【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语732期

 Dobby: Harry¹ Potter, such a honor it is.

 

Harry: who are you?

 

Dobby: Dobby, sir. Dobby ,the house-elf.

 

Harry: not to be rude or anything, but thisis not the great time for me to have a house-elf in my bedroom.

 

Dobby: yes sir, Dobby understands. It’s justthat Dobby has come to tell you. Itis difficult, sir. Dobby wonders where to begin.

 

Harry: Why don’t you sit down?

 

Dobby:sit,sit down?sit sit sit down? Oh, oh,oh ohohohoh…..

 

Harry: Dobby, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean tooffend you or anything.

 

Dobby: offend Dobby? Dobby has heard yourgreatness, sir. But never has he been asked to sit down by a wizard, like aequal.

 

Harry:you can’t have met many decentwizards then.

 

Dobby: no, I haven’t. that was an awfulthing to say. Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!

 

Harry: Dobby stop! Stop, please! Stop! Stop!Are you all right?

 

Dobby: Dobby had to punish himself, sir. Dobbyalmost spoke² ill of his family, sir.

 

Harry: your family?

 

Dobby: The wizard family Dobby serves, sir.Dobby is bound to serve one family forever. If they ever knew Dobby was here,wo….But Dobby had to come. Dobby has to protect Harry Potter. To warn him. HarryPotter must not go back to Hogwarts schoolof witchcraft³ and wizardry this year. There is a plot. A plot to make mostterrible things happen.

 

Harry: what terrible things? Who’s plottingthem?

 

Dobby: wo! Can’t say!

 

Harry: ok! I understand, you can’t say!

 

Dobby: don’t make me talk!

 

Harry: Dobby, Dobby! Put the lamp down!

 

 

1 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 witchcraft   

n.魔法，巫术

参考例句：

• The woman practising witchcraft claimed that she could conjure up the spirits of the dead.那个女巫说她能用魔法召唤亡灵。
• All these things that you call witchcraft are capable of a natural explanation.被你们统统叫做巫术的那些东西都可以得到合情合理的解释。