The Lake House Part Four

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Henry: Looks smaller. When did he complete it?

Alex: You weren't born yet and I was 8.

Henry: Corbusier meets Frank Lloyd Wright.

Alex: You know dad played cards with both of them, sharing a joint.

Henry: Yeah, well...

Alex: Can't swim. There should be a stairway down to the water, a porch, a deck. Here you're in a... in a box. A glass box with a view to everything that's around you, but you can't touch it. No interconnection between you and what you're looking at.

Henry: I don't know. You know, he's got this big maple growing right in the middle of the house.

Alex: Containment. Containment and control. This house is about ownership, not connection. I mean, it's beautiful. Seductive, even. But it's incomplete. It was all about him. Dad knew how to build a house, not a home. But you know. I think he wants us to do what he couldn't. But admitting that would mean admitting that he came up short in some way; that he could do more. And that tortures him.

Henry: You remember being here with mom?

Alex: I remember she tried to make it work here... with us... with him.

Henry: Hey, what about Visionary Vanguard?

Alex: What about it?

Henry: Come on. You can't convince me you're gonna be happy building saltboxes for tourists. Nobody's gonna admire you for that.

Alex: Admire me for that?

Henry: Yeah, Visionary Vanguard. That's your idea.

Alex: I can't. But you can keep the name.

Henry: No, come on. It's gonna be you and me.

Alex: Henry, I'm sorry I can't. I just...

Henry: What?

Alex: I've got other plans.

Henry: You have a girlfriend?

Alex: No... no.

Henry: What's that? You hesitated.

Alex: No, I didn't hesitate. Come on, man. I don't have any time for that.

Henry: What does time have to do with it?

Alex: Oh, you're gonna think I'm crazy.

妙語佳句

1. joint

這是一個我們都很熟悉的單詞，表示“結合點，關節”等等。但是在這裏如果我們按照這些意思去理解，就沒辦法理解這個句子的意思以及它和上麵一句話的邏輯關係。上一句台詞是：你知道的，老爸過去在這裏和他們倆一起打過牌，如果joint取它的常用意思，“共享相關聯的東西”好像說不過去。這裏的joint表示一個特殊的意思：“大麻” 或者“含大麻的香煙”，表示他們曾在一起“打牌，抽大麻”。

2. seductive 誘人的

我們在電影裏可以學到一些教科書上不太容易出現的單詞，比如這一個。其實這個詞可以表示非常好的意思，當然也可以是貶義的，尤其是在形容女人的容貌時。我們來看一些例子：

1) Her figure was slighter and therefore more seductive than Natalie.
她的身段比較苗條，因此比娜塔麗更加誘人。
2) She shouldn't wear her rather seductive purple dress for the journey.
她不應該穿這件相當誘惑人的紫衣服去。
3) This company gives us a seductive offer on engineering the merger with us.
這家公司在計劃跟我們的合並時給我們提出了有誘惑力的條件。

3. come up (short)

這是一個有很多意思的短語，在口語中很常用，它的意思有：
1) 走近，靠近
He came up to me and said: "Come on, John!"
2) 發生，出現
I was late-something came up at home.
3) 討論
This subject came up at a news conference in Beijing today.
4) 成為，出現
The silk dress came up beautiful. 這件絲綢衣服(洗後)顯得很漂亮。

在電影裏，come up的意思和我們上麵提到的四種好像都不太一樣，但是又有相似的地方。Come 和short連用，通常是表示“手頭緊，缺錢”。但是在這裏Alex是說他們的父親在做父親和丈夫方麵“有欠缺，不合格”。
 

文化麵麵觀

1. Corbusier

Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and writer. The most powerful advocate of the modernist school, he designed numerous functional concrete buildings and high-rise residential complexes.
柯勃彥，瑞士裔法國建築學家和作家，現代主義學派最有力的倡導者，他設計了大量的功能主義混凝土建築和高樓住宅區。

代表作品：The Pilgrimage Church of Notre-Dame-du-Haut

 

2. Frank Lloyd Wright

A Scottish-born American reformer who lectured nationwide on women's rights, birth control, and public education and wrote Views of Society and Manners in America (1823).
萊特，弗蘭克·勞埃德1869-1959, 美國建築師，他基於自然形式的特殊建築風格極大地影響了現代建築業。他的設計包括私人住宅，在威斯康辛州的拉辛市的約翰遜製臘公司辦公大樓(1939年），和紐約的古根海姆博物館(1943-1959年）。代表作品：

Hills/DeCaro House in Chicago

Guggenheim Museum, New York

考考你

用今日所學將下麵的句子譯成英語。

1. 她的臉上露出迷人的微笑.
2. 不管他怎麽嚐試, 電話還是打不了.
3. 在醫院工作幾年以後, 約翰發現自己的確不是一個稱職的醫生.

The Lake House《觸不到的戀人》（精講之三）考考你 參考答案

1. 這輛摩托車真是棒極了！
This is a hell of a good motorcar.

2. －你真打算去西藏嗎？
   －那是當然！
--Do you really plan to go to Tibet?
--You bet!

3. 要是有什麽便宜貨，她就去搶購。
If there are any bargains going, she'll snap them up.

（Source: Internet）

 

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