VOA常速英语:Hollywood Films Focus on Women Abused in Bosnian War

短语讲解：

1. The drama, and another film on the atrocities in Bosnia, are drawn from true stories of brutality toward women in that 1990's conflict.

draw from根据(记忆、构想等)绘画, 以…为依据塑造, 复制…
例句：All the characters in the story are drawn from life.
故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。

2. Their complicated relationship plays out during In The Land of Blood and Honey, written and directed by actress and human rights activist Angelina Jolie.

play out结束
例句：The match was not yet played out.
比赛还没有结束。

3. When I started to look into it and I traveled to the region, I felt that I should have known more.

look into在...里查资料;深入地检查,研究;调查
例句：The government will look into how to reduce unemployment.
政府将研究如何降低失业率。

4. Concerned that it might appear to be a Hollywood star's 'vanity' project, Jolie kept her name off the script that was initially sent to cast members like Zana Marjanovic, who plays Ajila.

keep off (使)不接近;挡开
例句：He drew the curtain to keep the sun off.
他拉上窗帘遮住阳光。

5. We can not possibly blame a side and say all of the Serbs are the same or vice versa.

vice versa反过来也一样
例句：We gossip about them and vice versa.
我们议论他们,他们也议论我们。

6. It was made into a film by Irish writer-director Juanita Wilson.

make into把…转变为, 使成为
例句：They made the story into a play.
他们把这个故事改编成了戏剧。

7. Wilson says, "but I firmly believe that telling stories is a really important part of healing and until people have that voice and can portray what has happened to them, that there never will be any understanding between any of us on this planet."

happen to发生在…身上
例句：An odd thing happened to him this morning.
他今天早晨遇到一件怪事。