英语专业晨读美文-文化篇 9 Movies II
时间：2018-11-30 作者：英语课 分类：英语专业晨读美文
[00:01.45]The Most Historically Inaccurate 1 Movies Ⅱ
[00:04.39]Memoirs of a Geisha
[00:07.72]The geisha coming-of-age, was really more of a makeover,
[00:11.81]where she changed her hairstyle and clothes.
[00:14.30]It didn't involve her getting intimate with a client.
[00:17.45]In the climactic scene where Sayuri wows
[00:20.59]Gion patrons with her dancing prowess,
[00:22.90]her routine—which involves some platform shoes,
[00:26.22]fake snow, and a strobe light—
[00:28.76]seems more like a Studio 54 drag show
[00:31.53]than anything in pre-war Kyoto.
[00:33.61]Brave Heart
[00:35.76]Let's forget the fact that kilts weren't born
[00:38.44]in Scotland until about 300 years after William Wallace's day
[00:42.96]and just do some simple math. According to the movie,
[00:46.70]Wallace's blue-eyed charm at the Battle of Falkirk
[00:50.28]was so overpowering, he seduced 2 King Edward II's wife,
[00:54.21]Isabella of France, and the result of their affair was Edward III.
[00:59.35]But according to the history books,
[01:01.68]Isabella was three years old at the time of Falkirk,
[01:04.60]and Edward III was born seven years after Wallace died.
[01:08.43]Elizabeth: The Golden Age
[01:11.30]In 1585, when the movie takes place,
[01:15.12]Queen Elizabeth was 52 years old—
[01:17.90]Cate Blanchett was 36 when she shot the film—
[01:21.37]and was not being courted by suitors like Ivan the Terrible
[01:25.08]who was dead by then. And though the movie
[01:28.43]has her rallying the troops at Tilbury astride
[01:31.58]a white steed in full armor with a sword,
[01:33.98]in fact she rode side saddle, carrying a baton 3.
[01:37.18]She was more of a regal majorette than Joan of Arc.
[01:41.30]The Patriot 4
[01:42.92]Revolutionary War figure Francis Marion “The Swamp Fox”
[01:47.40]was the basis for Mel Gibson's character,
[01:50.39]but he wasn't the forward-thinking family man
[01:53.01]they show in the flick 5. He was a slave owner
[01:56.48]who didn't get married (to his cousin) until
[01:59.22]after the war was over. Historians also say
[02:02.29]that he actively 6 persecuted 7 and murdered native Cherokees.
[02:06.08]Plus, the thrilling Battle of Guilford Court House
[02:09.93]where he vanquishes 8 his British enemy?
[02:11.65]In reality, the Americans lost that one.
[02:14.55]2001: A Space Odyssey 9
[02:17.64]According to this film, in year 2001
[02:21.81]we would have had manned voyages to Jupiter,
[02:24.38]a battle of wits with a sentient 10 computer,
[02:27.14]and a quantum leap in human evolution.
[02:29.59]Instead we got the Mir Space Station falling from the sky,
[02:33.36]Windows XP, and Freddy got fingered.
[02:36.40]Apparently the lesson here is that sometimes
[02:40.26]it's better when the movies get the facts all wrong.
- The book is both inaccurate and exaggerated.这本书不但不准确，而且夸大其词。
- She never knows the right time because her watch is inaccurate.她从来不知道准确的时间因为她的表不准。
- The promise of huge profits seduced him into parting with his money. 高额利润的许诺诱使他把钱出了手。
- His doctrines have seduced many into error. 他的学说把许多人诱入歧途。
- With the baton the conductor was beating time.乐队指挥用指挥棒打拍子。
- The conductor waved his baton,and the band started up.指挥挥动指挥棒，乐队开始演奏起来。
- He avowed himself a patriot.他自称自己是爱国者。
- He is a patriot who has won the admiration of the French already.他是一个已经赢得法国人敬仰的爱国者。
- 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。
- During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
- We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
- Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs. 人们因宗教信仰而受迫害的情况贯穿了整个历史。
- Members of these sects are ruthlessly persecuted and suppressed. 这些教派的成员遭到了残酷的迫害和镇压。