影片对白  She's Horton Hatches the Egg. She sits on that nest and she never, ever wavers.

 

5. The Empire Strikes Back

星球大战系列中的一部，全部的星球大战电影包括：

星球大战I：新希望 A New Hope （1977）

星球大战Ⅱ：帝国反击战 The Empire Strikes Back （1980）

星球大战Ⅲ：绝地归来 Return Of The Jedi （1983）

星战前传Ⅰ：魅影危机 The Phantom Menace （1999）

星战前传Ⅱ：克隆人的进攻 Attack Of The Clones（2002）

星战前传Ⅲ：西斯的复仇 Revenge Of The Sith（2005）

叙事顺序是：魅影危机，克隆人的进攻，西斯的复仇，新希望，帝国反击战，绝地归来。之所以先拍后三部是因为导演乔治•卢卡斯认为当时的科技还无法展现前三部的景象。

6. get over

这里的get over是指“从某段感情中解脱出来”，比如：Finally, John got over Joan. They had been together for five years. 最终，约翰还是从和琼的恋情中解脱出来。他们曾经在一起五年。

文化面面观

1. Mansfield Park《曼斯菲尔德庄园》

在这个片段中他们谈到了Jane Austen的三部小说：Mansfield Park《曼斯菲尔德庄园》，Persuasion《劝导》，Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》。电影中，他们这次聚会讨论的小说是Mansfield Park《曼斯菲尔德庄园》。

Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton.

The main character, Fanny Price, is a young girl from a poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, but is always treated as inferior to them; only Edmund shows her real kindness. He is also the most virtuous of the siblings: Maria and Julia are vain and spoiled, while Tom is an irresponsible gambler. Over time, Fanny's gratitude for Edmund's kindness secretly grows into love.

虽然受到二表哥埃德蒙以外的众人的冷落，但她始终“有一颗温柔亲切的心，想要表现得体的强烈愿望”。尤其难能可贵的是，她始终能明辨是非，知人知心。大表哥汤姆等人要在家里排演有伤风化的情节剧，家里只有她一人加以反对和抵制。她早就看清了克劳福德兄妹的自私和轻浮，因而当克劳福德死死纠缠她时，她丝毫不为其所动，始终不渝地暗恋着埃德蒙；当克劳福德小姐对埃德蒙“旧情复发”的时候，她告诫表哥不要上她的当。最后，她的高尚人品赢得了托马斯爵士的器重，也赢得了埃德蒙的爱，两位年轻人终于结成伉俪。范妮可以说是书中的道德楷模。

2. Horton Hatches the Egg 《霍顿孵蛋》

Horton Hatches the Egg is a book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1940.

The book concerns Horton (an elephant) convinced by an irresponsible bird named Mayzie into sitting on her egg while she takes a break--which proves to last for months. Of course, the absurd sight of an elephant sitting atop a tree makes quite a scene.

Horton is laughed at by his jungle friends, exposed to the elements, captured by hunters, forced to endure a terrible sea voyage, and finally placed in a traveling circus. All through the ordeal Horton repeats this refrain:

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant:

An elephant's faithful one hundred percent.

Mayzie finds Horton at the circus just in time to see her egg hatch. She demands the egg back, but is denied it by Horton and onlookers when it hatches into a tiny winged elephant.

The moral of the story is "be responsible, even when it's difficult." This moral is established in several ways. First, Mayzie's demonstrated irresponsibility in leaving her egg for someone else to watch leads to her losing the implied benefit of her egg- a baby Mayzie. Second, Horton's demonstrated responsibility in keeping his promise to Mayzie by staying with the egg, even when it's hard to do so, gives him the benefit of a baby Horton hatching from the egg. Finally, the elephant's ability to stay true and steadfast despite all manner of disasters carries a traditional spiritual message: he is faithful, not only to his external obligations, but to his inner self as well. (answers.com)

考考你

将下面的句子译成英语。

1. 他泄露了帮凶。

2. 他和一群坏蛋交往密切。

The Jane Austen book club《奥斯汀书会》精讲之三 考考你 参考答案

1. All the tennis players had to pair off for a round of doubles matches.

所有的乒乓球运动员都得组对打一轮双打。

2. I'm afraid you've just entirely missed the point.

恐怕你完全误解了问题的主旨。

3. People are instinctively drawn to partners who are their near equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly.

人们本能地被长相相近的人吸引。帅哥娶了美女，青蛙娶了恐龙。

 

影片对白  She's Horton Hatches the Egg. She sits on that nest and she never, ever wavers.

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