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新思路大学英语课程听力专项训练
1.14.3 3. Waterloo Bridge(魂断蓝桥)

3. Waterloo Bridge(魂断蓝桥)

芭蕾舞演员玛拉和上尉罗伊于一次空袭中在伦敦滑铁卢桥上偶遇,一见钟情。因战争两人后来失散。战后重逢,玛拉因生活所迫已沦落风尘,而罗伊毫不知情,和她结婚。可玛拉终因自觉配不上罗伊而自杀自亡。硝烟中的爱情使人沉醉,美丽中的缺憾使人扼腕,生命中爱的永恒使人心驰神往……

原著:罗伯特·舍伍德(Robert Sherwood)

导演:默文·勒鲁瓦(Mervyn Leroy)

主演:费雯丽(Vivien Leigh),罗伯特·泰勒(Robert Taylor)

Myra: 1) Nice of you to come to see me.

Roy: Not at all.

Myra: You...you didn’t go?

Roy: Couldn’t Mines in the channel. Forty-eight hours leave.

Myra: Isn’t that wonderful?

Roy: Yes, I’ve two whole days. You know, 2) I thought about you all last night. Couldn’t sleep a wink.

Myra: You managed to remember me at last then.

Roy: Yes, barely managed. Myra, what do you think we’re going to do today?

Myra: Well, I... I...

Roy: Oh, you won’t have time for that!

Myra: For what?

Roy: 3) For hesitating1. No more hesitating for you.

Myra: No?

Roy: No.

Myra: Well, what am I going to do instead?

Roy: You’re going to get married.

Myra: Oh, Roy, you must be mad!

Roy: I know it! Marvelous2sensation3!

Myra: Oh, Roy, 4) do be sensible4.

Roy: Not me!

Myra: But you don’t know me!

Roy: Then I’ll discover you. Spend the rest of my life doing it.

Myra: Oh, Roy, this is wartime. It’s... 5) it’s because you’re leaving, so you must spend the whole of your life in forty-eight hours.

Roy: We’re going to be married. It’s you. It’ll never be anyone else.

Myra: 6) But how can you tell that?

Roy: Now listen, darling. None of your quibbling5! None of your questioning! None of your doubts! 7) This is positive, you see? This is affirmative, you see? This is final, you see? You’re going to marry me, you see?

Myra: I see.

Roy: Now, a captain in the Rental Ship Viusaleers has, before his marries, to get the consent of his Colonel.

Myra: Is that difficult?

Roy: 8) Well it might or it might not be.

Myra: I feel it’s going to be difficult.

Roy: A great deal depends upon the petitioner6, on the charm of the petitioner, on his eloquence7. Myra, look at me.

Myra: Yes, captain.

Roy: 9) Can you doubt the outcome?

Myra: You are very conceited8, Captain. You are quite mad, Captain, You are reckless9, and headstrong, and I adore10 you, Captain.

Roy: 10) Now sit here and don’t speak to strangers. I’ll be right back, Myra.

Key Words

1. hesitation n. 踌躇,犹豫

2. marvelous adj. 奇妙

3. sensation n. 感觉

4. sensible adj. 理智的

5. quibble n. 支吾,遁辞

6. petitioner n. 申请人

7. eloquence n. 口才

8. conceited adj. 自负的,自大的

9. reckless adj. 轻率的,鲁莽的

10. adore v. 喜爱