Prison Break 1《越狱》1（精讲之七）

影片对白

Nick: We need to focus on the real question. Who wanted Terrence Steadman dead?

Veronica: The call came from DC. What does that tell you?

Nick: You got to think past the government, though. Anybody could be here. A business partner, a rival...

Veronica: Before Steadman was killed, EcoField introduced a prototype electric engine at the techno conference. $60 barrels of oil would be obsolete if that thing ever hit the mainstream.

Nick: Could be oil, oil companies...

Veronica: Suppliers, consumers, everything in between.

Nick: Or the government of an oil-based economy...like the United States.

Stewardess: Can I take your soda?

Nick: Sure. Thank you.

Stewardess: Thank you.

Nick: At any rate, we land, we meet my guy, and even if we don't find the person who tipped off the cops, we find his phone. The paper trail begins.

Anchorperson: The National Guard responded after Illinois Governor Frank Tancredi declared a state of emergency shortly after 3:00 p.m.

Lisa: Come on, honey. It's time to go.

L. J.: Hold on. Hold on.

Anchorperson: No word on what caused the initial disturbance, but sources with the...

Lisa: That's not Fox River, is it?

L. J.: What are you doing?

Lisa: We have to go. Come on.

L. J.: No, Dad might be in trouble.

Lisa: Look, your father's already in trouble. There's nothing we can do about it. Just don't make a scene, okay? He gets very uncomfortable with this thing. Just... Let's just go, okay?

L. J.: Oh, God forbid, man!

Lisa: Please!

L. J.: We're just talking about my old man here and his life. If-if that's all right with you.

Adrian: Leave me out of this.

L. J.: I am leaving you out of it. I left you out of it the day I met you.

Lisa: Okay, L.J.

L. J.: Because nothing in her life or mine has anything to do with you.

Adrian: I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that.

L. J.: Oh, yeah? Or what?

Adrian: You see, this is what I'm talking about. This is the kind of crap I have to deal with.

Lisa: Just let me handle it!

L. J.: The kind of crap you have to deal with?

Lisa: L.J., do you want to talk...

L. J.: Oh! You got no clue, do you?

Lisa: Honey, look.

L. J.: Leave me alone! Get off me!

Adrian: What the hell are you doing? You don't talk to her like that.

Lisa: Stop it! Stop! Go upstairs, L.J., now! Go!

L. J.: You love that man?

Lisa: Just go.

L. J.: You love that man.

Lisa: Do what I say.

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. At any rate

意思是“不管怎样；至少”，做“不管怎样”解时，用来解释或支持前文的话，相当于in any event，in any case，anyhow，例如：I think they're asleep; at any rate, they're quiet.
做“至少”解时，相当于at least，例如：It was a mediocre film, but at any rate there was one outstanding individual performance.

2. Tip off

在口语中的意思是“Supply with secret or private information; also, warn or alert”，例如：
The broker often tipped her off about stocks about to go down in price.
They were tipped off and left the country before the police could catch them.

Tip off 还可以表示“透露内部信息，给出内行人的建议”，例如：He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot.

3. Paper trail

这是一个法律术语，意思是“the documentary evidence of one's actions”，可以是手写的，也可以是打印的，包括有书面档案、文档、记录等等，我们来看几个例子，体会一下这个术语的含义：
Judges leave a paper trail, a track record of opinions that tell, literally, where they are coming from.
This paper trail consisted mainly of electronically stored information.

4. Make a scene

这个片语也写作create a scene，意为“make a public disturbance or excited emotional display(当众吵闹或兴奋得大喊大叫等)”，例如：Joan made a scene when the restaurant lost her dinner reservation.

