时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2015年ESL之商务英语


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《教父》是派拉蒙影业公司出品的一部黑帮题材的电影,改编自马里奥·普佐的同名小说,由弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉执导,马龙·白兰度、阿尔·帕西诺等主演。影片于1972年在美国上映。该片讲述了以维托·唐·科莱昂为首的黑帮家族的发展过程以及科莱昂的小儿子迈克如何接任父亲成为黑帮首领的故事。1973年这部电影获得了第45届奥斯卡奖最佳电影、最佳男主角、最佳改编剧本三项奖项;此外还获得了第30届美国金球奖最佳电影奖、最佳导演等奖项。2007年美国电影协会评选了“百年百佳影片”,《教父》排名第二。 


The Godfather is a 1972 American epic 1 crime film directed by Francis Ford 2 Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy. The screenplay by Mario Puzo and Coppola was based on Puzo's 1969 novel of the same name. The film stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a powerful New York crime family. The story spans the years 1945 to 1955 and centers on the rise of Michael Corleone (Pacino) from a shy family outsider to a ruthless Mafia boss. It also reports the experiences of the Corleone family under the patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando). Everyone who sees it remembers the scene with the horse's head in the bed. The film cost $6.5 million and grossed $268,500,000 at the box office.


 


The Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema. It is also considered to be one of the most influential 3, especially in the gangster 4 genre 5. It is ranked as the second greatest film in American cinema (behind Citizen Kane) by the American Film Institute, and was selected for preservation 6 in the United States National Film Registry in 1990 for being "culturally significant." The film's success spawned 7 two sequels: The Godfather Part II in 1974, and The Godfather Part III in 1990. It won three Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (for Brando) and in the category Best Adapted Screenplay for Puzo and Coppola. The film was released in English and Sicilian. It has a running time of 175 minutes.


 



1 epic
n.史诗,叙事诗;adj.史诗般的,壮丽的
  • I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗,而写了这个小故事。
  • They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。
2 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
3 influential
adj.有影响的,有权势的
  • He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
  • He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
4 gangster
n.匪徒,歹徒,暴徒
  • The gangster's friends bought off the police witness.那匪徒的朋友买通了警察方面的证人。
  • He is obviously a gangster,but he pretends to be a saint.分明是强盗,却要装圣贤。
5 genre
n.(文学、艺术等的)类型,体裁,风格
  • 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。
6 preservation
n.保护,维护,保存,保留,保持
  • The police are responsible for the preservation of law and order.警察负责维持法律与秩序。
  • The picture is in an excellent state of preservation.这幅画保存得极为完好。
7 spawned
(鱼、蛙等)大量产(卵)( spawn的过去式和过去分词 ); 大量生产
  • The band's album spawned a string of hit singles. 这支乐队的专辑繁衍出一连串走红的单曲唱片。
  • The computer industry has spawned a lot of new companies. 由于电脑工业的发展,许多新公司纷纷成立。
学英语单词
acute upper respiratory infection
air properties
alive to
amun-re
antenna adapter
antipernicious anemia factor
ash layer
Auckland Pen.
band-tailed antshrike
battery ringing
be flat on one's ass
be stripped to the waist
Binulauan, Mt.
blending table
boasteth
bolt load at operating condition
bridge over strait
butuans
call return met
chorioptic itch
Chromosomopathy
composite spar
crimping house
croh
dip-moulding
dwale
ekgs
enwalling
family iguanodontidaes
fatigue strength under reversed bending stress
Fengersfors
food conveying elevator
fuel-control lever
gneissose
gorgerins
hennus
herring-bone twill
hot film sensor
IL-RN
IMIC
in vitro fertilisation
INTSUM
investronica
journeywomen
keldyshite
kinetic-molecular theory of gases
Langshans
Laskar Jihad
limonia (thrypticomyia) unisetosa
line printer controller
linear resistance flowmeter
live out of one's life
long-staple cottons
mast bead light
Mecumba
megagnathia
model arbitration clauses
moonbuggy
multiple edge
natrium salicylicum
neighbourhood court
numerical counter
openstage
orbital hypotelorism
parimutuel ticket
phosphorylcholine
power arm ditcher
praetorial
pre-pilot
precipitation curve
preseismic deformation
price fluctuation
principal point of photograph
psychrometrc analysis
radium beam therapy
raftsman
relumines
sapmi
scrawnier
sea-calming oil
seecatchie
sequence breaking
simultaneous humping of two trains
Skase
soviet ballet
space-dyed yarn
Spanon
telemetering commutator
term time
Teunom, Sungai
Thatcherian
time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay
tray dynamics
tubastraea aurea
unaffianced
uncredentialled
unhindering
ward master
well car
wheatstalks
writenows
wyzen