Carin, thanks so much for being here.

卡琳，非常感谢你能来。

I'm sick." Carin says, " You're not sick.

我病了。”卡琳说，“你没病。

Carin is in her late 20s;she studied acting at Berkeley, a university here in California.

卡琳 20 多岁；她在加州伯克利大学学习表演。

Carin says that pretending to be sick " never works, " it is never a successful strategy.

卡琳说，装病“永远行不通” ，这绝不是一个成功的策略。

Billings: Carin, thanks for being here.

比林斯：卡琳，谢谢你来到这里。

Carin says what usually happens is they'll notify you, they'll call you or email.

Carin 说他们通常会通知你，他们会打电话或发邮件给你。

Carin says, " You're not going to put one over on Mom."

卡琳说，“你不会把一个放在妈妈身上。

Mom will know, Carin says, that you're faking.

妈妈会知道，卡琳说，你在装。

Carin says she has a foolproof way of doing something.

卡琳说她有一种万无一失的做事方式。

Carin says that there is so much rejection involved.

卡琳说，这涉及到太多的拒绝。

So, Carin has a foolproof way of skipping school so she doesn't get caught.

所以，卡琳有一个万无一失的逃学方法，这样她就不会被抓到。

Someday, when Carin is famous after becoming a movie star, you'll remember her from ESL Podcast.

有一天， 当卡琳成为电影明星而出名时，你会从 ESL 播客中记住她。

Let's go back and talk about what Carin just said.

我们回过头来说说卡琳刚才说的话。

Carin then says, " Here's what you have to do." But of course, we do not learn those secrets in the dialogue!

卡琳然后说， “这是你必须做的。 ”但是，当然，我们不会在对话中学到那些秘密！

First we'll listen to Carin speaking at a normal speed, then I'll explain what she said and we'll listen to it again.

首先我们会听 Carin 以正常语速讲话，然后我会解释她说的内容， 然后我们再听一遍。

When Carin says rejection is " involved, " that means it's part of the process; it's part of being an actor.

当 Carin 说拒绝是“涉及的” 时，这意味着它是过程的一部分；这是演员的一部分。

I then ask Carin what actually happens when an actor goes to an audition, when they go and try to get a job from the casting director.

然后我问卡琳， 当一个演员去试镜，当他们试图从选角导演那里得到一份工作时， 到底发生了什么。

This episode is a dialogue between Carin and Hwan, it's about a child who does not want to go to school, a very common scenario – a very common situation.

这一集是Carin和Hwan的对话，讲的是一个不想上学的孩子， 一个很常见的场景-很常见的情况。

So, Carin has her headshot – and if you walk into any restaurant in Los Angeles and you look up on the wall, you will often see headshots of actors with their signatures.

所以，卡琳有她的头像——如果你走进洛杉矶的任何一家餐馆，抬头看墙上，你经常会看到带有签名的演员头像。

The whole process of getting ready to go to an audition, which includes driving to the audition, preparing – Carin uses the word " prepping" (prepping), which means to prepare; " to prep" is another way of saying to prepare.

准备去试镜的整个过程，包括开车去试镜， 准备——Carin使用“准备” （prepping）这个词， 意思是准备;“准备” 是准备的另一种说法。