电子情书3.doc

影片对白
George: Good morning, Shop Around the Corner. George. May I help you?
Christina: Kathleen, The Channel 2 truck just pulled up.
Kathleen: In a second.
Christina: Everyone's read the article.
Birdie: "And so, you do not have to look to the usual places where good and evil face off, the places Herodotus called 'the happy land of absolutes. We have the perfect example here on the West Side where the cold cash cow, Fox Books threatens survival of a temple to one of the twentieth century's most profound truths: You are what you read."
Frank: I believe that.
Birdie: "Save The Shop Around The Corner and you will save your soul." Frank, that's charming.
Frank: You think it’s a little over the top?
Birdie: That was The Village Voice. I told them to come over whenever.
Kathleen: Oh, man. Ok. All right. "Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee."
Kids: One, two, three, four! We don't want your superstore! Five, six, seven, eight! Go away and close the gate! One, two, three, four!
Joe: We don't want this superstore.
Nelson Fox: Is that what they’re saying?
Joe: Catchy. Yeah.
Joe: Who wrote that?
Schuyler Fox: Annoying.
Nelson Fox: Pissing me off actually
Kathleen: Do you want the West Side to become one big, gigantic strip mall?
Crowd: No.
Kathleen: Do you want to get off the subway at 72nd and Broadway and not even know you're in New York City?
Crowd: No.
Kathleen: Can we save The Shop Around The Corner?
Crowd: Yeah.
Anchorperson: We're here and for The Shop Around The Corner, the famous West Side children's bookstore now on the verge of having to close its doors because the big bad wolf, Fox Books, has opened a few hundred away wooing customers with its sharp discounts and designer coffee.
Kathleen: They have to have discounts and lattes because most of the people who work there have never read a book.
Joe: She's not as nice as she seems on TV.
Kevin: You met her?
Joe: Yeah. Boy, she's a pill!
妙语佳句，活学活用
1. Pull up
“Stop or cause to stop 停下/使停下”的意思，例如：He pulled up his horse. 他拉住了马。
They pulled up in front of the door. 他们在门前停了下来。
2. Face off
这个片语的意思是“对立，对抗，摊牌”，例如：He and the manager had faced off, but nothing came of it. 他和经理对抗，但是没什么结果。电影中where good and evil face off 意思就是“正邪交锋的地方”。
3. Cash cow
这个俚语的意思是“财源，摇钱树；赚钱良方”，例如：The new business is a great cash cow. We are making a lot of money now. 新公司广开财源。我们赚了好多钱。

4. Over the top
这里的意思是“extreme, outrageous极端的，过分的”，例如：This comedian's style goes over the top. 这个喜剧演员的风格过于夸张了。
5. On the verge of
“接近于，濒临于”的意思，例如：I was on the verge of calling the doctor when he suddenly got better. 我正打算叫医生的时候，他突然好了一些。
6. Designer coffee
Anything "designer" - be it designer beer, designer sunglasses designer jeans-usually is thought of as being made, produced, sold, conceptualised by a specific person or company that distinguishes it from other similar products and gives it an image of high culture, sophistication and elitism. So designer coffee should be more expensive and taste / look different compared to normal coffee.
7. Pill
俚语，指“讨厌的家伙”。
文化面面观
1. The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper in New York City featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. It is also distributed throughout the United States on a pay basis.
It was the first and is arguably the best known of the arts-oriented tabloids that have come to be known as alternative weeklies, though its reputation has been unstable since a recent buyout by publishing conglomerate New Times Media. The turbulent times its writers have covered has often been matched by the intrigue in its own offices, most recently including the firing of several high-profile contributors and a scandal over a forged story in 2005, the year the paper turned 50. The Voice's spirit can be captured in its 1980s advertising slogan: "Some people swear by us...other people swear AT us."
2. Herodotus 希罗多德
生于公元前484年，卒于公元前430年，《历史》一书的作者。Herodotus is often called "The Father of History." He was among the first to approach the reporting of history in a logical and skeptical way; he tried to separate true events from myth and made a point of identifying and commenting on his sources. It didn't hurt that he was a colorful writer and commentator; his most famous work, The Histories, remains a widely-read account of the Persian invasion of ancient Greece. (It's the main source for details on the famous battles at Marathon and Thermopylae.) Ironically, the details of Herodotus' own life are unclear. He is believed to have been born at Halicarnassus, on the Aegean Sea in Asia Minor, and to have travelled widely, collecting and recording stories as he went.
考考你
用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。
1. 你做的显然过分了。
2. 听到这个消息，萨拉都快哭了。
You've got mail《电子情缘》精讲之二 考考你 参考答案
1. 警察已经监视这伙匪徒好几个月了。
The police had been spying on the gang for several months.
2. 我突然想到他可能对我说了谎。
It crossed my mind that he might have lied to me.