经济学人:听电影《缘分天注定》学英语第2期:宇宙为撮合我们而设
日期:2013-01-03 14:59

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A guy I don't even remember, except for this...
一个在我脑海里只剩下…  
vague picture I have inside my head.
依稀印象的人。  
It was just a few seconds. A fragment, really.
虽然相处短暂。  
And it was like...
但是在那段短暂时间内...  
in that moment,
整个宇宙... 
the whole universe existed just to bring us together.
彷彿是为了撮合我们而设。  
That's why I'm here.
我今次来纽约。  
That's why I'm gonna let fate take me wherever it wants to go.
是看看有没有缘分再见。  
Because when all this is over, at least I'm never gonna have to think of him ever again.
见不到,我以后就用不着再思念。  
Let's just pray he's a bald fascist...
当他已经变成光头法斯西份子。  
who picks his nose and wipes it under the car seat.
一个挖完鼻屎周围抹的人。  
Hi. Hi. Could you hold on?
可以等一等吗?  
Where are you going?
到哪里去?  
You better be buying me one frigging big birthday cake, that's all I gotta say.
你最好送我一个大生日蛋糕。  
Could I get your destination, please?
目的地。
The Waldorf, I guess. Finally she gets it.
华都酒店,终于选到地点。  
Okay, we are going... that way.
我们往…那边走。 
And I'm gonna follow.
我实行做跟得朋友。

妙语佳句
1.except for
除了…以外;要不是由于
To do this we create an information context list from the XML fragment.
为此,我们从这个 XML 片段创建一个信息上下文列表。
2.fragment
n. 碎片;片断或不完整部分
vt. 使成碎片
vi. 破碎或裂开
For a start, fishing subsidies should be abolished in an industry characterised by overcapacity and inefficiency.
首先,在一个生产力过剩和效率低的产业部门,捕鱼补贴应该废止。
3.bring together
集合;使…团结起来
I think this is a good opportunity in which we bring together management styles and skills from around the world.
我认为这是一个好机会,我们把全世界的管理方式和技术聚集在一起。
4.fascist
n. 法西斯主义者;法西斯党员
adj. 法西斯主义的,法西斯党的
Though he yearned for the defeat of the fascist invaders, he makes German soldiers out to be not monsters, but like their Soviet counterparts—humans consigned to an inhuman mincing machine.
虽然他渴望打败法西斯侵略者,但在他的笔下德国士兵不是怪物,而是象苏联士兵一样的人,被训练成了残忍的杀人机器。
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翻译
1.我今次来纽约是看看有没有缘分再见。   
2.你最好送我一个大生日蛋糕。  
上期答案
1.I was gonna tell you when we got on the plane.
2.I've just spent the entire flight staring into the sky, thinking.

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重点单词
  • planeadj. 平的,与飞机有关的 n. 飞机,水平,水准,刨
  • inefficiencyn. 无效率,无能
  • universen. 宇宙,万物,世界
  • flightn. 飞行,航班 n. 奇思妙想,一段楼梯 n.
  • defeatn. 败北,挫败 vt. 战胜,击败
  • opportunityn. 机会,时机
  • fragmentn. 碎片 v. 变成碎片 [计算机] 碎片
  • exceptvt. 除,除外 prep. & conj. 除了 ..
  • destinationn. 目的地,终点,景点
  • vagueadj. 模糊的,不明确的,犹豫不决的,茫然的