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秀兰邓波儿英语作文初三 龙源期刊网 .cn 我的秀兰·邓波儿 作者：文/By Susan Burton 译/张玲 来源：《新东方英语·中学版》2014年第04期 In the early 1980s， in Grand Rapids1）， Michigan， Shirley Temple movies were shown on Sunday mornings， on cable TV. When we got our first VCR， in 1982， my father would set the timer to record the movie， and it would be waiting for me and my younger sister when we got home from church. Sometimes， he would stay home from church so that he could use what we called the pause control to excise2） the commercials. Even then， at age nine， I knew that this had as much to do with his love for us （and for new technology） as it did with his ambivalence3） about church.I adored Shirley Temple. I wanted to be a child star， and， even nearly a half century after the height of her stardom， Shirley seemed to me to be the paradigm4） of one. I knew that she was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar （though this fact was asterisked5）， because it was a special childrens Oscar， not a real one）， and that during the Depression6） she had been a top- grossing7） performer. I knew that her stand-in8） was named Mary Lou Isleib， and that Shirley had been considered for Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz9）. I knew that shed had trouble transitioning into roles for young women； that shed had an early， brief first marriage and a longer second one， during which shed had breast cancer and had become the Ambassador to Ghana. I knew all this， and more， because I read everything I could about Temple， including two books that remain on my shelves： Robert Windelers The Films of Shirley Temple， its spine10） now white， its cover still hot pink， and The Shirley Temple Story， a silver-jacketed hardcover I bought in the biographies section at Schuler Books on Twenty-eighth Street. While I liked Shirleys movies， I wasnt especially moved by the story lines or the interactions between characters （with the exception of The Little Princess， in which Sara Crewe11） desperately searches the wards12） of the wounded soldiers for her fathe