Angelina Jolie
 
From tattooed¹ wild woman to humanitarian² heroine -- what a difference a few years has made for Angelina Jolie, who topped a poll released on Thursday of the best celebrity³ humanitarians⁴ of 2007.

Hollywood star Jolie commanded the greatest public respect of all celebrity public do-gooders this year due to her work as a U.N. goodwill⁵ ambassador and she is now the adoptive mother of two African children and a Cambodian child.

But the poll by humanitarian Web site Reuters AlertNet (http://www.alertnet.org) found not all do-gooders fared so well, with fellow adoptive mother Madonna voted the least respected celebrity altruist⁶ of 2007 despite raising millions for orphans⁷ in Malawi.

Madonna's image was hit by claims she used her fame and wealth to circumvent⁸ Malawian adoption⁹ rules.

"People aren't stupid," said Peter Walker, director of the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University.

"They can really sense when it's just an endorsement¹⁰ and when somebody really means it. Someone like Angelina Jolie comes across as having more integrity than some celebrities¹¹ and a greater sense that she doesn't just do this for the publicity¹²."

The online poll of 606 people conducted from December 7 to 19 put 32-year-old Jolie ahead of U2 singer Bono, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Microsoft founder¹³ Bill Gates -- all of whom have helped put African suffering on the global agenda.

从一个狂野的纹身女郎到一名慈善明星，安吉利娜•茱丽在过去几年中的转变令人感叹。据本周四公布的一份民意调查显示，安吉利娜被评为2007年度最受尊重的慈善名人。

在众多慈善名人中，这位好莱坞影星之所以赢得最多尊重，是因为在过去一年中，作为联合国亲善大使的茱丽做了很多慈善工作。此外，她还领养了两名非洲儿童和一名柬埔寨儿童。

但该项由路透社AlertNet慈善网站开展的调查发现，并不是所有做了好事的名人都能得到这样的认可，比如，麦当娜同样领养了非洲儿童，还为马拉维的孤儿院筹资几百万，但她被评为2007年最不受尊重的施善名人。

麦当娜之所以形象大损，是因为她在领养马拉维儿童时，仗着自己的名气和财富而藐视当地的领养程序。

塔弗茨大学费恩斯坦国际饥荒中心的主任彼特•沃尔克说：“大家都不傻。”

“他们心里都很清楚谁是真心实意，谁只是做做样子。与有些名人相比，安吉利娜•茱丽这样的施善名人让人觉得更真诚，而且她行善并不是为了吸引人们的注意。”

该项在线调查从本月7日持续至19日，共有606人投票，32岁的茱丽名列榜首，位居其后的名人包括：歌手波诺、（译者注：南非开普敦圣公会前任）大主教德斯蒙德·图图、微软创始人比尔•盖茨，这些名人都为呼吁全世界关注非洲问题做出了努力。

Vocabulary:

come across:make an impression（留下……印象）