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    《录取通知书》，美国环球影片公司出品。该片讲述了一位努力考大学的高中生巴特比（Bartleby）“创业”的过程。由于美国大学相互竞争，恶性增加“拒绝率”以提高排名，巴特比和他的好朋友们频频被大学拒绝。为了得到他严厉父亲的认同，巴特比建立了一所名为南方哈蒙技术学院的假大学，并意外招来千名学生。他们一起参加美国教育局的听证会，并申请得到了试运行权。(p66)

Dad:    It’s exciting. It’s scary.

Bartleby: It’s really scary. Okay.

Lizzie:     What’s going on here?

Bartleby:  Okay, we lost one of the campers. Curious campers. What are you doing? Don’t do that. Don’t do that.

Mom:   Honey.

Bartleby:  Take it easy. Okay,here we are. Let’s...

Dad:   What the devil is that?

Bartleby: That’s just a surge of collegiate energy. It’s college for you.  Take a left up here for the dorm room, Dad.

Mom:   Oh, uh, can you hang on asecond? I just really gotta go to the bathroom a minute, you know. I just wanna…

Bartleby:  Oh, Jesus Christ. No, no, no, no, no! Uh, it’s, that’s, it’s the men’s room. You can’t go in there.

Mom:  Well, can’t you just stand outside ...

Dad:  Diane, can’t you wait till we get to the restaurant?

Bartleby:  Hey, I’ll see you, Rasheed. I’ll see you in math class. You owe me 30 bucks, by the way. You jokester. Here we are. You remember Hands.

Hands:  Hey, Mrs. Gaines.

Mom:  Hey.

Bartleby:  Hi, the fam.

Hands:  You look great.

Mom:  Well, thank you.

Bartleby:  When I first saw it, I was like, I gotta live here? I can’t believe this. But it’s a dorm room.

Hands:  Mr. Gaines.

Dad:  Daryl, how are you, partner?

Hands:  Oh, thunder grip.

Lizzie:   Why are there bars on the window?

Bartleby:  Oh, that’s so nobody accidentally gets thrown out. It’s fine.

Dad:  Good learning environment. Not a lot of extras. You’ll study harder.

Bartleby: Yes. We will, because of the blue and the sparse walls. I agree with you, sir.

Lizzie:  What are these?

Bartleby:  That’s in case of an earthquake. Uh, never mind that. Hey, let’s go meet the dean.

Dad:  Huh? The dean.