第一篇:看电影学英语的好处
可以帮助大学生锻炼出一定的综合运用语言的技能;影片生动鲜明地创设出真实的语言环境,强化了学习语言的氛围,展现了英语国家的风土人情以及社会、历吏与文化背景,在大学英语教学中具有独特的优势与效果。
培养学生的英语语言综合运用能力,是大学英语的教学目标。而我国传统的英语教学,一直以重视语言知识的讲授为主,语言运用技能训练却处于长期滞后状态。在大学英语教学中,如何运用第二课堂还原真实的语境以及适当的语言文化氛围,使其形象化、真实化,历来是大学英语教学长期探究的问题。英文电影欣赏作为第二课堂的教学方法应用,开创了大学英语新的学习道路,卓有成效地解决了大学英语教学长久的难题。不但给传统的大学英语教学增添了新的活力,而且使原有的教学手段和教学模式发生了变化,推动了大学英语教育的改革。原版英文电影作为语言教学资源,可以直观展现英语曰家的日常生活、社会风貌和文化背景,在提高学生英语综合运用能力上具有显而易见的作用。
一、英文电影引入大学英语教学的理论基础
相关研究者曾在把英语作为第二语言的学生中进行了大范围的调查,调查数据显示:数量众多的大学生乐于通过第二课堂影视欣赏学习英语,l并且获得了很好的成绩。大学生有兴趣观赏的大多是娱乐性较强的英文动作电影,而并非普通的教学纪录片。这表明正是影片中这些给人以视觉冲击的画面,及其附加的丰富的语言信息材料,有助于大学生更容易地接受、理解与保存接受到的信息,从而在此基础上提升语言应用的能力。此外,深入研究表明,不单单是影视作品包含大量的视觉信息材料,图片、图表、卡通,甚至是大脑想象 来的画面都非常有助于语言的学习。这是因为生动直观的学习方法为理解力的发挥提供了环境与氛同,从而强化了大脑对接受到的语言信息的印象和理解。
把英文电影教学作为第二课堂可以为学生创造一个真实的英语口语氛围,可以把学生的视觉和听觉充分渊动起来,已达到更有效的学习。英文影片栩栩如生地还原了以英语为母语的国家的各种语言情境。原版 文影片通过鲜明生动的 面、引人人胜的剧情、个性化的人物塑造、美妙动听的音乐以及原汁原味的语言让学生如临其境;把有声语言和无声语言融合起来,将单一的语言传输转化为形象化的交流,为学生打造了直观的语言环境,有助于学生从母语干扰中解脱出来,最大限度发挥大脑对语言信息的吸纳和综合处理能力,调动学生学习和模仿的热情,使直接的欣赏原版英文电影的兴趣转变为间接的英语语言学习的兴趣。
二、英文电影的教育属性与在大学英语教学中的作用(一)学习大量常用词汇和正确的表达方式
为大学生创造真实的学习语言的环境是英语教学的基本出发点。真实的语言环境才可以让学生更准确地了解英语语言在实际中的具体运用。口头化交流语言与书面表达语言在实际应用中相去甚远。即使学生学会了书面的语法知识和表达方法,但在与外国人面对面交流时却仍然笨口拙舌,词不达意。英文电影观赏作为英语教学的第二课堂,能够使学生轻松掌握丰富的英美常用词汇和正确通俗的表达方法。学生在观看电影期间,能够将影片中的人物、场景、语言等多种感官信息充分地结合起来,慢慢植入实际的语言交流情境中,进而准确把握实际运用语言的能力。在真实的语境里做大量的语言练习,能够提高大学生的英语口头表达技能,强化他们的语言综合运用意识。
(二)培养跨文化交际能力
英文电影观赏作为英语教学的第二课堂,可以锻炼学生的跨文化交际能力。跨文化交际能力即拥有一定的文化背景和交际方法的知识,并将知识运用到现实的跨文化交际环境中,用欣赏和包容的态度对待不同文化。熟悉并把握一种语言并不止步于学习语言本身,在语言学习过程中,了解目的语的文化背景知识不仅是培养交际能力的重点部分,而且就其本身而言,也是语言教育的要求之一。准确地把握和使用一种语言,就要知晓与此种语言相关的文化背景知识,因此语言教学惟有与文化相结合,才符合语言教学的实质。语言是文化的载体,可以说,电影是丰富多样的、强大的文化载体。英文电影的主题涉及了社交礼仪、风土人情政治、历史等方方面面,它多维度、多层次、十分直观地展现了英语国家的文化。原版电影故事情节的变化,人物刻画以及语言的表达都表现出与中国传统思维方式的差异。学生可以用欣赏英文原版影片来了解东西方文化差异,特别是英美国家的独特文化背景,感受东西方价值观的差异和因此形成的思维方式的不同,把英语国家与中国的文化加以比较,进而加强自身的跨文化交际能力。
(三)促进学生发散性思维发展
英文电影观赏作为第二课堂,对锻炼学生发散性思维有一定帮助,在英文电影教学的过程中应贯穿创新能力的培养。在欣赏英文影片时,教师应鼓励和引导学生进行反思和质疑或者要求学生亲自动手改编剧本的章节和电影中的情景片段等。在对原版英文电影的赏析和学习过程中,学生不但能够接受到丰富直观的语言信息,接触到原汁原味的口语,学习到地道流畅的表达方式,还能在不同的文化语境中锻炼自己思考问题和创作的能力。
(四)资源丰富,使用方便
英文电影的题材涵盖了经济、文化、政治、历史、社会及日常生活的方方面面,电影的类型也丰富多彩,而且获取影片资源的途径也非常多。可以购买光碟,也能通过网络得到众多免费片源,而且还可以下载电影剧本和字幕的文本,这样就使电影很轻易地成为教学资源。利用英文电影教学十分方便,把片源带到教学场所只需要一个小巧的移动硬盘,此外,还可以申请一个校园FTP空间用来放所有的原版英文电影教学资料,既可以资源共享,又为大学生的自主学习提供了方便。
三、运用原版英文电影教学的优势
(一)有利于更好地了解西方国家的语言和文化
利用原版英文电影学习英语是掌握英语最有效的方法之一,让学生观赏英文电影是一种寓教于乐的过程。观看原版影片使学生能更为直观真实地接触英语国家的文化和语言;英文电影会让还没有去过英语国家,但又想了解这些国家的习俗和文化的学习者有身临其境的感觉。所以,原版影片常常可以带给学生更多的学习英语的乐趣。另外,原版英文影片是西方文化的强大载体,影片中有许多与中国传统思维方式大相径庭的方面,但这些由语言表现出来的文化差异,却不可以单单用语言进行透彻的分析,而是先要了解和总结西方文化的特点,比较分析东西方价值观的差异,利用对西方文化多方面的综合了解,把英语语言学习提升到更深层次的交流上来,使英语学习立体化、多面化。
(二)有利于激发大学生学习英语的兴趣
提高英语听说能力虽然有许多种方法,例如看电视、听收音机等,但最能引起学生兴趣的还是英文原版电影。传统英语教学往往从听觉等单一方面吸引学生的注意力,但常常事倍功半。促进学生主动学习的内在动因是学习兴趣与动机,是个人为满足自身需要而主动接触和了解认知对象的一种心理状态。让学生观看英文影片的最大好处就是激起他们的兴趣,调动了他们的积极性。原版影片中唯美的画面、悦耳的音乐、扣人心弦的剧情、美丽的异域风光以及演员精湛的演技,都给学生带来精神上的快乐体验和愉悦享受,视听器官被快速调动起来,自觉接受影片所带来的大量信息,最大限度带动了他们学习与模仿的兴趣。而且,电影用直观的画面为学生展现了英语国家日常生活中的各种真实情景和相应的语言表述,可以使学生在娱乐的氛围中轻松地学习。英文电影欣赏作为第二课堂,不仅给学生们提供了一种把英语当作兴趣学习的方法,而且使当代大学生对英语学习的焦虑感得到一定程度的缓和,可以最大限度地激发他们学习英语的兴趣和热情。
(三)为大学英语教学展示真实的生活场景
