VOA标准英语2009-Latest Twilight Saga 'New Moon' Features Tee

At the movies: the strange happenings in the rainy Pacific Northwest town of Forks, Washington get even stranger for love-struck Bella and her brooding boyfriend Edward (who happens to be a vampire¹); but best friend Jacob also has a supernatural secret.

Alan Silverman | Hollywood 20 November 2009

 

"I know what he did to you, but, Bella, I would never hurt you."

At the movies: the strange happenings in the rainy Pacific Northwest town of Forks, Washington get even stranger for love-struck Bella and her brooding boyfriend Edward (who happens to be a vampire); but best friend Jacob also has a supernatural secret. Teenaged love has rarely been so complicated and fraught² with danger as it is in this second film of The Twilight³ Saga⁴: New Moon.

The tiny drop of blood from the nick on Bella's finger would be no big deal were she not in a room full of vampires⁵. In the 2008 hit Twilight, she fell in love with Edward, the eternally young teenager of the Cullen clan⁶ of vampires who have chosen to live among humans and resist the temptation to eat them. They welcome their son's mortal girlfriend, but Edward realizes every minute together puts her life in danger.

Bella is heartbroken without her undead soul mate.

Even the devotion of her longtime best friend Jacob does little to console her.

Of course Jacob is changing too. He's taller …more muscular …and when he gets angry he transforms into a gigantic werewolf.

 

 
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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in a scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon

"Bella is so sure all the time and this is the one movie where she actually is baffled and totally, like, 'I don't know,'" explains actress Kristen Stewart. " It is weird⁷ to play Bella like that because she is so not like that."

 

Stewart returns as Bella and says the year since the original Twilight film has turned her character's life upside-down.

"It was really intense," she admits. "Just because of the nature of the story it goes in a completely different direction. We undermine the first. We establish a very ideological⁸ idea of love and basically we tell our main protagonist⁹ that she was wrong; and where is our story going to be left if Edward is not there? What I really love about New Moon is you see this girl really build herself back up and by the time she makes the sort of rash decision to spend eternity¹⁰ with a vampire, you believe her. She's really, like, 'you're old enough, and you're mature enough to know.' "

"What really helped was people's anticipation¹¹ of the movie," says co-star Robert Pattinson, "and the fans of the series idea of what Bella and Edward's relationship is and what it represents to them."

 

 
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Robert Pattinson as Edward in scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Pattinson is Edward and the English-born actor says the entire cast felt the pressure of expectations from avid¹² fans of the first film and the Twilight novels by Stephanie Meyers.

"It's some kind of ideal for a relationship and so just playing a scene where you're breaking up the ideal relationship, you feel … I mean I felt a lot of the weight behind that," Pattinson says. "Also it took away a lot of your fear of melodrama¹³ as well because it felt kind of seismic¹⁴, if that's the right word. You could really feel the audience watching as you're doing it."

 

 
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Taylor Lautner in scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon

"I don't think there's any way to prepare yourself for this phenomenon. None of us expected it," adds Taylor Lautner.

Lautner, 17, added weight and muscle to fill out his character Jacob; but he knew the fans would expect no less.

"When we were filming Twilight we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy and then it kind of just blew into this whole other world," he says. "So I don't think there's a way to prepare for that; but you could definitely say I felt a little bit of pressure trying to bring Jacob's character and Jacob and Bella's relationship alive for the fans, because this movie definitely develops their relationship and it sets up the love triangle, so it's a very important story."

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Director Chris Weitz on the set of the movie

"About a week before this was offered to me I was saying to a friend 'why are they making so many vampire movies? I just don't get it,'" director Chris Weitz says.

Weitz stepped in to direct New Moon, replacing Catherine Hardwicke who helmed the first film. No stranger to teenage romances (he made the first two American Pie comedies), Weitz says the appeal of vampires puzzles him.

"I still don't understand why," he admits. "I usually end up mumbling¹⁵ something about it being a very adaptable¹⁶ metaphor¹⁷. In the 1980's it could be about AIDS; in the '90's it could be about greed; and I think now it's about the sense that the person you fall in love with for the first time is something other than you, something higher …something unattainable and transcendent."

Of course, fans know New Moon is not the end of the Twilight Saga as the action moves to Italy where the Vulturi clan sets the rules for vampires …rules that apparently¹⁸ include 'do not fall in love with mortals.'

