主持人：任亞凌

北京新東方學校聽力口語部教師，主講聽說速成，電影英語。曾在大學任教多年，在英語聽說讀寫方面積累了豐富的教學經驗，并曾參與編寫過一套大學英語四級考試聽力部分的輔導教材。同時任亞凌老師在口譯和筆譯方面經驗豐富，把電影教學和翻譯實踐結合在一起，希望能使學員在電影聽說的過程中，使自己的語言表達更加流暢和精確。

文化面面觀  Wellesley College 韋爾斯利女子學院

考考你  一展身手

影片對白

Paul: Hello.

Katherine：It's me.

Paul: Hey!

Operator: Collect from Katherine Watson. Will you accept?

Paul: Yeah; sure; of course I will. Hey, is everything okay?

Katherine: Yeah.

Paul: Tough , huh? Well, how are the classes? Snobs, right? I hate to say I told you so.

Katherine: You don't have to. I can't really talk right now. I'll write you tonight.

Nancy Abbey: So you got a fella?

Katherine: He's... He's there. I'm here.

Nancy: Long distance. Torture. I know. Come. Come in and sit down. When Lenny left for the South Pacific, it nearly broke my heart. We wrote every day until... He was a great man.

Katherine: I'm sorry. 

Nancy: It was a hundred years ago. I'm babbling.

Nancy: I love Lucy. Even if she is a communist.

Amanda Armstrong: The only thing red about Lucy is her hair. And even that's fake. Desi said it. Winchell wrote it. Amanda Armstrong. I see you survived.

Katherine: Katherine Watson. Just barely.

Nancy: Oh, good. You've met. Katherine's taken the third bedroom. How about a little dinner before What's my line ?

Amanda: How about a little drink?

Nancy: Her companion died in May.

Katherine: Companion?

Nancy: You know, companion. Josephine Burns. Taught biology here for 30 years.

Nancy: You'll love it here, Katherine. You'll see.

Katherine: I already do. I... Honestly, it's beautiful. It's perfect; really.

Amanda: Well, don't fool yourself. They have claws underneath their white gloves.

Katherine: Who?

Amanda: The alumnae; their offspring, the faculty. You name it. Watch out for yourself. Too much independence frightens them.

Nancy: Will you please stop?

Amanda: Oh, a word of advice. Don't let those girls know that they got to you.

Katherine: They didn't.

Amanda: Good for you. You almost convinced me.

妙詞佳句，活學活用

1. Collect　

這實際上是一個很簡單的詞，希望大家了解這個熟悉的詞的比較容易被忽略的一個意思：由對方支付費用的。Collect 本來是一個副詞，但是在口語里演變為名詞用法，等于省略的a collect phone call。所以以后當大家自己在電話中聽到了這個詞的時候，要明白這是要你自己付錢的電話哦。

2. Tough　

在這個片段里這個單詞的意思是“艱難；棘手”。但這實在是一個意思很多變的詞，所以想用幾個例子給大家加深一下印象：
She is a tough mother to her only son. 對于唯一的兒子來說，她是個嚴厲的母親。
But she is also a tough customer while shopping. 但是購物的時候，她也是個難伺候的顧客。
The beef we are eating is tough. 我們吃的牛肉有點嚼不動。
Journalists raised a lot of tough questions in the press conference. 記者招待會上記者們提出了很多尖刻的問題。

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