听美剧学英语:《淘小子看世界》The Play's the Thing - 1（在线收听） |
| Good morning, class! I would like you all to let out your most agonized groan. Ah~ Good. Now, let's start planning our springtime class play. Ah~~~ Been there, heard that. Now, before you give up in despair, you may want to hear my play selection. It has sword-fights, murder, skulls, even ghosts. How does that sound? Sounds like Spielberg. Sounds like Shakespeare. Sounds like a loser. We will be doing selected scenes from the play Hamlet. Mr. Hunter, in the parlance of the theater, you will be a spear-carrier. Excellent. So this guy I'll play is like what, a warrior and a hero? No, this guy you play has very few lines to memorize. Ms. Laurence, you will be playing the tragic heroine Ophelia. Now, this is a challenging role. She goes quite insane. Tapanga is insane? What a stretch! If I were a less-evolved person, I'd say cram it, brillo head. Mr. Minkus, you will be playing the role of the wise old Polonius. Polonius? He only has 48 lines. I sort of pictured myself as the melancholy Dane. For those of you unfamiliar with the reference, Mr. Minkus means the lead role Prince Hamlet. Now, this is a tricky part to cast because Hamlet gets on a lot of people's nerves. He makes one stupid mistake after another. And for 5 acts, he never shuts up. What? I have a booger? Words & Information: parlance : You use parlance when indicating that the expression you are using is normally used by a particular group of people. 说法;语调 brillo head: A brillo head is a person who has ugly, curly hair. Often times a person of mixed ethnic descent, a halfie will have that white complexion but black hair. They can accurately be described as a brillo head. |
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