Question

请帮我解释一句话，谢谢

Penelope Cruz has starred alongside other "A"-listers, including Johnny Depp in "Blow" and Nicolas Cage in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin."

Answer 1

佩内洛普·克鲁兹和其他一线明星一道担纲主演，其中包括影片《美国毒枭》的约翰尼·德普和《战地情人》的尼古拉斯·凯奇。

Blow《美国毒枭》Captain Corelli's Mandolin《战地情人》

A-list/A-lister一线明星
The A-list is the list of the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood. The list was created by veteran entertainment journalist James Ulmer, who developed a 100-point method to quantify a star's value to a film production, in terms of getting a film financed and the cameras rolling.

Bankability is determined for films in three different budgetary levels: $5 million or less (typically independent productions); $5 to $25 million; $25 million or over (studio films). A total score of up to 300 possible points is achieved by adding up the rankings for each budgetary level.

An even smaller number of stars (fewer than fifteen) occupy the A+ list, and these are stars with a solid 300 rating. These include the likes of Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Russell Crowe and Jim Carrey. After years at the top of the A-list, Julia Roberts became the first actress on the A+ list.

Answer 2

the needs of veterans,应该是退伍军人抚恤金之类的意思吧，因前文提到accounting，而退伍老兵需要的应该就是抚恤金。

shoddy这个词我们中国人其实常用，就是“假冒伪劣”：the fake and shoddy

practice，视情况而定，在本句可不作翻译。

上面这句话的意思就是：该部门（上下文不明，无法给出确切翻译）已因为作假帐和拖欠退伍军人抚恤金。