主持人：任亞凌

北京新東方學校聽力口語部教師，主講聽說速成，電影英語。曾在大學任教多年，在英語聽說讀寫方面積累了豐富的教學經(jīng)驗，并曾參與編寫過一套大學英語四級考試聽力部分的輔導教材。同時任亞凌老師在口譯和筆譯方面經(jīng)驗豐富，把電影教學和翻譯實踐結(jié)合在一起，希望能使學員在電影聽說的過程中，使自己的語言表達更加流暢和精確。

特別推薦：2006年影視英語精彩推薦

文化面面觀  Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright

思想火花  這一段圍繞著亞歷克斯和父親的關系展開，凸現(xiàn)了兩人在事業(yè)（表層矛盾）和家庭（內(nèi)在矛盾）這兩方面上的分歧，而湖畔小屋則是這兩個矛盾的聯(lián)接點。

考考你  一展身手

 

影片對白

Henry: Looks smaller. When did he complete it?

Alex: You weren't born yet and I was 8.

Henry: Corbusier meets Frank Lloyd Wright.

Alex: You know dad played cards with both of them, sharing ajoint.

Henry: Yeah, well...

Alex: Can't swim. There should be a stairway down to the water, a porch, a deck. Here you're in a... in a box. A glass box with a view to everything that's around you, but you can't touch it. No interconnection between you and what you're looking at.

Henry: I don't know. You know, he's got this big maple growing right in the middle of the house.

Alex: Containment. Containment and control. This house is about ownership, not connection. I mean, it's beautiful.Seductive, even. But it's incomplete. It was all about him. Dad knew how to build a house, not a home. But you know. I think he wants us to do what he couldn't. But admitting that would mean admitting that hecame up shortin some way; that he could do more. And that tortures him.

Henry: You remember being here with mom?

Alex: I remember she tried to make it work here... with us... with him.

Henry: Hey, what about Visionary Vanguard?

Alex: What about it?

Henry: Come on. You can't convince me you're gonna be happy building saltboxes for tourists. Nobody's gonna admire you for that.

Alex: Admire me for that?

Henry: Yeah, Visionary Vanguard. That's your idea.

Alex: I can't. But you can keep the name.

Henry: No, come on. It's gonna be you and me.

Alex: Henry, I'm sorry I can't. I just...

Henry: What?

Alex: I've got other plans.

Henry: You have a girlfriend?

Alex: No... no.

Henry: What's that? You hesitated.

Alex: No, I didn't hesitate. Come on, man. I don't have any time for that.

Henry: What does time have to do with it?

Alex: Oh, you're gonna think I'm crazy.

妙語佳句，活學活用

1. joint

這是一個我們都很熟悉的單詞，表示“結(jié)合點，關節(jié)”等等。但是在這里如果我們按照這些意思去理解，就沒辦法理解這個句子的意思以及它和上面一句話的邏輯關系。上一句臺詞是：你知道的，老爸過去在這里和他們倆一起打過牌，如果joint取它的常用意思，“共享相關聯(lián)的東西”好像說不過去。這里的joint表示一個特殊的意思：“大麻” 或者“含大麻的香煙”，表示他們曾在一起“打牌，抽大麻”。

2. seductive 誘人的

我們在電影里可以學到一些教科書上不太容易出現(xiàn)的單詞，比如這一個。其實這個詞可以表示非常好的意思，當然也可以是貶義的，尤其是在形容女人的容貌時。我們來看一些例子：

1) Her figure was slighter and therefore more seductive than Natalie.
她的身段比較苗條，因此比娜塔麗更加誘人。
2) She shouldn't wear her rather seductive purple dress for the journey.
她不應該穿這件相當誘惑人的紫衣服去。
3) This company gives us a seductive offer on engineering the merger with us.
這家公司在計劃跟我們的合并時給我們提出了有誘惑力的條件。

3. come up (short)

這是一個有很多意思的短語，在口語中很常用，它的意思有：
1) 走近，靠近
He came up to me and said: "Come on, John!"
2) 發(fā)生，出現(xiàn)
I was late-something came up at home.
3) 討論
This subject came up at a news conference in Beijing today.
4) 成為，出現(xiàn)
The silk dress came up beautiful. 這件絲綢衣服(洗后)顯得很漂亮。

在電影里，come up的意思和我們上面提到的四種好像都不太一樣，但是又有相似的地方。Come 和short連用，通常是表示“手頭緊，缺錢”。但是在這里Alex是說他們的父親在做父親和丈夫方面“有欠缺，不合格”。