摘要：雅思中國網雅思君這里給大家帶來的是關于好萊塢話題的一篇讀物：Why Hollywood refuses actors of color?這句話的意思是“好萊塢為什么不拍非白人影片？”并不是“好萊塢為什么拒絕有眼的演員”啊喂，千萬不要理解錯！一起看正文吧！

The Golden Globe nominations, unveiled last week, featured a number of nods for minority TV actors but few candidates of color in film. Of the 35 nominees for best director, actor, actress and supporting actor, only three were minorities: director Alejandro González I?árritu and actors Will Smith and Idris Elba. None of the 10 nominees for best picture were led by minority stars.

The frustrations over Hollywood’s lack of diversity could grow by the time of the next Oscars, hosted in February by comedian Chris Rock, who last year wrote an essay calling Hollywood “a white industry.” When Rock first hosted the show, in 2005, he joked that the Oscars’ four black nominees made it “kind of like the Def Oscar Jam.”

The academy has yet to announce its nominees, but predictions from Oscar handicappers have surfaced only a few minority hopefuls: Elba in “Beasts of No Nation” and Samuel L. Jackson in “The Hateful Eight” for best supporting actor; Smith for best actor in“Concussion”; and I?árritu for best director for “The Revenant.” Also, “Compton” is a long shot for best picture.

No women of color are in the running to win any of the 10 lead- or supporting-actress Oscar nods this year, a discouraging sign coming shortly after Viola Davis became the first African American woman to win an Emmy as lead actress in a drama, for her role in Shonda Rhimes’s “How to Get Away With Murder.”

“The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity,” Davis said in September during her acceptance speech. “You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.”

The academy said recently it will launch a five-year plan, called A2020, intended to encourage film executives to hire a more diverse talent base. Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in September that, although the academy “has no power over Hollywood [and] nothing to do with hiring,” she hoped the plan can get studios and agencies to “widen their normal stream of thought.”

Filmmakers, in turn, have pointed the finger at their financiers. Director Ridley Scott, criticized for casting white actors, including Christian Bale as Moses, in “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” said last year the move was needed to secure the money for his $140 million epic: “I can’t mount a film of this budget .?.?. and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such. .?.?. I’m just not going to get it financed.”

Studios and film crews that did fill roles with actors of color faced resistance this year from angry fans, including over Boyega in his role as a stormtrooper in the new “Star Wars” and Jordan for his “Fantastic Four” role playing a superhero who is white in the original comic-book version.

When big films this year focused on minority characters, many instead filled their spots with white actors. In “Aloha,” for instance, Emma Stone was cast to play a Chinese Hawaiian woman.

After “Gods of Egypt,” a fantasy tale set in the ancient Middle East, was cast with mostly white actors in Egyptian roles, director Alex Proyas apologized, saying that “the process of casting a movie has many complicated variables(變量), but it is clear that our casting choices should have been more diverse.”

“Selma” director Ava DuVernay said the “Gods of Egypt” apology was an “unusual occurrence worth noting” for a casting problem “that happens all the time.” She also said it made her value the minority castings in “Star Wars” and “Creed” even more, tweeting, “We all deserve icons(偶像) in our own image.” (我們大家都有權擁有與自己形象一致的偶像。)

Vocabulary

Top-grossing movies 票房最高的電影

Nomination 提名

Dominate 統治;控制

Predominately 占統治地位地;絕大多數地

Box office 票房

Franchise 連鎖

Stuttering 結巴的;不持續的

Spreadsheet 電子表格;財務報表

Grandeur 輝煌

Skin tone 膚色

Monolithic 整體的;巨大的

Solidify 加劇;加固

Slight 輕慢;稍微的

Chastise 指責;批判

Variable 變量

Icon 偶像

雅思真題重現：

It also suggests in which of these three waves the ancestors of various groups of modern native Americans first reached the continent. (劍7T3P2)

參考譯文：這同樣表明了在三次浪潮中的哪一次，各種現代本地美國人的祖先首先到達這塊大陸。

Toothed species in general employ more of the frequency spectrum, and produce a wider variety of sounds, than baleen species (though the sperm whale apparently produces a monotonous series of high-energy clicks and little else).(劍4T1P2)

參考譯文：齒鯨們可以更多地利用頻譜，發出多種聲音。當然，抹香鯨只會發出一系列單調激烈的咔嗒聲。

Beyond the practical need to make order out of chaos, the rise of dictionaries is associated with the rise of the English middle class, who were anxious to define and circumscribe the various worlds to conquer - lexical as well as social and commercial.(劍5T1P1)

參考譯文：除了規范混亂的實際需求，字典的熱賣與英語人群中中產階層崛起有著密不可分的聯系，他們渴望通過定義和限制來征服豐富多彩的世界——不只是詞匯這一領域，還有社會和商業。

However, it should be remembered that not everybody is motivated by jobs that are high in independence, variety and responsibility.(劍6T3P2)

參考譯文：但是，值得提起的是，高獨立性、變化性以及責任感的工作并不能激勵每一個人。

There is a wide range of photosynthetic responses of plants to variations in light intensity. (劍5T4P3)

參考譯文：對光強度的變化，植物可對其作出多種光合作用的反應。

An important project, led by the biological anthropologist Robert Williams, focused on the variants (called Gm allotypes) of one particular protein - immunoglobin G - found in the fluid portion of human blood.(劍7T3P2)

參考譯文：由生物人類學家羅伯特?威廉姆斯領導的一項重要工程把研究點聚焦在了免疫球蛋白G變體(又叫做免疫球蛋白同種異型Gm )上——在人類血液流體中可以找到這種變本。