(1). 1:If there was a supervillain in his story, it was that other Green Goblin, dollar bills! Commercial worries often held back his ideas.
2:He was careless with money, and Marvel gave him no royalties.
3:He held no rights to his characters until, in 2001, he set up POW! (Purveyors Of Wonder!) Entertainment.
4:Even so, he spent too much of his last years in lawsuits over percentages from TV and films.
5:He wasn’t poor, of course! Just wanted his powers to be recognised.
1:如果他的故事里有一个超级恶棍,那一定是另一个绿魔,美钞! 商业上的担忧常常阻碍他的想法。
2:他花钱大手大脚,而漫威没有给他版税。
3:直到2001年,他成立了POW娱乐公司,他才对自己的角色拥有权利! (全称:Purveyors Of Wonder!)
4:即便如此,他在生命的最后几年里,还是花了太多时间在电视和电影广告收入所占比例的诉讼上。
5:他当然不缺钱!只是想让自己的能力得到承认。
(2). 1:No wonder he loved to take cameo parts in the hugely grossing films that featured his creations! While they fought to the death in the vicinity he played a FedEx delivery man, or a security guard, or a man watering his lawn, or a passenger reading “The Doors of Perception” on a city bus.
2:He was the most ordinary person you could imagine! And yet, through his ideas, superheroically immortal.
1:难怪他喜欢在以他的作品为特色的卖座电影中扮演配角!当他们在附近战斗至死时,他扮演联邦快递员或保安,或者一个人在给草坪浇水,或者一个在城市公交车上阅读《感知之门》的乘客。
2:他是你能想象到的最普通的人!然而,斯坦·李通过思想,获得了超人的不朽。
(3). 1:Yet he stumbled into comic-book writing instead, at Timely Comics, Marvel as it became.
2:And wallowed in embarrassment! People scorned him for his silly trade.
3:On the literary totem pole in New York Stanley Lieber was the lowest of the low.
4:Yet they did not know—even he did not know!—that as soon as he had signed himself “Stan Lee” on his first bit of text-filler in 1941, hiding himself as he thought, he was putting on his superhero clothes! Once the bright beams of his new ideas had dazzled his boss at Marvel (it took a while), nothing stopped him! Pulse-pounding characters flowed from him all the time.
5:He could write five books a week.
6:Sales of Marvel’s titles rose from 18.
1:但却意外地在《时代漫画》(后更名为《漫威漫画》)上开始创作漫画书。
2:且一度陷于尴尬境地。
3:人们嘲笑他那愚蠢的行当。
4:在纽约文学界,斯坦利·利博地位微乎甚微。
5:但他们没料到——即使他本人也没意识到——1941年,在第一次填写漫画内容时署名为“斯坦·李”后,他以为是在隐藏身份,实际恰恰是穿上了超人外衣!一旦他新想法的闪光点得到漫威老板的赏识(这花了一些时间),就没有什么能够阻止他了!随后络绎不绝创造出令人拍手称赞的漫画角色。
6:一周就能创作五本书。
(5). Prepare to be astonished!
准备好大吃一惊吧!
(6). Stan Lee, born Stanley Lieber, comic-book writer, died on November 12th, aged 95
斯坦·李,原名斯坦利·利博,漫画创作者,逝于11月12日,享年95岁
(7). 1:Perhaps he wasn’t born with superhero powers, like the X-Men—or the god Thor, for that matter.
2:Perhaps he didn’t acquire them from a radioactive-spider bite (Spider-Man) or from studying the mystic arts (Doctor Strange).
3:All the same, Stan Lee certainly had them! In his autobiography, graphic of course, they dazzled like sun-rays round his head.
4:(He needed those tinted glasses he wore.
5:) Waves of energy shook from his shoulders.
6:For he was the man who had thought up those characters.
7:He had brought Marvel Comics back from the dead, and with it the whole industry of comics, so that far from being something cheap and childish, which your parents didn’t want you to read, they became grown-up too! And wildly popular! And took over Hollywood, and with it the whole of American pop culture, earning revenues in the billions and billions of dollars! Phe-ee-ew.
1:或许他并非像X战警或是雷神索尔那样生来就有超能力。
2:或许他也没能像蜘蛛侠那样从辐射的蜘蛛咬伤获得超人力量,或是像神秘博士那样通过学习神秘艺术获得神力。
3:尽管如此,斯坦·李同样也有超能力!在斯坦·李的漫画体自传中,超人力量像阳光般在他头顶闪耀。
4:(他需要带着那些彩色眼镜。
5:)能量波从他肩膀震出。
6:因为正是他创造了这些(具有超人力量的)角色。
7:是他让美国漫威漫画公司起死回生,随后整个漫画产业脱离廉价和幼稚,之前父母不想让你看的漫画也长成大人了!而且还广受欢迎!漫威攻占了好莱坞电影,随后影响整个美国流行文化,赚了数十亿美元!令人咋舌。
(8). 1:But then his superheroes, and his supervillains too, had problems and lived in the real world, unlike the cut-out cardboard creatures that ruled the genre until he chanced along.
2:In fact you might not notice they had powers at all.
3:Like Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, a nerdy scientist, who when pitted against Doctor Doom and his robot army could spool out into any length and shape!
4:Or Peter Parker, just another adolescent worried about spots and girls, who when the Green Goblin loomed was suddenly Spidey, scaling skyscrapers and running across ceilings!
5:Or Ben Grimm, a Jewish scrapper from Yancy Street who became the rocky orange bruiser known as the Thing, yelling “Clobberin’ time!”
1:但另一方面,斯坦·李创作出来的超级英雄以及超级反派,也会遇到麻烦而且生活在现实世界中,这和之前统治着漫画流派的不真实的生物完全不同。
2:事实上,你可能根本没有注意到他们有超能力。
3:就拿《超级四侠》里的里德·理查兹来举例,他是一个书呆子科学家,当面对末日博士和其机器人军队时,他可以卷成任何长度和形状!
4:或者彼得·帕克,又一个担心长斑和女孩的青春期少年,当绿魔出现时,他突然变成了蜘蛛侠,爬上摩天大楼,在天花板上奔跑!
5:还有本·格雷姆,一个来自扬西街的犹太拳手,后来成了人称“石头人”的橙色石头打手,大喊着进入“扁人”时间。