【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语1089期
时间：2018-12-28 作者：英语课 分类：跟着美剧练发音
英语课
lPrincipal: [严厉] What do you think a school is for, Brad?
Brad: I’m sorry I keep disrupting 2 (v. 使...分心) the class...
Principal 1: You aren’t answering my question. What’s a school for? To educate, isn’t it? To use knowledge to wipe out ignorance 3 (消除无知). The school’s orchestral (n.管弦乐队) is having a concert this afternoon. You plan on going?
Brad: No, sir. My tics (n.抽搐) will ruin (v. 毁掉) the music.
Principal: I want you to be there.
[音乐会期间Brad不断发出怪声，让同学们厌烦不已，好不容易等到散场，校长突然走上讲台发话]
Everybody, just keep in seats for a minute, please. Thank you. Enjoy the concert? Great job. Did you hear any noises during the quiet part?
[学生们一起回答Yes，齐齐看向Brad]
Principal: Yeah, so did I. They’re pretty annoying, aren’t they? The person making those noises is Brad Cohen. Come up here, Brad.
[Brad慢慢走上台, 和校长一起面向所有人]
Do you like making noises and upsetting (v.让人心烦) people, Brad?
Brad: No, sir.
Principal: Then why do you do it?
Brad: Because I have Tourette’s syndrome 4.
Principal: What’s that?
Brad: It’s a thing in my brain. It causes me to make rude noises,
Principal: But you can control it if you want to, right?
Brad: No, sir. It’s a sickness (n.疾病).
Principal: Well....Why can’t you just get cured (接受治疗)?
Brad: There isn’t any cure. I don’t like making noises any more than you like hearing them (我和你们一样不喜欢发出噪音). They’re even worse when I get stressed 5 (adj.紧张的). When you don’t accept then I can’t stop them. But when I feel accepted, then they’re not so bad.
Principal: What can we do? And I mean everyone in this school. What can we do to help you, Brad?
Brad: I just want to be treated like everybody else.
Principal: [悄悄对Brad说] Good job. Go sit down.
1 principal
adj.主要的；n.负责人，校长，资本
- When he saw the principal,he raised his hand in salutation.他看到校长时举手敬礼。
- Their school gave a reception to their new principal.他们学校为新校长举办了一个招待会。
2 disrupting
使混乱，扰乱( disrupt的现在分词 )
- Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting. 示威者成功地扰乱了会议。
- Wage claims had led to one strike after another, disrupting every section of the community. 由工资问题引起的罢工浪潮此起彼伏，扰乱了社会秩序。
3 ignorance
n.无知，愚昧，不了解，（of，about）不知道
- The relation of disease to poverty and ignorance is easy to see.疾病与贫穷、无知之间的关系是显而易见的。
- Maybe it is all due to my own ignorance.也许是我少见多怪。