【英语时差8,16】神奇的「超异能冒险」

 "Race to Witch Mountain" stars Dwayne Johnson as Jack¹ Bruno, the Vegas cab driver who finds himself with some most unusual passengers. Jack is smarter than you might think, but he really should have figured out that the teenage siblings², Sara and Seth (Anna Sophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig), who suddenly appear in his back seat have to be from some other world. Only after a few narrow escapes on their way to a spot in the Nevada desert, which just happens to have an underground labyrinth³ filled with mysteriously glowing pods, does Jack realize there's more at work here than the outrage⁴ of his former mob bosses. Director Andy Fickman and the screenwriters know Johnson's strengths and limitations and play to them here. So there are lots of intense fight scenes in which Johnson steamrolls through flanks of assault-rifle-carrying agency operatives (it helps that Seth can stop bullets with his mind, although it takes a lot of concentration to pull that one off) or going up against the towering programmed-to-kill cyborg sent to kill Sara and Seth. Robb is exceptional as Sara, delivering the stilted⁵ alien-speak lines as if she's been talking that way her entire life. And the chemistry between Robb and Johnson is just short of terrific—you know Jack would protect Sara with his life and not because he has to.

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 siblings   

n.兄弟，姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分

3 labyrinth   

n.迷宫；难解的事物；迷路

参考例句：

• He wandered through the labyrinth of the alleyways.他在迷宫似的小巷中闲逛。
• The human mind is a labyrinth.人的心灵是一座迷宫。

4 outrage   

n.暴行，侮辱，愤怒；vt.凌辱，激怒

参考例句：

• When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
• We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。

5 stilted   

adj.虚饰的；夸张的

参考例句：

• All too soon the stilted conversation ran out.很快这种做作的交谈就结束了。
• His delivery was stilted and occasionally stumbling.他的发言很生硬，有时还打结巴。