时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2011年(一月)


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The harrowing experience of losing a child is at the heart of a powerful new film drama adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman stars and could be a contender again for her performance as the grieving mother opposite Aaron Eckhart as the equally pained father. Here's a look at Rabbit Hole.


"I forget that he's not here sometimes ...that maybe he's just hiding under the bed and is going to pop out like he used to do. I'm trying to make things nice."


"You can't. All right, I'm sorry. Things aren't nice any more."


Becca and Howie had a good life in their suburban 1 New York home; but a chance event - a gate left open, their dog darting 2 out into the street and their four-year-old son chasing after it into the path of an oncoming car - has drained them of any happiness.


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Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) in RABBIT HOLE.

Family members can offer little consolation 3. Neither does prayer or even group therapy with other bereaved 4 parents.


"God had to take her. He needed another angel."


"He needed another angel."


"Why didn't he just make one? I mean, he's God, after all. Why didn't he just make another angel?"


In the end, like Alice in Wonderland in a world turned upside-down when she follows after the White Rabbit, Becca and Howie have to find a way to cope when life sends them down their own "Rabbit Hole. 

JoJo Whilden

Nicole Kidman stars as 'Becca' in RABBIT HOLE.

"It's about how do you live each day?" explains Nicole Kidman, who stars as Becca and is also producer of the film. She says it challenged her to confront the terrible possibility every parent fears most: the death of a child.


"It's not the broad strokes, it's the minute strokes of choosing to live each day," Kidman says. "How do you live together as a couple having had the most traumatic loss you'll ever have? And how do you still walk through each day and each hour?"


"It feels like maybe I don't feel badly enough for you. Maybe I'm not feeling enough. What do you want from me?"


"Something has got to change because this ...I can't do this like this any more. It's too hard."


JoJo Whilden

Becca (Nicole Kidman), left, and Izzy (Tammy Blanchard) right, in RABBIT HOLE.

"The way that the emotions in the character came to me was through the rawness of loving my children," explains Kidman. "I was able to leap there very quickly and I was amazed at how deep that well is and how available it is."


"There are no pictures of him around. There are no fingerprints 5. Nothing, damn it; you have to stop erasing 6 him. You have to stop it."


"Do you really think that I don't see him every second of every day?"


"It's a very difficult place to exist in," Kidman adds, "but also the words came easily and the emotions .....actually, a lot of it was how to keep them in because they were available to all of us. For all the actors in the film, a lot of it is restraint because as actors those areas are mined a lot. We are asked to mine those things often and a lot of it is up to the editing and the director about how you modulate 7 it."


"This film isn't a downer," insists director John Cameron Mitchel. "It doesn't suck you into the abyss. The characters are coming out of the abyss as we begin the film and they are slowly, in their own ways, are trying to find their version of coming into the light."


Mitchell acknowledges Rabbit Hole can be tough for audiences -.. especially parents; but he believes the balance of abject 8 grief, unexpected humor and genuine emotion makes it an uplifting, positive experience.


"I don't think I would have wanted to make this film unless there was something about it that was forward thinking [and] gave you hope," Mitchell says. "The journey they go through is quite intense, punctuated 9 by great gales 10 of humor .....relief. There's definitely a 'letting things out' in certain scenes and oddly the kind of gallows 11 humor which is also part of the process is very necessary; but we want this film to be a tool for everyone in order to deal with loss to live their lives. That's what these stories are for."


"Do you think they're real?"


"Parallel universes? I think it's basic science. If space is infinite then everything is possible. There are tons of 'you's' out there and tons of 'me's' floating around."


"Yeah .....and this is just the sad version of us. There are other versions and in these other versions everything goes our way."


"Assuming you believe in science."


