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Directed and co-written by Andy Tennant ("Hitch"), the sunken-treasure romance-adventure flick¹ "Fool's Gold" revolves² around a quest for the fabled³ Queen's Dowry: a boatload of gold and jewels meant to seal a royal marriage deal, that sank in the Caribbean in 1715.

Tess Finnegan (Kate Hudson) and her ex-husband Ben (Matthew McConaughey), who met and married in Florida during spring break, have spent their entire marriage looking for the booty. Tess is a doctoral candidate and has had her whole life thwarted⁴ by Ben's passion for finding the Dowry. So they split up, but immediately get back together when Ben finally finds a substantial clue to what's down there, waiting.

Meanwhile, Ben's underwater wanderings have put him in serious debt to a gangster/rap star named Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart), who wants the treasure, too. And in a stupidly reckless effort to save a windblown hat, Ben endears himself to the dumb-as-a-doorknob Gemma Honeycutt, whose father, the fabulously⁵ wealthy Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland), takes a liking⁶ to both Ben and the idea of finding the Dowry.

That Tess is working as a steward⁷ aboard Nigel's yacht is one of the picture's many wild coincidences. At this point, she and Ben lay out for Nigel the whole history of the ill-fated ship Aurelia.

Much of the rest of the film consists of musical montages, chase scenes and slapstick comedy.

 

1 flick   

n.快速的轻打，轻打声，弹开；v.轻弹，轻轻拂去，忽然摇动

参考例句：

• He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
• By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下，将马头上的苍蝇驱走。

2 revolves   

v.（使）旋转( revolve的第三人称单数 )；细想

参考例句：

• The earth revolves both round the sun and on its own axis. 地球既公转又自转。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Thus a wheel revolves on its axle. 于是，轮子在轴上旋转。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 fabled   

adj.寓言中的，虚构的

参考例句：

• For the first week he never actually saw the fabled Jack. 第一周他实际上从没见到传说中的杰克。
• Aphrodite, the Greek goddness of love, is fabled to have been born of the foam of the sea. 希腊爱神阿美罗狄蒂据说是诞生于海浪泡沫之中。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 thwarted   

阻挠( thwart的过去式和过去分词 )； 使受挫折； 挫败； 横过

参考例句：

• The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison. 警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图。
• Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the rain. 我们的野餐计划因雨受挫。

5 fabulously   

难以置信地，惊人地

参考例句：

• The couple are said to be fabulously wealthy. 据说这对夫妇家财万贯。
• I should say this shirt matches your trousers fabulously. 我得说这衬衫同你的裤子非常相配。

6 liking   

n.爱好；嗜好；喜欢

参考例句：

• The word palate also means taste or liking.Palate这个词也有“口味”或“嗜好”的意思。
• I must admit I have no liking for exaggeration.我必须承认我不喜欢夸大其词。

7 steward   

n.乘务员，服务员；看管人；膳食管理员

参考例句：

• He's the steward of the club.他是这家俱乐部的管理员。
• He went around the world as a ship's steward.他当客船服务员，到过世界各地。