听动感英语学口语 第55讲

电影词典

supervisor¹ 监制  监督其他人确保剧本上的每个情节顺利拍摄。

美国俚语

剧中：Am I off base here .

off base ： 搞错了  wrong about sth

e.g. <1>The report was well written , but it was slightly off base .

        这篇报告的文笔不错，但是立意错了。

       <2>She was completely off base in thinking that I had lied to her

       如果她认为我去骗她的话，那她就大错特错了。

经典对白

1.剧中：survive on 100 grand a year .

grand： 一千美元

e.g. <1>At my first job out of university , I was only * twenty grand a year .

      我离开学校的第一份工作，一年只有两万元。

      <2>If you have a child, it's very difficult to survive on thirty grand a year in New York city.

      如果你有孩子，在纽约一年三万元是很艰难的。

2.剧中：They love me because I bust² their balls .

bust one's balls  ：批评，讥笑（友好的态度）

e.g. <1>My dad always busted³ my balls for being a terrible soccer player.

       爸爸总是善意的批评我球踢的不够好。

      <2>Those guys busted my balls when I told them that I was going to marry the actress.

     这些人听说我要与他们认识那个女演员结婚，就讥笑我。

原声碟

Only Hope

There's a song that's make of
my soul
it's the one that I've tried to
write over and over again
I'm awake and in the infinite
but you sing to me
over and over again
 

1 supervisor   

n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师

参考例句：

• Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
• He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。

2 bust   

vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部

参考例句：

• I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
• She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

3 busted   

adj. 破产了的，失败了的，被降级的，被逮捕的，被抓到的 动词bust的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• You are so busted! 你被当场逮住了！
• It was money troubles that busted up their marriage. 是金钱纠纷使他们的婚姻破裂了。