VOA标准英语2012--Tim Burton Revives 60s Vampire Soap Opera 'Dark Shadows'
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(五月)
Tim Burton Revives 60s Vampire 1 Soap Opera 'Dark Shadows'
In the 1770s, a curse turned Barnabas into a vampire. In 1972, a construction crew digs up his coffin 2 and the denizen 3 of the dark finds his way back to what remains 4 of the Collins estate.
His cousin Elizabeth, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, thinks he can restore the Collins line to its former greatness. But Barnabas soon discovers that Angelique, the witch who cursed him, is still around.
Johnny Depp plays Barnabas, angst-ridden by his fate and confused by the world in which he awakes.
"The idea of this very elegant gentleman who is brought back to probably the most surreal era of our times, the 1970s. How he would react to things like 'pet rocks' and troll dolls and lava 5 lamps," explains Depp.
"What was most interesting in terms of Barnabas was to make that guy, clearly a vampire, fit into this odd society and this dysfunctional family," the star adds.
Dark Shadows is Depp's eighth film with Tim Burton - a creative partnership 6 that began with the 1990 horror fable 7 Edward Scissorhands. Burton is comfortable with the macabre 8, but admits it was a challenge to stay true to this film's soap opera origins.
"The weirdest 10 challenge was to get the kind of acting 11 tone - the kind of soap opera nature - which is a weird 9 thing to go for in a Hollywood movie," confides 12 Burton. "That's why I was so grateful to all of the cast because even the ones that didn't know the TV show kind of got into the spirit of it."
Dark Shadows also features rising star Chloe Grace Moretz as a moody 13 and mysterious teenager in the Collins clan 14. Helena Bonham Carter plays a conniving 15 doctor who plots to use the ageless Barnabas to help her find eternal youth. And Eva Greene is the spurned 16 witch Angelique who is right at home in modern times. Dark Shadows features an array of 1970s music, including a cameo by rock star Alice Cooper.
- It wasn't a wife waiting there for him but a blood sucking vampire!家里的不是个老婆，而是个吸人血的妖精！
- Children were afraid to go to sleep at night because of the many legends of vampire.由于听过许多有关吸血鬼的传说，孩子们晚上不敢去睡觉。
- When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
- The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。
- In this country children of denizen go to school free.在这个国家外籍居民的孩子免费上学。
- His greatest danger now lie in the unknown denizen of the water.现在他最大的危险是未知的水中居住者。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- The lava flowed down the sides of the volcano.熔岩沿火山坡面涌流而下。
- His anger spilled out like lava.他的愤怒像火山爆发似的迸发出来。
- The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
- Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
- The fable is given on the next page. 这篇寓言登在下一页上。
- He had some motive in telling this fable. 他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
- He takes a macabre interest in graveyards.他那么留意墓地，令人毛骨悚然。
- Mr Dahl was well-known for his macabre adult stories called 'Tales of the Unexpected'.达尔先生以成人恐怖小说集《意料之外的故事》闻名于世。
- From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
- His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
- Think of the weirdest, craziest shit you'd like to see chicks do. 想想这最怪异，最疯狂的屁事。你会喜欢看这些鸡巴表演的。
- It's still the weirdest damn sound I ever heard out of a Jersey boy. 这是我所听过新泽西人最为怪异的音调了。
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- Now Butterfly confides to Pinkerton that she has secretly embraced Christianity. 蝴蝶向平克顿吐露，她已暗地里信奉了基督教。 来自辞典例句
- He also confides, in great secrecy, that his own heart still bleeds over Natalie. 他还极秘密地透露，他自己内心里还在为那塔丽感到痛苦。 来自辞典例句
- He relapsed into a moody silence.他又重新陷于忧郁的沉默中。
- I'd never marry that girl.She's so moody.我决不会和那女孩结婚的。她太易怒了。
- She ranks as my junior in the clan.她的辈分比我小。
- The Chinese Christians,therefore,practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.所以，中国的基督徒简直是被逐出了自己的家族了。
- She knew that if she said nothing she would be conniving in an injustice. 她知道她如果什么也不说就是在纵容不公正的行为。
- The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government. 将军被指控纵容一个颠覆政府的阴谋。 来自《简明英汉词典》