Click《人生遥控器》.doc

影片简介 Only when Michael begins to realize that the he has lost control of his life and the remote is now programming him does he finally learn that life is as much about the moments hed rather forget as it is the moments he will always remember.影片对白Donna: Okay, good night, two cowboys.Ben: Reach for the sky, Pocahontas.Donna: No, back to bed. Come on. Pocahontas is off duty. You getting sick, sheriff?Michael: I dont got time to be sick, so no. I need to watch this documentary on Asian architecture.Donna: Well, you gotta get some rest sometime, sweetheart. Besides, the woodland creatures will laugh at you if you collapse trying to put up the tent this weekend.Michael: Yeah. I forgot to tell you. We gotta postpone the camping trip. Ammer put me on a project. Its due Tuesday. If I dont finish this design, Im off it, so.Donna: The kids have been talking about camping all year.Michael: Think I dont know that? Its just every choice I make, everything I do, I disappoint somebody.Donna: So, maybe make sure you dont keep disappointing the wrong people.Michael: Honey, Im not out drinking or gambling or hitting on chicks. Im working my ass off so my family can have a better life than Ive dreamed about when I was a kid. The only way for that to happen is for me to watch this stinking show! So relax, hon. Ah! Are you kidding me? Will you give me a break one time? Damn it! The ODoyles got a stinking universal remote control. Were gonna have one too. Im sick of this.Donna: You want me to open the garage for you?Michael: Yeah. Closed. Closed. Open. Bed Bath & Beyond it is. Hey, man? You guys got universal remote controls in there?Man: For a shower curtain or a bathmat?Michael: For a television.Man: I dont think so. Maybe for a blanket?Michael: You got a remote for a blanket?Man: Im sorry, dude. I dont work here. Im waiting for my friends.Michael: Youre kidding me.Man: Actually, yes. I dont have any friends. Will you be my friend? Wow, wow, man.Michael: Bed. Bed. Bath. Bath. Bed. So tired of my life. Beyond? Sorry to sneak up on you. I just. You guys got a universal remote control back here?Morty: Something stinks like stale French fries.Michael: All right, thats probably me.Morty: You know, fast food shortens your life.Michael: Yeah, thats what I heard. But the way my lifes been going lately, that aint such a bad thing.Morty: Youre looking for a universal remote control?Michael: Yeah. Just one device to do it all for me. make my life a little easier, quicker, not so damn complicated.Morty: Im not supposed to do this, but you seem like a good guy.Michael: Hey. Somebody noticed. Thank you.Morty: Im gonna show you a remote we just got in thats probably the most advanced piece of technology we have in this place.Michael: Sounds sweet.Morty: It is sweet. The latest, greatest universal remote not even on the market yet.Michael: I guess the ODoyles remote can bite my advanced-technological ass then.Morty: I dont know the ODoyles. But they can bite it hard.妙语佳句，活学活用1. Off duty这个片语我们并不陌生，off duty 的意思是“not at ones post or work; at liberty”，例如：They spent their days off duty in hiking and fishing.Off duty 的反义词就是on duty，意为“At ones post, at work”，例如：The new nurse was on duty that evening.2. Be offBe off 有“Be free from work, school, or some other regular occupation”的意思，在这个电影片段中Michael 的意思是如果他不能在到期之前完成设计的话，他就不能再做这个设计工程了。我们来看个例子：The secretary is off today, but perhaps I can find it.3. Hit onHit on 这个俚语的意思是“骚扰，勾引”，例如：John loves to go out and hit on chicks.4. Work ones ass off这个片语的意思是 work hard，例如：Hes working his ass off so he can buy the dream house.5. Give someone a breakGive someone a break 在这里的意思是“Stop trying to fool or upset or bother someone”，例如：Dont tell me the partys been postponed again-give me a break! 这个片语通常表达的是一种带有滑稽意味的愤努。6. Sneak up这个片语的意思是“advance stealthily or unnoticed鬼鬼祟祟、偷偷摸摸地行事”，例如：Age creeps up on you.7. Bite ones ass这是一个很粗俗的口语表达，它的寓意是当一个人比别人要差时（比如经济条件等），差的人会 bite others ass。例如： John just bought a new Cadillac. His neighbor bit his ass hard.文化面面观印第安公主Pocahontas因了迪士尼的同名电影，Pocahontas的名字开始被大众所知。但历史和艺术改编总是存在着偏差。下面就让我们来了解一下这位印第安公主的真实人生吧。