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' @) R4 q$ H% N8 i+ o. u2 G$ ]时代俚语) M4 u4 ?, g9 ~! e( x9 Z
“俚语”是指百姓在日常生活中总结出来的通俗易懂顺口的具有地方色彩的词语。地域性强，较生活化，它的通俗易懂常常让交流的人彼此距离的拉近，非常地亲切，和人们的生活上的沟通与交流有着极为密切的关系！: x3 C8 H- G6 w' O
' Z7 f" s' |3 [5 q7 I: c<<阿甘正传>>Forrest Gump
------a good film to learn speaking English
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he's too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.6 d9 W. j- d& f1 @0 U) s; T
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Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. 生命就像一盒巧克力，结果往往出人意料
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% T; ^, U' A D7 }Stupid is as stupid does. 蠢人做蠢事，傻人有傻福5 X6 o2 B, d4 _" S/ i; n; r# t2 `
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Miracles happen every day. 奇迹每天都在发生4 a% m) `9 m* h! \9 F6 Y! p) c1 n
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, I6 u W* F$ l+ N# fHave you given any thought to your future? 你有没有为将来打算过呢
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, f. ]4 R+ r X# i6 tIf you are ever in trouble, don't try to be brave, just run, just run away.你若遇上麻烦，不要逞强，你就跑，远远跑开& B( e# R# |& u/ ]- w5 _" P& j6 p
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8 U( E$ C$ t% L$ }It made me look like a duck in water. 它让我如鱼得水! T/ ?5 b: r, L4 N# @* u
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I was messed up for a long time. 这些年我一塌糊涂8 L/ R. P( y0 G" Q c: s. o
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" I# I& F; }8 K$ kI don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidentally―like on a breeze.我不懂我们是否有着各自的命运，还是只是到处随风, [: P2 T6 |5 {. m% V- U* w
$ l- i7 r0 R# _! G' S; y) I<<加菲猫>>GARFIELD
Jon Arbuckle (Meyer) travels to the United Kingdom, and he brings his cat, Garfield (voiced by Murray), along for the trip. A case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle, but his reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis (Connolly), who has designs on the estate.9 V5 C0 x* Q! B2 o# I
( g0 s% m" [. t+ X5 B8 V4 b1. Money is not everything. There's MasterCard.钞票不是万能的, 有时还需要信用卡
) j: S/ j( W0 H4 O) i2. One should love animals. They are so tasty.每个人都应该热爱动物, 因为它们很好吃
3 ?; C: t3 q$ w3. Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.要节约用水, 尽量和女友一起洗澡
0 i% m4 J. T S1 }4. Love the neighbor. But don't get caught.要用心去爱你的邻居, 不过不要让她的老公知道
, }) \$ [1 l7 r5. Behind every successful man, there is a man. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
) p: ~! G7 v) X, v每个成功男人的背后, 都有一个女人. 每个不成功男人的背后, 都有两个
1 s, y6 q$ }' L* }2 |+ K8 G6. Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.再快乐的单身汉迟早也会结婚, 幸福不是永久的嘛
+ W' k! y+ o" h* O7. The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.聪明人都是未婚，+ l" Q% B9 P; ^0 ]. m
结婚的人很难再聪明起来
4 Z# K g* m. }! U9 s9. Love is photogenic. It needs darkness to develop. 爱情就像照片, 需要大量的暗房时间来培养: X8 b7 H! J8 E( L! s1 W+ `8 N6 N
10. Your future depends on your dreams. So go to sleep. ; M5 |2 ?% k+ K$ a! L
现在的梦想决定着你的将来, 所以还是再睡一会吧
& W8 P$ S s* [4 l5 l# z( K' _11. There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning. 应该有更好的方式开始新一天, 而不是千篇一律的在每个上午都醒来
; F8 C( [# v' a( H0 c' R2 X12. Hard work never killed anybody. But why take the risk?努力工作不会导致死亡! 不过我不会用自己去证明8 K* B/ K; ^0 @) J! n& i
13. Work fascinates me. I can look at it for hours! 工作好有意思耶! 尤其是看着别人工作; B4 |& t8 c$ w3 d% \1 d F6 L
14. God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends. 神决定了谁是你的亲戚, 幸运的是在选择朋友方面他给了你留了余地! Z+ I5 |/ m m9 }3 s
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" q3 @ ^' k- a* F) |1 z oHollywood Looks Overseas for Talent and Profit 6 S: h5 f( o# i, L2 |
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Over half of ticket sales for American movies now come from other countries. But the industry sees billions lost to piracy.
6 E: i. ?% _" G e" n/ s' wThis year, something happened at the Academy Awards that had not happened since nineteen sixty-four. All the winners for best acting were from outside the United States.
Daniel Day-Lewis and Tilda Swinton are British. He won best actor for "There Will Be Blood"; she won best supporting actress for "Michael Clayton." French actress Marion Cotillard won the Oscar for best actress for "La Vie en Rose." And Spain's Javier Bardem won best supporting actor in "No Country for Old Men."
Hollywood is increasingly looking outside America's borders for stars and profit.
Jonathan Taplin is a professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He says that today, about fifty-four percent of the ticket sales for Hollywood studios now come from outside the United States.
For the last three months of two thousand seven, foreign sales totaled about eight hundred eighty million dollars. But there is fierce competition for each movie dollar.
Hollywood has lost market share in some places as other countries develop their own film industries. For example, in the mid-eighties, American films had eighty percent of the market in South Korea. Today that share is about forty percent.
Hollywood also faces competition from illegally copied movies, a major issue to the Motion Picture Association of America. The trade group estimated more than eighteen billion dollars in worldwide losses from piracy in two thousand five.
Hollywood reporter Alan Silverman says piracy has influenced how American movies are released. In the past, Hollywood studios waited months after the American release of a film to release it in foreign markets. Now, many aim to release films at the same time around the world.
Foreign markets may also influence how people get their movies. Different nations have different levels of technology.
Efforts to settle on the next-generation DVD got a lot of attention recently. Sony's Blu-ray technology for high-definition televisions won the competition with Toshiba's HD DVD format.
Yet DVD sales have dropped in recent years. This may be a sign that people are increasingly getting their movies off the Internet. The Internet is another front in Hollywood's war on piracy. But more than that, it presents complex business questions for an industry now built mostly on DVD and ticket sales.
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