电影创作源自于生活,其故事、场景、人物等方面都以现实社会为原形。运用英文电影作为第二课堂学习,凸显出新式“情景式教学法”相比传统“句型教学法” 的优势。但更为关键的是,优秀的影片利用剧中人物的行为动作和表情神态,发挥了肢体语言的作用,使“语言交流”与“非语言交流”相辅相成,共同起作用,让语言学习者不仅有身临其境的感受,还可以“鉴貌辨色”,加深对心理与情感的把握,增强对语言的表象与含义之间关系的深层理解。把英语语言植入现实场景中学习,使英语语言学习更加生动自然。此外,影片中的人物用正常语速讲话,能够使大学生熟悉并习惯英语在现实场景中的交流与应用,而且令大学生充分感受到常用的缩短和弱化形式在英语口语中的应用情况,可以更好地培养正确说英语的习惯。
四、结语
大学英语教学研究处于长期的探索之中,欣赏英语电影作为学习英语的第二课堂,是一个切实有效并有待于进一步研究、发展和提高的教学方式。英文电影观赏为大学生展开了一幅生动直观的西方文化风俗画卷,激发了大学生跨文化学习的兴趣,为大学生创建出一个轻松有趣的英语学习氛围。在大学英语教学过程中,充分利用好英文电影,将会使大学生在英语第二课堂学习和个人成长等方面收获甚多,进而为大学生英语交际能力的培养打下坚实的基础。
第二篇:看电影学英语
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[看电影学英语]Fast food nation《快餐帝国》(精讲之五)(2008-02-19)
[看电影学英语]Fast food nation《快餐帝国》(精讲之四)(2008-02-19)
[看电影学英语]Fast food nation《快餐帝国》(精讲之三)(2008-01-07)
[看电影学英语] Fast food nation《快餐帝国》(精讲之二)(2008-01-07) [看电影学英语]Fast food nation《快餐帝国》(精讲之一)(2008-01-07)
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[看电影学英语]Goal!《一球成名》(精讲之五)(2008-01-07)
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第三篇:看电影学英语
看电影学英语
初级水平:《老友记》,从发音到对话,从常用词汇积累到了解老美的思维方式,只要你肯抽时间看上个十几二十遍,你会发现自己的英文水平会有非常大的提升。
中级水平:《绝望主妇》,用词和语言非常标准,想对于《老友记》增加了更多的英文长句,很适合进一步提升英语水平。
高级水平:《白宫风云》,对于积累高级词汇会有很大帮助
如果你在利用美剧学习的时候很依赖字幕,那么你的英语水平就很难提高了。比较靠谱的做法是:找到一部适合自己的美剧,看一遍带中文字幕的了解剧情,然后再看几遍带双语字幕的,把生词和句型记下来进行学习。掌握生词和句子后,不带任何字幕再看几遍,你会发现自己已经开始听懂对白,了解主人公的想法和思维模式了,这时候乘胜追击再多听几遍,进行跟读和模仿,如果你发现做这一切的时候对你不再困难,那么恭喜你,你的英语已经更上一层了。
要边看边记笔记:在学习时首先注意发音。其次,了解文化,用词和句式使用是否准确直接体现对异国文化了解的程度。还要准备好笔和纸,做好随时停顿和记录的准备。不过,记录的时候最好不要分析思考和尝试记忆,待整个章节观看完毕之后,在统一回顾和整理。
推荐:《狮子王》《玩具总动员》《飞屋环游记》《他不是那么喜欢你》《风月俏佳人》《我最好朋友的婚礼》《假结婚》《辛普森一家》《欲望都市》《丑女贝蒂》《实习医生格蕾》《吉尔莫女孩》
不推荐:《24小时》《英雄》《越狱》《豪格医生》----专业术语太多
《黑客帝国》《星球大战》-----太复杂太深奥
推荐英文情歌:《Yesterday once more》《Sorry seems to be hardest word》----有助于培养兴趣和语感
准备电影笔记薄
到google上使用电影的英文名字+空格+script进行搜索,就可以找到该剧本的下载。
《老友记》人物分析:
RACH:最喜欢的角色,她的口音不很好学,因为她经常会发出很可爱的声音,感情丰富啊,而且连音也比较多,但是学她很有用,因为她的发音很性感,个人认为。
CHANDLER:这个家伙经常会把我逼疯的,他太贫了,语速又快,最难学了
PHEEBS:最好学的,很喜欢她,她的发音很圆润,语速也很正常
MONIKA:可以用她来练长句子,她经常会一口气说很多
JOEY:他反应慢,语速适中应该是最好学的一个,可是他的声音太低了,不适合女生学,我学他太吃力了,男生的话是个首选
第四篇:看电影学英语《傲慢与偏见》
看电影学英语:《傲慢与偏见》[1]
影片对白
Mrs.Bennet: How well you dance, Mr.Bingley.My daughter Jane is a splendid dancer, is she not? Bingley: She is indeed.(to Elizabeth)Your friend Miss Lucas is a most amusing young woman.Elizabeth: Oh, yes, I adore her.Mrs.Bennet: It is a pity she's not more handsome.Elizabeth: Mama!
Mrs.Bennet: Oh, but Lizzie would never admit that she's plain.Of course it's my Jane who's considered the beauty of the county.Elizabeth & Jane: No, Mama, please!
Mrs.Bennet: When she was 15, a gentleman was so much in love with her, that I was sure he would make her an offer.However, he did write her some very pretty verses.Elizabeth: And that put paid to it.I wonder who discovered the power of poetry in driving away love.Darcy: I thought poetry was the food of love.Elizabeth: Of a fine, stout love, it may.But if it is only a vague inclination one poor sonnet will kill it.Darcy: So what do you recommend to encourage affection? Elizabeth: Dancing.Even if one's partner is barely tolerable.Jane: Mr Bingley is just what a young man ought to be.Sensible, good-humoured...Elizabeth: Handsome, conveniently rich...Jane: You know perfectly well I do not believe marriage should be driven by thoughts of money.Elizabeth: I agree entirely.Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I'll end up an old maid.Jane: Do you really believe he liked me, Lizzie?
