主持人：陳銳

北京新東方學(xué)校優(yōu)秀英語(yǔ)教師，主教聽(tīng)說(shuō)速成，聽(tīng)說(shuō)讀寫，電影聽(tīng)說(shuō)強(qiáng)化等課程，有多年的英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)說(shuō)教學(xué)經(jīng)驗(yàn)。陳銳老師主修英文專業(yè)，深刻了解英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)的困難所在；并有豐富的口譯經(jīng)驗(yàn)及體會(huì)。通過(guò)多年的經(jīng)驗(yàn)積累，陳銳老師總結(jié)出一套適合中國(guó)學(xué)生自己的漢英學(xué)習(xí)法，更好的結(jié)合漢語(yǔ)來(lái)攻克英文。

影片對(duì)白

Kenneth: Hey, who wants to run upstairs and say hello?

Nancy: Well, we should get going .

Alex: We should. We have to... we should.

Nancy: Yeah.

Kenneth: Nonsense! You pulled the woman out of a burning building. You'd break her heart if you didn't take a moment to say goodbye. Come on! Mrs. Connelly, I brought you a surprise! Mrs. Connelly!! The hearing on this one. Look who's here. She's asleep. Sweetheart. She's stiff as a board.

Nancy: No. She's just hard-of-hearing. Mrs. Connelly!

Kenneth: She's dead. Oh, poor thing.

Nancy: No. She can't be dead.

Kenneth: I guess it was just her time. Come on, I'll call the Friedman's. You don't have to stay here for this. You've done enough. Come. Come, come, come. Must have been all the excitement.

Alex: I can't believe it.

Nancy: She was so full of life.

Alex: I mean, for all our differences, that old lady really had a lot of spunk.

Nancy: A lot of it. Do you think she's up in heaven?

Alex: Well, I'll tell you something. Wherever she is, she's in a better place.

Kenneth: You should have seen their faces when I said she was a goner.

Policeman: So cheap, though I wish I could have been there.

Connelly: Trust me. It wasn't easy holding my breath all that long. Next time, I want a bigger cut of your commission, Kenny.

Kenneth: What are you talking about? We give you everything, Ma. There's barely enough left for Danny and I to have a cruise to the Caribbean.

Connelly: I'm the one putting my caboose on the line .

Kenneth: Oh, come on. You had it easy with Alex and Nancy.

Connelly: They were a nice couple. I do hope they'll be all right.

Kenneth: Ah, they'll be fine. He's a writer. They thrive on adversity.

Connelly: I hope his next book is better than his last one. Maybe this time he'll write about something he knows.

妙詞佳句，活學(xué)活用

1. get going

看似很簡(jiǎn)單的用法，卻很少會(huì)有人用得很好。為什么會(huì)這么講呢？因?yàn)橛泻芏嗳耸艿秸Z(yǔ)法的限制，在說(shuō)“我走了”的時(shí)候，總是想：有“了”在應(yīng)該用過(guò)去時(shí)，而又是“我將要走了”，到底要怎么說(shuō)才好呢，是 I went, 還是I'm going? 在這里一定要強(qiáng)調(diào)一下，后者是對(duì)的。那么除此之外，我們還可以說(shuō)I get going或者是I'm off。

2. it is somebody's time

每每聽(tīng)到這句話的時(shí)候，總會(huì)很難過(guò)，因?yàn)橛钟袀€(gè)人離開(kāi)人世了。而在此片斷當(dāng)中，Kenneth指得是Connelly 已經(jīng)死了。大家在看Forrest Gump 的時(shí)候有沒(méi)有注意到：阿甘的媽媽要離開(kāi)人世的時(shí)候，也曾語(yǔ)重心長(zhǎng)地對(duì)阿甘說(shuō)：It is just my time。需要說(shuō)明的是這句話可比She's dying要文明的多了。

3. be full of life

“身體健康，精力充沛”的意思。

4. cut

這里的cut 和share的意思是一樣的，指的是份額，而cut相對(duì)來(lái)講又隨意一些。在此段中，big cut of your commission是“要更多的傭金”的意思。

5. put... on the line / lay... on the line

意思是“冒著……的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)”的意思，比如說(shuō)“我冒著生命危險(xiǎn)”就可以說(shuō)：I put my life on the line.

思想火花

在第一張圖片當(dāng)中，我們看到中介商、警察、還有一個(gè)受著rent control保護(hù)的租房者，坐在一起談話甚歡，而在第二幅圖片中又有很多夫妻的照片擺放在桌子上，這到底是為什么呢？其實(shí)如果大家仔細(xì)去研讀我曾經(jīng)提到過(guò)的rent control 政策的話，就會(huì)明白很多。

在美國(guó)，像Connelly太太這樣的人非常多，而也就是這批人利用政府下發(fā)的政策來(lái)欺負(fù)房東，因?yàn)樗麄冎婪繓|沒(méi)權(quán)趕他們出去。當(dāng)然不是所有的人都是這樣，只是一小部分，所以,與其說(shuō)這是一部搞笑的美國(guó)喜劇，還不如說(shuō)它是一部反映美國(guó)某些現(xiàn)實(shí)文化的影片。