2006年VOA标准英语-Da Vinci Code: The Movie
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（五月）
By Penelope Poulou
Washington, DC
19 May 2006
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Ron Howard's movie 'The Da Vinci Code’ has premiered to a flurry of reactions by the mainstream 1 Christian 2 community -- perhaps not surprising since the movie suggests Jesus married and had a child.
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According to the movie and Dan Brown's best-selling book on which it is based, for almost 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has covered up Jesus' marriage to Mary Magdalene and the lineage they produced. Using ancient symbols, the film and novel contend that the coveted 3 Holy Grail is none other than Mary Magdalene herself.
Celebrated 4 actor Ian McKellen portrays 5 Sir Lee Teabing, an English intellectual off to find the holy cup and set the record straight. Audrey Tautou plays Sophie Neveu, a cryptologist who is charged with deciphering clues leading to the grail.
The Da Vinci Code book has been a bestseller
Like Dan Brown's novel, the movie has generated intense controversy 6. The Catholic church feels its reputation, Christian dogma, and Jesus's divinity have all been attacked. It has called on Catholics across the world to boycott 7 the movie. But actor Tom Hanks, who stars as symbols expert Robert Langdon, says the movie is being taken far too seriously.
Tom Hanks
"It is a fabulous 8 scavenger 9 hunt. About very powerful stuff. And that combination is really irresistible 10."
Irresistible to audiences, hopefully, says actor Alfred Molina, who plays the sinister 11 Bishop 12 Aringarosa. But he adds the film is not a threat to the religious establishment. "Catholicism has been around for 2,000 years. If one book is going to bring it toppling to its knees, then it's a ludicrous idea. And the fact that it's a piece of fiction -- and a good piece of fiction in the sense that any good piece of fiction, if it has enough elements of plausibility 13, enough elements that hook you in terms of, 'Wow! This really could be!' "
Ultimately, the movie does not offer any conclusions on Jesus's divinity. Tom Hanks' Langdon character delivers a five-minute monologue 14 on the subject and the belief system that goes with it. The movie tries to avoid offending the religious establishment -- filling the story with so much historical minutiae 15 that its dialogues are didactic and tedious. They burden the excellent cast and sap the film of spontaneity. In spite of its big-budget and impressive locales, The Da Vinci Code is an unmemorable flick 16 that hardly justifies 17 the controversy surrounding it.
- Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
- Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
- He had long coveted the chance to work with a famous musician. 他一直渴望有机会与著名音乐家一起工作。
- Ther other boys coveted his new bat. 其他的男孩都想得到他的新球棒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
- The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
- The museum collection vividly portrays the heritage of 200 years of canals. 博物馆的藏品让运河200 年的历史再现眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The film portrays Gandhi as a kind of superman. 这部电影把甘地描绘成一个超人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
- The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。
- We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
- This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。
- He's just fit for a job as scavenger.他只配当个清道夫。
- He is not a scavenger nor just a moving appetite as some sharks are.它不是食腐动物，也不像有些鲨鱼那样，只知道游来游去满足食欲。
- The wheel of history rolls forward with an irresistible force.历史车轮滚滚向前，势不可挡。
- She saw an irresistible skirt in the store window.她看见商店的橱窗里有一条叫人着迷的裙子。
- There is something sinister at the back of that series of crimes.在这一系列罪行背后有险恶的阴谋。
- Their proposals are all worthless and designed out of sinister motives.他们的建议不仅一钱不值，而且包藏祸心。
- He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
- Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。
- We can add further plausibility to the above argument. 我们可以在上述论据之外，再进一步增添一个合理的论据。
- Let us consider the charges she faces, and the legal plausibility of those charges. 让我们考虑一下她面临的指控以及这些指控在法律上的可信性。
- The comedian gave a long monologue of jokes.喜剧演员讲了一长段由笑话组成的独白。
- He went into a long monologue.他一个人滔滔不绝地讲话。
- the minutiae of the contract 合同细节
- He had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code. 他们讨论旅行的所有细节。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
- By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下，将马头上的苍蝇驱走。