【英语时差8，16】追风筝的小孩，两个小主角表现抢眼

 "The Kite Runner" is an adaptation of the Khaled Hosseini novel, which told the story of how childhood friendship and betrayal played out when its characters became adults.

The film starts in contemporary San Francisco, where an adult Amir looks on morosely¹ at children playing in a park. He's a successful and happily married author, but the title of his book, "A Season for Ashes," proves that fun is not his middle name. A phone call from an old friend brings Amir back to his past, and we immediately flash back a dozen years to a life in Afghanistan that he would like to forget.

The movie's Kabul is a vivid place, especially in the sequences where the city's boys engage in kite-fighting tournaments, in which kites with glass-coated strings² fill the skies and attempt to cut each other's lines. Partners in kite-flying and best pals³ in life are 12-year-olds Amir (Zekiria Ebrahimi) and Hassan (the irresistible⁴ Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada).

Hassan is the runner of the title, and he has an uncanny ability to run to exactly where the last kite cut down will hit the ground. In many ways, however, these friends are not equals: Hassan is of the minority Hazara tribe and his father is the servant of Amir's charismatic Pashtun father Baba.

Eventually, a truly dreadful situation develops and Amir feels, with reason, that he has let Hassan down.

1 morosely   

adv.愁眉苦脸地，忧郁地

参考例句：

• Everybody, thought Scarlett, morosely, except me. 思嘉郁郁不乐地想。除了我，人人都去了。 来自飘（部分）
• He stared at her morosely. 他愁容满面地看着她。 来自辞典例句

2 strings   

n.弦

参考例句：

• He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上，随意地拨着吉他的弦。
• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。

3 pals   

n.朋友( pal的名词复数 )；老兄；小子；（对男子的不友好的称呼）家伙

参考例句：

• We've been pals for years. 我们是多年的哥们儿了。
• CD 8 positive cells remarkably increased in PALS and RP(P CD8+细胞在再生脾PALS和RP内均明显增加(P 来自互联网

4 irresistible   

adj.非常诱人的，无法拒绝的，无法抗拒的

参考例句：

• The wheel of history rolls forward with an irresistible force.历史车轮滚滚向前，势不可挡。
• She saw an irresistible skirt in the store window.她看见商店的橱窗里有一条叫人着迷的裙子。