和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:In Theaters: 'Brave,' 'To Rome With Love' and 'Lola Versus'

2012-07-16来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Films for young people are especially popular, since most of them are out of school for summer vacation.

most of 绝大多数
例句:Most of the Asians live on rice. 
大多数亚洲人以大米为主食。 

2. When the movies come out, they want the book, which is great for me.

come out 出现
例句:The moon came out from behind the clouds.
月亮从云后露出脸来。

3. But sometimes I sort of feel like I need a big production to be in front of me."

feel like 想要
例句:I don't feel like a cup of tea.
我不想喝茶。

4. CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Librarian Wendy Tucker says once upon a time, parents read these stories to their children to teach them lessons.

once upon a time 从前
例句:Once upon a time there lived a king who had three daughters.
从前有个国王,他有三个女儿。

5. Visitors and locals falling in love.

fall in love 爱上某人
例句:He that fall in love with himself will have on rival. 
凡是爱上自己的人,都不会有情敌。 

6. He says the script partly grew out of ideas he had collected on his desk.

grow out of 因长大而丢弃
例句:She has grown out of all her old clothes.
她已长得所有的旧衣服都穿不下了。

7. But he loses his voice on stage in front of an audience.

in front of 在...的前面
例句:A crowd gathered in front of the building.
大楼前围了一大群人。

8. As a male writer, I try to put myself in the shoes of a woman and, obviously, I have a lot of female friends, and I can pick up on a lot of female experience, but we were trying to write what we thought was a necessary portrait of a single woman.

pick up 拾起
例句:The boy picked up the hat for the old man.
男孩替老人拾起了帽子。