留美老师带你每日说英文 第1164期:无声电影

 When literacy was a necessity to be able to read the words on screen, the loud crunching¹ and chewing of popcorn² would have been a distraction³ from reading the subtitles⁴, and the theater owners didn't want their beautiful rugs and carpets ruined from the inevitable⁵ droppings of snacks into the aisles⁶.
在无声电影的时期，人们必须要识字才能够阅读屏幕上的字幕，而吃爆米花的卡滋卡滋声会让观众无法专心看字幕，而且电影院的老板也不希望电影院里漂亮的地毯被不小心掉落在走道上的食物残渣给弄脏。

学习重点：

1.necessity 必需的东西；生活必需品
necessity (n.) 必需的东西；生活必需品
necessary (adj.) 必需的；不可或缺的

2.distraction 分心的事；分散注意力的东西
distraction (n.) 分心的事；分散注意力的东西
distract (v.) 使分心；使转移注意力；干扰

3.subtitles 副标题；字幕
subtitles (n.) 副标题；字幕

 

4.inevitable 不可避免的；必然发生的
inevitable (adj.) 不可避免的；必然发生的
unavoidable (adj.) 无法避免的

1 crunching   

v.嘎吱嘎吱地咬嚼( crunch的现在分词 )；嘎吱作响；（快速大量地）处理信息；数字捣弄

参考例句：

• The horses were crunching their straw at their manger. 这些马在嘎吱嘎吱地吃槽里的草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The dog was crunching a bone. 狗正嘎吱嘎吱地嚼骨头。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 popcorn   

n.爆米花

参考例句：

• I like to eat popcorn when I am watching TV play at home.当我在家观看电视剧时，喜欢吃爆米花。
• He still stood behind his cash register stuffing his mouth with popcorn.他仍站在收银机后，嘴里塞满了爆米花。

3 distraction   

n.精神涣散，精神不集中，消遣，娱乐

参考例句：

• Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注，不能有丝毫分神。
• Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。

4 subtitles   

n.说明字幕，印在外国影片上的对白翻译字幕，译文对白字幕；小标题，副标题( subtitle的名词复数 )；（电影的）字幕

参考例句：

• subtitles for the deaf and the hard of hearing 为耳聋和听力不佳者打出的字幕
• a Polish film with English subtitles 附有英语字幕的波兰影片

5 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

6 aisles   

n. (席位间的)通道, 侧廊

参考例句：

• Aisles were added to the original Saxon building in the Norman period. 在诺曼时期，原来的萨克森风格的建筑物都增添了走廊。
• They walked about the Abbey aisles, and presently sat down. 他们走到大教堂的走廊附近，并且很快就坐了下来。