BBC Learning English - Stephen King 史蒂芬·金

　　Jean: Acclaim. 赞扬和推崇。

　　Andrea: So, how did he become so famous as a horror writer?

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　　That label has been put on me and I never put it on myself. More importantly in my head, I never said, “it's time to write another horror novel”. I would just say, “I have an idea, it’s time to write a book”. I’ve been able to tell stories from tales of outright horror like ‘Pet Cemetery’, to stories like ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ and a lot of times people don’t believe that I had anything to do with writing that; so I wear different hats.

　　Jean: Stephen 他说他并没有选择去做一个恐怖小说作家。他没有选择那个品牌label.

　　Andrea: If you’re labelled, people see you in a certain way. But Stephen is proud that he is much more than just a horror writer.

　　Jean: 不过我不得不说，我以前不知道是他写的《肖申克的救赎》。

　　Andrea: Well, as Stephen says, he likes to wear different hats.

　　Jean: Different hats? Like berets, top hats, caps…

　　Andrea: No Jean. When Stephen uses the expression “different hats”, he means he likes to show different sides to himself.

　　Jean: 啊我知道了， to wear different hats 就是说，并不是他选择佩戴不同的帽子，而是他选择不同的层面，不同的角色。是的，就在去年，他推出了他的又一本新作，叫做 Blaze《火焰》的小说。 Andrea, 你看过这本小说了吗？

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