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台词赏析:

Juli:What does that mean?
这是什么意思
Father:A painting is more than the sum of its parts.
一幅画并不是各个部分的简单相加
A cow by itself is just a cow.
奶牛单独看就是奶牛
A meadow by itself is just grass, flowers.
草场就其本身也只是草和花
And the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light.
而穿过树枝的阳光也不过是一线光束
But you put them all together...and it can be magic.
但当你把它们结合到一起...奇迹就发生了
Juli:I didn't really understand what he was saying until one afternoon...when I was up in the sycamore tree.
我并不十分理解他所说的话 直到那天下午 当我爬上那棵梧桐树
I was rescuing a kite.
我去够一只挂住的风筝
It was a long way up, higher than I'd ever been.
风筝挂得很高 是我从未爬上去过的高度
And the higher I got, the more amazed I was by the view.
我爬得越高 就越被眼前的美景所震撼
I began to notice how wonderful the breeze smelled.
我开始嗅到微风中的曼妙气息
Like sunshine and wild grass.
像是阳光和野草的芬芳
I couldn't stop breathing it in...filling my lungs with the sweetest smell I'd ever known.
我贪婪地呼吸着 让最清甜的空气充满身体
Bryce:Hey, you found my kite.
你找到我的风筝了
Juli:Bryce, you should come up here.
布莱斯 你应该到这上面来看看
It's so beautiful.
太美了

重点解释

词汇精解:
sum:
n. 总数； 算术； 金额； 概略，要点
vt.& vi. 总计； 总结，概括； 归纳
常用词组:
in sum:简言之；总而言之
This interpretation does little, in sum, to add to our understanding.
总而言之，这个解释没有增进我们的理解。
sum up:
1. 简述：对（材料）作扼要的总述；作概括说明
Sum up the day's news; concluded the lecture by summing up.
概括了当天的新闻；以扼要的重述结束了报告
2. 扼要地描述或简洁地评价
An epithet that sums up my feelings.
简洁地表达了我思想感情的形容词
同意辨析:
quantity, amount, number, sum的同异:这些名词均有“总数，总量”之意。
quantity：书面用词，指事物的总量和总数量，侧重大批计量，含准确测量的意味。
She was burdened with a large quantity of parcels.
她吃力地捧着一大堆包裹
amount：普通用词。
The amount will be added to your final room bill.
总额会加在您最后的客房帐单上。
number：普通用词，指人或物的数目，强调数的概念。
The students in our class number thirty.
我班总共有三十名学生。
sum：普通用词，指简单加算的结果。
For his first book he received the princely sum of $400.
他写第一本书得到了 400 元“巨款”。
重点词组:
fill with：(使)充[挤]满； 使满怀(某种情感等)
I let my lungs fill with the scented air.
我呼吸着芬芳的空气。
习惯用语:
fill (someone's) shoes:取代某人的职位或责任
You're under major pressure to fill someone else's shoes.
你的强大的压力下顶替他人的位置。
fill the bill【非正式用语】:满足特定目的
He is the right person for the job.He will fill the bill.
他是这项工作的最佳人选，他一定会称职的。
come up:发生； 上来； 提到； 开庭
Bell the man to come up please.
请你按铃叫那个人上来！
peek through：透过
Let's peek through the binoculars and see what others we can find.
让我们透过这个双目望远镜看一眼，我们大概能找到一些别的东西。