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Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese adventure drama co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film takes place in 1587 during a time when many states in Japan were at war. It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven masterless samurai (ronin) to fight bandits who steal their crops. The film was the first samurai movie that Kurosawa ever directed. He had originally wanted to direct a film abouta single day in the life of a samurai but later discovered in his research a story about samurai defendingfarmers. The film was originally going to be called Six Samurai until Kurosawa decided to create a seventhcharacter who was a little different and had an appealing, zany personality.

七武士是一部上映于1954年的日本动作情景电影，编剧兼剪辑、导演是黑泽明8@p~eTwUU+p,。电影发生在日本战国时代的1587年N0nX)J7xLAxqAf。讲述的是一群村民雇佣了七名武士来击退偷取麦收的强盗#NoSG!.y0(M@SiUhnC7。这是黑泽明导演的第一部武士电影)|j+h*p!S4D。起初，他想导演一部关于武士生活的电影，但是之后他发现了关于武士护卫村民的故事yPWpVoTo(r#gPRsK#FD@。影片最初叫做“六武士”，一直到黑泽明想创造第七个人物角色时才更改过来，这最后一个武士有着与众不同的性格ga,|QK_&[%E。

Seven Samurai is described as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. It is one of a select few Japanese films to become widely known in the West and was voted onto Sight & Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1982. It ranked #1 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010. It was the single largest movie ever made by a Japanese filmmaker at the time and was a technical and creative masterpiece. At 207 minutes long, it was the longest picture of Kurosawa's career. Its influence can be clearly witnessed in many Hollywood movies that have been made since, especially those that have a group of heroes all fighting for the same cause.

人们认为七武士是史上最伟大的电影之一，也是影响最深远的电影之一Ope-YBn_#a*c#Y.q。这是西方所里了解的为数不多的日本电影之一，1982年，这部电影被人们选为视觉&声效电影中的十佳电影之一wqCWiEdQFlR@.um7^u。2000年，帝国杂志将这部电影列在了100部最佳电影列表之中)k;&];~nV5。比起当时，这是日本电影导演所制作的规模最大的电影作品，电影在创作上体现了精湛的技术，而且是一部富有创造力的巨作nid|J;osvwP。影片长达207分钟，这是黑泽明生涯中最长的一部电影B;Q,rAgir_VKfb3。自此之后，许多好莱坞电影也受到了这部电影的影响，特别是电影中多了许多为同一事业而奋斗的英雄R~qdc~y6E(=。

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重点讲解

1.be described as 被描写成

Behavior can be described as the manifestation of personality in response to a situation.

行为举止可以被描述为性格对于情形做出反应的表现Zzo;M|jBx#n。

2.be directed by 由……导演

I'm not sure, but I think it must be directed by Zhang Yimou. That's typical of him.

我记不清了，但我想是由张艺谋导演的，只有他才拍得出这样的电影wb4e-VD|m55。

3.to fight bandits 打击强盗

One night while on an assignment to protect a Naga Siren, he was raided from all sides by a group of bandits rendering him unable to fight.

一个夜晚保护娜迦女海妖的任务中，他遭遇到了强盗们从四面八方发动的突然袭击而失去了作战能力55SyR7=^TAkUST(ag5H。

4.of all time 有史以来

Being possibly the most trivial question of all time, this is one hard question to ask.

爱可能是有史以来最平常的一个问题，也是一个让人很难回答的问题J7k13f5@iO&5gxc。