VOA常速英语:New York's Twin Towers Appear in Many Hollywood Films

短语讲解：

1. "I was never very fond of them architecturally," he admits.

fond of喜欢

例句：I'm fond of pop music.

我喜欢流行音乐。

2. She dreams of making it New York's financial district. 

dream of梦想, 渴望

例句：I've long dreamed of paying a visit to the Great Wall.

我一直渴望游览长城。

3. The police were left to look on.

look on在一旁观看, 袖手旁观

例句：They stood looking on while the man was robbed.

正当那个人被抢劫时, 他们却站在那儿袖手旁观。

4. The Towers also became linked to romance, like in the 1987 film Moonstruck which features the steel buildings in New York nostalgia.

link to与…连接; 联系

例句：Fingerprints linked the suspect to the crime.

指纹使嫌疑犯与犯罪联系起来。

5. The story centers around Loretta Castorini, an Italian-American widow who falls in love with a one-handed baker in Brooklyn, played by Nicholas Cage.

fall in love with爱上

例句：He has fallen in love with Mary.

他已爱上了玛丽。

6. In some cases, Sterritt says, filmmakers cut out scenes that showed the Towers so audiences wouldn't be upset.

cut out切去，割去，剪去；删去

例句：You should cut out the unimportant details.

你应当删除掉这些不重要的细节。

7. "When I see them in a movie, I think it's wonderful and I love it and then when we were travelling and coming across from Jersey we look over it and we don't see it, there is a big gap and we miss it," a woman said.

look over 从(某物上面)看过去

例句：The boy pulled himself to the top of the wall and looked over.

那个男孩趴在墙头上看。

8. The camera focuses on two parallel beams of light shining up from where the Towers once stood, an amputated New York still feeling its extremities.

focus on使聚焦于; 使直射于

例句：A near-sighted person cannot focus accurately on distant objects.

一个近视的人不能够准确地调整焦距以看到远处物体。

shine up (使)向上照

例句：Shine the torch up into the rafters, please.

请用手电筒照房椽。