解讀“革命之路”

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影片對(duì)白：

Howard：John, let's not get started again about the lawyer.

John：Pop, couldn't you just sit there and eat your wonderful egg salad, and quit horning in? See... I've got a good many questions to ask and I'm willing to pay for the answers... Now, I don't need to be told that a man who goes after his mother with a coffee table is putting himself in a weak position legally; that's obvious.

Helen: John, come and have a look out this fabulous picture window.

John：If he hits her with it and kills her, that's a criminal case.

Helen: Oh, look, the sun's coming out!

John：If all he does is break the coffee table and give her a certain amount of aggravation and she decides to go to court over it, that's a civil case.

Helen: Maybe we'll have a rainbow! John, come have a look.

John：Ma, how about doing everybody a favor? How about shutting up!

Howard：Settle down, now.

Frank: Maybe I can look into it. Recommend someone. What you say?

John：So...What do you do, Frank?

Frank: I work for Knox Business Machines factory.

John：You design the machines?

Frank: Nope.

John：Make 'em, sell 'em, repair 'em?

Helen: All these questions.

Frank: I help sell them, I guess I work in the office. Actually, it's a sort of a stupid job really. There's...nothing interesting about it at all.

John：What do you do it for then?

Howard：Maybe Frank doesn't like to be questioned like this...

John：Okay, okay. Okay. I know it's none of my business. And besides, I know the answer. You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Anyone comes along and says "What do you do it for?" He's probably on a four-hour pass from the State funny farm. All agreed..? Ma..?

Howard：Sorry Frank.

Frank: No. Don't be. Don't be. Actually, John, I agree with everything you just said. We both do. That's why I'm quitting the job in the fall. We're taking off.

April: We're moving to Paris.

John：Did you know about this, Ma...? How do you feel about that, Ma? The nice young Wheelers are taking off!

Helen: John, please.

Howard：Steady down, son.

Frank: John. John! How about some fresh air, what you say? If that's all right with you?

Helen: I don't know if it's such a good idea.

Howard：If John wants to, I don't see the harm.

April: Good.

Frank: Do you..?

April: I hear you're a mathematician.

John：You hear wrong. It's all gone now.

April: All gone?

John：You know what electrical shock treatments are?

April: Yes. Yes I do.

John：I've had thirty-seven. Supposed to jolt out the "Emotional Problems."

妙語佳句，活學(xué)活用

1.horn in：插一腳進(jìn)來，闖入,干預(yù)。影片中Howard試圖打斷John的長篇大論，John不耐煩對(duì)他說：“別插嘴好嗎?”來看例句：

There was this idiot who was totally trying to horn in.有個(gè)蠢貨總試圖插一腳進(jìn)來。

She loves to horn in on her husband's official functions. 她老愛干預(yù)她丈夫的公務(wù)。

2.go to court:打官司，訴諸法庭。影片中John說到：“如果只是摔壞茶幾惹惱了她，她決定起訴，就是民事糾紛。”

You'll go to court with this lawyer next month. 下個(gè)月你要跟這個(gè)律師開庭。

I will go to court and get an injunction against your pirating my book. 我要起訴你，禁止你盜版我的書。

3.funny farm: 指神經(jīng)病院。影片中John說：“如果有人要問為什么，他一定是從神經(jīng)病院來的。”

Better be serious , or else you will be thrown into the funny farm. 嚴(yán)肅一點(diǎn),否則把你送到精神病院去。

4.steady down:鎮(zhèn)定，穩(wěn)住。影片中Howard試圖安撫John，對(duì)他說：“冷靜些，孩子。”來看例句：

The first thing you ought to do is to steady it down. 第一件事情就是要先把它穩(wěn)住。

解讀“革命之路”

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