Pocahontas, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1616.Pocahontas (c. 1596-1617), Indian princess. Reputedly the favorite daughter of the Algonquin chief Powhatan, Pocahontas contributed significantly to the early survival of the Jamestown colony and played a brief but dramatic role in English imperial propaganda. Her untimely death cut short her successful mediation between the Powhatan Indians and the colony. Both before her intercession and long after her death, Jamestown-the first permanent English outpost in North America-was precarious, largely because of Indian hostility to the colony and its expansion.Pocahontass contributions to Jamestown date from her early acquaintance with Capt. John Smith after his capture by Powhatans men in 1607. Her legendary rescue of the English captain on the verge of his execution was probably part of a traditional Indian adoption ceremony (misinterpreted or misunderstood by Smith), though it is possible that without her intercession he would have been killed. In any event, relations between Powhatan and the fledgling colony improved, and Pocahontas, then about twelve years old, became a frequent visitor at Jamestown and an important supplier of food for the colonists. She also became an informer for the colony, warning Smith of her fathers belligerent plans.After Smiths return to England, Pocahontas disappears for several years from the historical record. She may have married an Indian, resumed her proper name of Matoaka (Pocahontas was a nickname), and shunned the English, who, under Sir Thomas Dale, were at war with Powhatan. To force Powhatans submission, Capt. Samuel Argall in 1613 lured Pocahontas on board a ship and held her hostage. During a prolonged captivity, she was converted to Christianity by the Reverend Alexander Whitaker and baptized as Rebecca. In 1614 she married John Rolfe, a prominent colonist and recent widower. Powhatan grudgingly agreed to a truce with the colony that lasted until 1622.Pocahontas and her sonThe Virginia Company of London quickly recognized Pocahontass enormous propaganda value as an example of Anglo-Indian harmony, of missionary success among the natives, and of the prospect that Indians could be persuaded to adopt English ways. To attract new settlers and fresh investments, the company in 1616 brought the Rolfes, their son, Thomas (b. 1615), and an entourage of a dozen or so Indians to England. She met many of the eras major figures, was presented at court, and had her portrait painted. She also took ill, probably from diseases that had no American counterpart. Pocahontas died in March 1617, after boarding ship for a return to Virginia, and was buried in Gravesend, England. With the death of Pocahontas and, soon after, of Powhatan, the fragile peace between colonists and Indians eroded. Ironically, the Indians major grievance was the colonists insatiable demand for land, triggered principally by windfall profits from the tobacco species introduced by John Rolfe.In the public mind, Pocahontas is linked especially, and often romantically, with Smith. The rescue episode did not appear in Smiths accounts of Virginia published in 1608 and 1612 but surfaced in his Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624). Doubts have been cast ever since on its authenticity and, if true, its meaning. Ethnographers and historians now generally agree that the event could well have taken place and that Smiths reasons for suppressing the story until 1624 had more to do with Pocahontass early obscurity than with literary invention.影片简介A workaholic architect, frustrated in his job but determined to make a better life for his family, is bestowed with a powerful universal remote that allows him more control over his life than he ever knew possible in director Frank Coracis high-concept fantasy comedy. On the surface, Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) seems to have it all, yet with all the demands forced upon him by his ungrateful boss (David Hasselhoff), Michael finds that setting aside time to spend with his loving wife, Donna (Kate Beckinsale), and two picture-perfect children, Ben (Joseph Castanon) and Samantha (Tatum McCann), has grown increasingly difficult. When a frustrating bout with the television remote leads the overworked husband and father to a nearby Bed, Bath & Beyond in search of a universal remote with the power to control all of his electronic devices, a curious peek into the back room leads Michael into the company of eccentric employee and talented inventor Morty (Christopher Walken). It seems that Morty has created a device that will not only allow Michael complete control over his television