【导读】“李家有女，人称子柒。”2019年，“李子柒”成为了热议的现象，在国外社交网站YouTube上爆红，田园牧歌般的生活让海内外网友们心生向往。央视新闻点评她“讲好了中国文化，讲好了中国故事”。她还被评为2019年《新闻周刊》年度人物，获得“文化传播人物奖”，颁奖词说她是“一位现实中的造梦者，也是一位让梦想成真的普通人，在乡涧山野之间，她把中国人传统而本真的生活方式呈现出来……”
国内也有不少关于李子柒这个热现象的英文报道，让我们一起来读报刊、学英语、看世界。
Year in review: Most inspirational figures of 2019
年度回顾：2019最鼓舞人心的人物
Vlogger Li Ziqi gets ready to film a video. [Photo/Sina Weibo account of Li Ziqi]
【语言点】
inspirational：providing inspiration 启发灵感的；鼓舞人心的e.g. an inspirational leader 有感召力的领袖
e.g. But to be inspirational you don"t have to save lives or win medals. I often draw strength from meeting ordinary people doing extraordinary things: volunteers, carers, community organizers and good neighbours; unsung heroes whose quiet dedication makes them special.但要鼓舞他人，你并不非定要救死扶伤或赢取奖牌。我常常从普通人身上汲取力量，他们做着不平凡的事：志愿者、老人看护、社区组织者和友善的邻居，他们是无名的英雄，默默无闻的奉献让他们与众不同。
e.g.要让“上海精神”在本地区更加深入人心、发扬光大，成为本组织成员国打造命运共同体、共建和谐家园的精神纽带。. We should carry forward the Shanghai spirit in our region and make it an inspirational bond bringing member states together in our endeavor to build a community of common destiny and promote harmony in our region.
vlogger："v" 代表 video, 视频；log作动词时表示“记录”； vlogger就是用视频记录生活的人、视频内容创作者、视频博主。随着vlog的兴起，Vlogger成为了一种职业。film a video：拍摄视频film：作动词，to make a film/movie of a story or a real event 拍摄电影e.g. They are filming in Moscow right now. 目前他们正在莫斯科拍电影。
原文：
Li Ziqi
In the past few years, Li Ziqi has transformed from a village girl in Southwest China"s Sichuan province into a food and lifestyle guru who has won the heart of millions. The post-90s vlogger enjoys more than 21 million followers on Sina Weibo and 7 million strong followers on YouTube. Li"s video productions accentuate the quintessential beauty of traditional Chinese lifestyle and culture, covering a vast range of topics including cooking beef noodles, making paper and ink by hand, weaving cloth, and creating traditional Chinese cosmetics, and melting the hearts of viewers from home and abroad. However, Li"s success did not come easy. Having lived with her grandparents in rural parts of Mianyang, Sichuan province since the age of 6 after her father died, life was difficult for Li during her youth. At the age of 14, she left home and started to work in the city to support herself economically. After her grandmother fell ill in 2012, Li returned home and opened an online shop to sell mostly edible products. Her first attempt at video-making came in 2016 when she decided to film some short videos to show how her products were created to boost sales. Since then, Li has never stopped making videos, recording her life in the rural area and portraying the traditional Chinese aesthetics.
第1句：
①In the past few years, ②Li Ziqi has transformed ③from a village girl in Southwest China"s Sichuan province ④into a food and lifestyle guru ⑤who has won the heart of millions.
【句子结构分析】句子的主干是Li Ziqi has transformed from A to B，⑤是一个who引导的定语从句，修饰限定前面的名词guru。
【语言点】
transform sb./sth. (from sth.) into sth.改变，使…变形；转换；e.g. Miuccia Prada transformed the company from being a much-admired, eccentric retailer of luxury goods into a contemporary design powerhouse with sales of over $5 billion. 缪西娅·普拉达和丈夫帕特里齐奥·贝尔泰利（Patrizio Bertelli）一起把该公司从一个令人羡慕的、古怪的奢侈品零售商变成了一个销售额超过50亿美元的当代设计集团。
e.g.one family has transformed its home into a koala rehabilitation center有一户人家把自己的住处变成了考拉康复中心。
guru： a person who is an expert on a particular subject or who is very good at doing sth 专家；权威；大师e.g.a management/health/fashion guru 管理、保健、时装专家
a hippie guru 嬉皮士大师tech and business gurus科技和商业导师an airport-design guru机场设计大师e.g.Fashion gurus dictate crazy ideas such as squeezing oversized bodies into tight trousers. 时装大师们常表达离奇的想法，例如把肥硕的身子塞进紧身裤中。
e.g.AT SHINTOMI nursing home in Tokyo, men and women sit in a circle following exercise instructions before singing along to a famous children’s song, “Yuyake Koyake” (“The Glowing Sunset”). They shout out and clap enthusiastically even though the activities are being led, not by a human fitness guru, but by Pepper, a big-eyed humanoid robot made by SoftBank, a telecoms and internet giant.在东京的新富养老院，老头老太太们按指令围坐一圈，跟着著名儿歌《晚霞渐淡》（Yuyake Koyake）的音乐唱起来。他们热烈地拍手高歌，尽管带领他们的并非人类健康专家，而是由电信及互联网巨头软银（SoftBank）制造的大眼睛人形机器人佩珀（Pepper）。
win the heart of sb. 赢得某人的芳心，令某人为之倾心
【句子逻辑】首句用人物身份的转变体现差异性，留下一些悬念，让人不禁好奇，这个女孩身上有什么神奇之处发生了这么大的转变呢？
【参考译文】在过去的几年里，李子柒从一个四川农村姑娘变成了一个饮食和生活方式大师,令数百万人为之倾心不已。
第2句
The post-90s vlogger enjoys more than 21 million followers on Sina Weibo and 7 million strong followers on YouTube.
