【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E02 - 20

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C – Christopher Tietjens

V – Valentine Wannop

M – Mrs. Wannop

E – Edward Wannop

 

--: Lord, I thought you were supposed to be clever. Because the French army is ten times the size of the British army! Because the war is being fought on French soil, not British soil! Because... Now look here, Tietjens. I took you for a sound man. This department exists to show that just as there are different ways to put things in words, there are different ways to put things in numbers!

C: I detest¹ and despise the work I am asked to do in the department, whose purpose seems to be to turn statistics into sophistry². I am resigning. Good morning.

--: Resigning? Don't you want to be a man of influence?

C: No. I'd prefer to be in the trenches³.

M: Oh, God, give me the strength to strangle the Kaiser with my bare hands.

E: You innocent! It's the soldiers who betrayed the cause.

M: You are talking rubbish!

E: Class traitors⁴! And the German socialists⁵ too!

M: I can't listen to this...

E: Voting for war like lickspittle lackeys⁶.

V: Stop it! Stop it!

E: I hope they die with blood spouting⁷ out of their lungs.

V: I thought you were a pacifist!

E: Yes, I refuse to fight, but let the guilty get what they deserve!

M: You are nothing but a lily-livered coward...

1 detest   

vt.痛恨，憎恶

参考例句：

• I detest people who tell lies.我恨说谎的人。
• The workers detest his overbearing manner.工人们很讨厌他那盛气凌人的态度。

2 sophistry   

n.诡辩

参考例句：

• Sophistry cannot alter history.诡辩改变不了历史。
• No one can be persuaded by sophistry.强词夺理不能折服人。

3 trenches   

深沟，地沟( trench的名词复数 )； 战壕

参考例句：

• life in the trenches 第一次世界大战期间的战壕生活
• The troops stormed the enemy's trenches and fanned out across the fields. 部队猛攻敌人的战壕，并在田野上呈扇形散开。

4 traitors   

卖国贼( traitor的名词复数 )； 叛徒； 背叛者； 背信弃义的人

参考例句：

• Traitors are held in infamy. 叛徒为人所不齿。
• Traitors have always been treated with contempt. 叛徒永被人们唾弃。

5 socialists   

社会主义者( socialist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The socialists saw themselves as true heirs of the Enlightenment. 社会主义者认为自己是启蒙运动的真正继承者。
• The Socialists junked dogma when they came to office in 1982. 社会党人1982年上台执政后，就把其政治信条弃之不顾。

6 lackeys   

n.听差( lackey的名词复数 )；男仆（通常穿制服）；卑躬屈膝的人；被待为奴仆的人

参考例句：

• When the boss falls from power, his lackeys disperse. 树倒猢狲散。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The singer was surrounded by the usual crowd of lackeys and hangers on. 那个歌手让那帮总是溜须拍马、前呼後拥的人给围住了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 spouting   

n.水落管系统v.（指液体）喷出( spout的现在分词 )；滔滔不绝地讲；喋喋不休地说；喷水

参考例句：

• He's always spouting off about the behaviour of young people today. 他总是没完没了地数落如今年轻人的行为。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Blood was spouting from the deep cut in his arm. 血从他胳膊上深深的伤口里涌出来。 来自《简明英汉词典》