时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2018年NPR美国国家公共电台3月


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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:


Almost two years ago, actor/writer/musician Donald Glover turned the TV world upside down with his ambitious dramedy "Atlanta." The show's second season debuts 1 tonight on FX, and NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says it takes Glover's ambitions to new levels. Be warned - there is some rough language in the story.


ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE 2: Want to know what it feels like to be a young black man in America? Consider Donald Glover's character in "Atlanta," Earn Marks, an aimless Princeton dropout 3 crashing on friends' couches who has a problem. Even when he has some money - several hundred-dollar bills, to be specific - he can't spend it. First at the movie theater...


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ATLANTA")


DONALD GLOVER: (As Earn Marks) Yeah. Can I get two tickets for "Fast And Furious"?


UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS #1: (As character) I'm sorry, but I can't take a bill that large.


DEGGANS: ...Then at a hookah bar where the owner is convinced the bill is fake.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ATLANTA")


GLOVER: (As Earn Marks) No, just get another hundred to compare it.


UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) There are no other hundreds in the bar.


GLOVER: (As Earn Marks) Then you got one of those pens that you can mark it with?


UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Of course not.


DEGGANS: And the kicker comes when a security guard at the bar speaks to Earn as he's kicking him out.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ATLANTA")


UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Hey, we all know that the bill was real, but the owner was tripping. Sorry about that.


UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS #2: (As character) That was definitely racist 4.


DEGGANS: The bit ends in a strip club where Earn is charged 20 percent to get change. Like Chris Rock once said, being black in America often feels like always being 50 cents short. And the racism 5 comes from everywhere from white ticket sellers to black club owners. That's the vibe of "Atlanta's" second season, where most of the humor is rooted in the surreal indignities 6 its characters endure just to get by. Glover pulls you into the experience and entertains you at the same time. The subtitle 7 for this year's episodes is "Robbin' Season," that time close to the year's end when robberies and assaults go up. Earns' oddball friend Darius sums it up while the two watch police clean up a crime scene.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ATLANTA")


LAKEITH STANFIELD: (As Darius) Robbing season. Christmas approaches and everybody got to eat.


GLOVER: (As Earn Marks) Or be eaten.


DEGGANS: Donald Glover's Earn Marks manages his cousin Alfred, also known as up-and-coming rapper Paper Boi, played by Brian Tyree Henry. Paper Boi winds up on the wrong end of robbing season when a longtime drug connection robs him at gunpoint during a transaction in his car. When Paper Boi tries to open the car's back door to leave, he can't because, yep, the door's child locks are still engaged.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ATLANTA")


BRIAN TYREE HENRY: (As Paper Boi) Child lock, man.


UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) I got you.


HENRY: (As Paper Boi) Child lock. OK, you - come on - got it. I got it. I'll just - I got it. Why you got to lock me in the child - oh, my God. That's the window, man.


DEGGANS: The sharpest humor in "Atlanta's" second season comes from leaning into those moments when Earn and Paper Boi should enjoy their growing success but the world won't let them. It feels similar Glover's real-life attitude where he often appears unable or unwilling 8 to enjoy the acclaim 9 and awards that came from the show's first season in 2016. The best moments of tonight's episode come when Earn faces his Uncle Willie, played by perpetually-in-trouble comedian 10 Katt Williams. Willie insults Earn over his dependence 11 on Paper Boi.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ATLANTA")


KATT WILLIAMS: (As Uncle Willie) You scared. You got to stay on his good side now 'cause he's Mr. Moneybags. Family is business.


GLOVER: (As Earn Marks) No, that's not it. What I'm scared of is being you. You know, someone everybody knew was smart but ended up being a know-it-all [expletive] that just let [expletive] happen to him.


DEGGANS: Willie comes back with some advice for Earn. It sounds a bit like the words Williams himself might offer about his mistakes in real life.


(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ATLANTA")


WILLIAMS: (As Uncle Willie) And if you don't want to end up like me, get rid of that chip on your shoulder. It's not worth the time.


DEGGANS: That nagging 12 sense of lost potential gives poignancy 13 to every scene, making this season of "Atlanta" another masterpiece. I'm Eric Deggans.


