英语访谈对话 401 Movie Review

 　　Todd: Howard, you said you saw the movie The Aviator¹.

　　Howard: Ah, yes, with Leonardo DiCaprio.

　　Todd: OK. What is the movie about?

　　Howard: Well, "The Aviator" refers to the character, Howard Hughes.

　　Todd: OK, who was Howard Hughes?

　　Howard: Well, Howard Hughes is a very famous person in the United States. He was a flyer, first of all, and he was a producer of movies and he was a little crazy. The interesting part of his character, although he was a very brilliant thinker, and a great aviator, he had a kind of obsession² with cleanliness, which actually drove him crazy in his later life.

　　Todd: Really, so he always wanted to be super clean.

　　Howard: Super clean! He hated germs and he went to extraordinary lengths to keep himself and all his surrounding clean. If anybody touched him, he had to wash many times to get all the germs off of him, and he was just, it became such an obsession that it interfered³ with his entire personal life.

　　Todd: Wow! What about you? Are you very clean? Do you worry about germs?

　　Howard: No not really. I don't think so.

　　Todd: OK, actually, if you're eating M&M's and one falls off your hand and hits the floor, would you pick it up real quick and still eat it, or would you not eat it?

　　Howard: It depends if I had cleaned the floor lately.

　　Todd: OK, but overall, back to the movie, was it a good movie?

　　Howard: Ah, yes. In fact, it's been nominated for a number of Academy Awards, and I think this year, it will do quite well. It's entertaining and it's well performed by Leonardo DiCaprio, although I think that Leonardo DiCaprio is a little young for the part but he did a very good job in his acting⁴.

　　Todd: Hmm, OK, thanks. Maybe I'll see it.

　　Howard: Try!

1 aviator   

n.飞行家，飞行员

参考例句：

• The young aviator bragged of his exploits in the sky.那名年轻的飞行员吹嘘他在空中飞行的英勇事迹。
• Hundreds of admirers besieged the famous aviator.数百名爱慕者围困那个著名飞行员。

2 obsession   

n.困扰，无法摆脱的思想(或情感)

参考例句：

• I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
• She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。

3 interfered   

v.干预( interfere的过去式和过去分词 )；调停；妨碍；干涉

参考例句：

• Complete absorption in sports interfered with his studies. 专注于运动妨碍了他的学业。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I am not going to be interfered with. 我不想别人干扰我的事情。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。