新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第12课
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：新概念英语85年上外美音版
Lesson 12 The Language of Hollywood 好莱坞的语言
What characterizes almost all Hollywood pictures is their inner emptiness. This is compensated 1 for by an outer impressiveness. Such impressiveness usually takes the form of truly grandiose 2 realism. Nothing is spared to make the setting, the costumes, all of the surface details correct. These efforts help to mask the essential emptiness of the characterization, and the absurdities 3 and trivialities of the plots. The houses look like houses, the streets look like streets; the people look and talk like people; but they are empty of humanity, credibility, and motivation. Needless to say, the disgraceful censorship code is an important factor in predetermining the content of these pictures. But the code does not disturb the profits, nor the entertainment value of the films; it merely helps to prevent them from being credible 4. It isn't too heavy a burden for the industry to bear. In addition to the impressiveness of the settings, there is a use of the camera, which at times seems magical. But of what human import is all this skill, all this effort, all this energy in the production of effects, when the story, the representation of life is hollow, stupid, banal 5, childish?
- The marvelous acting compensated for the play's weak script. 本剧的精彩表演弥补了剧本的不足。
- I compensated his loss with money. 我赔偿他经济损失。
- His grandiose manner impressed those who met him for the first time.他那种夸大的举止给第一次遇见他的人留下了深刻的印象。
- As the fog vanished,a grandiose landscape unfolded before the tourists.雾气散去之后，一幅壮丽的景观展现在游客面前。
- She has a sharp eye for social absurdities, and compassion for the victims of social change. 她独具慧眼，能够看到社会上荒唐的事情，对于社会变革的受害者寄以同情。 来自辞典例句
- The absurdities he uttered at the dinner party landed his wife in an awkward situation. 他在宴会上讲的荒唐话使他太太陷入窘境。 来自辞典例句