美国国家公共电台 NPR 20 Years Ago, 'Buffy' Welcomed Us All To The Hellmouth (aka High School)
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2017年NPR美国国家公共电台3月
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
Rachel, I'm taking us back to high school for a minute. Our big problems are not detention 1, not homework. Instead, they are demons 2, the undead and vampires 4 that need to be slayed.
(SOUNDBITE OF NERF HERDER'S "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE 3 SLAYER 5 THEME")
GREENE: Oh, love it.
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Love it.
GREENE: The theme music for "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," which debuted 6 20 - 20 years ago today.
MARTIN: Don't tell me.
GREENE: Yeah.
MARTIN: It was on TV for seven seasons and has become a cult 7 classic. The main character Buffy, of course, was played by Sarah Michelle Gellar. In the show, she's this pint-sized blonde high schooler with lots of witty 8 comebacks.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER")
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR: (As Buffy Summers) Now, we can do this the hard way or, well, actually there's just the hard way.
JULIE BENZ: (As Darla) That's fine with me.
GELLAR: (As Buffy Summers) Are you sure? Now, this is not going to be pretty. We're talking violence, strong language, adult content.
MARTIN: That's Buffy holding her own against monsters, who often stand in as metaphors 9 for high school problems. "Buffy" still has an audience, even though she hasn't slayed any new vampires since 2003.
JANE ESPENSON: I heard someone say recently it's not just that all TV now shows the impact of "Buffy," it's that all TV now is "Buffy." You see a lot more female protagonists 10 on TV. I think you see a lot more genre 11 stuff now.
GREENE: That is Jane Espenson, who was a writer and producer on the show. She says there's still plenty for viewers to take away from "Buffy."
ESPENSON: There are a lot of ways in which maybe "Buffy" shows its age, you know, the technology in the episodes. But I think there are so many ways in which it's really quite timeless. Every generation needs to hear that anyone can be a hero.
(SOUNDBITE OF NERF HERDER'S "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER THEME")
GREENE: Anyone can be a hero. Love the message. Writer Jane Espenson talking to us 20 years after Buffy Summers began slaying 12 vampires at Sunnydale High.
(SOUNDBITE OF NERF HERDER'S "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER THEME")
- He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
- He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
- demons torturing the sinners in Hell 地狱里折磨罪人的魔鬼
- He is plagued by demons which go back to his traumatic childhood. 他为心魔所困扰，那可追溯至他饱受创伤的童年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。
- The most effective weapon against the vampires is avampire itself. 对付吸血鬼最有效的武器就是吸血鬼自己。 来自电影对白
- If vampires existed, don`t you think we would`ve found them by now? 如果真有吸血鬼，那我们怎么还没有找到他们呢？ 来自电影对白
- The young man was Oedipus, who thus unknowingly became the slayer of his own father. 这位青年就是俄狄浦斯。他在不明真相的情况下杀死了自己的父亲。
- May I depend on you to stand by me and my daughters, then, deer-slayer? 如此说来，我可以指望你照料我和女儿了，杀鹿人？
- In late 2003 a full-size SUV, the Pathfinder Armada, debuted. 2003年末，全尺寸SUV的探路者无敌舰队，推出。
- The album debuted at number two and quickly went platinum. 专辑一亮相就荣登排行榜第二名，很快就取得了白金销量。
- Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书，但有一定的崇拜者。
- The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。
- Her witty remarks added a little salt to the conversation.她的妙语使谈话增添了一些风趣。
- He scored a bull's-eye in their argument with that witty retort.在他们的辩论中他那一句机智的反驳击中了要害。
- I can only represent it to you by metaphors. 我只能用隐喻来向你描述它。
- Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors. 因此她是天使，他是雄狮都是比喻说法。
- Mrs Pankhurst was one of the chief protagonists of women's rights. 潘克赫斯特太太是女权的主要倡导者之一。 来自辞典例句
- This reflects that Feng Menglong heartily sympathized with these protagonists. 这反映出冯梦龙由衷地同情书中的这些主要人物。 来自互联网
- My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
- Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。