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影片《年轻人》的快乐结局

2011-12-07来源:VOA

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1. Mavis moved away from her small Minnesota town years ago, right after graduating from high school.

move away搬到别处去住
例句:I don't know where you'll find your sister after all these years; she moved away from the town a long time ago.
你妹妹早就从这个市镇搬走了, 时隔多年了我不知道你去哪儿能找到她。
graduate from从…毕业
例句:He was graduated from a normal college.
他是一个师范学院的毕业生。

2. But her real life is nothing like those romantic fantasies and so she's gone home to win back her high school sweetheart.
win back重新获得, 夺回
例句:She has managed to win him back.
她终于重新获得了他的爱。

3. Despite warnings from Matt, the former classmate she runs into at a local bar, Mavis plows ahead with her twisted plan.

run into偶然遇见
例句:I ran into Bob yesterday on main street.
昨天我在大街上偶然遇到了鲍勃。

4. The idea of somebody whose priorities were completely screwed up who wanted to live in that world, even though it's completely unattainable, was intriguing to me.

screw up把…搞糟
例句:It was such a simple plan; how could you have screwed it up?
这是个很简单的计划, 你怎么会把它弄得一团糟呢?

5. Charlize Theron is lewd, crude and thoughtless as Mavis, and she says those unsavory aspects made the character appealing to her.

appeal to对…有吸引力
例句:This job rather appeals to me.
这工作对我有吸引力。

6. "What I liked when I read Diablo's script was the idea of a woman who is dealing with very common issues that women can really relate to," explains Theron, "but is dealing with them the way a 16-year-old would deal with them. Here she is 37 trying to get her life together, and she just doesn't have the tools to do it."

deal with与...交涉,交易;应付;处理
例句:He has learnt to deal properly with all kinds of complicated situations.
他已学会恰当地应付各种复杂局面。
relate to涉及, 关系到…; 与…协调, 与…相处得好, 与…相适应
例句:She doesn't relate very well to her mother.
她和她母亲关系不太融洽。

7. "People get freaked out when they see real women conflicted," she notes.

freak out 使处于极度兴奋中
例句:We freaked out when we won the lottery.
中了奖券,我们兴奋极了。

8. I think women are almost way more conflicted than men, and I grew up on cinema where guys got to do that.

grow up长大, 成熟
例句:Tom wants to be a coach when he grows up.
汤姆长大后想当教练。

9. "If I have a message, and hopefully there's a continuity of that in all of my films, it's 'think for yourself and come up with your own opinions.' I certainly don't want to tell you what to think and hopefully people draw their own conclusions," he says.

come up with想出, 提出
例句:I hope you can come up with a better plan than this.
我希望你们能提出一个比这个更好的计划。