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第二页：巧学口语
第三页：小小翻译家
第四页：文化一瞥

影片对白：

Ben: It was now my fourth straight week without sleep. I had slowly stopped thinking about Suzy and had dragged myself into the present. The extra eight hours of my life had done nothing to slow the effect of time. The minutes flew into hours, the hours into days. And the days joined the fast rushing river of time. The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you're the pilot. Most of my shifts were now spent thinking about Sharon. I drew her endlessly. Over and over. Her pale, milky skin. Her delicate frame. In her eyes, I could see the world. I thought about Sharon escaping the life-sapping neons of the supermarket, traveling to South America, pursuing her dreams. I thought about her asking me to go with her. Both sharing in our dreams. Her love of people, and my love of painting them.

Ben: You off home?

Sharon: Yeah. You still wanna be my date for the party tomorrow night then?

Ben: Yeah, of course.

Sharon: Will you come by and pick me up?

Ben: Yeah.

Sharon: 8:00?

Ben: Yeah, 8:00.

Sharon: Okay. See you tomorrow.

Ben: Sharon had broken the spell. For the first time in weeks, I slept. I slept right through to the following afternoon. Mmm. Yeah?

Man: There's a call for you, Ben.

Ben: Hello?

Matt(faking): Hello, is this Ben Willis?

Ben: Yeah.

Matt(faking): My name is Alex Prout, from the Prout gallery. I saw some examples of your work at the university yesterday.

Ben: Y-you did?

Matt(faking): Yes. And I'd be very interested in putting on a show of your latest works. Hello?

Ben: Um, ah, yeah, yeah. I would love to.

Matt(faking): Great. Why don't you bring some more examples of your work down to my gallery next Monday? Say 10:00?

Ben: Okay. Thank you.

Matt(faking): No. Thank you, Ben! (To Barry) Bugger off. You're the talent.

Barry: Better get ready for the party.[page]

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第二页：巧学口语
第三页：小小翻译家
第四页：文化一瞥

 

1. straight: 连续的；不间断的。影片中Ben已经连续四个星期没有睡觉了。看一下例子：It has snowed for three straight days. （已连续下了三天雪了。）

2. life-sapping: 消耗生命能量的。sap的意思是“使伤元气，消耗（精力等）”。看一下例子：Everyone was sapped of strength by the sun's heat.（太阳晒得大家精疲力尽。）

3. break the spell: 打破了魔咒。spell在这里是“魔咒，咒语”的意思。例如：speak the spell over sb.（对某人念咒语）。

spell还可以表示“魔力，魅力，诱惑力，吸引力”。例如：The prince fell under the spell of her beauty.（王子被她的美貌所迷住。）

我们可以用under a spell来表示某人“被迷住”。看一下例子：

The explorer's story held the children under a spell.

探险家的故事把孩子们给迷住了。

4. bugger off: <粗> 走开，出去。例如：tell sb. to bugger off（叫某人走开）。bugger一词有“麻烦（或讨厌）的事（或人）”的意思。在这里介绍其他几个和bugger相关的短语：

bugger about/around: <粗> 难为某人；故意浪费某人的时间。例如：Stop buggering me about!（别跟我过不去了！）

bugger me: （用于表示吃惊或惊奇）天哪！

bugger up: <粗> 使混乱，弄糟，搞坏。例如：The town is being buggered up by the invasion of tourists.（这个小城因游客大批涌到而弄得乱糟糟的。）[page]

第一页：片段欣赏
第二页：巧学口语
第三页：小小翻译家
第四页：文化一瞥

1. 刺骨的寒风耗尽了爬山者最后的一点力气。

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2. 这个地方有一种魅力，人们来到这儿就会感觉出来。

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3. 热带岛屿的美景把游客们迷住了。

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4. 他整天在屋里瞎忙。

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答案见第一期

《超市夜未眠》精讲之五 参考答案
1. We took him for dead.
2. The two partners split after a quarrel.
3. She attended Smith College for one year and then dropped out.
4. Could you put me through to the manager?[page]

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画廊 Art gallery

 

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, decorative arts, furniture, textiles, costume, drawings, pastels, watercolors, collages, prints, artists' books, photographs, and installation art are also regularly shown. Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as performance art, music concerts, or poetry readings.
Types of galleries
The term is used for both public galleries, which are non-profit or publicly-owned museums that display selected collections of art. On the other hand private galleries refers to the commercial enterprises for the sale of art. However, both types of gallery may host traveling exhibits or temporary exhibitions including art borrowed from elsewhere.
Galleries in museums
The rooms in museums where art is displayed for the public are often referred to as galleries as well, with a room dedicated to Ancient Egyptian art often being called the Egyptian Gallery, for example.
Contemporary art gallery
The term contemporary art gallery refers usually to a privately owned for-profit commercial gallery. These galleries are often found clustered together in large urban centers. Smaller cities are usually home to at least one gallery, but they may also be found in towns or villages, and remote areas where artists congregate, e.g. the Taos art colony and St Ives, Cornwall.
Contemporary art galleries are usually open to the general public without charge; however, some are semi-private. They usually profit by taking a portion of art sales; from 25% to 50% is typical. There are also many non-profit or collective galleries. Some galleries in cities like Tokyo charge the artists a flat rate per day, though this is considered distasteful in some international art markets. Galleries often hang solo shows. Curators often create group shows that say something about a certain theme, trend in art, or group of associated artists. Galleries sometimes choose to represent artists exclusively, giving them the opportunity to show regularly.
A gallery's definition can also include the artist cooperative or artist-run space, which often (in North America and Western Europe) operates as a space with a more democratic mission and selection process. Such galleries typically have a board of directors and a volunteer or paid support staff that select and curate shows by committee, or some kind of similar process to choose art that typically lacks commercial ends.
Online galleries
With the emergence of the internet many artists and gallery owners have opened art galleries online.
Vanity galleries
A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges fees from artists in order to show their work, much like a vanity press does for authors. The shows are not legitimately curated and will frequently or usually include as many artists as possible. Most art professionals are able to identify them on an artist's resume.