【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语1089期

 lPrincipal: [严厉] What do you think a school is for, Brad?

 

Brad: I’m sorry I keep disrupting² (v. 使...分心) the class...

 

Principal¹: You aren’t answering my question. What’s a school for? To educate, isn’t it? To use knowledge to wipe out ignorance³ (消除无知). The school’s orchestral (n.管弦乐队) is having a concert this afternoon. You plan on going?

 

Brad: No, sir. My tics (n.抽搐) will ruin (v. 毁掉) the music.

 

Principal: I want you to be there.

[音乐会期间Brad不断发出怪声，让同学们厌烦不已，好不容易等到散场，校长突然走上讲台发话]

Everybody, just keep in seats for a minute, please. Thank you. Enjoy the concert? Great job. Did you hear any noises during the quiet part?

 

[学生们一起回答Yes，齐齐看向Brad]

 

Principal: Yeah, so did I. They’re pretty annoying, aren’t they? The person making those noises is Brad Cohen. Come up here, Brad.

 

[Brad慢慢走上台, 和校长一起面向所有人]

Do you like making noises and upsetting (v.让人心烦) people, Brad?

 

Brad: No, sir.

 

Principal: Then why do you do it?

 

Brad: Because I have Tourette’s syndrome⁴.

 

Principal: What’s that?

 

Brad: It’s a thing in my brain. It causes me to make rude noises,

 

Principal: But you can control it if you want to, right?

 

Brad: No, sir. It’s a sickness (n.疾病).

 

Principal: Well....Why can’t you just get cured (接受治疗)?

 

Brad: There isn’t any cure. I don’t like making noises any more than you like hearing them (我和你们一样不喜欢发出噪音). They’re even worse when I get stressed⁵ (adj.紧张的). When you don’t accept then I can’t stop them. But when I feel accepted, then they’re not so bad.

 

Principal: What can we do? And I mean everyone in this school. What can we do to help you, Brad?

 

Brad: I just want to be treated like everybody else.

 

Principal: [悄悄对Brad说] Good job. Go sit down.

1 principal   

adj.主要的；n.负责人，校长，资本

参考例句：

• When he saw the principal,he raised his hand in salutation.他看到校长时举手敬礼。
• Their school gave a reception to their new principal.他们学校为新校长举办了一个招待会。

2 disrupting   

使混乱，扰乱( disrupt的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting. 示威者成功地扰乱了会议。
• Wage claims had led to one strike after another, disrupting every section of the community. 由工资问题引起的罢工浪潮此起彼伏，扰乱了社会秩序。

3 ignorance   

n.无知，愚昧，不了解，（of，about）不知道

参考例句：

• The relation of disease to poverty and ignorance is easy to see.疾病与贫穷、无知之间的关系是显而易见的。
• Maybe it is all due to my own ignorance.也许是我少见多怪。

4 syndrome   

n.综合病症；并存特性

参考例句：

• The Institute says that an unidentified virus is to blame for the syndrome. 该研究所表示,引起这种综合症的是一种尚未确认的病毒。
• Results indicated that 11 fetuses had Down syndrome. 结果表明有11个胎儿患有唐氏综合征。

5 stressed   

adj.紧张的，有压力的

参考例句：

• Loud music makes me stressed out.大声的音乐让我很紧张。
• He stressed that we should always be honest.他强调我们应该永远诚实。