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视频出处：

本期视频出自《唐顿庄园》第一季第一集。

影视片花：

脚本语言：

[A man walks with a cane and a travel bag.]

[O'Brien holds a white cloth as she talks to Anna and Gwen as the house maids make the bed.]

O'Brien: Neither were picked up. That's what he said.

他们都没获救 老爷是这么说的

Anna: Mr Crawley and Mr Patrick?

Crawley先生和Patrick先生吗

O'Brien: That's what he said.

他是这样说的

Her Ladyship was the color of this cloth.

夫人的脸色比这布还白

Gwen: Well, it's a terrible shame if it's true.

要是真的就太糟糕了

O'Brien: It's worse than a shame. It's a complication.

何止糟糕 简直乱套了

[O'Brien leaves. Gwen and Anna follow O'Brien down the servants' staircase.]

Gwen: What do you mean?

什么意思

O'Brien: What do you think?

你说呢

Mr Crawley was his Lordship's cousin and heir to the title.

Crawley先生是老爷的堂兄 爵位的继承人

Gwen: I thought Lady Mary was the heir.

继承人不是Mary小姐吗

She's a girl, stupid. Girls can't inherit.

她是个姑娘 傻丫头 女儿家没有继承权

But now Mr Crawley's dead, and Mr Patrick was his only son.

现在Crawley先生死了 Patrick先生又是他的独子

So what happens next?

接下来怎么办
Anna: It's a dreadful thing.

真是个麻烦事

[The maids find Mr Bates standing in the servants' corridor with his cane and travel bag.]

Bates: Hello? I've been waiting at the back door... I knocked, but no-one came.

你们好 我一直在后门等 敲了门却没人应

O'Brien: So you pushed in?

所以 你就闯进来了

Bates: I'm John Bates, the new valet.

我是John Bates 新来的贴身男仆

O'Brien: The new valet?

是吗

Bates: That's right.

正是

[O'Brien looks down at Bates's cane.]

O'Brien: You're early. Came on the milk train.

来得真早 搭头班车来的

Bates: Thought I'd get to know the place, start tonight.

先熟悉下环境 今晚便可开工

Anna: I'm Anna, the head housemaid.

我是Anna 女仆领班

Bates: How do you do?

你好

O'Brien And I'm Miss O'Brien, her Ladyship's maid.

我是O'Brien 夫人的女仆

You'd better come along with us.

跟我们来吧

语汇海洋

第一、词汇精讲

1. shame

双语释义：thing that is regrettable; a pity

[C.N.] 遗憾的事；可惜

语法用法：a shame（表示这个意思是一定要不定冠词a连用。）

典型例句：What a shame you didn't win.

你没赢，真遗憾。

Isn't it a shame that the rain spoiled our picnic?

这场雨把我们的野餐给搅了，可惜不可惜?

2. complication

双语释义：thing that makes a situation more complex or difficult

[C.N.] 使情况更加复杂或困难的事物

典型例句：A further complication was Fred's refusal to travel by air.

更麻烦的是弗雷德不肯坐飞机。

3. inherit

双语释义：receive (property, a title, etc) as a result of the death of the previous owner

[Tr.] 继承（财产﹑ 头衔等）

语法用法：~ sth (from sb)

典型例句：She inherited a little money from her grandfather.

她从祖父处继承了一小笔钱财。

第二、短语精讲

1. one’s heir to something

讲解：这个名词性短语，注意heir的后面的介词一定是to，不能用of。意思是“某人的（头衔，财产等）的继承人”，也可以拓展指“某人的（优点）承袭者”。

例句：He is an heir to his father's fine brain.

他承袭了他父亲的聪明头脑。

He was the true heir to the estate.

他是这个庄园的合法继承人。

He fell heir to a large fortune.

他成了一大笔财产的继承人。

2. push in

讲解：push是动词，意思是“推”，in在这里是副词，表示“进到（屋子）里”的意思，因此，push in意思就是“推门进来”。

例句：Amos used to push in where he was not wanted.

艾莫斯经常不招自来，到处乱闯。

3. get to do something

讲解：get to在这里的意思是“逐渐”，get to do something的意思是“逐渐做某事”。

例句：After taking a sedative she was able to get to sleep.

服用了镇静剂后，她能够逐渐入睡了。

She buddied up to Laura, hoping to get to know her brother.

她和劳拉来往，希望逐渐结识她的哥哥。

4. come along with

讲解：come along的意思是“一道走”，加上介词with就是“和某人一起走”的意思。

例句：Come along with me . I'm going that way , too.

咱俩同路, 一块儿走吧!

Come along with me, boys, you are keeping everybody waiting.

孩子们跟我来，大家都在等你俩呢。

5. on the train

讲解：这是个介词短语，介词on在这里表示“方式”，on the train意思就是“乘坐火车”，强调事件。如果没有上下文，on the train当然可以表示“在火车上”，强调地点。

例句：He went to the station for nothing because she wasn't on the train.

他到车站白跑了一趟，因为她没有坐那趟火车。

We rode through the countryside on the train.

我们乘火车穿过乡村。

I thumbed through the report quickly on the train.

我在火车上翻阅过这份报告了。

I see him on the train every day but we're not on speaking terms.

我每天都在火车上见到他, 但彼此没说过话。

第三、短语泛讲

1. a terrible shame：极度的遗憾，非常大的遗憾

2. a dreadful thing：一件糟糕透顶的事情

3. a head housemaid：女仆领班

4. her Ladyship's maid：夫人的仆人

5. know the place：熟悉环境

6. a milk train：早班火车

第四、短语回顾：

be picked up：获救

牛人口语

1. 情景：你的同学上着体育课，突然倒在地上，脸色苍白，这时候，你可以用下面这句话来描述：

Sb. is the color of a white cloth.

源于台词：Her Ladyship was the color of this cloth.

2. 情景：你的同学偷了其他同学的单车，老师知道后老师在班上批评了他，这样你的同学已经耻辱了，但是他拒不承认的态度使得老师非常气愤，决定向政教处汇报将在晨会上在全校点名批评，这时候，你可以用这句话形容你的同学的情况：

It is worse than...（表示后面发生的事情比前面发生的事情更严重）

源于台词：It's worse than a shame.

3. 情景：表示一个人来得很早，就这么简单地说：

You're early.