影片对白 I love you too, Dad. I'll miss you.
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神奇遥控器：Remote features
影片中的遥控器可是神奇的不得了，有了它，可以回到过去，也可以冲向未来。下面我们就来近距离的“观察”一下它吧。
The film shows that the remote control’s features include:
Pause
Causes everyone and everything but Michael (and Morty, near the end of the film) to freeze in place. Michael sometimes assaults people while they are paused; they feel sudden pain and suspect nothing.
Fast forward
Can be used to accelerate other people or the family dog (who apparently do not notice this change). When used on Michael’s life, puts him on auto-pilot during the skipped interval. (While on auto-pilot, Michael cannot change his habits. His wife notices when he has been on auto-pilot for a long period, but nobody else does.)
Rewind
Cannot undo anything, but allows Michael to revisit (without changing) the past. The Michael with the remote control is separate from the Michael in the revisited time period and can walk in and around the revisited scene unnoticed. It is revealed in the graveyard scene that Michael can only rewind to scenes in which he was present at that time.
Volume control
Used to silence a barking dog.
Language selection
Options include, but are not limited to English, Spanish and Japanese. Produces a perfect translation, unlike the garbled output of real machine translators. Michael uses this in combination with volume control to eavesdrop on prospective Japanese clients and learn what they think of his proposal; this helps him win their account. He also uses this to break the tedium of a sexual harassment seminar by switching everyone’s language, including his own, to Spanish. (Michael is the only one aware of either change.)
Color adjustment
Michael experiments with this on his own complexion. He has a bit of fun by changing his skin color to Green, Purple and Yellow (Green being the Hulk, Purple being Barney, and Yellow being Scurvy). Seems to work only with hue (although the saturation increases greatly during his experimentation). Other people notice his "tan."
Aspect ratio selection
Choices are normal, wide and panoramic. Michael uses this to make his boss much shorter and fatter; his voice also changes correspondingly. (No one but Michael is aware of the change.)
Main menu
This includes scene selection and bonus features such as a making-of and a running commentary (voiced by James Earl Jones).
Picture in Picture
Michael uses this while Janine is complaining. When the button is pressed, a picture of Hideki Matsui of the New York Yankees hitting a two-run home run shows up at the bottom right corner of the screen (only Michael can see this).
Mute
Similar to the volume control but much faster. It is shown when the man (played by Terry Crews) in the Chevrolet Corvette C6 is singing annoyingly and loudly to Working for the Weekend and Michael Newman smiles and presses mute and chuckles at him after he has no sound.
Memory
The remote remembers your actions with the remote and will automatically act according to your previous using of the remote. For example, when Michael tells the remote to fast forward through a cold, the remote remembers this and automatically fast forwards through any sickness. This proves to be one of the major problems of the movie as Michael gets cancer and is automatically fast forwarded 6 years. It also remembers your actions in life so the remote immediately "knows" how to make yourself act when in auto-pilot.
考考你
用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。
1. 拳击手们今晚去体育馆训练。
2. 我们下个月去中国。
3. 约翰不久前写信给我，谈到他刚出生的孩子。
Click《人生遥控器》（精讲之七）考考你 参考答案
1. 别告诉玛吉任何机密的事情，她的大嘴巴是出了名的。
Don't tell Peggy anything confidential; she's known for having a big mouth.
2. 她计划休学一年。
She planned to drop out from college for a year.
3. 奈杰尔弃学从商后，过了很长时期才适应于那种竞争激烈的环境。
After Nigel left his academic post and went into business, it took him quite a while adjust to the rat race.
影片对白 I love you too, Dad. I'll miss you.
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