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1、Oral class,The Tail of Fame,chase 追逐；追赶 cruelty 残酷；残忍 pessimistic 悲观的 conquest 征服；控制; 征服；攻占 bankrupt 破产的 motive 动机 worship 崇拜；敬重；仰慕 spur 鼓励；刺激 lure 诱惑 drown 沉浸于,（使）淹死,imperial 壮丽的；宏大的 ;帝国的 agent 经纪人 ;代理人；代理商 hasten 加快；加速 elevator 电梯 blur 模糊的记忆；模糊不清的事物 idle 不工作的；闲着的 bore 使厌烦 bored 厌烦的 continuity 连贯（性
2、）；连续（性） sustain 维持；使.持续,minute 极小的 discount 忽视；低估; 打折,折扣 plot （小说、电影、戏剧等的）情节 moviemaker电影制作人 distinct 明显不同的；清晰的 spotlight聚光灯 jungle （热带）丛林 fraud 欺诈；诈骗 contaminate 污染；弄脏 underline 在.下划线 ;强调，使突出,Uncompromising 不妥协的；不让步的 object 反对；不赞成 accuse 指控；控告 banquet 宴会 sue 起诉；控告 attorney 律师 second 支持；附议 fine 罚.的款
3、 expel 开除；驱逐,The Tail of Fame,An artist who seeks fame is like a dog chasinghis own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it. The cruelty of success is that it often leads those who seek such success to participate in their own destruction. “Dont quit y
4、our day job!“ is advice frequently given by understandably pessimistic family members and friends to a budding artist who,is trying hard to succeed. The conquest of fame is difficult at best, and many end up emotionally if not financially bankrupt. Still, impure motives such as the desire for worshi
5、pping fans and praise from peers may spur the artist on. The lure of drowning in fames imperial glory is not easily resisted. Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of exploiting their talent for singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc.,They develop a style that agents market aggress
6、ively tohasten popularity, and their ride on the express elevator to the top is a blur. Most would be hard-pressed to tell you how they even got there. Artists cannot remain idle, though. When the performer, painter or writer becomes bored, their work begins to show a lack of continuity in its appea
7、l and it becomes difficult to vsustain the attention of the public.,After their enthusiasm has dissolved, the public simply moves on to the next flavor of the month. Artists who do attempt to remain current by making even minute changes to their style of writing, dancing or singing, run a significan
8、t risk of losing the audiences favor. The public simply discounts styles other than those for which the artist has become famous. Famous authors stylesa Tennessee Williams play or a plot by Ernest Hemingway or a poem by,Robert Frost or T.S. Eliotare easily recognizable. The same is true of painters
9、like Monet, Renoir, or Dali and moviemakers like Hitchcock, Fellini, Spielberg, Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou. Their distinct styles marked a significant change in form from others and gained them fame and fortune. However, they paid for it by giving up the freedom to express themselves with other style
10、s or forms.,Famesspotlight can be hotter than a tropical jungle a fraud is quickly exposed, and the pressure of so much attention is too much for most to endure. It takes you out of yourself: You must be what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could be. The performer, like the pol
11、itician, must often please his or her audiences by saying things he or she does not mean or fully believe.,One drop of fame will likely contaminate the entire well of a mans soul, and so an artist who remains true to himself or herself is particularly amazing. You would be hard-pressed to underline
12、many names of those who have not compromised and still succeeded in the fame game. An example, the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, known for his uncompromising behavior, both social and sexual, to which the public objected, paid heavily for remaining true to himself.,The mother of a young man Oscar
13、 was intimate with accused him at a banquet in front of his friends and fans of sexually influencing her son. Extremely angered by her remarks, he sued the young mans mother, asserting that she had damaged his “good“ name. He should have hired a better attorney, though. The judge did not second Wild
14、es call to have the woman pay for damaging his name, and instead fined Wilde. He ended up in jail after refusing to pay, and even,worse, was permanently expelled from the wider circle of public favor. When things were at their worst, he found that no one was willing to risk his or her name in his defense. His price for remaining true to himself was to be left alone when he needed his fans the most.,The End thank you ,