介紹卓別林的英語作文

　　Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London. Her father was an entertainer and although not one of the big names, he was doing very well. Her mother Hannah was also an entertainer. A wonderful mimic, she had a sweet, charming voice. While they were by no means[1] rich, the music hall provided the Chaplins with a comfortable living.

　　Unfortunately happy life didn't last long. Father's alcoholism was slowly, but surely destroying his marriage. Finally it ended in divorce, but Hannah was indomitable[2]. Without her, Charlie Chaplin would have become just one more child lost in the poverty of Victorian London. Somehow she not only managed to keep Charlie and his brother Syney clean and warm, clothed and fed but she conjured[3] little treats for them. She would sit at the window watching the passersby and guess at their characters from the way they looked and behaved, spinning tales to delight Charlie and Syney. Charlie took in her skills and went on using them all his life.

　　Charlie had always believed, even in the worst times, that had something special locked away inside him. He took his courage and went to see one of the top theatrical agents. With no experience at all, he was being offered the plum part[4] of Billy-- the pageboy in a new production of "Sherlock Holmes". "Sherlock Holmes" opened on July 27, 1903 at the enormous "Pavilion Theatre" Charlie seemed to change overnight. It was as if he had found the thing he was meant to do.

　　It was, by now, 1908, Charlie was nineteen and he fell in love. Hetty Kelly was only fifteen. But her parents quashed[5] the the romance before it really begun-- but the memory of pretty Hetty stayed with Charlie all his life.

　　In 1910, when Karno set off on his yearly American tour, "One of the best pantomime[6] artists ever seen here." They had reached Philadelphia when a telegram arrived and he was being offered the chance to replace a star in the Keystone film company.

　　Cinema was born in the same year as Charlie thought people still believed it was a passing fad, and would never replace live shows. He was kept hanging about[7] for several weeks and he used the time to watch and to learn. He was determined to master this new medium. It offered him the chance of money and success -- and it would set him free from the unpredictability of live audience.

　　Charlie's first film, released in February 1914, was called "Making a living". Though it didn't satisfy Charlie, the public liked it. After that he had made ten films and he had learned a lot. The public loved him and distributors were demanding more and more Chaplin films. In an incredibly short time, Charlie had become a very important man in motion picture...

　　4月16日查理·卓別林出生於倫敦。他父親是一個演員，

　　雖然不是什麼大人物，但也表現不俗。他母親哈那是一位出色的喜劇演員，嗓音甜美動人。雖然談不上富裕，可戲院的工作畢竟能使卓別林一家過上安逸的生活。

　　然而,幸福的生活並不長久，父親對酒的嗜好緩慢地、但卻毫無疑問地破壞著他的婚姻生活。這樁婚姻最終以離婚而宣告結束，但哈娜是不會輕易認輸的。沒有母親，查理·卓別林充其量也只是維多利亞時期倫敦城裡又一位窮困潦倒的兒童。她不僅想方設法讓查理和弟弟西尼吃飽穿暖，保持乾淨整潔，而且動足腦筋變換方法，讓他們過得歡樂愉快。她有時站在窗邊，注視行人，透過行人的外表和舉止猜測他們的性格，繼而仿造故事，逗查理和西尼樂。查理繼承了母親的這點，而這也正是他一生用之不盡的財富。

　　即便在處境最為艱難的時刻，查理也始終堅信自己蘊藏著特殊的才能。他鼓足勇氣，前往倫敦一家高階的戲院經理商應聘。竟獲得新編的《歇洛克·福爾摩斯》劇中的小傭人比利一角。1903年7月27日《歇洛克·福爾摩斯》新劇在氣勢恢宏的帕維廉劇院首演，不久外出巡迴演出。查理似乎一夜間發生了鉅變，他好似找到了立志從事的事業。

　　1908年，19歲的'查理墮入情網。他所鍾情的海蒂·凱年僅十五。在他們之間的戀情處於萌芽狀態時，海蒂的父母果斷地終止了它的發展，然而，海蒂迷人的丰采竟使查理終生難忘。

　　1910年，卓別林所在的卡諾戲班赴美國作一年一度的巡迴表演，他被認為是“當地美國人曾經見過的最為出類拔萃的啞劇表演藝術家之一。當他們抵達費城時，一紙電文接踵而至，把替換基石電影公司的一位明星的機遇賜於了他。

　　電影業是與查理同年誕生的。但當時人們普遍以為電影業充其量只曇花一現的時尚，它不可能替代現場真人表演。公司給他幾周觀摩的時間，他站在一旁，邊觀察、邊學習，下定決心要駕馭這個新生事物。這個新興的行業給他帶來了賺錢和走向成功的機會，也將有助於他從對戲劇觀眾喧嚷起鬨的擔憂中解脫出來。

　　1914年2月，查理主演的處女片上映，影片取名《謀生》儘管此片由於導演的無能而令查理大失所望，但觀眾還是喜愛這部片子的。之後他又拍了幾部片，增長了不少學識。公眾喜愛他，並且電影銷售商索要越來越多的卓別林的片子，在極短的時間內，他成了電影界的重要人物.