night, she is the motivation of my best work. (applause) i wish everyone could share their life with as good a friend, as passionate a lover, as close a partner, and as beautiful a woman, as i have been able to with the mate of my soul, rita wilson. (applause)
in order to cap off this once-in-a-life-time 16)beer bust you’ve thrown for me, i had to choose between two 17)distinctive quotes from a lesser example of the art of cinema, but a movie nonetheless. two quotes from the film, that thing you do. somewhere in, i don’t know, the 3rd or the 4th, i don’t know where, it’s somewhere in there. one quote is “skitch, how did i get here?” and the other quote is “table 19, your pizza is ready!” ( laughter )
i have great reason to say, god bless you all, god bless america! thank you, and good night! (applause)
“让我们看电影去！”
--汤姆·汉克斯接受美国电影协会终身成就奖的讲话
（掌声）
谢谢！谢谢！
我们都听说过，月球上有一处地方叫“宁静海”，或者叫“风暴洋”；在月球的弗摩拉高地上，还有一处地方叫“梦之湖”。今晚各位亲临此处，我能有幸与别的获奖人并提，这些都使我犹如在月球上漫步一般飘飘然。那真是个好地方啊，因为梦想全部成真了。你们太了不起了！（笑声）你们对我真是太好了。
嗨，我有个主意--我们看电影去吧！我想看电影。我想和你们大家一起看电影。让我们去观赏并体验一番电影艺术吧！先看一看《惊魂噩耗》，让我们余生都感到颤栗；然后看《大逃亡》，在夏天学麦昆骑车飞越铁丝网。接下去看美国公共广播公司放的《七侠四义》，我们一边读字幕一边听日语，于是自以为能听懂日语；看《2001太空漫游》的前一天晚上会失眠，因为我们感到它就要永远地改变我们对电影的看法了，这部片子一年看上四遍也不为过；一年还可以看《伍德斯托克音乐节》三遍，一个星期里看两遍《出租车司机》；看《第三类接触》让我们在吃爆米花时动作停顿；等孩子们都长得够大了，让我们和他们一起坐在沙发上，看《城市之光》和《黄金时代》，还有《岸上风云》、《午夜牛郎》、《天涯浪子》、《最后一场电影》、《狂牛》和《辛德勒的名单》。（掌声）好让孩子们明白到，人类的生活是怎样通过灯光、音响、文学的集合来表现的--我们将这种方式称为“电影”。
多么了不起的工作啊！如果幸运的话，你就能参与到文化大事中去，相比于人类一切创造活动来说，这更直接、更持久、更有启发性。事实上，我一生当中很长时间以来一直受到幸运的眷顾。我交到你们大家这样的朋友。和你们每位的合作使我在艺术上不断提升。对于没有合作过的人，我也看过你们的杰作并从你们身上偷师。（笑声）大偷特偷。
长期从你们身上偷师，成全了我艺术的永生。电影人的一部分在电影中长存。一个人工作上的成就是取代不了一生的成就的，朋友们，在这方面，我的确是不枉此生了。
我今天的成就要归功于我的爱妻--丽塔·威尔逊。（掌声）正如你们今晚一次又一次见证过的，她就是我成功之作的推动力。（掌声）我希望每个人的一生中，都能找到他们的挚友兼热烈情人兼亲密伴侣兼美女一起分享此生，正如我和我的精神伴侣丽塔·威尔逊一样。（掌声）
作为这个百年一次的盛宴的结束语，我要从一个电影艺术的小小例子中引用两句很有特色的话，那是一部电影的台词。从《那一天传奇》摘下的两句话--我不记得是哪场戏的了，我不记得了，可能是第三或第四场。第一句是“斯科奇，我是怎么来到这里的？”，第二句是“19号桌，你的披萨好了！”（笑声）
我衷心祝福：愿上帝保佑你们大家，上帝保佑美国！谢谢大家，再见！（掌声）
注释:
1) tranquility n. 宁静
2) place up with 放置
3) swell a. 了不起的，第一流的
4) haunt v. 萦绕，闹鬼
5) barb n.倒刺
6) pbs 美国公共广播公司，即public broadcasting service。
7) subtitle n. 字幕
8) amalgam n. 混合物
9) enlightening a. 启蒙的
10) collaborate v. 合作
11) rip sb. off 模仿，偷窃
12) larceny n. 盗窃罪
13) longevity n. 长命
14) single out 从一群当中挑选
15) substitute n. 替代品
16) beer bust （美国俚语）啤酒盛宴
17) distinctive a. 与众不同的，有特色的
★★《2003年11月号-第43期-disc01-05》★★
my big fat greek wedding
dad: you’d better get married soon, you, you starting to look old!
my dad’s been saying that to me since i was fifteen. cos nice sweet girls are supposed to do three things in life: marry greek boys, make greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die.
when i was growing up, i knew i was different: the other girls were 1)blonde and 2)delicate and i was a 3)swarthy six-year-old with 4)sideburns. i so badly wanted to be like the popular girls. all sitting together, talking, eating their wonder bread sandwiches.
blonde girl: what’s that?
toula: it’s moussaka.
blonde girl: moose kaka? ha, ha...
and while the pretty girls got to go to brownies, i had to go to greek school. (greek) at greek school, i learned valuable lessons like if nick has one goat and maria has nine, how soon will they marry? (greek)
my mom was always cooking food filled with warmth and wisdom and never forgetting that 5)side dish of steaming hot guilt.
mom: nico, don’t play with your food, when i was your age, we didn’t have food!
toula: mom?
mom: what?
toula: why do i have to go to greek school?
mom: when you get married, don’t you want to be able to write your mother-in-law a letter? nico, come on, eat!
we lived in a normal middle-class chicago neighborhood of 6)tasteful modest homes. our house, however, was 7)modeled after the 8)parthenon, complete with 9)corinthian 10)columns and guarded by statues of the gods. in case the neighbors had any doubts about our 11)heritage, they could just check out our subtle 12)tribute to the greek flag.
my dad believed in only two things, that greeks should educate non-greeks about being greek, and that any 13)ailment -- from 14)psoriasis to poison 15)ivy -- could be cured with windex.
six years later, i was 12, athena, my older perfect sister was 15 and my brother, nick, was 11. every morning, my dad would lecturer us on the history of our people the greatest civilization, the greeks.
dad: ok, now name three things the greeks did first.
athena: astronomy, philosophy and democracy.
dad: bravo! very good!
i wish i had a different life. i wish i was braver and prettier or just happy, but it’s useless to dream, because nothing ever changes.
toula: (answers the phone) hi, michalengelo’s travel agency, may i help you? well sure, that’s what we do. absolutely, oh right. sure. well, what you can do is book it now, i can reserve the seat for you. be with you in a second. that would be no problem. all righ