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演员首次演出( debut的名词复数 )
  • He never really debuts the idea of taking money from his parents any longer. 他从此就再也没有认真起过向父母要钱的念头。
  • This young soprano debuts next month at the metropolitan opera. 这位年轻的女高音歌唱家下个月将在纽约大都会歌剧院举行首演。
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
n.退学的学生;退学;退出者
  • There is a high dropout rate from some college courses.有些大学课程的退出率很高。
  • In the long haul,she'll regret having been a school dropout.她终归会后悔不该中途辍学。
n.种族主义者,种族主义分子
  • a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
  • His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
n.民族主义;种族歧视(意识)
  • He said that racism is endemic in this country.他说种族主义在该国很普遍。
  • Racism causes political instability and violence.种族主义道致政治动荡和暴力事件。
n.侮辱,轻蔑( indignity的名词复数 )
  • The soldiers who were captured suffered many indignities at the hands of the enemy. 被俘的士兵在敌人手中受尽侮辱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • What sort of indignities would he be forced to endure? 他会被迫忍受什么样的侮辱呢? 来自辞典例句
n.副题(书本中的),说明对白的字幕
  • His new book has a subtitle.他的新书有一个副标题。
  • Ah!I don't know why they don't subtitle these movies.唉!我不知道这些电影为什么不打字幕。
adj.不情愿的
  • The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
  • His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。
v.向…欢呼,公认;n.欢呼,喝彩,称赞
  • He was welcomed with great acclaim.他受到十分热烈的欢迎。
  • His achievements earned him the acclaim of the scientific community.他的成就赢得了科学界的赞誉。
n.喜剧演员;滑稽演员
  • The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
  • The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。
n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属
  • Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
  • He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。
adj.唠叨的,挑剔的;使人不得安宁的v.不断地挑剔或批评(某人)( nag的现在分词 );不断地烦扰或伤害(某人);无休止地抱怨;不断指责
  • Stop nagging—I'll do it as soon as I can. 别唠叨了—我会尽快做的。
  • I've got a nagging pain in my lower back. 我后背下方老是疼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.辛酸事,尖锐
  • As she sat in church her face had a pathos and poignancy. 当她坐在教堂里时,脸上带着一种哀婉和辛辣的表情。
  • The movie, "Trains, Planes, and Automobiles" treats this with hilarity and poignancy. 电影“火车,飞机和汽车”是以欢娱和热情庆祝这个节日。
学英语单词
acetate cellulose fibre
aerodynamic loading
agricultural fertilizer
akebia pentaphylla mak.
altitude above sea level
automatic lubricating device
auxiliary crate controller
available capacity
bank reinstatement method
bedizenment
bituminous priming solution
black and white group
Brownville Junction
bumetopia lanshuana
capillary bronchitis
carpodes
chemical glassware
choice activity
coded automatic gain control
contra-regularity
cost maintenance
counteractions
Crataegus oxycantha
cryoprecipitating
Cynanchum bicampanulatum
dip from
dissipative material
dividends receivable account
duck belting
dye leveller
East Aberthaw
elastic hysteresis loop
electric furnace steelmaking
emission point
emptying outlet
epigastric reflex
falling step
fast Fourier transform algorithm
fault-secure
forward reflection
g?-protein
galdosian
genus Phalanger
give the law to
Gordie Howe
GP (gauge pressure)
greca
haemorrhagic septicemia
haryencephalia
hedgehoggy
high strength alloy steel
immeshing
impact loan
in large print
intelli-sense
internal void fraction
Jigawa State
laike
lobbying expenses
meters per second
middle sample
Mittellandkanal
munge
number of flutes
off-line application
Ohlenstedt
overstrows
ownership of land
Pantholin
pavetta pulcherima
pentahydroborite
pneumatolytic metamorphism
pole height
precision code
pressure gauge with bakelite case
principle of action and reaction
pseudaletia unipunctas
pseudobarbella levieri(ren et gard)nog
psychophants
public welfare payment
rainbow sprinkler
random parameter system
rectifying developable surface
Regio antebrachialis anterior
rim-jobs
sanitary disposal
selforganizing system
Sergines
shihchienfang series
spy glass
stiff-tailed ducks
strip to the waist
taken up the gauntlet
tendon tube
the worst
therapeutic serum
tree function
trenching sampling
unsweat
uphigh
X-radiation X
zebrinus