【英语趣味课堂】他最喜爱的电影-His Favorite Movie

Wendi: So I want you to tell me about your favorite movie ever, and why it's your favorite movie?

 

Ken¹: My favorite movie ever? OOh!

 

Wendi: Titanic².

 

Ken: Titanic. Yeah, no. No, it's not.

 

Wendi: Come on, you can be honest.

 

Ken: I did watch it twice. I fell asleep the second time.

 

Wendi: Did you seriously watch it?

 

Ken: No, I did watch it twice. Yeah.

 

Wendi: You really watched it two times.

 

Ken: No, cause it came out when I was in 9th grade.

 

Wendi: Yeah.

 

Ken: Just blossoming into adulthood³ at that point.

 

Wendi: So you wathced it kind of for rules on how to be with girls?

 

Ken: No, kind of like, you know it's the only PG-13 movie with like, you know, I don't know if I'm supposed to say.

 

Wendi: Just soft touching⁴ and no serious crazy nasty stuff going on.

 

Ken: Yeah, it's a little, you know, a little eye candy.

 

Wendi: That's awesome⁵. So you loved the movie.

 

Ken: No, not Titanic. My favorite movie was Jurassic Park actually.

 

Wendi: Seriously.

 

Ken: Yeah.

 

Wendi: I hated that movie.

 

Ken: No, it's the best movie because I grew up, as a child, I...

 

Wendi: You loved dinosours.

 

Ken: I loved dinosaurs⁷. No, I loved dinosaurs.

 

Wendi: Wow

 

Ken: I really liked them. I had dinosaur⁶ t-shirts. Like my parents would always buy me dinosaur books. Like I could name every single dinosaur. I can't anymore but I could. Like I was really into it. I wanted to be a paleontologist.

 

Wendi: Wow, that is amazing... You know that's one thing I've never really understood, is kids that are super into dinoaurs, and I've never met a girl that's super into dinosaurs.

 

Ken: Hell, yeah. Never.

 

Wendi: But, I've met so many eight-year old boys that are dino-crazy. What's up with that?

 

Ken: I don't know. I can't explain it. It's like their cool you know. You know some kids like cars and trucks and stuff. I like dinosaurs.

 

Wendi: Yeah... You know, like, but I still can't put my finger on it, because when I think about it, I, like when I feel attracted to a man, I know what I'm attracted to, like so when you think about how you're attracted to dinosaurs, what is the draw?

 

Ken: Ah, but you don't think about that when you're eight-years old.

 

Wendi: I guess you're right.

 

Ken: But, like I guess in retrospect⁸ the draw is that, these dinosaurs, they're so strong and powerful and yet mysterious because, you know, you've never actually seen one. You can only look at pictures or go to a museum and look at the skeletons. Yeah, and...

 

Wendi: When I was young, it was the unicorn⁹, for me.

 

Ken: Unicorn.

 

Wendi: Yeah, because there was this song that I used to sing all the time and it had a unicorn in it, and I was always just like, "Man, it'd be so amazing to see a unicorn."

1 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

2 titanic   

adj.巨人的，庞大的，强大的

参考例句：

• We have been making titanic effort to achieve our purpose.我们一直在作极大的努力，以达到我们的目的。
• The island was created by titanic powers and they are still at work today.台湾岛是由一个至今仍然在运作的巨大力量塑造出来的。

3 adulthood   

n.成年，成人期

参考例句：

• Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
• Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。

4 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

5 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

6 dinosaur   

n.恐龙

参考例句：

• Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
• He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。

7 dinosaurs   

n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 )；守旧落伍的人，过时落后的东西

参考例句：

• The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 retrospect   

n.回顾，追溯；v.回顾，回想，追溯

参考例句：

• One's school life seems happier in retrospect than in reality.学校生活回忆起来显得比实际上要快乐。
• In retrospect,it's easy to see why we were wrong.回顾过去就很容易明白我们的错处了。

9 unicorn   

n.(传说中的)独角兽

参考例句：

• The unicorn is an imaginary beast.独角兽是幻想出来的动物。
• I believe unicorn was once living in the world.我相信独角兽曾经生活在这个世界。