英语新闻视频：《老爸老妈的浪漫史》主角乔什.拉德诺谈校园爱情

I’m here now with Josh Radnor, you all know him best from the sitcomhow I met your mother, he’s also making his mark in the movies, writing, directing and starring a new film liberal art, it’s about a 30 something romantic goes back to his old college and falls into a complicated kind of love, take a look.

　　So I should tell you, I feel a little weird¹ about being here.

　　Why? Don’t.

　　Well, I don’t know if you know this, but I’m a few years older than you.

　　You are?

　　Just a few, yeah, and I’m not necessarily say, I don’t wanna get ahead of myself here, it’s just…

　　Oh, wait, sorry, you, did you think this was like a romantic thing? Just kidding

　　Oh, my god，come here. And Josh Radnor joins us now, so I said they say right what you know, this was all inspired by a trip back to your college, Kenyon.

　　Oh Yeah, I went back to Kenyon in Ohio, which is my almamaterto show my first film, “happy, thank you, more please”, this was about two years ago.

　　And I was 35 at the time and suddenly I realized that was nearly twice as old as the students there.

　　It’s hard.

　　And it was a little confusing for me, I had not planned on aging, but it happened anyway, and so I started to think about you know, aging, and nostalgiaand how much my college years had meant to me and you know, it’s not an autobiographical tale, but I started to think about this, this guy.

　　And your character is one of those guys who just, you can say now you’re peaked in college but loved it, and hasn’t yet found his way in the ground world.

　　Yeah, he loved it in a kind of outsized way, and just misses the kind of exchange of ideas and the meal plan and the, you know socialization of college. And yeah, he’s just a little lost and he’s kind of burying his head in the books you know and not really engaging in life in a really …way.

　　But then he meets this wonder of a girl, Elizabeth Olsen is so charming

　　She’s amazing, yeah, yeah, so yeah, he meets this 19 year old girl and they’re very drawn² to each other and it throws him into a tailspin and you know,

　　So I gotta ask you, we only have a couple of seconds left, I gotta ask you, what do you have against twilight³, there’s a set piece in the film.

　　Well, I don’t have anything against twilight, the character of Jessie has something against twilight. There’s a very spirit of the exchange over the value of reading, you know, whether we should read things that are just good for us, or whether we should be reading things we enjoy, you know just for enjoying, enjoyment⁴ sake, and you know, I just had fun writing this argument, I think, you know, she wins the argument, defending twilight

　　She does, she definitely does

　　She totally wins the argument, but I just thought Jessie was a type of character that would completely judge people based on what they read.

　　So all you twilight defenders⁵ out there, see liberal arts.

　　Yes.

　　To gig your talking point, Josh, it’s a lovely film, Thanks all for coming.

　　Oh, thank you. Thank you.

　　It opens on 14 September.

 

1 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

2 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

3 twilight   

n.暮光，黄昏；暮年，晚期，衰落时期

参考例句：

• Twilight merged into darkness.夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
• Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。

4 enjoyment   

n.乐趣；享有；享用

参考例句：

• Your company adds to the enjoyment of our visit. 有您的陪同，我们这次访问更加愉快了。
• After each joke the old man cackled his enjoyment.每逢讲完一个笑话，这老人就呵呵笑着表示他的高兴。

5 defenders   

n.防御者( defender的名词复数 )；守卫者；保护者；辩护者

参考例句：

• The defenders were outnumbered and had to give in. 抵抗者寡不敌众，只能投降。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• After hard fighting,the defenders were still masters of the city. 守军经过奋战仍然控制着城市。 来自《简明英汉词典》