VOA标准英语2013--Two Films, Directors Are Top Oscar Contenders
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(二月)
Two Films, Directors Are Top Oscar Contenders
With Lincoln, Steven Spielberg created not only an Oscar-worthy film but a new classic.
Spielberg has been a force in Hollywood for nearly four decades.
His first big success was Jaws 1, about the hunt for a killer 2 shark off the coast of New York's Long Island. It won three academy awards and established Spielberg as a master of suspense 3, a title he reclaimed 4 with his science fiction film, Close encounters of the Third Kind.
A few years later, Spielberg returned with E.T. the Extraterrestrial, the poignant 5 story of a boy who befriends an alien stranded 6 on earth. It became the top grossing film of all time.
Other blockbusters, like the Indiana Jones trilogy, followed.
From the adventures, Spielberg turned to historical dramas.
His crowning achievement was the 1993 Holocaust 7 epic 8, Schindler’s List, based on the story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers 9.
The film earned Spielberg his first Academy Awards - for Best Director and Best Picture.
In Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg again focused on the Second World War and won another Academy Award for Best Director.
Now, fifteen years later, with Lincoln, Spielberg is a continuing force in cinema, crafting history for millions of moviegoers.
Ang Lee’s Oscar-nominated film Life of Pi, about an Indian boy adrift with a Bengal tiger, is a visual masterpiece. Lee’s cinematography and special effects make the sea and the kinetic 10 tiger supporting characters.
For Ang Lee, success came late in life.
He won acclaim 11 for his 1995 British period-piece, Sense and Sensibility.
From then on, he became famous for his nuanced treatment of culturally diverse stories.
In 1997, he directed The Ice Storm about dysfunctional families in the affluent 12 New York suburbs.
In 1999, his Crouching 13 Tiger Hidden Dragon, about Chinese martial 14 arts, won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language film.
But Lee’s climactic moment came in 2005 with Brokeback Mountain, about the forbidden love between two gay cowboys in the American West. Lee’s tender and poignant story put gay romance into the American mainstream 15. The film was nominated for Best Picture but lost to another, many say because of its subject matter. Yet, Ang Lee received the Oscar for Best Director.
This year, with Life of Pi, Lee focuses on an Indian family and the universality of faith as a source of strength and courage.
Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg go toe-to-toe as master filmmakers of their generation.
- The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。
- The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
- The suspense was unbearable.这样提心吊胆的状况实在叫人受不了。
- The director used ingenious devices to keep the audience in suspense.导演用巧妙手法引起观众的悬念。
- Many sufferers have been reclaimed from a dependence on alcohol. 许多嗜酒成癖的受害者已经被挽救过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They reclaimed him from his evil ways. 他们把他从邪恶中挽救出来。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- His lyrics are as acerbic and poignant as they ever have been.他的歌词一如既往的犀利辛辣。
- It is especially poignant that he died on the day before his wedding.他在婚礼前一天去世了，这尤其令人悲恸。
- He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
- I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。
- The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
- Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
- 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。
- The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间：Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网
- There exist many sources of energy both potential and kinetic.存在着许多势能和动能的能源。
- The kinetic theory of gases is the best known example.气体动力学理论就是最有名的例子。
- 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。
- He hails from an affluent background.他出身于一个富有的家庭。
- His parents were very affluent.他的父母很富裕。
- a hulking figure crouching in the darkness 黑暗中蹲伏着的一个庞大身影
- A young man was crouching by the table, busily searching for something. 一个年轻人正蹲在桌边翻看什么。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
- The sound of martial music is always inspiring.军乐声总是鼓舞人心的。
- The officer was convicted of desertion at a court martial.这名军官在军事法庭上被判犯了擅离职守罪。
- Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
- Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。