【英语时差8，16】寻宝冒险电影傻爱成金
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：小麦英语课堂
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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。