8 Dollywood Dolly

Chapter 8 Dollywood Dolly Dolly Parton is talented in so many different ways. She is also a very smart businesswoman. People call her "the Iron Butterfly." That means she looks delicate but is tough. In 2004 The Wall Street Journal called her "one of the most important women in the world for business and industry." Dolly runs a huge group of businesses called Dolly Parton Enterprises. She has had her own record, movie-production, and music-publishing companies. She even owns theme parks! She has invested in real estate, restaurants, dinner theaters, radio stations, farm equipment, hardware stores, garden centers, and macadamia nuts! Dolly makes sensible and intelligent business decisions. Many years ago, Elvis Presley wanted to buy the rights to her song, "I Will Always

多莉·帕顿在很多方面都很有天赋。 她也是一个非常聪明的女商人。 人们称她为“铁蝴蝶”。 这意味着她看起来很精致，但很坚强。 2004年，《华尔街日报》称她为“世界商业和工业领域最重要的女性之一”。 多莉经营着一个庞大的企业集团，叫做多莉·帕顿企业。 她拥有自己的唱片、电影制作和音乐出版公司。 她甚至拥有主题公园！她投资了房地产、餐馆、剧院、广播电台、农场设备、五金店、园艺中心和夏威夷坚果！多莉能做出明智的商业决定。 许多年前，埃尔维斯·普雷斯利想购买她的歌曲《我将永远》的版权

Love You." Elvis would have owned it. But Dolly said no. Since then she has made millions of dollars on just that one song. Many performers have recorded it. The version by Whitney Houston is the most famous. According to Dolly, that one has made so much money that Dolly could have bought Graceland, Elvis's home! Of all her businesses, Dolly is proudest of

爱你。”猫王会拥有它。 但是多莉拒绝了。从那以后，她仅凭这首歌就赚了数百万美元。 许多表演者都录制了它。 惠特尼·休斯顿的版本是最著名的。 据多莉说，那只狗赚了很多钱，多莉都可以买下猫王的家——雅园了！在她所有的生意中，多莉最引以为傲的是

Dollywood. That is her theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near where she grew up. It's like a big country fair. There are merry-gorounds, roller coasters, and bumper cars. There's a theater where some of Dolly's relatives perform. Nearby, people Dolly calls "skillbillies" demonstrate country skills like blacksmithing, weaving, glass-blowing, and leather-working. There is even a steam-powered saw mill and a life-size mountain homestead. The Southern Gospel Hall of Fame is there, too. Nearby is Dollywood's Splash Country, Tennessee's largest water park, and Dolly's Dixie Stampede, a dinner theater she touts "is the most fun place to eat in the Smokies." With over four million visitors a year, Dollywood and Splash Country have created a

说多莉。那是她在田纳西州鸽子堡的主题公园，离她长大的地方很近。 就像一个大型的乡村集市。 这里有旋转木马、过山车和碰碰车。 有一个剧院，多莉的一些亲戚在那里表演。 在附近，多莉称之为“技工”的人们展示着他们的乡村技能，比如打铁、编织、吹玻璃和制革。 甚至还有一个蒸汽动力锯木厂和一个真人大小的山间宅基地。 南方福音名人堂也在那里。 附近是田纳西州最大的水上乐园多莉坞（Dollywood）的“飞溅之乡”（Splash Country），以及多莉的“迪克西踩踏”（Dolly’s Dixie Stampede），这是一家她吹捧为“烟雾中最有趣的用餐场所”的晚餐剧院。 每年有超过四百万的游客，多莱坞和水上乐园创造了一个

lot of jobs for local people. Money from the parks helps fund the Dollywood Foundation. It is a charity that inspires kids to read and stay in school. Dolly Parton never liked school much. But she understands the importance of a good education. In Sevier County, Tennessee, a lot of kids were dropping out of high school. Through the Dollywood Foundation, Dolly started giving students five-hundred dollars if they graduated. That cut the dropout rate in half. The Foundation also provided scholarships, computer labs for schools, and clothes and school supplies for needy kids. Dolly had seen how not being able to read had held back her dad. In 1996, Dolly started her Imagination Library. It gave a book a month to every child in Sevier County from birth to school age. Since then, more than sixty million books have

给当地人提供了很多工作机会。 这些公园的收入帮助建立了多莱坞基金会。 这是一个慈善机构，鼓励孩子们阅读和留在学校。 多莉·帕顿从来不喜欢上学。 但她明白良好教育的重要性。 在田纳西州的塞维尔县，很多孩子从高中辍学。 通过多莉坞基金会，多莉开始给毕业的学生500美元。 这将辍学率降低了一半。 该基金会还为学校提供奖学金、计算机实验室以及为贫困儿童提供衣服和学习用品。 多莉已经看到，由于不识字，她父亲的行动受到了多大的阻碍。 1996年，多莉创办了她的想象图书馆。 它每月给塞维尔县从出生到上学年龄的每个孩子送一本书。 从那以后，有超过六千万册的书

been handed out in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Kids call Dolly "the Book Lady." She's proud to be known by that name. Then in 2009 she got an honorary doctorate from the University of Tennessee... so now she's also Dr. Dolly Parton! Dolly has supported the Red Cross, HIV/AIDS charities, a hospital charity, and charities for animals like the American Eagle Foundation. She believes in the right of gay people to marry and says so, which caused her

已在美国、加拿大、澳大利亚和英国发放。 孩子们称多莉为“书女”。 她以这个名字而自豪。 2009年，她获得了田纳西大学的荣誉博士学位…… 所以现在她也是多莉·帕顿医生！多莉支持过红十字会、艾滋病慈善机构、医院慈善机构和美国鹰基金会等动物慈善机构。 她相信同性恋者有结婚的权利，并这么说，这让她

trouble with some fans. But Dolly puts her beliefs first. Her motto is "Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more."

一些粉丝的麻烦。但是多莉把她的信仰放在第一位。 她的座右铭是“梦想更多，学习更多，关心更多，成为更多。”