4 Nashville

Chapter 4 Nashville The day after graduation, eighteen-year-old Dolly said good-bye to her family and got on the bus to Nashville. She carried paper bags full of her stuff and a bag of biscuits. She cried for the whole two-hundred-mile trip.

毕业后的第二天，18岁的多莉告别了家人，坐上了去纳什维尔的公共汽车。 她带着装满她的东西的纸袋和一袋饼干。 在整个200英里的旅途中，她一直在哭。

Dolly moved in with her Uncle Bill and his wife and baby until she could get work and find a place of her own. On her first day in Nashville, Dolly was waiting for her laundry in front of the Wishy-Washy Laundromat when a handsome stranger called out to her, "Y'all gonna get sunburnt out there, little lady." Dolly was such a country girl, she didn't know she shouldn't speak to strangers. That was how she met Carl Dean, her future husband. They started dating, but then Carl joined the army and was away for two years. Dolly's best friend Judy was away in the

多莉搬去和她的叔叔比尔、他的妻子和孩子住在一起，直到她找到工作，找到自己的地方。 在纳什维尔的第一天，多莉正在洗衣店前等衣服，这时一个英俊的陌生人向她喊道：“小姑娘，你在外面会被晒伤的。” 多莉是个乡下姑娘，她不知道不该和陌生人说话。 她就是这样认识了卡尔·迪恩，她未来的丈夫。 他们开始约会，但后来卡尔参军了，离开了两年。 多莉最好的朋友朱迪去了

air force. Dolly was terribly lonely and homesick. Meanwhile, Uncle Bill helped Dolly meet more people in the music business. Every day Dolly knocked on doors and tried to give away tapes of her songs. No luck. She took waitress and office jobs to get by. Dolly finally got work singing on a local TV show at 5:00 a.m. every morning. It paid enough for her to rent her own place. But Dolly had hardly any money left over for food. Sometimes she ate ketchup, mustard, and water soup. Dolly was so hungry that she went into hotels and took leftovers from trays that people had put in the halls. On a visit home everyone was shocked how skinny she was.

空军。多莉非常孤独，想家。 与此同时，比尔叔叔帮助多莉结识了更多音乐界的人。 多莉每天都挨家挨户敲门，试图送出她的歌曲磁带。 没有运气。她做服务员和办公室的工作来维持生计。 多莉终于在早上5点找到了在当地一档电视节目唱歌的工作。 每天早上。这笔钱足够她自己租房子了。 但是多莉几乎没有剩下什么钱来买食物了。 有时她吃番茄酱、芥末和水汤。 多莉太饿了，她跑到旅馆里，从人们放在大厅里的盘子里拿吃剩的东西。 在一次回家的路上，每个人都惊讶于她是如此的瘦。

Dolly and Uncle Bill headed out in his old station wagon to find places where they could perform. They often slept in the car—Uncle Bill in front and Dolly in back. They played in bars... some places had chicken wire to protect performers from things thrown by the audience. Dolly was exhausted but still managed to write songs every day. She wrote over one hundred songs in three years (some of them with Bill). Dolly didn't just write love songs. She wrote

多莉和比尔叔叔乘着他的旧旅行车出发去寻找可以表演的地方。 他们经常睡在车里——比尔叔叔在前面，多莉在后面。 他们在酒吧里演奏……一些地方设置了铁丝网，以保护表演者不受观众投掷的东西的伤害。 多莉筋疲力尽，但仍然每天都写歌。 她在三年内写了一百多首歌（其中一些是和比尔一起写的）。 多莉不只是写情歌。 她写

about the ups and downs of country life: motherhood, children, mental illness, poverty, birth, and death. Less than two years after high school, Dolly got to record with Bill for Monument Records, an important record label in Nashville. Their records didn't do well, but Dolly was asked to appear on a TV show, Chicago Bandstand. Dolly flew there. It was her first time on an airplane. Dolly hated it.

关于乡村生活的起起落落：母亲、孩子、精神疾病、贫穷、出生和死亡。 高中毕业不到两年，多莉就和比尔一起为纳什维尔重要的唱片公司“纪念碑唱片”录制唱片。 他们的唱片卖得并不好，但多莉被邀请参加电视节目《芝加哥舞台》。 多莉飞到了那里。那是她第一次坐飞机。 多莉讨厌它。