Elizabeth: Jane, he danced with you most of the night, and stared at you for the rest of it.But I give you leave to like him.You've liked many a stupider person.You're a great deal too apt to like people in general, you know.All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.Jane: Not his friend.I still can't believe what he said about you.Elizabeth: Mr.Darcy? I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.But no matter, I doubt we shall ever speak again.妙词佳句,活学活用
1.adore
Adore 有好几种意思,我们一起来看一下:
A.If you adore someone, you feel great love and admiration for him or her.敬爱,敬重;爱慕
e.g.She adored her parents and would do anything to please them.B.If you adore something, you like it very much.非常喜欢,痴迷 e.g.I adore apple very much and eat two a day.2.make an offer
这是口语中很常用的词组,其意义取决于作为名词的offer一词的不同含义,如在电影《情归巴黎》中有一句台词是:
You never said a word about planning to make an offer to Patrick.(关于你要跟Patrick合并的事情你一个字都没提过。)
这里的翻译是意译,我们可以看出来make an offer是“出价”的意思。
而在本电影的台词里,这个make an offer的意思显然不同,应该是“求婚”的意思。offer一词本身就有“求婚”的意思,所以“向某人求婚”我们可以说propose to sb.或者make an offer to sb.3.put paid to 结束……,了结……(口语)
这是一个挺有意思的短语,If an unexpected event puts paid to someone's hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them.主要在说英式英语的国家中使用。
The series of terrible blind dates put paid to her dream of an ideal marriage.一系列可怕的相亲断送了她对理想婚姻的梦想。
4.end up/end up with 以……结束,以……告终
If you end up doing something or end up in a particular state, you do that thing or get into that state even though you did not originally intend to.e.g.Every time they went dancing they ended up in a bad mood.他们每次出去跳舞都不欢而散。
She could have ended up a millionairess.她本来可以成为一个百万富翁的。考考你 他非常喜欢看电影。他向那个漂亮女孩求了婚,但是被拒绝了。3 雨水让我们的野餐计划泡汤了。如果你不知道自己想要什么,结果往往是你会得到一些你不想要的东西。
Pride & Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》(精讲之一)考考你 参考答案 1.他非常喜欢看电影。He adores the cinema.2.他向那个漂亮女孩求了婚,但是被拒绝了。
He made an offer to that handsome girl but was rejected.3.雨水让我们的野餐计划泡汤了。The rain put paid to our picnic plan.4.如果你不知道自己想要什么,结果往往是你会得到一些你不想要的东西。If you don't know what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want.看电影学英语:Pride&rejudice《傲慢与偏见》[2]
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Caroline: You write uncommonly fast, Mr.Darcy.Darcy: You're mistaken.I write rather slowly.Caroline: How many letters you must have occasion to write, Mr.Darcy.Letters of business, too.How odious I should think them.Darcy: It is fortunate, then, they fall to my lot instead of yours.Caroline: Do tell your sister that I long to see her.Darcy: I've already told her once, by your desire.Caroline: I do dote on her.I was quite in raptures at her beautiful little design for a table.Darcy: Perhaps you will give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again.At present I have not room enough to do them justice.Bingley: Well I think it's amazing that you young ladies have the patience to be so accomplished.Caroline: What do you mean, Charles?
