的此类车造价却高达7.5万美元,这表明无人驾驶汽车将有可能面向大众生产。布迪什泰亚努是来自罗马尼亚的一名学生,他在设计这款无人驾驶汽车时使用了人工智能技术以及一个装在车上,用于识别车道、路缘、汽车甚至行人的摄像头。endprint

7 马娅·范瓦格恩

这位15岁的小作家为了获得人气,将20世纪50年代出版的一本自助书籍《贝蒂·康奈尔的青少年魅力手册》中的建议付诸实践,并将此过程以日记的形式记录了下来,此举令她一跃成名。她对实践诸如“常戴白手套和珍珠饰品”等建议进行的思考为她赢得了一份出版合同——企鹅出版集团以六位数买下了她这部名为《流行:给现代极客的古典智慧》的书。好像这还不足以让人惊叹似的,梦工厂在11月还买下了该小说的使用权,使这位初露头角的作家成为该电影公司“签约的最年轻的非演员”。

8 贝丝·雷克勒斯

这名英国威尔士的高中生想读一些除吸血鬼和狼人故事之外的东西,就在寻找读物时,她下定决心自己写一本青少年小说。当时,年仅15岁的贝丝在故事分享网站Wattpad上发表了小说《亲吻亭》,获得了1900多万的阅读量,引起了兰登书屋旗下儿童出版集团英国分公司的关注。这位作家现年17岁,已和兰登书屋美国分部签了三本书的出版合同,还上过《今日秀》(编注:美国著名脱口秀节目)。不过,写作只是这位轰动一时的少年文学奇才的爱好而已,她打算上大学后读物理专业。

1. prodigy [?pr?d?d?i] n. 奇才,天才(尤指神童)

2. LPGA: 美国女子职业高尔夫协会(Ladies Professional Golf Association),是世界上最具影响力的女子高尔夫球运动协会,其管理的美国女子职业高尔夫巡回赛(LPGA Tour)尤为出名。

3. pro [pr??] n. [俗]职业运动员

4. waive [we?v] vt. 不坚持要求,放弃;不强求执行(规则等)

5. understatement

[??nd?ste?tm?nt] n. 轻描淡写的陈述,低调陈述

6. whiz kid: 神童。whiz [?w?z] n. <口>极其聪明的人;有特长的人;非同寻常的人

7. meet [mi?t] n. 运动会(多指单项比赛,如田径、游泳、体操等)

8. endorsement [?n?d??sm?nt] n. (通常为名人在广告中对某一产品的)宣传,代言

9. Intel International Science and Engineering Fair: 英特尔国际科学与工程大奖赛,素有全球青少年科学竞赛的“世界杯”之美誉,是全球规模最大、等级最高且唯一面向9~12年级(相当于国内初三至高三)中学生的科学竞赛。

10. prototype [?pr??t?ta?p] n. 原型;样品

11. mounted [?ma?nt?d] adj. 安装好的

12. curb [k??b] n. <美> (由路缘石砌成的街道或人行道的)路缘

13. musing [?mju?z??] n. 沉思,默想,冥想

14. land [l?nd] vt. <口>赢得;得到

15. Penguin: 企鹅出版集团,最早于1935年在英国创建,是世界上最大的出版商之一,于2013年7月1日与兰登书屋合并,成为企鹅兰登书屋。

16. option [??p?n] vt. 获得……的购买(或出售)权

17. Random House: 兰登书屋,于1927年创建,是世界上最大的出版商之一,总部位于美国纽约。endprint

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