满心期待

They'd won a contest.

他们刚赢了场选秀

They'd won at the Apollo Theater Amateur Night,

在阿波罗业余选秀中胜出

and their prize was to open the show for the great James Brown.

奖品就是替詹姆斯·布郎开场

Well, he broke out into this James BroWn, l Got the Feelin',

他开始唱詹姆斯·布郎的l Got the Feeling

and doing his little toes and dancing and looking like James,

模仿詹姆斯跳舞

if James were a wind-up toy.

像个詹姆斯发条娃娃似的

And it was amazing.

太不可思议了

He would perform and do the moves and routine that everyone else was doing.

他会模仿所有流行的舞步

He used to do Fred Astaire and James Cagney.

以前还会学佛雷·亚斯坦与詹姆斯·贾克内

Then all of a sudden, he would add a little bit of something in there, different.

然后突然就会加入一点不一样的创意

And that was him feeling what he was doing.

那是他对舞步的感受

He excited me. I saw all of this in him.

他令我满心期待 我在他身上看到了这些天赋

l saw things that he could do that l couldn't.

看到了我所没有的才能

He had the makings of a great singer.

他有当歌手的天赋

Michael had universal appeal back when he was real young.

迈克尔在很小时就很有舞台魅力

l mean, we weren't really into marketing or anything like that,

那时还没有所谓的营销

but it was already there.

但他已经具备那条件

l think the word for it, the phraseology, would be,

我想更贴切的说法是

'A diamond in the rough, ' without very many edges to buff off.

一块璞玉 而且需要磨掉的棱角不多

重点讲解

1、break out

a、（战争、战斗或疾病）爆发

He was 29 when war broke out.

战争爆发时他才29岁。

I was in a nightclub in Brixton and a fight broke out.

当时我在布里克斯顿的一家夜总会里，那里发生了一场斗殴。

b、越狱；逃跑

The two men broke out of their cells and cut through a perimeter fence.

这两个人逃出牢房，并越过了围墙。

c、摆脱（单调刻板的状况）

It's taken a long time to break out of my own conventional training.

我花了很长时间才摆脱掉自身所受的传统训练的羁绊。

If her marriage becomes too restrictive, she will break out and seek new horizons.

如果她的婚姻对她约束太多，她会挣脱出来寻找新的天地。

2、routine

a、惯例;常规;例行公事

The players had to change their daily routine and lifestyle.

这些运动员不得不改变他们的日常生活习惯和方式。

They include the floor exercises as a regular part of their fitness routine.

他们把自由体操做为日常健身运动的固定环节。

b、例行的;常规的;惯常的

a series of routine medical tests.

一系列常规的医疗检查

The operator has to be able to carry out routine maintenance of the machine.

操作员必须能对机器进行日常维护。

c、普通的;平常的;一般的;乏味的

So many days are routine and uninteresting, especially in winter.

许多日子都过得平淡乏味，尤其是在冬天。

this routine thriller about a CIA man and a KGB operative.

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