VOA标准英语2009-Director Lee Daniels Delivers A Hard-Edged F
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(十一月)
Lee Daniel's low-budget film, "Precious," is based on the award-winning novel "Push" by the African American author Sapphire 1. Like the book, the movie tells the story of an obese 2 16-year-old girl from Harlem, the traditionally African American neighborhood of New York City that was once poverty stricken and dangerous. Precious rises above the physical and emotional abuse her family inflicts 3 on her and takes back her life
Penelope Poulou | Washington DC 20 November 2009
Photo: Lionsgate
Precious, an uplifting drama about the human condition
There's no ray of hope for Precious. She waits on her mother hand and foot and receives not a kind word. She's kicked out of school because she's pregant by her own father. But Precious does not give up. She enrolls 4 at an alternative school.
There, for the first time, Precious forms bonds.
The dialogue is spare. Whatever goes unsaid is communicated in looks, gestures, and body language. Colors are subdued 5, depressing. The scenes are only occasionally punctuated 6 with color: A red sweater, a turquoise 7 necklace, an orange scarf. They imply a sliver 8 of hope.
Only the young girl's fantasies, where she escapes at her darkest moments, are in vivid color.
This is the first movie role for Gabby Sidibe who plays Clareece Precious Jones and she is already being mentioned as a possible Oscar nominee 9. Her acting 10 is as hearfelt as it is heartbreaking.
But the one who is really expected to make the short list is Mo'nique. She interpets Mary, the mother of Precious, a woman with no conscience.
Singer Mariah Carey is almost unrecognizable in the film. She sheds her usual glamour 11 to play Ms. Weiss, the plain and stern social worker.
The film is uncompromising, relentless 12. It has come under criticism for allegedly showing African Americans in a negative light. But director Lee Daniels, in a VOA interview, said the story transcends 13 race.
"We come in all different colors," says the filmmaker. "We're colored people. So, we have athletes, we have drug dealers 14, we have doctors, we have murderers. We are people. You are people. It's a segment of life."
Precious beats the odds 15. She learns to read and write, defies her family and stands on her feet, stoically, quietly.
"If you leave the theater feeling sorry for Precious then you missed something," says newcomer Gabby Sidibe. "I want people to feel very uplifted by the story."
This is a gut-wrenching film that shows how resilient humans are. Painful and inspiring at the same time, it is impossible to leave the theater indifferent.
- Now let us consider crystals such as diamond or sapphire.现在让我们考虑象钻石和蓝宝石这样的晶体。
- He left a sapphire ring to her.他留给她一枚蓝宝石戒指。
- The old man is really obese,it can't be healthy.那位老人确实过于肥胖了，不能算是健康。
- Being obese and lazy is dangerous to health.又胖又懒危害健康。
- Bullfrog 50 Inflicts poison when your enemy damages you at short range. 牛娃50对近距离攻击你的敌人造成毒伤。
- The U.S. always inflicts its concept of human nature on other nations. 美国总是把自己的人权观念强加于别国。
- Enrolls the newborn register of names to print afterward and to mail. 录取新生名册随后打印并寄发。 来自互联网
- The association enrolls 100, 000 members. 该协会拥有10万名会员。 来自互联网
- 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》
- She wore a string of turquoise round her neck.她脖子上戴着一串绿宝石。
- The women have elaborate necklaces of turquoise.那些女人戴着由绿松石制成的精美项链。
- There was only one sliver of light in the darkness.黑暗中只有一点零星的光亮。
- Then,one night,Monica saw a thin sliver of the moon reappear.之后的一天晚上，莫尼卡看到了一个月牙。
- His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
- Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
- 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。
- Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
- The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。
- The traffic noise is relentless.交通车辆的噪音一刻也不停止。
- Their training has to be relentless.他们的训练必须是无情的。
- The chemical dilution technique transcends most of the difficulties. 化学稀释法能克服大部分困难。
- The genius of Shakespeare transcends that of all other English poets. 莎士比亚的才华胜过所有的其他英国诗人。
- There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
- The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败，与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。