文化面面觀  黑人民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)家馬丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King, Jr.）

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Martin Luther King, Jr. : The motor is nowcranked upand we are moving up the highway of freedom toward the city of equality. And we can't afford to stop now, because our nation has a date with destiny. We must keep moving. I have a dream this afternoon that one day right here in Detroit, Negroes will be able to buy a house anywhere that their money will carry them, and they will be able to get a job.

Woman: Made my peach cobbler!

Effie: Curtis!

Curtis: Hey, baby, you know my sisters.

Effie: Tell me something. Do you think it's right to promote an amateur performer over a professional?

Curtis: I don't know what this is about.

Effie: It's about fairness, Curtis. It's about peoplepaying their dues. Ain't that what you keep telling me? "Getin line, Effie. Wait your turn." So why am I sitting here without so much as aB-side on the 45when an amateur like Martin Luther King, Jr. Gets his own freakin' album? I mean, can he even sing?

Curtis: All right, that was a good one.

Effie: You're a great man, Curtis. Isn't your brother a great man?

妙語佳句，活學(xué)活用

1. Crank up

這里的意思是"Get started"，例如：The theater season is cranking up with four benefit performances. 這是一個(gè)1930年代的俚語，來自于"轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)曲柄以發(fā)動(dòng)汽車"。

2. Pay one's dues

意思是"Earn something through hard work, long experience, or suffering 獲得自己應(yīng)得的"，例如：She'd paid her dues in small-town shows before she finally got a Broadway part.

3. In line

這里的in line 是指"prepared; ready"，get in line 的意思就是get prepared。

4. B-side on the 45

A 45 was an old fashioned record album in the US in the 1960s. The B-side was the second side of the album, where less popular tunes were put. Effie 意指自己的"不受重視，不得意"。