【语言点】
The post-90s vlogger “这位90后视频博主”指代了李子柒；90后的表达方式有：post-90s / post-90s generation/ those born in the 1990s
follower: 爱好者;拥护者；追随者；按现在说法就是“粉丝”e.g.keen followers of football 足球迷
a follower of fashion 赶时髦者
strong follower应该就是我们所说的“铁粉”啦想表达我是...的铁粉，也可以说：I am a huge fan.
【句子逻辑】本句用两个具体的庞大数字来告诉读者，没错，这个女孩确实俘获了数百万人的芳心。
【参考译文】这位90后视频博主在新浪微博上有2100多万粉丝，在YouTube上有700万粉丝。
第3句
①Li"s video productions accentuate the quintessential beauty of traditional Chinese lifestyle and culture, ②covering a vast range of topics ③including cooking beef noodles, making paper and ink by hand, weaving cloth, and creating traditional Chinese cosmetics, ④and melting the hearts of viewers from home and abroad.
【句子结构分析】①是主句，后面一个of介词短语对beauty进行补充；②和④是两个并列的现在分词短语作状语，意思是“李子柒的视频制作涵盖了....主题，并且融化了......的心”；③including是对topics的列举说明，包括A,B,C和D；
【语言点】
accentuate /ksentuet/ ： to emphasize sth or make it more noticeable 着重；强调；使突出quintessential /kwntsenl/ 典型的；精髓的；可以用来替换我们常用的typical；e.g. Everybody thinks of him as the quintessential New Yorker. 每个人都认为他是个典型的纽约人。
the quintessential charm of his songs. ...他歌曲的魅力精华所在。
e.g.With diners gathered around cauldrons of boiling soup, dropping meat and vegetables into the broth, hot pot is a quintessentially communal Chinese dish. 食客们簇拥在一锅热汤旁，将荤素菜肴放在底料中煮熟，火锅已经公认成为中国美食的精华。
a vast range of多种多样的在英语中，如果遇到“a+ n.+of”的结构，通常可以先简单理解为many 或some 的意思，常见的譬如有：a variety of ，a number of；
a mountain of debts 债台高筑
a flood of negative review 蜂拥而至的负面评论
a world of information 海量信息
cosmetic化妆品、美容品e.g.the cosmetics industry 化妆品行业
melt the heart ofe.g.Her trusting smile melted his heart. 她那信任的微笑使他的心变软了。
home and abroad 国内外、海内外
【句子逻辑】本句介绍了视频制作的主题和内容，可以说是对第一句“a food and lifestyle guru who has won the heart of millions”的进一步展开。
【参考译文】李子柒的视频制作突出了中国传统生活方式和文化的精髓，涵盖了烹饪牛肉面、手工造纸和油墨、织布、制作中国传统化妆品等广泛的主题，融化了国内外观众的心。
第4句
However, Li"s success did not come easy.
本句是个过渡句，承上启下的作用。
【参考译文】然而，李子柒的成功来之不易。
第5-9句主要是按照时间线展开叙述李子柒的成功来之不易。
第5、6、7句
①Having lived with her grandparents in rural parts of Mianyang, Sichuan province since the age of 6 after her father died, ②life was difficult for Li during her youth. At the age of 14, she left home and started to work in the city to support herself economically. After her grandmother fell ill in 2012, Li returned home and opened an online shop to sell mostly edible products.
【第5句结构分析】①是现在分词短语作时间状语，②是主句。
【语言点】
youth ：the time of life when a person is young, especially the time before a child becomes an adult 青年时期（尤指成年以前）e.g.He had been a talented musician in his youth. 他年轻时很有音乐天才。
support herself economically 字面意思是在经济上支持自己；即经济独立fall ill 生病edible /edbl/ 可食用的【参考译文】李子柒6岁时父亲就去世了，后来和爷爷奶奶一起生活在四川绵阳的农村，生活一度很艰难。14岁时，她离开家，开始在城市工作，以维持自己的经济生活。2012年，奶奶生病后，李子柒回家开了一家网店，主要卖一些食品。
第8、9句
Her first attempt at video-making came in 2016 when she decided to film some short videos to show how her products were created to boost sales. Since then, Li has never stopped making videos, recording her life in the rural area and portraying the traditional Chinese aesthetics.
【语言点】
stop doing sth.停止做某事portray 描绘；描画；描写e.g.The film portrays a culture of young people who live in lower Manhattan. 这部电影描绘了在下曼哈顿地区生活的青年人文化。
aesthetic /esθetk/ ： qualities and ideas of sth 美感；审美观e.g.The students debated the aesthetic of the poems. 学生就这些诗的美感展开了辩论。
aesthetics美学
【参考译文】她第一次尝试制作视频是在2016年，当时她决定拍摄一些展示食品制作过程的短片，想以此来促进销量。从那以后，李子柒从未停止过拍摄视频，记录她的农村生活，也描绘中国传统美学。
看完精读后，建议出声朗读文段5遍，还要记得复习哦。
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