VOA常速英语:Encountering Our Alternate Self is Message of 'Another Earth'

短语讲解：

1. What if there was an exact copy of us living an alternate life on an alternate earth?

what if要是…又怎样
例句：What if the rumour is true? 
万一谣传真有其事呢?

2. "Another Earth" focuses on Rhoda Williams, a promising young astrophysicist, whose life is shattered after she kills two people in car accident.

focus on (使)集中于
例句：Many firms are focusing on increasing their markets overseas.
许多商行都专注于扩大国外市场。

3. She might have swerved instead of hitting the mother and son.

instead of (用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…, (用…)而不用…
例句：He has been playing all afternoon instead of getting on with his work.
他整个下午一直在玩, 没有继续工作。

4. In an effort to find redemption, she goes to apologize to the man who lost his wife and child in the accident.

in an effort to为了
例句：She has been studying very hard in an effort to catch up with her classmates.
她学得非常努力，以便赶上她的同学。

5. But she loses her nerve and pretends she's looking for work as a house cleaner.

look for寻找
例句：She is looking for her lost child.
她正在寻找失去的孩子。

6. So for the actor, instead of playing with something heady we're playing with something very real

play with同…一起玩
例句：The kid was playing with his ball.
孩子在玩皮球。

7. She explains the storyline started with the concept of meeting our other self. 

start with以…开始
例句：He had nothing to start with
开始时他一无所有。

8. That the person who most has the hardest time seeing herself and the hardest time sort of letting go is somebody who can't forgive herself or let herself off the hook for something

let off放掉〔过〕; 免除
例句：We won't let you off so easily next time.
我们下次绝不会这样轻易地饶恕你。

9. And I think the idea of a doppelganger or a person who shares your experiences so intimately that they are you is kind of a fulfillment of a fantasy that we have as humans

kind of稍微, 有点儿, 有几分
例句：I'm feeling kind of tired.
我感到有点累。