【英语时差8，16】无家可归的超级英雄全民超人
时间：2019-02-23 作者：英语课 分类：英语时差8，16
英语课
The star, Will Smith, is sprawled 1 on a Los Angeles bench. Dirty, disheveled, in full distressed 2 costume and character, he looks lost and alone, much like the bums 3 in every city that go unnoticed. But there's no ignoring Hancock, who has amazing powers. He can fly, for starters, the first homeless superhero in movies－Superbum!
He drinks hard, swears at children (who curse him in turn), rarely shaves, never smiles. Worse, he has lousy superhero style, with sneakers and shorts (no cape), and buggy sunglasses that hide his (X-ray?) eyes. His takeoffs and landings are a mess: sloppy 4 and violent, they invariably leave a heap of trouble and general rubble 5 in his wake.
The story really starts when Hancock saves Ray (Jason Bateman) from being flattened 6 by a freight train. In typical fashion, Hancock botches the save. He plucks Ray from death, but in the process derails the train and, also true to bad form, receives an invective-laced earful from the gathering 7 mob. Struck by the crowd's hostility 8, Ray, a public relations guy with a do-gooder streak 9 decides to rescue Hancock in turn by giving him a superhero makeover.
"Hancock" is far from perfect－it feels overly rushed, particularly toward its chaotic 10 end－but it has a raggedness 11 that speaks honestly to the fundamental human fragility that makes the greatest heroes super.
v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词)；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）
- He was sprawled full-length across the bed. 他手脚摊开横躺在床上。
- He was lying sprawled in an armchair, watching TV. 他四肢伸开正懒散地靠在扶手椅上看电视。
痛苦的
- He was too distressed and confused to answer their questions. 他非常苦恼而困惑，无法回答他们的问题。
- The news of his death distressed us greatly. 他逝世的消息使我们极为悲痛。
adj.邋遢的，不整洁的
- If you do such sloppy work again,I promise I'll fail you.要是下次作业你再马马虎虎，我话说在头里，可要给你打不及格了。
- Mother constantly picked at him for being sloppy.母亲不断地批评他懒散。
n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
[医]（水）平扁的，弄平的
- She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
- I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
n.集会，聚会，聚集
- He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
- He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
n.敌对，敌意；抵制［pl.］交战，战争
- There is open hostility between the two leaders.两位领导人表现出公开的敌意。
- His hostility to your plan is well known.他对你的计划所持的敌意是众所周知的。
n.条理，斑纹，倾向，少许，痕迹；v.加条纹，变成条纹，奔驰，快速移动
- The Indians used to streak their faces with paint.印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。
- Why did you streak the tree?你为什么在树上刻条纹？
adj.混沌的，一片混乱的，一团糟的
- Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
- The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。