文化面面觀  Beauty contest: an introduction 選美大賽的歷史

思想火花  《陽光小美女》不是一部普通的志勵片，它沒有把堅信追尋的過程賦予最后完美的大團圓。奧利弗幸運的是，她有一群真正愛她的家人，他們并沒有因為得不到第一而放棄幫助奧利弗千里迢迢參加選秀大賽，一家人也在這場不尋常的旅途中重新認識自己，把缺失變成另一種人生態度。

考考你  乘熱打鐵

影片對白

Grandpa: Perfect. Perfect. You're the world champion growler. Time for your beauty rest. Get in there. There you go. Good night.

Olive: Grandpa?

Grandpa: Yeah.

Olive: I'm kinda scared about tomorrow.

Grandpa: Are you kiddin' me? You're gonnablow 'em out of the water. They're not gonna know what hit 'em.

Olive: Grandpa?

Grandpa: Yeah.

Olive: Am I pretty?

Grandpa: Olive, you are the most beautiful girl in the whole world.

Olive:Nah, you're just saying that.

Grandpa: No, I'm not. I'm madly in love with you. And it's not because of your brains or your personality. It's because you're beautiful, inside and out.

Olive: Grandpa?

Grandpa: What?

Olive: I don't want to be a loser.

Grandpa: You're not a loser. Where'd you get the idea you're a loser?

Olive: Because Daddy hates losers.

Grandpa: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.Back upa minute. You know what a loser is? A real loser is somebody that's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try. Now, you're trying, right?

Olive: Yeah.

Grandpa: Well, then, you're not a loser. We're gonna have fun tomorrow, right?

Olive: Yeah.

Grandpa: We can tell 'em all to go to hell. Good night, sweetie. I love you.

妙語佳句，活學活用

1. Blow out of the water

這個片語挺有趣的，它的意思是"defeat decisively"，起源于19世紀中期的海軍，最初的意思是"將敵方的軍艦打成碎片"，現在用來指各種各樣的"打敗"對手，例如：With a great new product and excellent publicity, we could blow the competition out of the water.

此外，blow out of the water 還可以表示"surprise greatly"，例如：I was blown out of the water when I heard that I was promoted.

2. Nah, you're just saying that.

Nah 這里表示"no"，you're just saying that 的意思是"你不過是說說罷了"，這可是一句很實用的口語，趕緊記下來哦！

3. Back up

Back up 這個片語有很多意思，我們來一一看一下：
a. to bring (a stream of traffic) to a standstill 停止，例如：A stalled car backed up traffic for miles. 影片中采用的也是這個意思，爺爺叫Olive"先不要哭"。
b. to move backward 后退，例如：Back up into the garage.
c. to reinforce 加固，例如：We backed up the cardboard with slats so it wouldn't fall down.
d. to support or confirm 支持，例如：He backed up my story and they let us go.
e. Computers. to duplicate (a file or a program) as a precaution against failure 備份，例如：Have you backed up the files in the computer?