美国国家公共电台 NPR Grooving To That 70s Beat, 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' Return In Volume 2

 

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"Guardians¹ Of The Galaxy² Vol. 2" opens in theaters this weekend. The film is on track for a $150 million opening, so reviews are probably irrelevant³. But NPR's Bob Mondello has one anyway.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2")

BRADLEY COOPER: (As Rocket) So we're saving the galaxy again.

CHRIS PRATT: (As Star-Lord) Yep.

COOPER: (As Rocket) Awesome⁴. We're really going to be able to jack⁵ up our prices if we're two-time galaxy savers.

BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE⁶: Yeah, that's probably the thinking this time - corporately⁷, I mean. "Guardians" one was a pleasant surprise three summers ago, a jokey variation on superhero themes that even comic book fans had to concede were getting a tad heavy back then. Next to spider-bitten teens and brooding bat guys, there was real lightness to the way Walkman-toting Peter Quill⁸ and his misfit pickup⁹ band grooved¹⁰ to a '70s beat. The fate of the galaxy may have been in the balance, but they had more important things on their minds and still do, as meathead Drax reminds Chris Pratt's self-appointed Star-Lord.

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DAVE BAUTISTA: (As Drax) There are two types of beings in the universe, those who dance and those who do not.

PRATT: (As Star-Lord) I get it, yes. I am a dancer. Gamora is not.

BAUTISTA: (As Drax) You just need to find a woman who is pathetic like you.

PRATT: (As Star-Lord) Thanks, buddy¹¹.

MONDELLO: Zoe Saldana's Gamora is the team's green-skinned siren, a lethal¹² assassin who's been reduced to playing nanny this time.

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ZOE SALDANA: (As Gamora) Can we put the bickering¹³ on hold until after we survive this massive space battle?

MONDELLO: Her job, when she's not playing sibling¹⁴ rivalry¹⁵ games with her cyborg sister, is to wrangle¹⁶ the boys as they play with their toys, Peter trying to act all grown up with his blasters and Walkman while Rocket, the mechanically enhanced raccoon, ticks off a race of golden elitists by swiping the batteries that power their toys.

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COOPER: (As Rocket) You know why I did it, Star-Munch?

PRATT: (As Star-Lord) I'm not going to answer to Star-Munch.

COOPER: (As Rocket) I did it because I wanted to do. What are we even talking about this for? We just had a little man save us by blowing up 50 ships.

BAUTISTA: (As Drax) How little?

COOPER: (As Rocket) Like this?

SALDANA: (As Gamora) A little one-inch man saved us?

COOPER: (As Rocket) Well, if he got closer, I'm sure he'd be much larger.

PRATT: (As Star-Lord) Yeah, that's how eyesight works you stupid raccoon.

COOPER: (As Rocket) Don't call me a raccoon.

PRATT: (As Star-Lord) I'm sorry. I took it too far. I meant trash panda.

COOPER: (As Rocket) Is that better?

PRATT: (As Star-Lord) It's worse. It's so much worse.

MONDELLO: They are bickering children. Including Groot, formerly¹⁷ a tree of few words who is now an adorable twig¹⁸ of few words, still voiced by Vin Diesel¹⁹, who is picking up the world's easiest paycheck for this one.

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VIN DIESEL: (As Groot) I am Groot.

COOPER: (As Rocket) Uh-huh.

DIESEL: (As Groot) I am Groot.

COOPER: (As Rocket) That's right.

DIESEL: (As Groot) I am Groot.

COOPER: (As Rocket) No.

MONDELLO: Baby Groot's the one real kid, also the one who doesn't seem to have serious parental²⁰ problems, which get exacerbated²¹ when along comes that little one-inch man, who is indeed bigger when you see him close up and played by Kurt Russell.

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KURT RUSSELL: (As Ego) After all these years, I've found you.

PRATT: (As Star-Lord) And who the hell are you?

RUSSELL: (As Ego) I'm your dad, Peter.

MONDELLO: And wait till you see the daddy issues writer-director James Gunn has him introduce. Peter's are the ones that drive the plots, but everyone seems to have them - Gamora and her sister, for sure, and Yondu, the blue, arrow-whistling mercenary who's sort of Peter's foster dad. Played by Michael Rooker, Yondu is looking for approval from biker-style daddy Sylvester Stallone. And, well, let's just say that director Gunn isn't about to be outgunned by Oedipus in the myth-building department. Not with all those blasters and spaceships at his command.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2")

DIESEL: (As Groot) I am Groot.