Bingley: You all paint tables and play the piano and embroider cushions.I never heard of a young lady, but people say she's accomplished.Darcy: The word is indeed applied too liberally.I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen women in all my acquaintance that are truly accomplished.Caroline: Nor I, to be sure.Elizabeth: Goodness, you must comprehend a great deal in the idea.Darcy: I do.Caroline: Absolutely.She must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages to deserve the word.And something in her air and manner of walking.Darcy: And, of course she must improve her mind by extensive reading.Elizabeth: I'm no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women.I rather wonder now at your knowing any.Darcy: Are you so severe on your own sex?
Elizabeth: I never saw such a woman.She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold.Caroline: Miss Elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room.It's refreshing, is it not, after sitting so long in one attitude?
Elizabeth: It is a small kind of accomplishment, I suppose.Caroline: Will you not join us, Mr.Darcy?
Darcy: You can only have two motives, Caroline, and I would interfere with either.Caroline: What can he mean?
Elizabeth: The surest way of disappointing him will be to ask him nothing about it.Caroline: But do tell us, Mr.Darcy.Darcy: Either you are in each other's confidence and you have secret affairs to discuss, or you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage by walking.If the first, I should get in your way.If the second, I can admire you much better from here.Caroline: Shocking.How shall we punish him for such a speech? Elizabeth: We could always laugh at him.Caroline: Oh no.Mr.Darcy is not to be teased.Elizabeth: Are you too proud, Mr.Darcy? And would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?
Darcy: That I couldn't say.Elizabeth: Because we're doing our best to find a fault in you.Darcy: Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offences against me.My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.Elizabeth: Oh, dear.I cannot tease you about that.What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.Caroline: A family trait, I think.妙词佳句,活学活用
1.it falls to sb.'s lot to do sth./ the lot falls to sb.to do sth./ it falls to sb.as sb.'s lot to do sth.是“某人命中注定要做某事;某人有责任做某事”的意思。
e.g.It falls to my lot to join the army.参军是我有责任要做的事。
It falls to the young girl's lot to marry this old man.嫁给这个老头是这个女孩命里注定的。
2.dote on If you say you dote on a person or a thing, it means you love or care about them very much and ignore any faults they may have.中文里就是“宠爱,溺爱;过分喜爱”。比如“她溺爱她的儿子”就可以说成 She dotes on her youngest son.3.accomplished 多才多艺的;熟练的;完成的
说到“多才多艺”,大家马上想到词的可能是 versatile,accomplished 这个词比 versatile 还要高一个等级,差不多到了专家的程度,而 versatile 多用来指“能胜任„„”。例如:
an accomplished lady 一个才女 an accomplished pianist 有造诣的钢琴家 an accomplished facts 不容争辩的事实 4.get/stand in one's way / be in the way
这是口语里特别常用的词组,意思是“挡路,妨碍”。我们来看两个例子: e.g.1)Keep on going with your reading.Don't let me stand in your way.2)You're in the way, would you please move aside? 文化面面观
Austen, Jane(1775-1817), English novelist, noted for her witty studies of early-19th-century English society.With meticulous detail, Austen portrayed the quiet, day-to-day life of members of the upper middle class.Her works combine romantic comedy with social satire and psychological insight.她的代表作品包括《傲慢与偏见》,《理智与情感》,及《爱玛》。
小说《傲慢与偏见》开篇的一段话可称为经典,在当今社会也是有一定道理的: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings and views of such a man maybe on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.凡是有钱的单身汉,总想娶位太太,这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。这样的单身汉,每逢新搬到一个地方,四邻八舍虽然完全不了解他的性情如何,见解如何,可是,既然这样的一条真理早已在人们心目中根深蒂固,因此人们总是把他看作自己某一个女儿理所应得的一笔财产。考考你
1.他十分溺爱这个九岁的孩子。
2.上法学院是她的梦想,也是她注定要去做的事情。
3.现在真是很少见这么多才多艺的女人了,而且最重要的是她还很漂亮。
Pride & Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》(精讲之二)考考你 参考答案 1.他十分溺爱这个九岁的孩子。He doted on this nine-year-old kid.2.上法学院是她的梦想,也是她注定要去做的事情。
To go to law school is her dream;something that falls to her lot to do.3.现在真是很少见这么多才多艺的女人了,而且最重要的是她还很漂亮。
It's so rare to meet such an accomplished woman.Most of all, she is very pretty.看电影学英语:《傲慢与偏见》[3]
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Elizabeth: I love this dance.Darcy: lndeed.Most invigorating.Elizabeth: It is your turn to say something, Mr.Darcy.I talked about the dance.Now you ought to remark on the size of the room or the number of couples.Darcy: I'm perfectly happy to oblige.Please advise me of what you would like most to hear?
Elizabeth: That reply will do for present.Perhaps by and by I may observe that private balls are much pleasanter than public ones.For now, we may remain silent.Darcy: Do you talk as a rule while dancing?
Elizabeth: No.No, I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn.Makes it all so much more enjoyable, don't you think?
Darcy: Tell me, do you and your sisters very often walk to Meryton?
