Little Miss Sunshine《阳光小美女》（精讲之四）

影片对白

Richard: All right, I'll drive the bus.

Sheryl: Richard, I was told explicitly not to leave Frank by himself. No offense, Frank.

Frank: None taken.

Richard: We're talking about it. You got Dwayne here. They can look after each other.

Sheryl: No, Richard! That's asking too much. I mean, if something happened-

Richard: We can't go, then, unless Dwayne and Frank go with us.

Olive: Mom, where's my bathing suit?

Frank: Right.

Sheryl: Frank?

Olive: I found it!

Frank: Okay.

Olive: I'm going! I'm going! I'm going!

Sheryl: Oh, Dwayne, come on, please. Think of your sister.

Richard: Come on, Dwayne. It'll be a lot of fun. You can go to the beach -

Dwayne: (writing) This is unfair. All I ask is that you leave me alone.

Sheryl: Dwayne, flight school. I will give you permission for flight school.

Olive: I won! I won! I won! I'm gonna win this one too!

Dwayne: (writing) But I'm not going to have any fun.

Frank: Yeah, we're all with you on that one, Dwayne.

Olive: Grandpa! Grandpa! Is Grandpa coming to California?

Sheryl: We're all coming, honey.

Richard: Hey, uh, hold on. Olive, come over here for a second. Come here. Sit down for a second. Look, there's no sense in entering a contest if you don't think you're gonna win. So do you think you can win Little Miss Sunshine?

Sheryl: Richard-

Richard: Are you gonna win?

Olive: Yes!

Richard: We're going to California.

Frank: Good night, Dwayne.

Dwayne: (writing) Please don't kill yourself tonight.

Frank: Not on your watch. I wouldn't do that to you.

Dwayne: (writing) Welcome to hell.

Frank: Thank you, Dwayne. Coming from you, that means a lot. Good night.

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. No offense

意思是"不是故意要冒犯你"，当你要提起某件对当事人来说有冒犯意味的事情时，最好要先说"no offense"，或是"not to offend you"，相当于事先道歉。我们在电影《哈利·波特与密室》中还见到过这样的说法：Not to be rude or anything, but this isn't a great time for me to have a house-elf in my bedroom.

2. Hold on

我们学过的hold on的意思有"坚持，抓紧"，；例如：
Hold on to your hat in this wind.
The early Christians held on to their beliefs despite strong opposition.
Please hold on for a while longer.
Hold on 还可以表达打电话时要对方"等一下，不要挂断电话"，例如：If you can hold on a minute I'll go and find her.

在这个片段中，hold on 表示的是"等一下"的意思，相当于我们在《哈利·波特与密室》（精讲之一）中讲过的 hang on。

3. On one's watch

这里watch 的意思是"守护，注意"的意思，on your watch 就是"在你的守护下"。Watch 做动词时也可以用来表示同样的意思，例如：
Who's watching the children while the parents are on vacation?

文化面面观

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 尼采

电影中，Dwayne 因为尼采而缄口不言，这位哲学家又什么魅力呢？下面我们就来认识一下尼采。

German-Swiss philosopher and writer, one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The son of a Lutheran pastor, he studied at Bonn and Leipzig and at age 24 became professor of Classical philology at the University of Basel. He became close to the older Richard Wagner, in whose operas he saw the potential for the revival of Western civilization, but broke with Wagner angrily in 1876. His Birth of Tragedy (1872) contained major insights into ancient Greek drama; like Untimely Meditations (1873), it is dominated by a Romantic perspective also influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. Mental and physical problems forced him to leave his position in 1878, and he spent 10 years attempting to recover his health in various resorts while continuing to write prolifically. His works from Human, All Too Human (1878) to The Gay Science (1882) extol reason and science, experiment with literary genres, and express his emancipation from his earlier Romanticism. His mature writings, particularly Beyond Good and Evil (1886), A Genealogy of Morals (1887), and Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883 - 92), were preoccupied with the origin and function of values in human life. If, as he believed, life neither possesses nor lacks intrinsic value and yet is always being evaluated, then such evaluations can usefully be read as symptoms of the evaluator's condition. He fulminated against Christianity and announced the death of God. His major breakdown in 1889 marked the virtual end of his productive life. He was revered by Adolf Hitler for his dislike of democracy and his heroic ideal of the ?bermensch (Superman), though the Nazis perverted Nietzsche's thought and ignored much in it that was hostile to their aims. His analyses of the root motives and values that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights.

思想火花

全家人终于决定一起陪Olive 去参加比赛：为了节省开支，爸爸勉强同意开车；为了防止Frank 再次轻生，妈妈坚持要带他一起去；爷爷坚持也要去，因为是他在"训练"Olive，沉默的哥哥虽然不屑参加这样的活动，但为了能考飞行学院还是答应去给妹妹鼓劲。而当大家都决定上路后，爸爸把Olive 来过来，问她有没有信心赢得比赛，本来是想女儿会说没有信心、就不必去了，没有想到的是女儿在爸爸"成功学"的影响下，坚信自己会赢。当爸爸拥抱女儿时那无奈的表情真是让人哭笑不得。

考考你

这段对白中有好几句话是用现在进行时表示将要发生（讨论）的事情，你能把它们全部找出来吗？答案下期见。

Little Miss Sunshine《阳光小美女》（精讲之三）考考你 参考答案

1) Richard: Finish your dinner! 把饭吃完了！
Olive: I'm finished! 我吃完了！

2) Sheryl: Where does that leave us? 那我们该怎么办？

3) Richard: What about Olive? Olive 怎么办？

4) Richard: You promised? 你答应了？

5) Richard: Don't start that. 别再提那个了。
Sheryl: It all goes to your nine steps! 这不正是你的九步成功法么？