Miles Teller 12 plays the teenaged neighbor also forever connected to the terrible event. Dianne Wiest plays Becca's well-meaning mother whose attempts to console her daughter are met with contempt. Writer David Lindsay-Abaire adapted his own play for the film script; the musical soundtrack is by New York composer Anton Sanko.



adj.城郊的,在郊区的
  • Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
  • There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
v.投掷,投射( dart的现在分词 );向前冲,飞奔
  • Swallows were darting through the clouds. 燕子穿云急飞。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Swallows were darting through the air. 燕子在空中掠过。 来自辞典例句
n.安慰,慰问
  • The children were a great consolation to me at that time.那时孩子们成了我的莫大安慰。
  • This news was of little consolation to us.这个消息对我们来说没有什么安慰。
adj.刚刚丧失亲人的v.使失去(希望、生命等)( bereave的过去式和过去分词);(尤指死亡)使丧失(亲人、朋友等);使孤寂;抢走(财物)
  • The ceremony was an ordeal for those who had been recently bereaved. 这个仪式对于那些新近丧失亲友的人来说是一种折磨。
  • an organization offering counselling for the bereaved 为死者亲友提供辅导的组织
n.指纹( fingerprint的名词复数 )v.指纹( fingerprint的第三人称单数 )
  • Everyone's fingerprints are unique. 每个人的指纹都是独一无二的。
  • They wore gloves so as not to leave any fingerprints behind (them). 他们戴着手套,以免留下指纹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.擦掉( erase的现在分词 );抹去;清除
  • He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future. 他象一块海绵,挤出过去,吸进未来。 来自辞典例句
  • Suddenly, fear overtook longing, erasing memories. 突然,恐惧淹没了渴望,泯灭了回忆。 来自辞典例句
v.调整,调节(音的强弱);变调
  • Please modulate the sound on the TV.请调节一下电视的音量。
  • This system could modulate the voice signal effectively.这个系统可以对语音信号进行有效的调制。
adj.极可怜的,卑屈的
  • This policy has turned out to be an abject failure.这一政策最后以惨败而告终。
  • He had been obliged to offer an abject apology to Mr.Alleyne for his impertinence.他不得不低声下气,为他的无礼举动向艾莱恩先生请罪。
v.(在文字中)加标点符号,加标点( punctuate的过去式和过去分词 );不时打断某事物
  • Her speech was punctuated by bursts of applause. 她的讲演不时被阵阵掌声打断。
  • The audience punctuated his speech by outbursts of applause. 听众不时以阵阵掌声打断他的讲话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
龙猫
  • I could hear gales of laughter coming from downstairs. 我能听到来自楼下的阵阵笑声。
  • This was greeted with gales of laughter from the audience. 观众对此报以阵阵笑声。
n.绞刑架,绞台
  • The murderer was sent to the gallows for his crimes.谋杀犯由于罪大恶极被处以绞刑。
  • Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.现在我将在绞刑架上赎我一切的罪过。
n.银行出纳员;(选举)计票员
  • The bank started her as a teller.银行起用她当出纳员。
  • The teller tried to remain aloof and calm.出纳员力图保持冷漠和镇静。
学英语单词
acroceras macrum
additional means of isolation
aerospace(aeronautics and space)
allus pollex
anaesthetist
anti-infective agent
articulatio glenohumeralis
automatic volume expansion
Ban Wat Bot
barnbrook
beam recombination prism
Berman-Moorhead locator
bronislaw kasper malinowskis
Changsangot
chromans
co-inherited
common law trust
contra-distinctions
cross-section for scattering
cushion blasting
cylinder escapement
deflecting torque
derecognised
downgoing wave
ebsln
ecoinformatics
excited winding
Facebook Connect
Fayfā'
geothelphusa wangi
getting some
gourd families
gravity constant
ground-storeys
hardware realization of operating system
heat flowmeter
heating medium outlet
hiatus pleuroperitonealis
Hodge's theorem
homologous pairing
hyperbolises
ice cover
imhofite
injectable anesthetics
intranodal
jeckyll
Ladhar Bheinn
LD 50
light ground
linear finder
lost cause
matched stack
MEDCATE
megas
methanedicarbonic acid
microeomputer prototyping system
moel
moment of taken about the point of fixation
mortgage bonds payable
multiple sex chromosomes
multiprocess control
MWe
My Xuyen
mythographic
navaid
noels
non-linear detection
nonmetals
note of allowance
ordinary automobiles
overcloy
overpursuing
permissible limit of pollution
perviable
ploughing in green
progenome
rabdo-
ratio of slenderness
reduplication murmur
rided
right-wing socialism
rope gripper
Schisandra bicolor
scoville
Shapembe
ship piping
si conversion factor
somnabulated
spider web
squamata
super-sensitive
telescopic comet
the Accounting Standards Board
There is no smoke without fire.
two stage prediction method
ulcerative cowpox
video filter
walshaw
waste treatment device
William Augustus
yacca podocarp
Zombie Juice