美語:a plot twist & a cliffhanger(音頻) ZT
JESSICA在北京學漢語，她的中國朋友要是遇到了不知道用美語怎麽說的詞，就會來請教她。今天是吳瓊要問的：劇透。
JESSICA: 吳瓊, I sent you a movie review article yesterday. Have you read it?
WQ: 你是說那篇電影的影評，我可不能看!
JESSICA: Why not? !
WQ: 因為電影我還沒看啊！影評上來就警告讀者說：本文有劇透！也就是說，看了文章就知道電影結局了！JESSICA, 這令人掃興的“劇透”用美語怎麽說呢？
JESSICA: It's called a spoiler. Spoiler is spelled s-p-o-i-l-e-r. A spoiler will reveal the ending of the movie to you when you'd rather find it out by yourself.
WQ: I see！Spoilers can really ruin the fun of watching a movie!
JESSICA: True. That's why people write a warning at the beginning of a review, which says "the following review contains spoilers."
WQ: 對！影評應該先警告大家有劇透內容，省得掃觀眾的興！ 不過話說回來，有些片子編得很濫，隻要看了開頭，不用劇透，傻瓜都能猜出結局！
JESSICA: I agree. Those movies are no fun to begin with. You only need to avoid spoilers when there are plot twists.
WQ: Plot twist? P-l-o-t, plot是故事情節， t-w-i-s-t, twist，是扭曲，所以plot twist 我猜就是出乎意料的情節，電影裏的形勢大逆轉，對不對？
JESSICA: Yes! Plot twists are the development that viewers don't expect to happen. Good writers use plot twists to keep viewers interested.
WQ: 我就特別喜歡結局出人意料的片子，特別是電視劇，一集結尾留下個懸念，吊胃口！
JESSICA: In English, we call that a cliffhanger. It's usually a dilemma or a dangerous situation. So you want to watch the next episode to see how the characters deal with it.
WQ: 哦！原來，在結尾時留下的懸念就是cliffhanger! C-l-i-f-f-h-a-n-g-e-r, cliffhanger. 誒呀，我要走了，My favorite show is about to start, and last episode ended on a cliffhanger!
JESSICA: Okay, but before you go, tell me what you've learned today!
WQ: 第一，劇透是a spoiler;
出乎意料的故事情節是 a plot twist；
電影或電視結尾時的懸念是 a cliffhanger.
