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影片對白：

Weathers：What in God's name...!?

Quennie：Oh, the Lord done something here...!

Weathers：I hope I didn't hurt it none, steppin' on it like that. We best leave that for the police.

Quennie: Oh, baby.

Weathers: I'll go.

Quennie：It's for sure nobody wanted to keep it. Come on, baby.

Woman: Quennie!

Quennie：I'll be back.

Woman: She went and messed herself all over again...

Quennie：Jane Childress, start her a bath. And mind your own business, Mrs Duprey. You'll bemessing yourself soon enough.

Hollister: Somebody stole my necklace.

Quennie：OK, Mrs Hollister, I'll be right with you. Go on back upstairs. You are as ugly as an old pot, but you still a child of God.

Woman: Queenie, she won't go take a bath without you.

Quennie：Mercy... I'll be right there! You just wait right here for me, okay?

Mrs Hollister: My sister gave me those pearls. I can't find them anywhere. Somebody's been stealing my jewelry.

Quennie：They are right here, Mrs Hollister. See? Right around your pretty white neck. Now come on.

Rose: Your heart is strong. You want to avoid any undue stimulation. I trust you ladies willhelp me out with that?

Rose: I've never seen anything like it, nearly blind from cataracts. I'm not sure if he can hear, bones indicate severe arthritis. His skin has lost all elasticity and his hands and feet are ossified. He shows all the deterioration, the infirmities not of a newborn, but of a man well in his eighties on his way to the grave.

Quennie：He's dying?

Rose: His body's failing him before his life's begun. Where did he come from?

Quennie：It's my sister's child, from Lafayette. She had an unfortunate adventure. Poor child, he got the worse of it. Come out white.

Rose: There are places for 'unwanted'babies like these, Queenie. No room for another mouth to feed here. The Nolan Foundation, despite their good intentions, thinks this place is a large nuisance as it is. A baby...

Quennie：You said he don't have long.

Rose: Queenie, some creatures aren't meant to survive.

妙語佳句，活學(xué)活用

1.mess (up): 弄臟，弄亂。影片中Quennie不耐煩地說到：“再沒多久你也一團糟了。”來看例句：

Magnetic storms mess up communications. 磁暴干擾通訊。

This will mess up your system.這樣會搞亂你的系統(tǒng)。

2.help sb. out: 幫助某人，使...脫離困境。影片中Rose醫(yī)生開玩笑道：“女士們，相信你們能幫忙的。”來看例句：

Some volunteers help out with adoptions. 一些志愿者用收容的辦法幫助解決了問題。

Soup will help out our meal. 湯可以彌補我們的飯食不足。

3.on one's way to: 來看，接近。影片中Rose醫(yī)生對Quennie說：“他完全不像是個新生兒，而像一個八十來歲的老年人，正在走向墳?zāi)埂！眮砜蠢?

I am on my way to the library.我在去圖書館的路上。

I always nap on the way to work.我在上班的路上總是打盹。

4.get worse: 更糟糕的情況。Quennie說：“這個孩子就更不幸了。”

The pain is get worse.愈來愈痛了。

英語中有一個與之類似的短語：the bad end of the stick

In France he had drawn the bad end of the stick.在法國，他沒碰上好時機。

影片劇情

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