i don’t want them to ever feel that way about me, ever. and he didn’t allow us to call him daddy. you know i wanted to call him daddy so bad. he said i’m not daddy, i’m joseph. i don’t allow my children to call me michael; i say i’m daddy, just the opposite. so when people say the 6)abuse, abuse?--that’s not true!

i've said it many times. my greatest inspiration comes from kids, every song i write, every dance i do, all the poetry i write is all inspired from that level of 7)innocence, that 8)consciousness of purity and children have that. i see god in the face of children, and, i just love being around that all the time.

i've had no 9)plastic surgery on my face, just my nose, it helped me breathe better so i can hit higher notes-as i can remember, just two.

everybody in hollywood get plastic surgery. plastic surgery wasn’t invented for michael jackson. just that though, not the whole face, just the nose, they try to say, “why did you change it?” it’s not true-it’s just the nose.

i was changing, i’m telling you the honest truth: i don’t do anything to my face.

迈克尔·杰克逊--我的故事，我的心

我的音乐态度

呃，如果我坐在这里，弹弹和弦什么的，说我要写出自己有史以来最棒的歌，那什么都出不来。天堂里有把声音会说，看，这就是我要把它交给你的时候了，就是这时候我想你得到它。艺术家似乎参与音乐但又逃离音乐，也就是，不要去写音乐。让音乐自己发挥出来。

我的童年阴影与儿童的关系

他（爸爸）训练我们时手里拿着根皮带。如果你踏错了一个舞步他会把你撕个粉碎。我挨了好多次揍了，他脾气暴躁得很。我觉得他时至今日都意识不到那是怎样的害怕，我们（兄弟们）害怕得老是恶心呕吐。

就因为这，我到今时今日也不会对我的孩子动手。我不想他们对我也有同样的感觉，永远也不要。他不让我们叫他“爸爸”，你知道啊，我想叫他“爸爸”想得多厉害。但他说，我不是“爸爸”，我是“约瑟夫”。我不准我的孩子叫我“迈克尔”，我说我是“爸爸”，刚好相反。所以别人说我虐待（孩子），虐待？没那回事！

我说过好多次了。我最伟大的灵感源自小孩子。我写的每首歌，我跳的每段舞以及我写的所有诗都来自对那种天真和那份纯洁的感悟，而那正是小孩子所拥有的。我从小孩子的脸上看到了上帝，我总是喜欢在其周围。

我对自己的脸的辩解

我从没在我的脸上动过手术，只是我的鼻子动过，因为它方便我呼吸，让我可以唱出更高的调子-就我记得的，就只是动过两次。

好莱坞的每个人都动过整形手术。整形手术并不是为迈克尔·杰克逊而发明的。不过就只是鼻子而已，不是整张脸。只是鼻子，他们总是问，你为什么老是整容？那不是真的，仅仅鼻子而已。

我那时一直（因成长）改变着，我现在告诉你的是确凿的事实：我不会对自己的脸做什么。

注释:

1) chord n. 弦, 和音

2) tear up 撕碎

3) tough a. 凶恶的, 粗暴的

4) regurgitate v.(使)涌回,(使)反刍

5) lay a finger on 动手打

6) abuse n. 虐待, 辱骂

7) innocence n. 清白

8) consciousness n. 意识,觉悟

9) plastic surgery整形手术

★★《2003年11月号-第43期-disc02-08》★★

boldly live as you've never lived before

scheme no.1

brenda’s pick

1、拍摄登月照片的哈苏相机

a lot of people say that the hasselblad is the rolls royce of cameras and that maybe, but i like to believe it is the mercedes of cameras. basically because it’s so 1)robust, it’s a reliable tool. we use the best 2)components, supplied to the tightest 3)specifications, hand 4)assembled by the most skillful 5)craftsmen. and the process of making a hasselblad camera is actually seven-weeks long processes. on every 6)nasa 7)mission since 1962, all the images neil armstrong landing on the moon, they were all shot on hasselblad.

2、世界上最完好的漫画书

we (metropolis collectibles, n.y.) are the largest 8)dealership of 9)vintage comic books in the world. we have an 10)inventory of over 100,000 pre-1975 comic books, anything from batman #1 to superman #1, action comics #1, first appearances of any characters, and 11)whereas most companies only have one or two of a comic book, if that many. the most expensive comic book we have here is an all star comics #3. it is in 12)pristine, near 13)mint 9.4 condition, which is a scale of 1 to 10: 9.4 usually means a perfect copy, anything 14)beyond that is extra perfect. this is the highest grade known copy to exist in the world. this comic book is worth approximately 165,000 dollars.

3、“日不落”庄园

crofts new hall is an amazing concept. the 15)inspiration behind the design was that it was a very, very 16)level site sitting in a tree surrounded area, very, very private. the design actually 17)blends with the ground, and it actually 18)extrudes itself out of the ground and 19)mingles with it. the house is being designed to 20)take full advantage of the passage of the sun during the day, so in the morning the sun rises in the east, it will shine into the bedroom 21)wings and 22)illuminate the day so you wake up feeling happy. and as it works through the day, it shines across the house and 23)ends up on the pool area in the dance floor, in the dining room in the evening for a perfect end to the day.

4、一支蒸蒸日上的英国球会

when i told my wife that i was going to buy the club, she went, “oh, my god!” it was a 24)bankrupt club and we brought it for 75,000 pounds. to make the club what it is today, approximately 350,000 (pounds) in the new buildings and the new front and other areas that we have to do. in one direction, it was an expensive progress, but in another direction, the supporters this year were really fantastic. hastings united is now an 25)asset rather than a 26)liability, and i think it’s worth a lot more than when we bought it.

5、一双红色鳄皮靴

i used french 27)tanned crocodile. and measure their feet, i take eight to ten 28)measurements off of each foot from which i make a custom made pair of 29)lasts. and the last is the shoe 30)mould that i will actually mould and stretch the leather over once the shoe is made. from that point, t