Little Miss Sunshine《阳光小美女》（精讲之三）

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Richard: Olive, tell him about your routine while you're doing this.

Olive: Okay. Little Miss Chili Pepper is a beauty contest for everyone in Albuquerque, but you have to be six or seven and you have to be a girl.

Sheryl: This is our sister.

Richard: Cindy.

Sheryl: Spring break. Dwayne went to see his dad in Florida for two weeks and Olive went to Laguna to see her cousins. She made it to the top of the regionals out there.

Olive: I was in second place.

Frank: Well, what do you think your chances are?

Olive: I think I can win, because some of the other girls...they've been doing it longer, but I practice every day.

Frank: Yeah. Good luck.

Richard: Not about luck, Frank. Luck is the name losers give to their own failings. It's about wanting to win, willing yourself to win. You've got to want it badder than anybody else.

Olive: I do.

Richard: Then you're gonna be a winner.

Sheryl: Richard.

Richard: It's the truth. You know, actually, there is a message from Cindy on the machine. Something about Little Mrs. Sunshine. Sunshine.

Olive: What? Little Miss Sunshine?

Richard: Yeah.

Olive: What?

Cindy: Sheryl, it's Cindy. Remember when Olive was here last month? She was runner-up in the regional Little Miss Sunshine? They just called right now and said that the girl who won had to forfeit her crown. I don't know why. Something about diet pills. But anyway, now she has a place in the state contest in Redondo Beach!

Olive: Oh, my gosh! I won! I won! I won! I won!

Richard: Finish your dinner!

Olive: I'm finished!

Richard: What happened?

Sheryl: I'm just calling to- Cindy! Yeah, we just got it. Yeah, she basically went crazy.

Olive: I won! I won! I won!

Sheryl: No, I didn't get that. The machine cut you off. Okay. Redondo Beach. This Sunday? Wh-are you guys going? Yes. Can you put it off?

Richard: They have to. They have to.

Sheryl: Where does that leave us?

Richard: We can't do it. We can't.

Sheryl: No, no, no, I understand that, Cindy. Yeah.

Richard: They-

Sheryl: I just- no, I'll just figure it out. Okay, bye-bye.

Richard: It's this Sunday? Why can't Jeff and Cindy take her?

Sheryl: They have some equestrian thing in Santa Barbara.

Richard: You know, they do that horse shit every single weekend.

Sheryl: Well, it's the nationals. They're taking both horses, so apparently it's a big deal.

Richard: What about Olive?

Olive: Little Miss Sunshine! Little Miss Sunshine! I won! I won! I'm going! We're going!

Richard: You promised?

Sheryl: We'll fly out and come back Monday.

Richard: How are you gonna get around out there?

Sheryl: We'll rent a car.

Richard: And stay at a hotel?

Sheryl: We can afford it.

Richard: Sheryl, this is our seed money.

Sheryl: Well, if I had a little help bringin' it in. You know-

Richard: Don't start that.

Sheryl: It all goes to your nine steps!

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. Spring break

A period of recess, usually lasting one week, during the spring term at school. 美国的学制，一学年通常包括四个学期：Fall Term, Winter Term, Spring Term and Summer Vacation。Spring break 是在春季学期放的假。

2. Cut off

这里的意思是"Interrupt the course or passage of, intercept"，例如：The operator cut us off.

此外，cut off 常用的意思还有：
1）Stop suddenly, discontinue，例如：He quickly cut off the engine.
2) Shut off, bar，例如：Their phone was cut off when they didn't pay the bill.

The drama was cut off by a news flash about tornado warnings.
Tom's father threatened to cut off his allowance.

3. Get around

这里 get around 的意思为"Travel from place to place"，例如：It's hard to get around without a car. 这个用法可以引申为"社交积极地、活跃地"，例如：Mary is never without a date--she really gets around.

4. Seed money

直译为"种子基金"，指的是"Money used or needed to set up a new business or enterprise. " Seed money may be utilized to conduct research, develop the prototype for a product, or determine if an idea is workable or economically viable.

5. Bring in

"To yield, as profits or income赚得（钱、利益等）"的意思，例如：My part-time job doesn't bring in much, but I enjoy it.

文化面面观

Redondo Beach VS Santa Barbara

1. Redondo Beach, California

Redondo Beach King Harbor welcome sign landmark

Redondo Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 63,261 at the 2000 census. The city is located in the South Bay region of the greater Los Angeles area and is one of the three Beach Cities.

Redondo Beach was originally part of the 1784 Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant of the 43,000-acre Dominguez Rancho that later became the ten-mile Ocean frontage of Rancho Sausal Redondo. The city's territory has an unusual shape because it controls a long block of land dividing the two other beach cities (Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach) from the inland city of Torrance. The western terminus of the Metro Rail Green Line is in Redondo Beach, and the primary attraction is its unusually shaped Municipal Pier.

Redondo Beach is the focus of many who want to be in the sun and near the ocean. Although a vibrant community in its own right, much of the Redondo Beach lifestyle is a blend of the neighborhoods, activities and people of the three Beach Cities of Southern California's South Bay. Like its sister cities of Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, Redondo's key lifestyle draw is the vast beach that links these three cities.

2. Santa Barbara

Mission Santa Barbara, known as "the queen of the missions".

Santa Barbara, city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. A beautiful residential and resort city with many recreational facilities, it also has electronics and aerospace research and development firms, and an orchid industry. Oil fields are in the area and offshore. The region was discovered by Juan Cabrillo in 1542 and explored and named in 1602. A Spanish presidio, remnants of which remain, was founded there in 1782. The Spanish mission (established in 1786; present building completed in 1820) is a major tourist attraction. Santa Barbara is known for its prevalent Spanish architecture. Points of interest include a "street in Spain" shopping area, an undersea aquarium, and many parks and gardens. The Univ. of California at Santa Barbara and Westmont College are just outside the city limits. Santa Barbara is headquarters of the Los Padres National Forest in the Santa Ynez Mts., which rise behind the city. In Feb., 1942, oil tanks in Santa Barbara harbor were the object of a Japanese submarine attack. In Jan., 1969, an oil leak in an offshore drilling platform in the Santa Barbara Channel brought great destruction to the city's harbor and beaches.

思想火花

一句"Good luck"在老爸这里却成了"失败者的借口"。在爸爸的教育下，Olive 坚信自己会赢。这时，出乎意料获得的参加全国比赛的机会让Olive 更是惊喜万分。然而，全家人却为支付不了去参加比赛的费用而发愁。这个一心要成功的家庭已经开始处在失败的边缘，或者说，他们从来都没能像自己想象的那样成功。

考考你

这个片段中出现了很多非常实用、短小的口语句子，试着翻译一下，你会掌握的更快哦！

1) Richard: Finish your dinner!
Olive: I'm finished!

2) Sheryl: Where does that leave us?

3) Richard: What about Olive?

4) Richard: You promised?

5) Richard: Don't start that.
Sheryl: It all goes to your nine steps!

Little Miss Sunshine《阳光小美女》（精讲之二）考考你 参考答案

1. Mainly, though, I fell in love with someone who didn't love me back.
但主要的（原因）是，我爱上了一个不爱我的人。

2. I was very much in love with him.
我非常爱他。