and stereo, but his entire life as well. As Michael discovers that the remarkable device has the power to muffle the barks of the family dog, zoom himself past an irritating quarrel with his wife, and even allow him to travel back and forth through time to different points in his life, the rush of being able to skip straight to the good parts in life soon leaves him feeling as if hes missing out on the total experience. Only when Michael begins to realize that the he has lost control of his life and the remote is now programming him does he finally learn that life is as much about the moments hed rather forget as it is the moments he will always remember. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide考考你将下面的对话译成汉语。Michael: Yeah. I forgot to tell you. We gotta postpone the camping trip. Ammer put me on a project. Its due Tuesday. If I dont finish this design, Im off it, so.Donna: The kids have been talking about camping all year.Michael: Think I dont know that? Its just every choice I make, everything I do, I disappoint somebody.Donna: So, maybe make sure you dont keep disappointing the wrong people.Michael: Honey, Im not out drinking or gambling or hitting on chicks. Im working my ass off so my family can have a better life than Ive dreamed about when I was a kid.影片对白Michael: I think maybe there in the middle?Morty: Sneaky.Michael: Wheres the box? Does it come with directions?Morty: Not necessary. Just point, click. Eventually, it will program itself.Michael: How much is this thing? Because I aint exactly Thurston Howell, you know?Morty: Lucky for you, its not in the bar code system yet. So Im gonna have to just give it to you.Michael: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whats the catch here, man? Want me to take my shirt off for you? Because I dont play for that team.Morty: Hey. Man, get out of here.Michael: Why are you doing this, then?Morty: Because good guys need a break every once in a while.Michael: Take it.Morty: Enjoy.Michael: All right.Morty: Only one thing you need to know, Michael. This item is nonreturnable.Michael: Why would I wanna return something I got for free?Michael: Twinkie. You dont need it. You dont need it, man. You do need a Yodel, though. Okay. Good job. Lets see what you got, mate. Look at me, turning my own TV on. Im a freaking whiz kid.Donna: So I talked to the kids.Michael: Oh, yeah?Donna: Theyve been very understanding about not going camping this weekend.Michael: Great.Donna: They could have a sleepover instead.Michael: Thats a great idea. Thank you, thank you. Thanks for being so cool about this too.Donna: Can I ask you something?Michael: Yes.Donna: After you do all this work and become a big player at your company, do you really think youre gonna have more time for us, or are things just gonna get even more out of control?Michael: Wait. Wait. When I get to that place and become a boss, a millionaire, a big shot, the first thing Im gonna do is to hire a bunch of idiots just like me to do all my work. So then you, me and the kids can do whatever the hell we want. You just gotta give me some time. Dont give me that look. Im just saying, give me some support. All right? I love you. Go to sleep.Donna: Just think about it, Michael.Michael: Absolutely.Donna: And stop with the Yodels. Youre gonna wake up 400 pounds one day.Michael: Okay. Hey, hey, hey. Keep it down, dude. Everybodys sleeping. You gotta poop again? Why dont you do the humpy-pumpy on the duck, okay? Will you just hold it in for five minutes and keep the freaking volume down?妙语佳句，活学活用1. Direction在一些进口产品上常可以看到“Directions”这个标识。Direction 在这里的意思是“（使用）说明”。而“说明”当然不止一条了，因此是“Directions”。2. In the bar code systemBar code 指的是商品上的“条形码”。当商店、超市进货后，会将条形码扫一遍，全部的商品信息都储存在电脑系统里。Morty 的意思是“这个universal remote”并没有入库。3. CatchCatch 在这里是个名词，意思是“诡计；难人的问题； 蹊跷”，例如：That new car is very cheap; there must be a catch in it somewhere!那辆新车这么便宜,里面一定有蹊跷!4. Twinkie一种甜点。A Twinkie is a Golden Sponge Cake with a Creamy Filling created by Hostess, and baked by Continental Baking Co., which is owned by Kansas City-based Interstate Bakeries Corporation.In the United States, the Twinkie is commonly regarded as the quintessential junk food. Each Twinkie contains about 145 Calories (607 kilojoules). Five hundred million are produced each year. 看来为了美味，垃不垃圾大家也不在乎了。5. Yodel一种甜食。