Mini-Biography for Audrey Hepburn 奥黛丽·赫本小传
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium, with the given name of Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her father, a wealthy English banker, and her mother, a Dutch baroness. After her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a private girls school. Later, when her mother moved back to the Netherlands, she attended private schools as well. While vacationing with her mother in Arnhem, Holland, Hitler's army suddenly took over the town. It was here that she fell on hard times during the Nazi occupation. Audrey suffered from depression and malnutrition. After the liberation, Audrey went to a ballet school in London on a scholarship and later began a modeling career. As a model, she was graceful and, it seemed, she had found her niche in life——until the film producers came calling. After being spotted modeling by a producer, she was signed to a bit part in the European film Nederlands in 7 lessen (1948) in 1948. Later, she had a speaking role in the 1951 film, Young Wives' Tale (1951) as Eve Lester. The part still wasn't much, so she headed to America to try her luck there.
blue-blood：贵族(或王族，名门)出身;贵族，王族，名门望族。由于某些自命血统纯正的西班牙古老贵族中人的静脉较之其他深肤色的人更呈蓝色的原因。奥黛丽·赫本是贵族血统，她的父亲是英国富有的银行家，她的母亲是丹麦女男爵或者可说为男爵夫人(baroness，男爵就是baron了)。
vacation：(一年中定期的)休息，休假，假期;假日，休息天，节日。be on vacation 在度假/summer vacation 暑假。take a day's vacation 休假一天。
