荧屏情景

荧屏情景：

讲座 片段选自《恋爱学分》 Starter For Ten 52:40-53:42

Professor: "My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk or emptied some dull opiate to the drains." Brian, Stay on afterwards, will you? "One minute passed, and Lethe-ward shad sunk." Are you experiencing emotional problems?
教授：“我的心疼痛着，困顿和麻木毒害了感官，犹如饮过毒鸩，又假装刚把鸦片吞服”。布莱恩，下课后留下来，好吗？“一分钟的时间，字句在忘川中沉没”。你是不是碰到了感情问题？
Brain: Emotional problems?
布莱恩：感情问题？
Professor: Affairs of the heart, anxieties of a romantic or perhaps sexual nature? And believe me, Brian, I am finding this at least as embarrassing as you are.
教授：恋爱，对浪漫的渴求或者是性方面的本能？相信我，布莱恩，这么问我的尴尬绝不比你少。
Brain: What makes you ask?
布莱恩：那你干嘛还问？
Professor: Well, when I interviewed you a year ago now, you struck me as being a particularly passionate young man, a little incoherent, maybe a little gauche. Is that fair, do you think?
教授：一年前我面试你的时候，你让我印象深刻。你是个激情澎湃的年轻人，有些语无伦次，也许还有点笨拙，你觉得我说的对吗？
Brain: Go on.
布莱恩：继续。
Professor: But you also seemed to have a sincere passion for knowledge that's missing from some of our, what shall we say, some of our more privileged students. And that's why I was happy to offer you a place because I knew that you had actually fought for it.
教授：但是那时你似乎有一种强烈的求知欲，这是我们……缺乏……我该怎么说，我们一些更优秀的学生所缺乏的，所以我才愿意录取你，因为我知道你是真正在为之努力。

单词与短语
单词与短语：
1. drowsy adj. 昏昏欲睡的
eg. He felt pleasantly drowsy and had to fight off the urge to sleep.
他感觉昏昏欲睡，只好尽量克制睡意。
eg. The story took place on a drowsy summer afternoon.
这个故事发生在一个令人昏昏欲睡的夏日午后。
eg. Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache.
废气把他熏得昏昏沉沉，还引起了头疼。
2. opiate n. 麻醉剂
eg. One woman suffered such severe pain she had to take opiates to control it.
有一位妇女剧痛难忍，不得不服用鸦片制剂来镇痛。
eg. It was Karl Marx who said, 'Religion is the opiate of the people'.
卡尔·马克思曾说，“宗教是人民的精神鸦片。”
3. incoherent adj. 语无伦次的
eg. As the evening progressed, he became increasingly incoherent.
随着夜色加深，他说话越来越前言不搭后语了。
eg. The man was almost incoherent with fear.
那个人吓得几乎语无伦次了。
eg. She dissolved into incoherent sobs.
她语无伦次地抽咽起来。
4. privileged adj. 有特别恩典的，享有特权的
eg. They were, by and large, a very wealthy, privileged elite.
他们基本上是一些非常有钱有势的精英。
eg. Her privileged position now proved her undoing.
她的优越正是她的祸患。
eg. Only the privileged few could afford to send their children to private schools.
只有少数享有特权的人才能负担得起送孩子去私立学校就读。