Elizabeth: Yes, we often walk to Meryton.It's a great opportunity to meet new people.In fact when you met us, we'd just had the pleasure of forming a new acquaintance.Darcy: Mr.Wickham's blessed with such happy manners, he's sure of making friends.Whether he's capable of retaining them is less certain.Elizabeth: He's been so unfortunate as to lose your friendship.And I dare say that is an irreversible event?
Darcy: It is.Why do you ask such a question? Elizabeth: To make out your character, Mr.Darcy.Darcy: And what have you discovered?
Elizabeth: Very little.I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.Darcy: I hope to afford you more clarity in the future.妙词佳句,活学活用
1.oblige
To do a service or favor for: 施恩惠于,帮助
They obliged us by arriving early.他们的早到帮了我们一个大忙。
If you ever need help with the babysitting, I'd be glad to oblige.如果你需要我帮忙照顾孩子,我很愿意效劳。
2.by and by
这是一种习惯表达,意思是“不久以后;不一会儿”。在口语中和by相关的习惯用语很多,如:
By and again 时常,常常 By and large 总的来说,基本上 By the by(e)顺便提一下 3.be blessed with If someone is blessed with a particular good quality or skill, they have that good quality or skill.幸运地享有(优良品质或技巧),在……方面有福气
e.g.The two brothers both are blessed with uncommon ability to fix things.4.make out
If you try to make something out, you try to understand it or decide whether or not it is true.辨认出,理解。我们来看看下面的例子: e.g.I couldn't make it out at all.我一点也不明白。
It is hard to make out what criteria are used to judge a person.很难理解应该用什么标准来评判一个人。
考考你
1.请帮我把门关上
2.伊丽莎白拥有出色的语言能力。3.不久之后这件事情的真相终于被揭露了。
Pride & Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》(精讲之三)考考你 参考答案 1.请帮我把门关上。
Please oblige me by closing the door.2.伊丽莎白拥有出色的语言能力。
Elizabeth is blessed with amazing power of languages.3.不久之后这件事情的真相终于被揭露了。
By and by the truth of it has been exposed to the public.看电影学英语:《傲慢与偏见》[4]
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Collins: Dear Miss Elizabeth, I am sure my attentions have been too marked to be mistaken.Almost as soon as I entered the house, I singled you out as the companion of my future life.But before I am run away with my feelings, perhaps I may state my reasons for marrying.Firstly, that it is the duty of a clergyman to set the example of matrimony in his parish.Secondly, that I am convinced it will add greatly to my happiness.And thirdly, that it is at the urging of my esteemed patroness, Lady Catherine, that I select a wife.My object in coming to Longbourn was to choose such a one from among Mr.Bennet's daughters, for I am to inherit the estate and such an alliance will surely…suit everyone.And now nothing remains but for me to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affections.Elizabeth: Mr.Collins!
Collins: And that no reproach on the subject of fortune will cross my lips once we're married.Elizabeth: You're too hasty, sir.You forget that I have given no answer.Collins: I must add that Lady Catherine will thoroughly approve when I speak to her of your modesty, economy and other amiable qualities
Elizabeth: Sir, I am honored by your proposal, but I regret that I must decline it.Collins: I know ladies don't seek to seem too eager...Elizabeth: Mr.Collins, I am perfectly serious.You could not make me happy.And I'm convinced I'm the last woman in the world who could make you happy.Collins: I flatter myself, cousin, that your refusal is merely a natural delicacy.Besides, you should take into account that despite the manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made to you...Elizabeth: Mr.Collins!
Collins:...I must conclude that you simply seek to increase my love by suspense...Elizabeth: Sir!
Collins:...according to the usual practice of elegant females.Elizabeth: Sir, I am not the sort of female to torment a respectable man.Please understand me, I cannot accept you.妙词佳句,活学活用
1.single out
If you single sb.out from a group, you choose them and give them special attention or treatment.挑选
e.g.Mr.Collins singled out Jane first as his future wife at first, but then he switched to Elizabeth.He was singled out by his teacher to take part in the competition.2.hasty 匆忙的,草率的
e.g.They shouldn't have made such a hasty decision.另外在汉语中我们的一句成语“欲速则不达”跟hasty的同根词haste有关,英语中有两种表达:
Haste makes waste More haste, less speed.大家不妨在这里牢记住这个表达。
3.I'm the last woman in the world who could make you happy.这种句型的基本结构是“the last+名词+定语从句”,表达最大程度的否定或者不赞成。本句话的意思是:我是这个世界上最不可能带给你幸福的女人。
e.g.To be a teacher is the last thing in the world that I could do.我最不愿意干的事就是当老师。
This city is the last place that I want to live in the world.我最不愿意生活的地方就是这个城市。
4.flatter oneself that
If you flatter yourself that something good is the case, you believe that it is true, although others may disagree.自鸣得意,自以为
e.g.They flattered themselves that they would win.他们自以为会一定获胜。
Flatter一词还有一些其它用法:
If someone flatters you, they praise you in an exaggerated way that is not sincere, because they want to please you or to persuade you to do something.奉承,谄媚
e.g.I knew she was just flattering me, because she wanted me to buy her scarf.此外flattering和flattered在口语中的出现频率也很高,flattering继承了flatter的意思,作为形容词的时候有“谄媚的,讨好的”意思,但是也有“讨人喜欢的”意思,如: How flattering your company is since so many other companies are after you.你看你们公司多招人喜欢,那么多其他公司都跟在你们屁股后面转。但是flattered的意思有所不同,If you feel flattered by something that has happened, you are pleased about it because it makes you feel important or special.表示“受宠若惊”的意思 e.g.I feel flattered by what you said.你的话让我受宠若惊。
考考你
1.挑几双自己喜欢的鞋子吧。2.我最不喜欢吃的水果是菠萝。
3.在英语角有人说我口语好让我觉得有点受宠若惊。
Pride & Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》(精讲之四)1.挑几双自己喜欢的鞋子吧。
Single out several pairs of shoes that you like.2.我最不喜欢吃的水果是菠萝。
Pineapple is the last fruit in the world that I want to eat.3.在英语角有人说我口语好让我觉得有点受宠若惊。
I was a little flattered that someone in English corner said my spoken English was very good.看电影学英语:《傲慢与偏见》[5] 影片对白
Darcy: Miss Elizabeth.I have struggled in vain and can bear it no longer.These past months have been a torment.I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you.I had to see you.I have fought against my better judgment, my family's expectation, the inferiority of your birth, my rank, all these things, and I'm willing to put them aside and ask you to end my agony.Elizabeth: I don't understand.Darcy: I love you.Most ardently.Please do me the honor of accepting my hand.Elizabeth: Sir, I appreciate the struggle you have been through, and I am very sorry to have caused you pain.Believe me, it was unconsciously done.Darcy: Is this your reply? Elizabeth: Yes, sir.Darcy: Are you...are you laughing at me? Elizabeth: No.Darcy: Are you rejecting me?
