影片對白  She's Horton Hatches the Egg. She sits on that nest and she never, ever wavers.

 

5. The Empire Strikes Back

星球大戰系列中的一部，全部的星球大戰電影包括：

星球大戰I：新希望 A New Hope （1977）

星球大戰Ⅱ：帝國反擊戰 The Empire Strikes Back （1980）

星球大戰Ⅲ：絕地歸來 Return Of The Jedi （1983）

星戰前傳Ⅰ：魅影危機 The Phantom Menace （1999）

星戰前傳Ⅱ：克隆人的進攻 Attack Of The Clones（2002）

星戰前傳Ⅲ：西斯的復仇 Revenge Of The Sith（2005）

敘事順序是：魅影危機，克隆人的進攻，西斯的復仇，新希望，帝國反擊戰，絕地歸來。之所以先拍后三部是因為導演喬治?盧卡斯認為當時的科技還無法展現前三部的景象。

6. get over

這里的get over是指“從某段感情中解脫出來”，比如：Finally, John got over Joan. They had been together for five years. 最終，約翰還是從和瓊的戀情中解脫出來。他們曾經在一起五年。

文化面面觀

1. Mansfield Park《曼斯菲爾德莊園》

在這個片段中他們談到了Jane Austen的三部小說：Mansfield Park《曼斯菲爾德莊園》，Persuasion《勸導》，Pride and Prejudice《傲慢與偏見》。電影中，他們這次聚會討論的小說是Mansfield Park《曼斯菲爾德莊園》。

Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton.

The main character, Fanny Price, is a young girl from a poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, but is always treated as inferior to them; only Edmund shows her real kindness. He is also the most virtuous of the siblings: Maria and Julia are vain and spoiled, while Tom is an irresponsible gambler. Over time, Fanny's gratitude for Edmund's kindness secretly grows into love.

雖然受到二表哥埃德蒙以外的眾人的冷落，但她始終“有一顆溫柔親切的心，想要表現得體的強烈愿望”。尤其難能可貴的是，她始終能明辨是非，知人知心。大表哥湯姆等人要在家里排演有傷風化的情節劇，家里只有她一人加以反對和抵制。她早就看清了克勞福德兄妹的自私和輕浮，因而當克勞福德死死糾纏她時，她絲毫不為其所動，始終不渝地暗戀著埃德蒙；當克勞福德小姐對埃德蒙“舊情復發”的時候，她告誡表哥不要上她的當。最后，她的高尚人品贏得了托馬斯爵士的器重，也贏得了埃德蒙的愛，兩位年輕人終于結成伉儷。范妮可以說是書中的道德楷模。

2. Horton Hatches the Egg 《霍頓孵蛋》

Horton Hatches the Egg is a book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1940.

The book concerns Horton (an elephant) convinced by an irresponsible bird named Mayzie into sitting on her egg while she takes a break--which proves to last for months. Of course, the absurd sight of an elephant sitting atop a tree makes quite a scene.

Horton is laughed at by his jungle friends, exposed to the elements, captured by hunters, forced to endure a terrible sea voyage, and finally placed in a traveling circus. All through the ordeal Horton repeats this refrain:

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant:

An elephant's faithful one hundred percent.

Mayzie finds Horton at the circus just in time to see her egg hatch. She demands the egg back, but is denied it by Horton and onlookers when it hatches into a tiny winged elephant.

The moral of the story is "be responsible, even when it's difficult." This moral is established in several ways. First, Mayzie's demonstrated irresponsibility in leaving her egg for someone else to watch leads to her losing the implied benefit of her egg- a baby Mayzie. Second, Horton's demonstrated responsibility in keeping his promise to Mayzie by staying with the egg, even when it's hard to do so, gives him the benefit of a baby Horton hatching from the egg. Finally, the elephant's ability to stay true and steadfast despite all manner of disasters carries a traditional spiritual message: he is faithful, not only to his external obligations, but to his inner self as well. (answers.com)

考考你

將下面的句子譯成英語。

1. 他泄露了幫兇。

2. 他和一群壞蛋交往密切。

The Jane Austen book club《奧斯汀書會》精講之三 考考你 參考答案

1. All the tennis players had to pair off for a round of doubles matches.

所有的乒乓球運動員都得組對打一輪雙打。

2. I'm afraid you've just entirely missed the point.

恐怕你完全誤解了問題的主旨。

3. People are instinctively drawn to partners who are their near equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly.

人們本能地被長相相近的人吸引。帥哥娶了美女，青蛙娶了恐龍。

 

影片對白  She's Horton Hatches the Egg. She sits on that nest and she never, ever wavers.

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