拯救唱片业

Michael felt that Quincy shouId have been on his team

迈克尔认为昆西应该要挺他的

with 100 million.

应当要破亿万销售

And he told his attorney,

他跟律师说

'Thriller's not coming out. Quincy doesn't believe in it.

Thriller不发行了 因为昆西对专辑没信心

'Cancel. The thing's not coming out, ' right?

取消了 不录制了 是吗?

so, Michael had a conversation with Wallter Yetnikoff,

当时迈克尔与沃尔特·耶特尼科夫谈话

Who Was running CBS at that time.

也就是当时CBS的总裁

And Walter Yetnikoff told Michael, 'Look, who cares what these guys think.

沃尔特·耶特尼科夫对迈克尔说 你管他们怎么想

'lt's not about what their impression is of this music,

他们对音乐的印象不重要

'it's what you believe to be the case.

重要的是你怎么想

'And if you believe this is going to sell 100 million copies,

若你认为这张会破亿万销售量

'guess what, Michael?

你知道吗?

"l'm with you.

我挺你

"let this thing come out. Don't mess with this. Just Iet it come out.

就发片吧 别管这些了 你发片就是了

And then Michael did.

迈克尔真的就发了

But it could have gone either way.

但是结局可能倒向任何一面

We were averaging a million units a week, which no other record had done.

当时每周平均销售百万 已经打破销售纪录

Michael Jackson, that year with Thriller, saved the record business.

迈克尔·杰克逊那年的Thriller 拯救了整个唱片业

Tower Records was going out of business,

淘儿音乐城面临倒闭

CBS itself had had two black Fridays where they laid off, like, a thousand people,

CBS本身也经历了两次黑色星期五 裁了上千员工

other companies were laying off people. Everybody was losing their job.

其他公司也在大量裁员 很多人都丢了工作

But Thrillerwas so big,

但Thriller却造成轰动

it brought millions of people into the stores

吸引了上百万人到店里消费

and they not only bought Thriller, they bought other product.

他们不光是购买Thriller 也购买其他产品

lt was the music that will probably influence contemporary artists

这张专辑的音乐 对当代歌手的影响

for a long, long time to come.

将会非常的深远

lt gave us a...

它给了我们...

A goal, a bull's-eye or a dream to get to,

一个可追逐的目标

something to aspire to.

一种启发

重点讲解

1、come out

(书或光盘)出版，发行

The book comes out this week.

这本书本周出版。

Christian Slater has a new movie coming out next month in which he plays a vigilante.

克里斯汀·史莱特有一部新片下月发行，他在片中扮演一个治安维持会成员

(事实)暴露，披露，显露

The truth is beginning to come out about what happened.

真相开始逐渐浮出水面。

It will come out that she has covertly donated considerable sums to the IRA.

她暗中给爱尔兰共和军提供了大笔资助的事情即将曝光。

公开同性恋身份

the few gay men there who dare to come out.

那里少数几位有勇气公开宣布自己是同性恋的男子

I came out as a lesbian when I was still in my teens.

我才十几岁的时候，就公开了自己的同性恋身份。

结果是;到头来

In this grim little episode of recent American history, few people come out well.

在美国近代史上这一小段阴暗时期，很少有人能有好的结果。

So what makes a good marriage? Faithfulness comes out top of the list.

那么，是什么造就了美满的婚姻呢？结果表明忠诚是第一位的。

2、go out

外出交际；外出娱乐

I'm going out tonight.

我今晚要出去玩。

It will be a marvellous occasion and they should go out and enjoy it.

这是个好时机，他们应该出去痛快地玩一玩。

与（异性）交往；与…谈恋爱（或有性关系）

I once went out with a French man.

我曾经同一位法国男子交往过一段时间。

They've only been going out for six weeks.

他们相恋才6周时间。

不复存在；被替代；过时

Double-breasted suits went out years ago.

双排扣的套装好多年前就过时了。

The weapons had gone out of use.

这些武器已经被淘汰了。

3、lay off

（通常指因工作岗位不足而）辞退，解雇，使下岗

100,000 federal workers will be laid off to reduce the deficit.

10万联邦公务人员将被辞退以减少赤字。

They did not sell a single car for a month and had to lay off workers.

一个月来一辆汽车都卖不出去，他们只好裁员。

住手；闭嘴

He went on attacking her until other passengers arrived and told him to lay off.

他不停地打她，直至其他乘客过来叫他住手。