Elizabeth: I'm sure the feelings which, as you've told me have hindered your regard will help you in overcoming it.Darcy: Might I ask why with so little endeavor at civility I am thus repulsed? Elizabeth: And I might as well enquire with so evident a design of insulting me you chose to tell me that you liked me against your better judgment? Darcy: No, believe me...Elizabeth: If I was uncivil, then that is some excuse!But I have other reasons.You know I have.Darcy: What reasons?
Elizabeth: Do you think anything might tempt me to accept the man who has ruined perhaps forever the happiness of a most beloved sister? Do you deny it Mr.Darcy, that you separated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to center of the world for caprice and my sister to its derision for disappointed hopes and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind? Darcy: I do not deny it.Elizabeth: How could you do it?
Darcy: Because I believed your sister's indifferent to him.Elizabeth: Indifferent?
Darcy: I watched them most carefully and realized his attachment was deeper than hers.Elizabeth: That's because she's shy!
Darcy: Bingley, too, is modest and was persuaded she didn't feel strongly for him.Elizabeth: Because you suggested it.Darcy: I did it for his own good.Elizabeth: My sister hardly shows her true feelings to me.I suppose you suspect that his fortune had some bearing?
Darcy: No!I wouldn't do your sister the dishonor, though it was suggested...Elizabeth: What was?
Darcy: It was made perfectly clear that an advantageous marriage...Elizabeth: Did my sister give that impression?
Darcy: No!No.No.There was, however, I have to admit, the matter of your family...Elizabeth: Our want of connection? Mr.Bingley didn't seem to vex himself about that.Darcy: No, it was more than that.Elizabeth: How, sir?
Darcy: It was the lack of propriety shown by your mother, your three younger sisters and even, on occasion, your father.Forgive me.You and your sister I must exclude from this.Elizabeth: And what about Mr.Wickham? Darcy: Mr.Wickham?
Elizabeth: What excuse can you give for your behavior towards him? Darcy: You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns.Elizabeth: He told me of his misfortunes.Darcy: Oh, yes, his misfortunes have been very great indeed.Elizabeth: You ruin his chances and yet you treat him with sarcasm.Darcy: So this is your opinion of me? Thank you for explaining so fully.Perhaps these offences might have been overlooked had not your pride been hurt by my honesty...Elizabeth: My pride?
Darcy:...in admitting scruples about our relationship.Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your circumstances?
Elizabeth: And those are the words of a gentleman.From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others made me realize that you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.Darcy: Forgive me, madam, for taking up so much of your time.妙词佳句,活学活用
1.in vain
这是口语中的习惯用语,表示“徒劳,枉然”。比如“我们的工作全白做了”就可以说成:All our work was in vain.再来看一个例子:
The police tried in vain to break up the protest crowds.警察企图驱散抗议的人群,但没有成功。2.bearing
在这里是个名词,意思是“关系;影响;方面;意义”等。这个词构成了很多习惯用语,我们可以搜集一下:
have a bearing on / upon...关系到……影响到…… find / get / take bearing 判明方位,认清自己所处的地位 lose one's bearings 迷失方向,惶惑,不知所措 in all its bearings 从各方面
3.prevail upon/on
“劝说好;说服; 诱使”的意思。比如:“我必须得说服我爸给我买辆新自行车”就是:I must prevail upon my father to buy a new bicycle for me.Prevail一词还有另外两个常用的意思,一是“流行,盛行”,另一个是“获胜,取得成功”。如:This old custom does not prevail now.这种旧风俗现在已经不流行了。Truth is great and will prevail.真理是至高无上的,且必将获胜。
4.take up
“占用时间”的意思。这是一个常用词组,意思极其丰富。在英语中简单词构成的词组往往意思都很丰富。我们看看除了在本片段中的这个意思之外,take up还有什么别的含义: a.对……发生兴趣;开始从事
e.g.He did not particularly want to take up competitive sport.b.着手处理
e.g.He intends to take up the proposal with the prime minister.c.接下去,继续说
e.g.After a short break, she took up her story.考考你
1.由于我忘了复印资料,随着原始资料的丢失,我们的工作全都白做了。2.这几年周杰伦的歌曲在年轻人中特别流行。
3.我最近突然开始对羽毛球感兴趣了,几乎每天都去打。Pride & Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》(精讲之五)考考你 参考答案 1.由于我忘了复印资料,随着原始资料的丢失,我们的工作全都白做了。What we have done was in vain when the original material was lost.2.这几年周杰伦的歌曲在年轻人中特别流行。
Jay's songs have been prevailing among young people in recent years.3.我最近突然开始对羽毛球感兴趣了,几乎每天都去打。
I recently took up playing badminton a lot and played it almost every day.看电影学英语:《傲慢与偏见》[6] 影片对白
Lady Catherine: You can be of no loss, Miss Bennet, to understand why I am here.Elizabeth: Indeed you're mistaken.I cannot account for this honour at all.Catherine: Miss Bennet, I warn you, I am not to be trifled with.A report of a most alarming nature has reached me, that you intend to be united with my nephew, Mr.Darcy.I know this to be a scandalous falsehood, though not wishing to injure him by supposing it possible, I instantly set off to make my sentiments known.Elizabeth: If you believed it to be impossible, I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far.Catherine: To hear it contradicted, Miss Bennet.Elizabeth: Your coming will be a rather confirmation, surely if indeed such a report exists.Catherine: If? Do you pretend to be ignorant of it? Has it not been industriously circulated by yourself? Elizabeth: I have never heard of it.Catherine: And can you declare there is no foundation for it?
