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新思路大学英语课程听力专项训练
1.14.15 15. Bathing Beauty(出水芙蓉)

15. Bathing Beauty(出水芙蓉)

作曲家史蒂夫应邀为水上盛典谱曲,因此邂逅了水上舞蹈教练卡罗琳,两人一见钟情,并正互定终身。两人携手走进婚礼教堂,经纪人乔治闻讯前来阻挠,他雇佣玛利娅冒充史蒂夫的前妻,卡罗琳一气之下冲出教堂。史蒂夫历经磨难与考验,他的真情终于感动了卡罗琳,有情人终成眷属,两人重归于好。

导演:乔西德尼(George Sidney)

主演:雷斯克尔顿(Red Skelto),埃丝特威廉斯(Esther Williams)

Caroline: Geometry ninety, Chemistry ninety five, History ninety eight.

Dean: 1)We couldn’t hope to get rid of him on studies. How does he stand on the demerits1, professor Evans?

Caroline: Ten demerits for sleeping through biology.

Dean: Miss Smith?

Smith: Ten demerits for defacing2 the map of geography.

Dean: Professor Hendricds?

Hendricks: Ten demerits for tardiness3.

Caroline: Twenty five demerits for...

Dean: Go on, madame.

Caroline: For insubordination4.

Dean: I see. Anyone else? But that’s only fifty five, a long way from the hundred he need to expel. Of course you won’t realize that each hour that young man remains in your house, situation becomes more precarious5. There must be some else stepping up his demerits legitimately6, of course.

Jean: Dean Clinton, you forget tomorrow the young man starts with eurhythmics7.

Dean: Oh, yes, eurhythmics.

Jean: That was very nice, girls. Very nice. Now, the next thing we shall do will be. Yeh, come in, Mr. Elliot.

Steve: No, I don’t think I can do it.

Jean: Will you please come in. We have no time to play hide and seek8, Mr. Elliot, come in. Well, well, well, look who is here. Mr. Apollo. 2)Stomach in, chest out, shoulders back, head out. Girls, line up please. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven and... No, no, no, what’s the matter?

Steve: 3)That was an accident. My leg won’t stretch. It’s alright this way and this is kind of new to me.

Jean: You move by chance?

Steve: No, madam.

Jean: I should show you, your arm lie there. Give me your leg, give me your leg. High...Get up there. Stomach in, chest out, shoulder back, head out. To the bar. Put you foot up here. Up here, up here.

Steve: Yes, they’re pretty tall, your students, aren’t you?

Jean: Hurry up! Get off the floor. Stomach in, chest out, shoulder back, head out. Go, line up to the bottom of the line. Is that the way you walk? Walking is not there, it’s here.

Steve: 4)I have been using in wrong for many years.

Jean: Where is your courage? The secret of good courage is spied. Each woman must say to herself: “I have a secret. I’m beautiful, and I’m beloved”. And she must keep on saying as she believes this. Watch. “I have a secret, I’m beautiful, I’m beloved”. Now you do it.

Steve: Me?

Jean: Yes, you.

Steve: I’d rather not.

Jean: You won’t walk or I will give you demerits.

Steve: I’m walking, I have a secret, I’m beautiful, I’m beloved.

Jean: No, no, no, Mr. Elliot. We do not walk like a duck.

Steve: Well, I was the way I walk.

Jean: Your head up, high, high, high.

Steve: It’s hooked up back there.

Jean: 5)Well, you hold it high, and head like a power horse.

Steve: Through over nail.

Jean: That will be twenty demerits for bad step of manners.

Key Words

1. demerit n. 过失,缺点

2. deface v. 涂污,弄损

3. tardiness n. 延误

4. insubordination n. 违抗,不服从

5. precarious adj. 危险的

6. legitimately adj. 合法地,正当地

7. eurhythmic n. 韵律体操

8. hide and seek 捉迷藏