MONDELLO: Yes, the filmmaker is putting in more effort this time to make everything look effortless, but hey, it's a sequel. And in Marvel²² sequels, the less-is-more aesthetic²³ only works when Hugh Jackman is involved. "Guardians" two isn't trying to reinvent anything this time. It just aims to give audiences what they've paid for.

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PRATT: (As Star-Lord) Groot, put your seatbelt on.

MONDELLO: Splashy battles, snark for days, eye candy effects, all grooving²⁴ to that '70s beat. I'm Bob Mondello.

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1 guardians   

监护人( guardian的名词复数 )； 保护者，维护者

参考例句：

• Farmers should be guardians of the countryside. 农民应是乡村的保卫者。
• The police are guardians of law and order. 警察是法律和秩序的护卫者。

2 galaxy   

n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)

参考例句：

• The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
• The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。

3 irrelevant   

adj.不恰当的，无关系的，不相干的

参考例句：

• That is completely irrelevant to the subject under discussion.这跟讨论的主题完全不相关。
• A question about arithmetic is irrelevant in a music lesson.在音乐课上，一个数学的问题是风马牛不相及的。

4 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

5 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。

6 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

7 corporately   

adv.团结地，共同地

参考例句：

8 quill   

n.羽毛管；v.给（织物或衣服）作皱褶

参考例句：

• He wrote with a quill.他用羽毛笔写字。
• She dipped a quill in ink,and then began to write.她将羽毛笔在墨水里蘸了一下，随后开始书写。

9 pickup   

n.拾起，获得

参考例句：

• I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。

10 grooved   

v.沟( groove的过去式和过去分词 )；槽；老一套；（某种）音乐节奏

参考例句：

• He was grooved in running errands for his neighbors. 他已习惯于为邻居跑腿。 来自辞典例句
• The carpenter grooved the board. 木匠在木板上开槽。 来自辞典例句

11 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

12 lethal   

adj.致死的；毁灭性的

参考例句：

• A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
• She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。

13 bickering   

v.争吵( bicker的现在分词 )；口角；（水等）作潺潺声；闪烁

参考例句：

• The children are always bickering about something or other. 孩子们有事没事总是在争吵。
• The two children were always bickering with each other over small matters. 这两个孩子总是为些小事斗嘴。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

14 sibling   

n.同胞手足(指兄、弟、姐或妹)

参考例句：

• Many of us hate living in the shadows of a more successful sibling.我们很多人都讨厌活在更为成功的手足的阴影下。
• Sibling ravalry has been common in this family.这个家里，兄弟姊妹之间的矛盾很平常。

15 rivalry   

n.竞争，竞赛，对抗

参考例句：

• The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
• He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。

16 wrangle   

vi.争吵

参考例句：

• I don't want to get into a wrangle with the committee.我不想同委员会发生争执。
• The two countries fell out in a bitter wrangle over imports.这两个国家在有关进口问题的激烈争吵中闹翻了。

17 formerly   

adv.从前，以前

参考例句：

• We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
• This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。

18 twig   

n.小树枝，嫩枝；v.理解

参考例句：

• He heard the sharp crack of a twig.他听到树枝清脆的断裂声。
• The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.细枝突然折断的刺耳声把獾惊跑了。

19 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。

20 parental   

adj.父母的；父的；母的

参考例句：

• He encourages parental involvement in the running of school.他鼓励学生家长参与学校的管理。
• Children always revolt against parental disciplines.孩子们总是反抗父母的管束。

21 exacerbated   

v.使恶化，使加重( exacerbate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The symptoms may be exacerbated by certain drugs. 这些症状可能会因为某些药物而加重。
• The drugs they gave her only exacerbated the pain. 他们给她吃的药只是加重了她的痛楚。 来自《简明英汉词典》

22 marvel   

vi.(at)惊叹vt.感到惊异；n.令人惊异的事

参考例句：

• The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
• The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。

23 aesthetic   

adj.美学的，审美的，有美感

参考例句：

• My aesthetic standards are quite different from his.我的审美标准与他的大不相同。
• The professor advanced a new aesthetic theory.那位教授提出了新的美学理论。

24 grooving   

n.（轧辊）孔型设计v.沟( groove的现在分词 )；槽；老一套；（某种）音乐节奏

参考例句：

• It can be used for cutting ceramics, grooving and beveling. 该切机具备切割、切槽、倒角等功能。 来自互联网
• Top-quality steel blades are used to guarantee smoothness grooving. 选任优质锯齿型开槽刀片，保证开槽光洁度。 来自互联网