Elizabeth: I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your Ladyship.You may ask a question which I may choose not to answer.Catherine: This is not to be borne.Has my nephew made you an offer of marriage?
Elizabeth: Your Ladyship has declared it to be impossible.Catherine: Let me be understood!Mr.Darcy is engaged to my daughter.Now what have you to say?
Elizabeth: Only this.If that is the case, you can have no reason to suppose he would make an offer to me.Catherine: You selfish girl!This union has been planned since their infancy.Do you think it can be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth whose own sister's elopement resulted in a scandalously patched-up marriage only achieved at the expense of your uncle? Heaven and Earth!Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted? Now tell me once and for all, are you engaged to him?
Elizabeth: I am not.Catherine: Will you promise never to enter into such an engagem ent?
Elizabeth: I will not and I certainly never shall.You have insulted me in every possible way and can now have nothing further to say.I must ask you to leave immediately.Goodnight.Catherine: I have never been thus treated in my entire life!Mr.Bennet: Lizzie, what on earth is going on? Elizabeth: Just a small misunderstanding.Mrs.Bennet: Lizzie?
Elizabeth: For once in your life, leave me alone!妙词佳句,活学活用
1.account for
这里是“解释;说明”的意思。
e.g.She could not account for her mistake.她无法解释其错误。
I can't account for Peter's unhappiness.我说不出彼得不高兴的原因。Account的一些常用习语还有
on no account决不,在任何条件下都不 on(one's)own account为了自身 take into account 考虑;顾及 2.trifle 在这里是“嘲弄,取笑”的意思。这个词还有一些其它的用法,如: A.to play with or toy with玩弄, 戏耍
e.g.She trifled with my affections 她玩弄我的感情。B.To waste time or money 虚度光阴,浪费
e.g.You should not trifle with your health.你不要疏忽你的健康。Trifle还可以做名词,意思是“小事,琐事,微不足道的东西”。e.g.I have no money on trifles.我没钱买这些小东西。
3.be ignorant of / in
这个搭配是“无知识的;不知道的,不了解的”的意思。我们来看两个例子: She is very ignorant about her own country.她对自己的国家很不了解。What his plans are I am quite ignorant of.我一点也不知道他的计划是什么。
4.once and for all
“断然地,坚决地,最后地”的意思,表示已经最终永久觉得了的意思。我们来看个例子: e.g.Once and for all, we can't agree!最后再说一遍,我们不能同意!Once的词组还有一个For once,“就这一次,破例一回”的意思。e.g.For once you didn't lie after you failed your exams.你考试没通过,就这一次没撒谎。
Once构成的其它习惯用语还有一些: All at once 突然,同时 Every once in a while 偶尔 Once and again 一再,再三
Once and away / once for all 一劳永逸,永久地,彻底地
用近日所学将下面的句子译成英语。1.你能不能解释一下为什么最近老是犯低级错误? 2.她是个新人,对咱们公司的情况几乎一无所知。3.最后说一遍,你被解雇了!
Pride & Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》精讲之六 考考你 参考答案 1.你能不能解释一下为什么最近老是犯低级错误?
Would you please account for those stupid mistakes you've made recently?
2.她是个新人,对咱们公司的情况几乎一无所知。
As a newcomer, she's ignorant of the situation of our company.3.最后说一遍,你被解雇了!
Once and for all, you are fired!
