又名: 英语课 / 请讲普通话
导演: 斯图亚特·艾伦
编剧: 文斯·鲍威尔
主演: 巴瑞·埃文斯 Jacki Harding George Camiller Robert Lee Kevork Malikyan Jamila Massey Zara Nutley Ricardo Montez Albert Moses Franoise Pascal Dino Shafeek Pik Sen Lim Tommy Godfrey Iris Sadler Anna Bergman Gabor Vernon Deirdre Costello Fraser Kerr Harry Littlewood
类型: 喜剧
制片国家/地区: 英国
上映日期: 1977-12-30(英国)
集数: 13 单集片长: 30分钟 IMDb: tt0075537 豆瓣评分:9.3 下载地址:迅雷下载
LESSON 01 THE FIRST LESSON
I wasn't looking where I was going. (我走路没看路。)
punch up(揍)
LESSON 02 AN INSPECTOR CALLS
get into hot water(= get into trouble)
drop a clanger(失言)
LESSON 03 A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH
in the pudding club(怀孕)
be sold a pup/dummy(= be cheated or deceived)
【Figure of Speech(比喻)】
as quick as lightning
as light as a feather
as clean as a whistle(清脆)
as blind as a bat
as deaf as posts
as sly as a fox
as mad as a hatter(hatter:淘金者)
as drunk as a lord
as white as snow
as smooth as silk
LESSON 04 ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
【Cockney rhyming slang: using words that rhyme with the word you wish to use.】
Mutt and Jeff = deaf
plates of meat = feet
Uncle Ned = head
mince pies = eyes
Uncle Dick = sick
Jack the Dandy = brandy
Brahms and Liszt = pissed (drunk)
Thelma Ritter = bitter(苦啤酒)
gold watch = scotch(苏格兰威士忌)
【练习R发音的绕口令】
Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
【其他知识点】
flour与flower发音相同
put your shoulder to the wheel(努力)
【Mr. Brown 教给大家的两首歌】
一是“A Bicycle Built for Two”, 由英国作曲家 Harry Dacre 创于1892年 ,库布里克的经典电影《2001:太空漫游》中HAL9001在被关闭前用沙哑的声音唱了这首歌。(《2001:太空漫游》的这篇影评介绍了创作背后的故事,很有趣。)歌曲链接:
一是“We'll Meet Again”,1939年的英国歌曲,二战时被广为传唱,库布里克的《奇爱博士》中也用了这首歌。歌曲链接:
LESSON 05 THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE
French letter(=condom)
the Employment Exchange(= job centre)
LESSON 06 COME BACK ALL IS FORGIVEN
many happy returns of the day(生日祝词)
fountain pen(钢笔)
holy cow(感叹语,天啊!)
toilet water(有香味的水,涂在脸上。好像和perfume并不是一种东西。)
fete与fate发音相同
coin a phrase(套用一句话)
give sb. the boot(开除,解雇)
give the bullet(解雇)
LESSON 07 THE CHEATING GAME
【英语名词的阴阳性】
3 classes of gender: masculine, feminine, neuter. (gender: the grammatical classification of the sex of proper nouns.)
lion~lioness
Duke~Duchess
monkey~monkey
【其他知识点】
pork/lamb chops(猪/羊排骨)
spend a penny( 上厕所。旧时英国公厕的自动门须投一便士硬币后方行开启 )
LESSON 08 BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST
beefeater(伦敦塔卫兵)
be swept off one's feet(因兴奋而不由自主、飘飘然)
May all your troubles be little ones.(It's an English expression. It means to hope you have a family, a baby. 百度给的结果是“愿你的一切烦恼都是小事”……)
The national sport of England is cricket.
beat about the bush(隐约其辞,绕弯子)
LESSON 09 KILL OR CURE
be laid up(= be struck down 病倒)
undertaker(殡仪员)
under the weather(身体不舒服)
bottoms up(干杯)
down to touch(好像也是“干杯”的意思,没查到。)
"Round the tip and throw the gun, look out dummy, here I come."(Ranjeet说的这个似乎是个俗语,但没查到。)
LESSON 10 HELLO SAILOR
through thick and thin(同甘共苦)
aspirate(the sound made by the letter H,送气音)
Get knotted.(滚开。)
make a clean breast(坦白)
change horse(做出重大改变。这个也没查到。)
head over heels(神魂颠倒)
LESSON 11 A POINT OF HONOUR
Holy Writ(=Bible)
knock out(击倒;淘汰)
epistle(= letter 书信)
in passing(顺便提及)
have green eyes(嫉妒)
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
syntax(= sentence construction)
LESSON 12 HOW'S YOUR FATHER
"What you never have, you never miss."
pain in the neck(某人很讨厌)
LESSON 13 THE EXAMINATION
jackpot(头奖)
haven't a cat in hells chance(毫无机会)
short hand typist(速记打字员)
在英语中,cat一律用she,dog一律用he。