VOA标准英语2012--Hollywood Celebrates Holidays With Great Films
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)
Hollywood Celebrates Holidays With Great Films
Director Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, based on the Tolstoy novel, is a quintessential holiday production. It offers rich costumes, enchanting 1 music, and stellar actors.
“The rules of a period film have been completely broken. Anna Karenina is a story that has been done a lot. What is the point in doing a safe adaptation?” asks Keira Knightley, who plays the doomed 2 Karenina.
She is a married woman of social stature 3, who falls in love with cavalry 4 officer Count Vronsky. Their affair goes against the grain of a seemingly virtuous 5 society and Anna pays the consequences.
In his film, Wright emphasizes the pretense 6 of 19th century Russian aristocracy. He stages Anna Karenina’s world in a controlled space that is lavish 7, but claustrophobic, and tragic 8.
Life of Pi, about survival and faith, is more upbeat. It's also adapted from a book, and it requires a willing suspension of disbelief. For the shots in the boat, the production team created a digital tiger. Oscar winning director Ang Lee enchants 9 us with his other-worldly cinematography.
Those who like an intelligent plot have hailed Argo, a spy drama. Tony Mendez, a CIA operative, undertakes to smuggle 10 six American diplomats 11 out of Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis.
The film is directed by Oscar winner Ben Affleck, who also stars as Mendez. It's based on a true story that is so unbelievable it feels like fiction.
The Hobbit, also coming out this holiday season, is a fantasy. With this prequel, director Peter Jackson promises a spectacle for the millions of fans of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and J.R.R. Tolkien's novel.
The holiday films will be capped by the musical Les Miserables, directed by Oscar winner Tom Hooper. Unlike Anna Karenina, Hooper's adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic is traditional and sticks close to the book.
The famous cast - including Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman - doesn't skip a note of the original score. The film, about brotherly love and redemption, reflects the holiday spirit.
These movies - and more - not only have the ingredients for a lucrative 12 season at the box office. They also raise the curtain on January's Academy Award nominations 13.
- His smile, at once enchanting and melancholy, is just his father's. 他那种既迷人又有些忧郁的微笑，活脱儿象他父亲。
- Its interior was an enchanting place that both lured and frightened me. 它的里头是个吸引人的地方，我又向往又害怕。
- The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
- A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
- He is five feet five inches in stature.他身高5英尺5英寸。
- The dress models are tall of stature.时装模特儿的身材都较高。
- We were taken in flank by a troop of cavalry. 我们翼侧受到一队骑兵的袭击。
- The enemy cavalry rode our men down. 敌人的骑兵撞倒了我们的人。
- She was such a virtuous woman that everybody respected her.她是个有道德的女性，人人都尊敬她。
- My uncle is always proud of having a virtuous wife.叔叔一直为娶到一位贤德的妻子而骄傲。
- You can't keep up the pretense any longer.你无法继续伪装下去了。
- Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.弄虚作假欺骗不了真正的行家。
- He despised people who were lavish with their praises.他看不起那些阿谀奉承的人。
- The sets and costumes are lavish.布景和服装极尽奢华。
- The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
- Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
- Druid Bear Form's armor bonus does not include enchants or temporary buffs. 熊德护甲加成不包括附魔和增益效果。
- Enchant Bracer-Major Defense: Permanently enchants bracers to increase your defense by 8. 使一副护腕永久的获得防御技能+8的效果。
- Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
- She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。
- These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
- The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
- It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。
- Nominations are invited for the post of party chairman. 为党主席职位征集候选人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Much coverage surrounded his abortive bids for the 1960,1964, and 1968 Republican Presidential nominations. 许多消息报道都围绕着1960年、1964年和1968年他为争取提名为共和党总统候选人所做努力的失败。 来自辞典例句