Yodels are frosted, cream-filled cakes that are made by the Drakes company, which is owned by the Interstate Bakeries Corporation. Each plastic package of Yodels contains three cakes, totaling 440 calories and three grams of saturated fat (饱和脂肪). 超级垃圾食品之一。6. Whiz kid在口语中指“A young person who is exceptionally intelligent, innovatively clever, or precociously successful”，例如：John is a whiz kid of network programming.7. Big shot俚语，意思是“An important or influential person重要或有影响力的人”，例如：He thinks hes a big shot.同样意思的表达还有big deal，big fish，例如：Shes a big deal in local politics.The Qaeda commander is a very big fish.8. Hold in这个片语的意思是“约束, 抑制”，例如：He was raging inside, but held himself in for fear of saying something he would regret.文化面面观Thurston J. HowellThurston J. Howell III is a character on the CBS television sitcom Gilligans Island, which was in first-run from 1964 to 1967, and has been rerun ever since in syndication.Howell, portrayed by veteran actor Jim Backus, is so wealthy that he took tens of thousands of dollars in cash and several changes of clothing with him for what was intended to be only a three-hour boat tour in Hawaii, one of the sillier premises of the show. Howell is a stereotypical member of the Northeastern Yankee elite and is a graduate of Hahvahd University. His wife, Lovey, portrayed by Natalie Schafer, is conscious of social strata, yet seems to be a good-hearted woman with a deep sense of noblesse oblige allowing her to interact with the other passengers and crew, though they are all her social inferiors. One of the implied humorous points of the show is that Thurston continually fails to realize that all of the Howells money is essentially useless to them on the island. On the other hand, the other castaways apparently tolerate the fact that he refuses to do any work. One of the most unusual aspects of his character is that, even though he is married, he sleeps with a teddy bear that he calls Teddy. (The Howells also slept in twin beds, this being the 1960s, even though another show that also debuted in 1964, The Munsters, had the parents, Herman and Lily, sleeping in a double bed.)Howell was included on Forbes Magazines 2005 list of the 15 richest fictional characters. Just how much money he had was never specified, but he was shown as owning several large corporations. When asked what happened to him during the Great Depression, his wife says that he lost most of his money and became just a millionaire. Among his assets were a diamond mine, a coconut plantation, a railroad, an oil well, and 40 acres in Colorado-which included all of downtown Denver-that he bequeathed to his fellow castaways in his will.思想火花人总是渴望自己得不到的物质和生活，也总是想先玩命工作，其他都靠后，等到自己想要的金钱和地位后，就可以好好享受了。想法虽然没有错，所谓“吃苦在前，享受在后”嘛。但问题是，等你有钱有时间去享受了，你曾经排后的那些东西还会在原地等你吗？考考你用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。1. 那个问题看起来容易，但这里面有蹊跷。2. 他是软件行业里的青年才俊。3. 约翰是我们这个小镇子里的大人物。Click人生遥控器（精讲之一）考考你 参考答案Michael: Yeah. I forgot to tell you. We gotta postpone the camping trip. Ammer put me on a project. Its due Tuesday. If I dont finish this design, Im off it, so.对了，我忘了和你说了。我们得推迟野营了。安默让我做一个项目。下周二是截止日期。如果我完不成设计的话，我就不能做这个项目了，所以Donna: The kids have been talking about camping all year.可是孩子们想野营都想了一年了。Michael: Think I dont know that? Its just every choice I make, everything I do, I disappoint somebody.你以为我不知道吗？只是，我做的每个选择，每件事，都会让某些人失望的。Donna: So, maybe make sure you dont keep disappointing the wrong people.那么，也许你该保证不要总让重要的人失望。Michael: Honey, Im not out drinking or gambling or hitting on chicks. Im working my ass off so my family can have a better life than Ive dreamed about when I was a kid.亲爱的，我既没出去喝酒、赌钱，也没出去勾引小妞。我是玩命地干活，好让我的家人过上比我小时候想象的还要好的日子。影片对白Ammer: No, Linda, I think Stacy gets the most-beautiful-feet award.Michael: You wanted to see me?Ammer: Michael. Look, Im heading out to the Hamptons in a couple of minutes. Im counting on you. This hotel project? Its a big fish. You reel it in for me and its Howdy, partner.Michael: Okay. Thank you.Ammer: Screw it up, though, and its Back to the mailroom, atrium boy.Woman: Mr. Ammer, Denise just called. Shes gotta go to rehab again, so she cant make it to the Hamptons.Ammer: Im gonna be alone on the Fourth of July?Michael: Mr. Ammer, if you need female companionship this weekend, my wifes friend Janine, wow.Ammer: Really? Whats she like?Michael: Lets just say she will eat you up, sir.Alice: Excuse me. Im sorry to interrupt, but this is kind of important.Michael: Okay. Go to the bathroom.Alice: Okay.OD