第五篇:看英文电影学英语
看英文电影学英语
怎样提高听力,怎样扩大词汇量,怎样不断地培养、保持及增强对英语的兴趣?在你的词汇量达到一定的程度并且词汇的发音较标准的前提下,建议从看肥皂剧和欧美电影开始训练听力。因为英文电影语言生动有趣接近生活,有视觉背景,有故事背景,可令你在非常放松的环境下学习英语,同时体验西方文化与中国文化的不同。
相信你以前也考虑到这条途径但是不得其法。你的词汇量很大但是可能不懂得用法,担心看电影会有不认识的词汇就打开英文字幕,结果看电影变成了阅读,后来觉得看英文字幕总有不认识的词汇很不爽,就改成了中文字幕。结果电影看了N部结果就学会了shit,fuck......这样几个单词.那么该如何看英文电影才能得法地既欣赏了电影本身又不知不觉地提高了英语呢? 1.首先,在看英文版的电影之前,先说一下版本的问题。
请不要看VCD版,以及RM,RMVB,ASF等等版本。因为这些版本的字幕是去不掉的,而且往往是中文字幕。而我们要看的是可以隐藏字幕的版本。这样的话目前只有两种版本是可以选择的,DVD版本和DVDRip标准压缩格式的或DIVX-XVID系列兼容的AVI版本。我之所以推荐使用这些版本,因为这类文件的字幕是外挂的,可以通过播放软件选择语种,也可以屏蔽字幕,可以方便的实现某一片断反复播放,而且如果在网上DOWN到的版本不理想,可以再重新DOWN。如果字幕的版本不理想,可以到http://.cn射手网搜索下载,是全免费的。
2.下面来说看什么电影的问题。
首先要明确什么类型的电影会提高你的英语,绝对不是枪战片,恐怖片,悲剧片。看枪战片1个半小时听不见几句话,还学什么英语。看恐怖片吓都吓死了,还学什么英语。看悲剧只顾着哭去了,心情不爽还学什么英语。这些片子不是说不让你看,而是不推荐你用来学英语。还有,比较古老的片子不推荐使用,像“魂断兰桥”,“飘”,“音乐之声”,这些片子里面的语言现在已经不太常用了。要学英语就要看近期的电影,因为里面有经常要用,必须要用的语言。在选片时要从看电影学英语的八大原则来选片。
1.简单的原则。不要一上来就选择内容高深莫测的电影。
2.背诵的原则。对于电影对白中的精彩片段最好背诵下来。
3.重复的原则。一部电影要反复地观看多遍,直到不用字幕也可以完全看懂听懂的地步。
4.精范结合的原则。拿出几个电影仔细地分析学习。同时也可以泛看一些你喜欢的电影。
5.模仿的原则。对于经典的电影,要模仿其中的各种角色的对白。
6.突击的原则。尽量在短时间内突破,不讨拖延太长的时间。
7.根据发音标准的演员选择电影。以便于你模仿出漂亮的语音。
所以你应该知道了,学英语的片子应该是生活片,里面有大量的对白,应该选喜剧片,保证你学习的愉快心情。
在众多的电影里面,哪些电影符合这些要求呢?下面是新东方讲座里面推荐的电影,你未必要全看完,只需要挑选3-4部精看就可以了,因为有些电影你可能一时找不到DVD或者DVDRip的版本。
发音超级标准,语汇简单,句型经典,特别是省略句式非常好的两部电影:
标准女音电影 Sabrina情归巴黎
标准男音电影 Dove真假总统
女演员中,发音比较好的著名女演员有
1.Mag Rain
2.Julia Roberts
3.Camern Diaz
关于发音比较好的女演员的电影,推荐:
When harry meet salay 当哈里遇见莎莉
Pretty woman 漂亮女人
My best friend wedding 我最好朋友的婚礼
Erin Brockovich 永不妥协
There's Something About Mary 我为玛丽狂
Vanilla sky 香草的天空
Sleepless in Seattle 缘份的天空 西雅图不眠夜
You‘ve got mail 电子情书
男演员中,发音比较好的有:
1。汤姆.汉克斯
2。达斯汀.霍夫曼
关于发音比较好的男演员的电影,推荐:
Philadelphia 费城故事(1993版)
The Graduate 毕业生
Rain Man 雨人
Kramer Vs Kramer 克莱默夫妇
The Shawshank Redemption 肖申克的救赎 刺激1995
Legends Of The Fall 燃情岁月
Jerry Maguire 甜心先生 征服情海
另外,Forrest Gump《阿甘正传》虽然发音不值得模仿,但是值得推荐观看学习,因为里面太多的经典和哲理。还有Gladiator《角斗士》这部电影使用的词汇全在新概念3册以内,也是一个比较有趣的推荐,是检验你新概念1-3册词汇掌握情况的一部电影。另外,Lion King《狮子王》也是非常推荐的,因为动画片是给孩子看的,所以里面的词汇比较简单,句子经典通俗易懂,而且还包含很深的人生哲理。
当然并不是说上面没有推荐的电影就不值得观看,只要是你喜欢的英文电影,都可以观看,只要你用心,总会从中学到很多东西的。
3.怎样看才能有效地学习英语的问题
关于通过看电影学英语的方法,新东方的俞敏洪,杜伟老师建议:
1)先看2-3遍没有字幕的.2)再看一遍有字幕的。
3)如果还搞不定,下载该电影的剧本,把剧本过一遍,先把剧本搞定(这已经是阅读问题了).4)这时再看一遍有英文字幕的,保证看着字幕理解是没有问题的。
5)然后再看没有字幕的,这样下来如果完全能听懂的话,听力是没有问题了。6)最后一项是边看边跟读,模仿各种人物的每一句话,就像你是个配音演员,要做
到惟妙惟肖。
对于要精看的电影,一定要有电影的script,这样才能学习到更多的东西。你可以到http://使用电影的英文名字+空格+script进行搜索,就可以找到该剧本的下载。需要注意的是,一开始你看英文字幕总有想要知道确切中文意思的愿望,就是有英文->中文->意思,才能理解,我希望在这个过程中把你训练成英文->意思,直接的转换。这样才有助于你形成美语的思维和思考问题的方式。4.看电影学英语的效果如何
选好片子以后,可以重复地看一部片子,也可以同时重复的看几部,这样不会看腻。如果能将三部片子看透,模仿语音语调正确并能背诵,一般英语口语即可过关。用以上的方法可能6-8个月360个小时就能听说全解决。甚至可以达到老师的水平。在看电影的同时,一定要注意的是文化和思维的差异,以及价值观和生活习惯的不同。
对电影的观看,精选的要重复的看,新东方的老师Forrest Gump看几百遍以上,实际上我们学习不用这么夸张,如果有三部电影的台词别人说出上句,你能说出下句的话。你的口语一定一级棒,而且非常地道。