【英语时差8,16】凯特温丝蕾尽力拯救内敛的「为爱朗读」

Although "The Reader" costars gifted Ralph Fiennes and also features a young actor named David Kross, it is Kate Winslet's haunting performance that gives the film its greatest success.

The narrator is Michael Berg, introduced in the Germany of 1995 as a successful attorney played by Fiennes. Extensive flashbacks alternate with more modern scenes throughout. In 1958, when he was 15, he was stricken with scarlet¹ fever on a street and helped home by a strange woman named Hanna (Winslet).

Once Berg has recovered, he goes to find Hanna to thank her. She is 36, but that doesn't stop her from almost immediately seducing² the boy.

This seduction eventually develops into a more complex relationship. Hanna likes to be read to and soon Berg is reading her everything from "Tintin" to "Lady Chatterley's Lover." The affair ends all of a sudden, and the next time Berg sees Hanna it is under starkly³ different circumstances. It is years later; he is in law school, taking a seminar that involves going to a Nazi⁴ war-crimes trial, and there, at the defendant's table, sits Hanna.

From here on in, "The Reader" is at its strongest, as its concerns with the guilt-ridden interplay between generations, whether it is even possible to come to terms with what people we love have done, gain a sharper focus.

1 scarlet   

n.深红色，绯红色，红衣；adj.绯红色的

参考例句：

• The scarlet leaves of the maples contrast well with the dark green of the pines.深红的枫叶和暗绿的松树形成了明显的对比。
• The glowing clouds are growing slowly pale,scarlet,bright red,and then light red.天空的霞光渐渐地淡下去了，深红的颜色变成了绯红，绯红又变为浅红。

2 seducing   

诱奸( seduce的现在分词 )； 勾引； 诱使堕落； 使入迷

参考例句：

• He got into trouble for seducing the daughter of a respectable tradesman. 他因为引诱一个有名望的商人的女儿而惹上了麻烦。
• Chao Hsin-mei, you scoundrel, you shameless wretch, seducing a married woman. 赵辛楣，你这混帐东西！无耻家伙！引诱有夫之妇。

3 starkly   

adj. 变硬了的,完全的 adv. 完全,实在,简直

参考例句：

• The city of Befast remains starkly divided between Catholics and Protestants. 贝尔法斯特市完全被处在天主教徒和新教徒的纷争之中。
• The black rocks stood out starkly against the sky. 那些黑色的岩石在天空衬托下十分显眼。

4 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。