时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:小麦英语课堂


英语课

 Directed and co-written by Andy Tennant ("Hitch"), the sunken-treasure romance-adventure flick 1 "Fool's Gold" revolves 2 around a quest for the fabled 3 Queen's Dowry: a boatload of gold and jewels meant to seal a royal marriage deal, that sank in the Caribbean in 1715.


Tess Finnegan (Kate Hudson) and her ex-husband Ben (Matthew McConaughey), who met and married in Florida during spring break, have spent their entire marriage looking for the booty. Tess is a doctoral candidate and has had her whole life thwarted 4 by Ben's passion for finding the Dowry. So they split up, but immediately get back together when Ben finally finds a substantial clue to what's down there, waiting.
Meanwhile, Ben's underwater wanderings have put him in serious debt to a gangster/rap star named Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart), who wants the treasure, too. And in a stupidly reckless effort to save a windblown hat, Ben endears himself to the dumb-as-a-doorknob Gemma Honeycutt, whose father, the fabulously 5 wealthy Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland), takes a liking 6 to both Ben and the idea of finding the Dowry.
That Tess is working as a steward 7 aboard Nigel's yacht is one of the picture's many wild coincidences. At this point, she and Ben lay out for Nigel the whole history of the ill-fated ship Aurelia.
Much of the rest of the film consists of musical montages, chase scenes and slapstick comedy.

1 flick
n.快速的轻打,轻打声,弹开;v.轻弹,轻轻拂去,忽然摇动
  • He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
  • By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下,将马头上的苍蝇驱走。
2 revolves
v.(使)旋转( revolve的第三人称单数 );细想
  • The earth revolves both round the sun and on its own axis. 地球既公转又自转。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Thus a wheel revolves on its axle. 于是,轮子在轴上旋转。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 fabled
adj.寓言中的,虚构的
  • For the first week he never actually saw the fabled Jack. 第一周他实际上从没见到传说中的杰克。
  • Aphrodite, the Greek goddness of love, is fabled to have been born of the foam of the sea. 希腊爱神阿美罗狄蒂据说是诞生于海浪泡沫之中。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4 thwarted
阻挠( thwart的过去式和过去分词 ); 使受挫折; 挫败; 横过
  • The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison. 警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图。
  • Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the rain. 我们的野餐计划因雨受挫。
5 fabulously
难以置信地,惊人地
  • The couple are said to be fabulously wealthy. 据说这对夫妇家财万贯。
  • I should say this shirt matches your trousers fabulously. 我得说这衬衫同你的裤子非常相配。
6 liking
n.爱好;嗜好;喜欢
  • The word palate also means taste or liking.Palate这个词也有“口味”或“嗜好”的意思。
  • I must admit I have no liking for exaggeration.我必须承认我不喜欢夸大其词。
7 steward
n.乘务员,服务员;看管人;膳食管理员
  • He's the steward of the club.他是这家俱乐部的管理员。
  • He went around the world as a ship's steward.他当客船服务员,到过世界各地。