Chris Daughtry on American Idol's Decline · TheEllenShow
Chris Daughtry在2008年格莱美奖上谈及《美国偶像》的下滑趋势，认为节目吸引力下降影响了真正艺术家的参与。适合练习口语表达和观点讨论。
Well, coming in fourth on American Idol has clearly worked out for our next guest.
嗯，这位嘉宾在美国偶像比赛中获得第四名的成绩，显然对他来说是一件非常幸运的事情。
He had the biggest selling album of 2007, and he and his band have four Grammy nominations tonight.
他拥有2007年销量最高的专辑，而他所在的乐队今晚还获得了四项格莱美奖提名。
Please welcome Dottree.
请大家欢迎多特里（Dottree）的到来。
OK.
好的。
Look at you guys.
看看你们这些人……
I'm telling you.
我跟你说，真的。
Look at you guys.
看看你们这些人……
You just get.
你只需要……（不过原文在这里似乎不完整，所以无法提供完整的翻译。）
We just came from a dance party.
我们刚从一个舞会上回来。
Yeah.
是的。
I mean, I think we did actually.
我的意思是，我觉得我们确实做到了。
Now, how do you feel are you more relaxed?
现在，你觉得自己放松多了吗？
Because you know that people love you.
因为你知道人们爱你。
So that's given.
那么，这个条件已经确定下来了。
But are you more relaxed?
不过，你是不是感觉更放松了一些呢？
Actually, you more like you have to keep winning these things to keep getting nominated, keep winning.
实际上，你必须不断赢得这些比赛，才能继续获得提名机会——也就是说，你必须持续获胜。
I don't know.
我不知道。
We're, I think we're always going to outdo ourselves.
我认为，我们总会不断超越自己的极限。
But I mean, these things kind of make us a little nervous.
不过我的意思是，这些事情确实会让我们感到有点紧张。
Because it's kind of a big deal.
因为这确实是一件相当重要的事情。
So.
那么。
All right.
好的。
Well, first of all, you know how proud I am.
首先，你们知道我有多自豪吧。
Because I'm just, you know, I just think that y 'all are great and I'm thrilled that this is happening.
因为，你知道的，我只是觉得你们所有人都很棒，而且我对这件事的发生感到非常兴奋。
And one of the things that happens when you become famous is you do lots of interviews.
当你成名之后，会发生的一件事就是你需要接受大量的采访。
And when you do lots of interviews, people misquote you and they take little pieces.
当你进行大量采访时，人们经常会曲解你的话，只选取其中的一部分内容来进行引用。
And I feel like this is something that you probably were misquoted.
我觉得你可能被误引了这段话的意思。
I would like to give you the opportunity to talk about the Rolling Stone article, right?
我想给你们一个机会，来谈谈《滚石》杂志上的那篇文章，对吧？
Didn't you say?
你不是这么说的吗？
No, I meant what I said.
不，我确实是认真的，我说的话就是我的意思。
All right.
好的。
However.
然而。
However.
然而，
What you said, that idle is in a state of decline.
你说的没错，那个地方确实正处于衰落之中。
American idols in a state of decline.
美国的偶像们正在走下坡路。
So tell us what you meant by that.
那么，请告诉我们你这么说是什么意思。
It didn't mean to come across as bad as it sounded.
我的本意并不是要让人觉得我有多糟糕（或：我的话听起来有多负面）。
The whole point I was getting at was when you have a lot of people that go out for the show that don't take it seriously,
我想表达的核心观点是：当有很多观众去看演出时，如果他们并不认真对待这场演出（即不把它当作一件严肃的事情来看待），那么整个演出的效果就会大打折扣。
it makes it harder for people that are real artists to take it seriously, to even try out for it.
这使得那些真正的艺术家更难以认真对待这个机会，甚至更不愿意去尝试参加相关的选拔或比赛。
So in turn, there's a lot of people that are probably missing out on a great opportunity.
因此，反过来也有很多人在错失一个绝佳的机会。