【Mini BIO】迷你人物纪录片系列02：Bessie Smith（贝西·史密
Bessie Smith
female blues singer
who has ever lived.
hit the theatre circuit 巡回演出
at the age of eighteen
touring in minstrel吟游歌手 shows and cabarets.
on the same bill节目单 with legendary传奇的 singer
rock legend
segued from dancing to singing 无间断继续
her talents drew（draw拉出，吸引 n有吸引力的人） large audiences
create her own show
extravagant 铺张的
as many as 40 people
in a cast演员阵容
segregation 种族隔离was the norm准则
black rooming houses 黑人公寓
theatrical rooming houses when they stayed
railroad car（房车？）
their home away from home
be enormous for the time
be pulling in(入账) (the unheard of) sum of 2000 dollars a week.
Just the whole idea that
be able to make live at that time.
emancipated被解放的 women to me
feminist女权主义者
hard- drinking/promiscuous淫乱的/ violent 暴力的 life
she sang about in the blues
because she lived it.
get the sense
despite all of this, this was a woman who's going to overcome it and she did.
by the early 1920s, .....discovered her
best-selling blues artist of her time.
make recordings
tunes曲调
business mind
in the aisle
sell merchandise商品
travelling market place
that sb got his stuff
that's where sb plant
be cut short by a car crash
at the age of
lay in a enormous plot空地
buy her a headstone 墓碑
several decades later
swagger 昂首阔步
a credible booming低沉有回响的 voice