5. You got no clue.
意思是：You have no idea.

文化面面观

美国的石油产业与石油政策

Oil was an integral part of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century, and its influence has shown no sign of diminishing in the twenty-first century. Oil has been and continues to be central to military power and to modern industrial society, and possession of ample domestic oil supplies and control over access to foreign oil reserves is a significant, and often overlooked, element in the power position of the United States relative to its rivals. 美国是世界第一大石油消费国，也是世界上已探明石油探明储量最多的国家之一。美国的石油炼制加工行业主要集中于得克萨斯州、路易斯安纳州、加利福尼亚州、伊利诺伊州、宾西法尼亚州、新泽西州、华盛顿州、俄亥俄州和印第安纳州。目前美国市场上占主导地位的油公司主要是埃克森美孚公司、飞利浦大陆石油公司、雪佛龙德士古公司、壳牌石油公司、Frontier Oil, Marathon Oil等公司。对于国内的石油开采与生产，美国用法律形式明确了石油资源的所有权、勘探权和开采权，然后用市场竞标方式确定开采权的租让价格。政府不直接干预私人企业的石油生产和经营，油品价格由市场供求决定。战略储备石油的采购、储存、释放基本上采取市场招标机制，政府运用金融衍生品工具和期货市场来分散和回避国际石油价格激烈波动的影响，或者降低储备成本。另外，政府还通过补贴、技术援助和融资手段支持国内能源企业参与国际竞争。

Control of oil has been intimately linked to broader political, military, and economic objectives. These larger foreign policy concerns have shaped the issue of control and have, in turn, been shaped by it. For example, all the major postwar doctrines of U.S. foreign policy-the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan doctrines-relate, either directly or indirectly, to the Middle East and its oil.

The oil industry has been one of the most modern and best-organized sectors of the U.S. economy, and both domestic and international companies have opposed policies that reduce the demand for their products. Domestic producers have argued that greater incentives for domestic production are the answer to U.S. oil needs, while companies with interests overseas have argued that they can supply U.S. oil needs, provided they receive government protection and support.

The structure of power within the United States has also deeply affected the U.S. response to the environmental impact of oil use. While abundant oil has helped fuel American power and prosperity, it also helped entrench social and economic patterns dependent on ever-higher levels of energy use. Whether or not these patterns are sustainable on the basis of world oil resources, it has become increasingly clear that they are not sustainable ecologically, either for the United States or as a model of development for the rest of the world.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, oil accounted for 40 percent of world energy demand, and energy use was the primary source of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. For this reason, environmental scientists considered air pollution associated with energy use to be the main threat to the earth's climate. Increased energy demand will only make the situation worse. In short, there are environmental limits to continuing, let alone expanding, the high production-high consumption lifestyle associated with the U.S. model of development. Therefore, the most important question facing the United States in regard to oil in the twenty-first century may not be how to ensure access to oil to meet growing demands, but rather how to move away from what is clearly an unsustainable development path.

我观之我见

似乎继父母与继子女的关系都是比较难处的。毕竟么，“你不是我的亲爸/妈，我凭什么要尊重你？”弄不好，还就是因为这个后来的爸/妈把亲爸/妈赶走了的呢。尽管L.J.的继父对他不错，还为了救他而被特工杀手干掉（当然这一切都源于L.J.那个倒霉的亲爸），L.J.对继父的感情还是远远比不上亲爸，没办法，血脉相连啊！只是可怜了这位倒霉的继父，原以为把一个女人和她的孩子从乱糟糟的生活中拯救了出来，最后却连自己的命都赔上了。L.J.会对他抱有感激吗？电视剧还没演，但我期望能有这样一个镜头，多少给人一点安慰吧。

考考你

用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1． 薪水可能不高，但不管怎样这也是份工作。
2． 烈酒走私者得到风声说将对他们展开搜捕。
3． 泰德因为丢了行李而当众吵闹。

Garfield 2《加菲猫》2（精讲之六）考考你 参考答案

1. Where's that naughty child now? I'm sure he'll be up to no good wherever he is.
那调皮孩子哪儿去了? 我看, 他到哪儿也做不出好事来。

2. Don't fire up like that. No one meant to hurt your feelings.
别那样发火，谁也没有存心伤害你。

3. He would go to any lengths to get his own way.
他不择手段，为所欲为。