美国国家公共电台 NPR Experts Calculate Property Damage Costs Of Being 'Fast And Furious'

 

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

Fast cars, attractive people, a stone face, monotone Vin Diesel¹ - must be the new "Fast And Furious" movie.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS")

VIN DIESEL: (As Dom) I think I found my team.

CORNISH: This week, the eighth installment² hit theaters, "The Fate Of The Furious." And for a franchise³ that all started with a fight over a tuna sandwich, the stakes have gotten pretty high.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

Shea Serrano is a writer for the website The Ringer.

SHEA SERRANO: The first one was mainly focused on actual street racing⁴. They were racing for like $2,000 a race. And then by, like, the time we got to the fifth one, they were robbing a warlord of a hundred million dollars.

CORNISH: As the stakes scaled up, so did the damages. A British insurance company calculated the cost of all those car crashes and street fights.

SHAPIRO: There's less than a million dollars of damage in the first movie.

SERRANO: The biggest thing that happens in the first one is a car flips⁵. There are two times where a car crashes and it rolls over. And that was, like, the biggest, most damaging thing that happens.

SHAPIRO: Puny⁶ compared to "Furious 7" where almost $300 million of stuff gets wrecked⁷, much of it in one insane scene involving one of the most expensive cars in the world.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FURIOUS 7")

PAUL WALKER: (As Brian O'Conner) Do you realize what this is? Lykan HyperSport - $3.4 million, 0 to 16 in less than 30 seconds. There's seven of these things in the world, and this guy keeps it locked up in a vault⁸.

DIESEL: (As Dom) Nothing sadder than locking a beast in a cage.

CORNISH: The beast goes out of the cage and out of the skyscraper⁹ penthouse all together into another skyscraper then out a window and into another skyscraper. Our heroes escape without a scratch. The car does not.

SHAPIRO: As for the newest film, Shea Serrano of The Ringer says, of course, this one ups the ante again.

SERRANO: There's like a scene where some hackers¹¹ control like a thousand cars.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FATE OF THE FURIOUS")

CHARLIZE THERON: (As Cipher) I want every car in a two-mile radius¹² now.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) There's over a thousand of them.

THERON: (As Cipher) Hack¹⁰ them all.

SERRANO: They just hack into them and start zombie driving them. And they're just smashing them into everything. They're driving them like out of parking garages. They're hacking¹³ all the cars in there, and then they just drive them all out of the back of the garage onto the ground. It's like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cars crashing into each other.

SHAPIRO: Craziest thing of all - this isn't even the last movie in the franchise. "Fast and Furious 9" and 10 are already on the books for April 2019 and '21 respectively.

CORNISH: Shea Serrano says the challenge now is, where do they go from here?

SERRANO: They fought a tank. They fought a plane. This time they fight a submarine. I assume soon they're going to have to fight a space shuttle. I can't - I'm excited for "Fast And The Furious 10" in outer space.

CORNISH: Shae Serano of the website The Ringer. "Fate Of The Furious," the eighth one, is out today.

(SOUNDBITE OF JAKE ONE AND MF DOOM'S "TRAP DOOR")

1 diesel   

n.柴油发动机，内燃机

参考例句：

• We experimented with diesel engines to drive the pumps.我们试着用柴油机来带动水泵。
• My tractor operates on diesel oil.我的那台拖拉机用柴油开动。

2 installment   

n.(instalment)分期付款；(连载的)一期

参考例句：

• I shall soon pay the last installment of my debt.不久我将偿付我的最后一期债款。
• He likes to buy things on the installment plan.他喜欢用分期付款法购买货物。

3 franchise   

n.特许，特权，专营权，特许权

参考例句：

• Catering in the schools is run on a franchise basis.学校餐饮服务以特许权经营。
• The United States granted the franchise to women in 1920.美国于1920年给妇女以参政权。

4 racing   

n.竞赛，赛马；adj.竞赛用的，赛马用的

参考例句：

• I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
• The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。

5 flips   

轻弹( flip的第三人称单数 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥

参考例句：

• Larry flips on the TV while he is on vacation in Budapest. 赖瑞在布达佩斯渡假时，打开电视收看节目。
• He flips through a book before making a decision. 他在决定买下一本书前总要先草草翻阅一下。

6 puny   

adj.微不足道的，弱小的

参考例句：

• The resources at the central banks' disposal are simply too puny.中央银行掌握的资金实在太少了。
• Antonio was a puny lad,and not strong enough to work.安东尼奥是个瘦小的小家伙，身体还不壮，还不能干活。

7 wrecked   

adj.失事的，遇难的

参考例句：

• the hulk of a wrecked ship 遇难轮船的残骸
• the salvage of the wrecked tanker 对失事油轮的打捞

8 vault   

n.拱形圆顶，地窖，地下室

参考例句：

• The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。
• The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。

9 skyscraper   

n.摩天大楼

参考例句：

• The skyscraper towers into the clouds.那幢摩天大楼高耸入云。
• The skyscraper was wrapped in fog.摩天楼为雾所笼罩。

10 hack   

n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳

参考例句：

• He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
• Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。

11 hackers   

n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”

参考例句：

• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网

12 radius   

n.半径，半径范围；有效航程，范围，界限

参考例句：

• He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
• We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。

13 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。