偶像的一生

The first day of Gavin's testimony, Michael shows up and he's in pyjamas,
文第一天作证时 迈克尔穿着睡衣出庭
and he looked like he was in really bad shape.
状况看来很糟
And they actually, they had to, like, help him into the courtroom.
他们基本上是扶着他进法庭的

From that moment on, everything started to get really awful.
从那刻起就每况愈下
You started seeing Michael coming in evety day, looking like death.
迈克尔每天出庭都像只剩半条命
lt was as if the testimony was just destroying him.
彷佛光是听证供就会逼死他似的
To sit there in court and watch the legal system hurl
坐在法庭内眼看着司法制度
absurd and vindictive and nasty, mean-spirited allegations at him like this,
对他扔出那些恶意及荒谬的指控
absolutely traumatized him.
带给他很大的创伤
For me, and for other people who actually knew Michael,
对我和其他与迈克尔熟识的人来说
this was a real human being, whose life was being destroyed,
这是个有血有肉的人 人生就这样活生生的被摧毁
and evety day it just seemed to get worse.
一天比一天要糟

重点讲解

1、show up
(使)清晰;(使)变得明显;(使)显现出来
You may have some strange disease that may not show up for 10 or 15 years.
你可能患有某种 10 年或者 15 年都看不出什么症状来的怪病。
The orange tip shows up well against most backgrounds.
橙色的尖端在大多数背景下都很醒目。
使难堪;使尴尬;使丢脸
He wanted to teach her a lesson for showing him up in front of Leonov.
她在列昂诺夫面前让他难堪，他要教训她一通。
She kept saying I ought to try some, but I wasn't going to show myself up.
她一直说我应该尝一尝，但我可不想丢人。
2、traumatize
使受精神创伤;使惊吓过度;使痛苦
My wife was traumatized by the experience.
那次经历给我我妻子造成了精神创伤。
Did his parents traumatize him?
他父母给他留下了心理伤害吗？
3、allegation
指控;指责
The company has denied the allegations.
公司否认了这些指控。
Allegations of brutality and theft have been levelled at the army.
有人指责军队中存在着野蛮暴行和盗窃行为。