But for that, they'll have to wait until next year when Eclipse, the third film, arrives at theaters.

1 vampire   

n.吸血鬼

参考例句：

• It wasn't a wife waiting there for him but a blood sucking vampire!家里的不是个老婆，而是个吸人血的妖精！
• Children were afraid to go to sleep at night because of the many legends of vampire.由于听过许多有关吸血鬼的传说，孩子们晚上不敢去睡觉。

2 fraught   

adj.充满…的，伴有(危险等)的；忧虑的

参考例句：

• The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions.未来数月将充满重大的决定。
• There's no need to look so fraught!用不着那么愁眉苦脸的！

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 saga   

n.(尤指中世纪北欧海盗的)故事，英雄传奇

参考例句：

• The saga of Flight 19 is probably the most repeated story about the Bermuda Triangle.飞行19中队的传说或许是有关百慕大三角最重复的故事。
• The novel depicts the saga of a family.小说描绘了一个家族的传奇故事。

5 vampires   

n.吸血鬼( vampire的名词复数 )；吸血蝠；高利贷者；（舞台上的）活板门

参考例句：

• The most effective weapon against the vampires is avampire itself. 对付吸血鬼最有效的武器就是吸血鬼自己。 来自电影对白
• If vampires existed, don`t you think we would`ve found them by now? 如果真有吸血鬼，那我们怎么还没有找到他们呢？ 来自电影对白

6 clan   

n.氏族，部落，宗族，家族，宗派

参考例句：

• She ranks as my junior in the clan.她的辈分比我小。
• The Chinese Christians,therefore,practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.所以，中国的基督徒简直是被逐出了自己的家族了。

7 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。

8 ideological   

a.意识形态的

参考例句：

• He always tries to link his study with his ideological problems. 他总是把学习和自己的思想问题联系起来。
• He helped me enormously with advice on how to do ideological work. 他告诉我怎样做思想工作，对我有很大帮助。

9 protagonist   

n.(思想观念的)倡导者；主角，主人公

参考例句：

• The protagonist reforms in the end and avoids his proper punishment.戏剧主角最后改过自新并避免了他应受的惩罚。
• He is the model for the protagonist in the play.剧本中的主人公就是以他为模特儿创作的！

10 eternity   

n.不朽，来世；永恒，无穷

参考例句：

• The dull play seemed to last an eternity.这场乏味的剧似乎演个没完没了。
• Finally,Ying Tai and Shan Bo could be together for all of eternity.英台和山伯终能双宿双飞，永世相随。

11 anticipation   

n.预期，预料，期望

参考例句：

• We waited at the station in anticipation of her arrival.我们在车站等着，期待她的到来。
• The animals grew restless as if in anticipation of an earthquake.各种动物都变得焦躁不安，像是感到了地震即将发生。

12 avid   

adj.热心的；贪婪的；渴望的；劲头十足的

参考例句：

• He is rich,but he is still avid of more money.他很富有,但他还想贪图更多的钱。
• She was avid for praise from her coach.那女孩渴望得到教练的称赞。

13 melodrama   

n.音乐剧；情节剧

参考例句：

• We really don't need all this ridiculous melodrama!别跟我们来这套荒唐的情节剧表演！
• White Haired Woman was a melodrama,but in certain spots it was deliberately funny.《白毛女》是一出悲剧性的歌剧，但也有不少插科打诨。

14 seismic   

a.地震的，地震强度的

参考例句：

• Earthquakes produce two types of seismic waves.地震产生两种地震波。
• The latest seismic activity was also felt in northern Kenya.肯尼亚北部也感觉到了最近的地震活动。

15 mumbling   

含糊地说某事，叽咕，咕哝( mumble的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I could hear him mumbling to himself. 我听到他在喃喃自语。
• He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg. 宴会结束时，他仍在咕哝着医院里的事。说着说着，他在一块冰上滑倒，跌断了左腿。

16 adaptable   

adj.能适应的，适应性强的，可改编的

参考例句：

• He is an adaptable man and will soon learn the new work.他是个适应性很强的人，很快就将学会这种工作。
• The soil is adaptable to the growth of peanuts.这土壤适宜于花生的生长。

17 metaphor   

n.隐喻，暗喻

参考例句：

• Using metaphor,we say that computers have senses and a memory.打个比方，我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力。
• In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。

18 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。