影片对白 Alone's not the end of the world. For as many years as you've been married I've been quite happily unmarried.
4. on an impulse
“一时冲动”的意思，比如：On an impulse he said, "Why don't you and I have dinner together?"
出于一种冲动，他说：“为什么我们不一起去吃晚饭呢？”
5. Way to go
这个片语的意思是“做得好！加油！”，和 nice doing / well done 之类的意思差不多，比如：Daisy, keep your hands up. Way to go. Very good. Daisy，双手保持抬高。就是这样，很好！这是一个常常在一些竞赛活动（球赛、赛车等）中都可以听到的俚语，大家要赶紧学会哦！
6. My lease is almost up.
“我的房租快到期了。”有用的表达。
7. You're amazing.
“你真是太好了/太棒了。”也是很有用的表达。
文化面面观
简•奥斯汀：平凡而又辉煌的人生
她的一生可以说是平淡的，作为一个牧师的女儿，生活在古老的英国，最终也是孤独终老（当然她死的时候还很年轻）。在那个对女性仍有偏见的年代，她的作品都是匿名发表的。在去世后，她的名字才开始为人所知。她的作品描写的都是她熟悉的生活环境——18、19世纪的英国，然而小说里所分析和描写的人情和人性和今天却没有什么不同。也许这也是为什么电影中的这些Californians 会选择她的小说来拯救心灵吧。
Jane Austen
Born: 16 December 1775
Birthplace: Steventon, Hampshire, England
Died: 18 July 1817
Best Known As: The author of Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's novels were witty, warm and ironic portraits of the privileged classes of 18th- and 19th-century England. Her best-known works are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Emma (1815). Austen was one of eight children of an English clergyman, and given her literary accomplishments she lived a remarkably quiet and domestic life in the rural south of England. She never married and was only 41 when she died. (Curiously, due to the lack of acceptance of women authors at the time, her major novels were published anonymously, and Austen was not associated with them until after her death.) The Pride and Prejudice heroine Elizabeth Bennet and her dashing suitor Mr. Darcy are one of the more famous couples in English fiction.
Austen's stories have long been favorites in Hollywood; recent screen adaptations include Pride and Prejudice (both a 1995 BBC TV production with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, and a 2005 feature film with Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet), Emma (1996, with Gwyneth Paltrow) and Sense and Sensibility (1995, with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet). The 1995 Alicia Silverstone movie Clueless is a whimsical takeoff of Emma. Austen herself was played by Anne Hathaway in the 2007 film Becoming Jane. The exact cause of Austen's early death has never been clear. In the last year of her life she suffered from fatigue, back pain, nausea and fevers as she gradually faded away. Addison's disease, Hodgkin's disease and tuberculosis have all been suggested as possible causes by modern-day scholars.
考考你
将下面的句子译成英语。
1. 嘿，你通过律考以后给我个电话好吗？
2. 我叔叔一时冲动买下了那房子。
3. 我一直支持你得到那个晋升。
The Jane Austen book club《奥斯汀书会》精讲之一 考考你 参考答案
1. 刚刚那么多人说话，我插不上嘴。
There were so many people talking at once that I couldn't get a word in edgewise.
2. 雇主干涉私人事务是违法的。
It's against the law for employers to butt in on personal matters.
3. 不要别人一劝，你就去买自己不喜欢的东西。
Don't let anyone talk you into buying things you don't want.
影片对白 Alone's not the end of the world. For as many years as you've been married I've been quite happily unmarried.
点击进入:更多精彩电影回顾
(英语点津Annabel编辑)
