“I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”
– Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host
「我不覺得自己是一位獲得成功的貧民區女孩,我覺得自己從小就知道我要對自己的人生負責,而且我必須成功。」
– 歐普拉‧溫芙蕾 (脫口秀主持人)
deprived (adj.) 貧脊的,貧困的;deprive (v.) 剝奪,從… 奪走。例:These youngsters have been deprived of a normal life. (這些年輕人的正常生活被剝奪。) ghetto (n.) 貧民區。例:She grew up in a ghetto. (她在貧民區長大。) make good 由貧窮變得成功或富有。例:a country boy who made good in the big city (一位來自鄉村在大城市成功的男孩)。
歐普拉‧溫芙蕾 (1954- ) 出生在一個未婚生子的青少年單親媽媽家庭裡,早年成長環境清寒困苦,高中時即在廣播電台工作,19 歲開始主持新聞節目,後來轉入脫口秀節目而知名度提升。她目前擁有自己的媒體公司,被列為 20 世紀最富有的美國黑人,曾一度是世上唯一的黑人億萬富翁。
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