对于许多年轻的欧美音乐粉丝来说,艾薇儿·拉维妮(Avril Lavigne)绝对是个让他们尖叫的名字。在“小甜甜”布莱妮还以她温柔甜心的形象征战歌坛时,这位个性张扬,叛逆不羁的女孩成了一个异类,却也成就了自己一番事业。她的首张专辑《Let Go》推出后就席卷全球,为她收获了无数死忠的粉丝。而她接下来的几张专辑,如《Under My Skin》《The Best Damn Thing》更进一步为她奠定了“朋克小公主”的歌坛地位。不过不同于“小甜甜”当时老少咸宜的大众定位,艾薇儿一开始就被贴上另类和摇滚的标签。她的成功,注定要比别人付出更多的努力。
driven 奋发努力
“I’m very driven. I’m (the) kind of person who doesn’t take no for an answer.”
—Pop-punk singer Avril Lavigne on her rise to success.
Definition
Highly motivated; ambitious; obsessed with success
Usage
Someone who is driven has a lot of passion and tries really hard to achieve his or her goals. People who are driven seem as though they have a motor inside them that drives them to seek success. You can also say that a really ambitious person “has a lot of drive”.
Avril Lavigne claims that she had to fight hard with her record label to get them to let her keep her punky image. She says that success was not handed to her and that she had to fight hard to be able to be herself and achieve the international success she has. She was very driven, always pushing on when someone tried to stop her.
Examples
► If you want to become an Olympic athlete, you have to be very driven. 如果你想参加奥运会,你得发奋努力才行。
► I think my little brother could go far if he were a little more driven. 我觉得,我弟弟如果再发奋一点,他还可以发展得更好。