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本片段劇情：在被疾馳的列車迎面撞上后，史蒂文斯上尉再次結(jié)束他八分鐘的生命回到那個太空艙，這次與他對話的是發(fā)明這一切的魯特雷吉博士。博士告訴他列車上的一切都不是真實的，而只是源代碼，列車上的所有人在現(xiàn)實世界中都已經(jīng)死亡……

影片對白：

Captain Stevens: Goodwin, you out there?

Dr. Rutledge: Goodwin, who is Goodwin.

Captain Stevens: This is Captain Stevens, do you copy?

Dr. Rutledge: Captain Stevens?

Captain Stevens: The capsule lost power.

Dr. Rutledge: The capsule? Is that where you are now, Captain, in a capsule?

Captain Stevens: You should know, who are you?

Dr. Rutledge: Let me get Captain Goodwin, get to it!

Captain Stevens: You invented this thing, right?

Dr. Rutledge: I did.

Captain Stevens: Are you in command here?

Dr. Rutledge: I am. Were you able to locate the information we need, Captain?

Captain Stevens: That's a negative Sir. I was unable to find the bomber, but I did save her. A passenger on the train. I got her off safely, a woman.

Goodwin: Captain, it's gonna be counterproductive for you to try to save anyone on that train. They're outside the mission.

Captain Stevens: Well, but she survived. And maybe the rest could too.

Dr. Rutledge: She survived, but only inside the Source Code. None of them will be safe.

Captain Stevens: What is this Source Code?

Dr. Rutledge: It's quantum mechanics parable calculus. It's very complicated.

Captain Stevens: Try me!

Dr. Rutledge: Fine. When a light bulb's turned off, there is an afterglow, a lingering halo-like effect. You seen it?

Captain Stevens: Yes.

Dr. Rutledge: Of course. The brain is like that, its electromagnetic field remains charged, just briefly even after death. Circuits remain open. Now there is another peculiarity about the brain. It contains a short-term memory track that's approximately 8 minutes long like a convenience store's security camera that only records the last portion of the day's activity on its hard drive. Now combining these two phenomena, circuitry that remains viable postmortem and a memory bank that goes back 8 Minutes Source Code enables us to capitalize on the overlap. Shawn Fentress died on that train, of all the passengers aboard he was your best link. You two share the compatibility in terms of gender, body size and your synaptic maps.

Captain Stevens: What happens after the 8 minutes?

Dr. Rutledge: After? Nothing. You cease to exist on the train. You cannot exist inside the Source Code, beyond Fentress' 8 minutes. Source Code is not time travel. Rather, Source Code is time reassignment. It gives us access to a parallel reality. Now the deaths on the train were a tragedy but Source Code empowers us...

Captain Stevens: No, but I saved...one person, that girl, that's always sitting across from me. I pulled her off the train.

Goodwin: Give me her name.

Captain Stevens: Christina, I don't remember her last name.

Goodwin: Her name was Christina Warren.

Captain Stevens: Yes!

Goodwin: She was 28.

Captain Stevens: That's her!

Goodwin: ...born in Moline, Illinois. Died this morning on the train.

Captain Stevens: No, no, I pulled her off. She's fine.

Dr. Rutledge: No, she isn't.

Captain Stevens: Believe me, she is.

Dr. Rutledge: Believe me.

Captain Stevens: She saw me get hit by the express train.

Goodwin: This isn't us getting anywhere.

Captain Stevens: No, no, no, wait, wait....

Goodwin: We have to send him in. A second attack is imminent, Dr. Rutledge.

Captain Stevens: What second attack?

Dr. Rutledge: The train was just the beginning. A letter of intent.

Captain Stevens: I am sorry, what are you telling me here?

Goodwin: We have information that Downtown Chicago is the next target. And they're planning to detonate a dirty bomb.

Dr. Rutledge: You have any idea how many people would die if an explosion of that magnitude were to occur in the city? We're evacuating as we speak. We've to stop it before it happens, do you understand?

Goodwin: If you find the bomber, his second attack, the real attack, we think, can be prevented. We have very little time left. Out here the clocks only move in one direction.

Dr. Rutledge: Charge the drivers.

Goodwin: On the upper deck of the next carriage there is a conductor's compartment. It's a small office containing a strongbox. Inside is a loaded handgun. Get to it. You are authorized to use whatever force necessary.

(Captain Stevens is sending back to the eight minutes)

Christina: I took your advice...It was very good advice...

妙語佳句 活學(xué)活用

1. locate: 查明，探明；找到。例如：He could not locate his lost watch.（他找不到丟失的表。）

2. counterproductive: 產(chǎn)生不良后果的；起反作用的。

3. quantum mechanics: 量子力學(xué)。

4. parable: 寓言。

5. calculus: 微積分。

6. afterglow: 余輝。也可以表示“事后愉快的回憶”，例如：bask in the afterglow of one's triumph（獲勝后沾沾自喜）。

7. halo: 光暈。

8. convenience store: 便利店。

9. postmortem: 死后的。

10. capitalize on: 利用。看一下例子：She capitalized on his mistake and won the game.（她利用他的失誤贏得比賽。）

11. overlap: 重疊部分。

12. express train: 特快列車。

13. imminent: 即將來臨的，逼近的。例如：War seems imminent.（看來戰(zhàn)爭迫在眉睫。）

14. letter of intent: 意向書。影片中Rutledge博士指這次爆炸只是個開頭，罪犯不過是借此來表明他的犯罪意向。

15. dirty bomb: 臟彈。臟彈又稱放射性炸彈，是通過引爆傳統(tǒng)的爆炸物如黃色炸藥等，通過巨大的爆炸力，將內(nèi)含的放射性物質(zhì)，主要是放射性顆粒，拋射散布到空氣中，造成相當(dāng)于核放射性塵埃的污染，形成災(zāi)難性生態(tài)破壞的“輻射散布”炸彈。

16. strongbox: 保險柜，保險箱。

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