小編一直都有買書閱讀的好習慣,好一陣子前在網路上看到Sarah Jessica Parker強力推薦這本叫「The Help」的書,我輸人不輸陣的立刻前去購買。耶!很幸運的是,台灣這本書上架的時間,剛好在電影即將上映的前夕,購書就送兩張首映票呢!
電影令人惆悵,也令人感動,像小編我這樣鐵妞柔情,當然也有落下淚。電影描述,講述20世紀60年代美國密西西比黑人遭受種族歧視、不公平待遇的社會現象。
但今天先撇開種族歧視這個沉重的話題不談,來聊聊60年代的英語吧!
對小編來說,語言是一種很不可思議的現象,既可以在時代變遷中役立不搖,也可以隨著潮流有所進化。
接下來就來看看,下面的The Help經典台詞,哪些依舊如昔?哪些新潮有力?
Aibileen Clark: You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
★ (is 為黑人的方言用法) Click to watch clip. / 點這看片段。
Charlotte Phelan: Your eggs are dying. Would it kill you to go on a date?
妳的卵子都要壞了。去約個會會怎樣啊?
Preacher Green: If you can love your enemy, you already have victory.
假如你可以愛你的仇家,你就獲得勝利了。
Stuart Whitworth: Isn't that what all you girls from Ole Miss major in - professional husband hunting?
「專業獵夫」是妳們Ole小姐的主修嗎?
Charlotte Phelan: Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family.
有時候「勇氣」會跳過一個世代。謝謝妳把它帶回我們的家族來。
Charlotte Phelan: Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. And you need a goat.
愛與恨是同一隻羊身上的兩個角,Eugenia,妳需要一隻羊。
Hilly Holbrook: They carry different diseases than we do. That's why I've drafted theHome Health Sanitation Initiative. (他們傳播跟我們不同的疾病。這也就是為什麼我已經起草了「提倡家庭健康衛生」。)
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: The what? (妳...什麼?)
Hilly Holbrook: A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. It's been endorsed by the White Citizen's Council. (一個預防疾病議案,每個白人家庭都必須有一個給有色幫傭的分離衛浴。已經由白人的市民議會簽署同意了。)
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly. (也許我們應該幫妳在外面建造一個妳專用的衛浴,Hilly。)
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Oysters are a vehicle for crackers and ketchup.
生蠔是一輛承載餅乾跟番茄醬的交通工具。
Aibileen Clark: All you do is scare and lie to try and get what you want.
妳會做的就是用恐嚇還有欺騙來得到妳要的。
Hilly Holbrook: "Have you lost your mind?!" (妳發瘋了嗎?)
Minny: "No ma'am. But you about to..." (不...女士,但妳差不多要了....)
Q:If there is a subject called "professional husband hunting", would you like to major in it?
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