So that was who I was! Once I visualized[16] that well-known comedian and character actor, I realized I couldn’t have been anybody else. I gave my young fans a big celebrity grin[17] and said, “Hello, boys!” I waved one hand with a welcome-to-Hollywood gesture they would be talking about for years.

I also realized that it was time to go on a diet. I ate more salads and vegetables. I laid off the carbohydrates.[18] I walked a couple of miles every day. When I had lost about 40 pounds, I shaved off my beard. I had only grown it to hide my double-chins. I didn’t realize that my barber had actually been trying to make me look like the portly Dom DeLuise.[19]

I waited for my clients to ask, “What did you do to yourself?” But nobody even noticed a change. I had melted back into the general population.

Vocabulary

1. Rolls-Royces: 劳斯莱斯，是宝马公司旗下的高端品牌;San Vicente Boulevard: 圣维森特大道。

2. take: 反应。

3. box boy: 超市里为顾客提供推车等服务的工作人员。

4. autograph: 亲笔签名。

5. imposter: 冒名顶替者;contempt: 轻蔑，鄙视。

6. slacks: 宽松的长裤，便裤;blazer: 宽松的运动外衣。

7. trim: 修剪。

8. noblesse oblige: 〈法〉贵人行为理应高尚，位高则任重。

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