影片對白Somebody finally arrived. You finally got here. Mr. Prompt.

 

5. if pressed

“如果非要……樣的話”

6. Told ya

Ya 是 you的一種口語形式。

7. I can't help the traffic.

這里的意思是“我左右不了路況啊！”

8. line up

這里的意思是“organize, make ready, make the arrangements for組織好，準備好，安排好”，比如：They lined up considerable support for the bill. 他們召集了很多人支持這個提案。

9. get one's hopes up

Don't get someone's hopes up是一個習(xí)慣用語，當你委婉地拒絕別人，不想讓別人期望太高的時候，就可以用到這句話。比如：---How did your finals go? 期末考試的結(jié)果如何？---It went well, but I don't want to get my hopes up. 還不錯，不過我不會寄太多希望。

影片簡介

Sideways 杯酒人生

Sideways is a 2004 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning comedy/drama film, co-written and directed by Alexander Payne. It is based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Rex Pickett.

Miles (Paul Giamatti) is a single divorcé, unpublished writer, eighth-grade English teacher, depression sufferer, and xenophile, who takes his soon-to-be-married actor friend and old college roommate, Jack (Thomas Haden Church), on a week-long road trip through Santa Ynez Valley wine country. Miles wants to drink wine, eat great food, play golf, enjoy the scenery, and send Jack off in style. However, Jack is more interested in "sowing his wild oats" and having one last sexually libertine week. Soon after their arrival in wine country, they meet Maya (Virginia Madsen), a waitress at Miles' favorite restaurant, and Stephanie (Sandra Oh), a winery employee who happens to be friends with Maya.

Neither tells the women about Jack's impending nuptials the next weekend. Jack soon finds himself in a sexual and romantic imbroglio with Stephanie, which inevitably puts an abrupt end to Miles' plan for taking Jack out for a good time. Although more than a little reluctant, Miles is willing to entertain Jack's antics, convinced of the temporary nature of his newfound relationship with Stephanie. Miles' decision to indulge Jack's philandering ways is also influenced by his decision, with Jack's strong encouragement, to begin to act on the crush he's developed on Maya. Soon, Jack's relationship with Stephanie accelerates, putting Miles in a precarious predicament as he continues to court Maya casually.

Eventually, Miles consummates his relationship with Maya. The next day, he lets slip the upcoming rehearsal dinner, which leads to his revelation of the upcoming wedding. An infuriated Maya, in turn, breaks the news to Stephanie, who becomes apoplectic and mercilessly attacks Jack, smashing his nose with her motorcycle helmet, which requires him to get medical treatment at a hospital. Miles and Jack later have a tense conversation where Miles flatly denies that he ever said anything about Jack's engagement to Maya.

Miles hopes that this is the end of Jack's behavior as they settle down to a barbecue dinner. Undaunted, Jack spots Cammi, a heavy-set waitress, who recognizes Jack and whom he dubs 'two tons of fun'. He goes home with her, leaving an irritated Miles once again to his own devices. Back at the hotel, Miles is awakened in the middle of the night by a naked Jack, who confesses that a cuckolded husband arrived home from work and caught Jack in flagrante delicto with his wife, and he was forced to escape in the nude and run "five klicks" (3 miles) back to the motel. A distraught Jack reveals that unfortunately, he has left his wallet behind, which contained custom-designed wedding bands. He desperately wants to retrieve his belongings, but needs Miles' help. Initially, Miles laughs at the situation and refuses to help Jack, as he believes the incorrigible skirt-chaser may finally have learned a lesson. However, Miles sees the desperation in his friend's breakdown, and agrees to help him by driving him back to Cammi's house. After Jack pleads he's in no fit state, Miles reluctantly agrees to personally reclaim the wallet by sneaking into the garbage-strewn dwelling to retrieve it, passing by the Rubenesque couple, who are now engaged in sex themselves. He retrieves the wallet, but is spotted and is chased down the street by the enraged, portly, naked husband. Miles hops in his car and barely makes a clean getaway.

On the way back to Los Angeles, where the wedding is being held, Jack runs Miles' red Saab 900 convertible into a tree and then into a ditch, in order to have corroborating evidence for his story that a car accident mangled his face. The ploy works, much to Miles' chagrin. Jack's fiancee sympathizes with his injuries.

Miles' ex-wife Victoria is still friendly with Jack, and is at the wedding. During the road trip, Jack had revealed that Victoria remarried, but his romantic feelings for her are still strong. At the ceremony, Victoria introduces Miles to her new husband and also informs Miles that she is pregnant. Miles does his best to contain his deep sadness and congratulates her, but abruptly decides to skip the wedding reception and instead return to his dingy apartment in San Diego, where he fetches his prized bottle of wine, a 1961 Chateau Cheval Blanc, and drinks it from a plastic cup at a fast-food restaurant.

It seems that this is the end for Miles, but Maya eventually returns his apologetic phone call. She has read his unpublished manuscript, and a letter of apology that he sent to her. Touched by his sentimental side, she leaves a message on his machine telling him that she cannot believe the book was turned down, as she admires it, but is also confounded by portions of it; in particular, the ending. Her message also discloses portions of his novel that, in turn, reveal events in Miles' life that may have shaped his bleak perspective on the world, particularly the implication that his father might have committed suicide (although this is unclear as, according to Miles, the novel is only loosely based on events in his own life). The film ends with Miles again driving north, standing on Maya's doorstep, and knocking on her door. (answers.com)

考考你

用今日所學(xué)將下面的句子譯成英語。

1. 南希得為這場音樂會準備一間大廳。

2. 黎明時分杰克上路了。

3. 從雍和宮到王府井一路擁擠不堪。

4. ---你要給我們來場表演嗎？

---別妄想了。

Keeping mum《保持緘默》精講之六 考考你 參考答案

1. 他盡全力及時完成了（工作）。

He did his damnedest to get done in time.

2. 她至于在找到別的房子之前賣掉這棟房子嗎？

Would she go as far as to sell the house before she's found another?

3. 我得私下和比爾談?wù)勑蘩淼氖隆?/p>

I must have a quiet word with Bill about the repairs.

 

影片對白Somebody finally arrived. You finally got here. Mr. Prompt.

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