影片对白
KEATING: No grades
at stake , gentlemen. Just take a stroll. There it
is.
KEATING: I don't
know, but I've been told-
BOYS: I don't know,
but I've been told-
KEATING: Doing poetry
is old-
BOYS: Doing
poetry is
old-
KEATING: Left, left,
left-right-left. Left, left, left-right-left. Left, halt! Thank
you, gentlemen. If you noticed,
everyone started off with their own
stride, their own pace. Mr. Pitts,
taking his time
. He knew he'll get there one day. Mr. Cameron, you could see him
thinking, "Is this right? It might be right. It might be right. I
know that. Maybe not. I don't know." Mr. Overstreet,
driven by
deeper force. Yes. We know that. All right. Now, I didn't bring
them up here to
ridicule them. I brought them up here to illustrate
the point of conformity: the difficulty in maintaining your own
beliefs in the face of others. Now, those of you -- I see the look
in your eyes like, "I would've walked differently." Well, ask
yourselves why you were clapping. Now, we all have a great need for
acceptance. But you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your
own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even
though the herd may go, "That's baaaaad." Robert Frost said, "Two
roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less
traveled by,
and that has made all the difference." I want you to find your own
walk right now. Your own way of striding, pacing. Any direction.
Anything you want. Whether it's proud, whether it's silly,
anything. Gentlemen, the
courtyard is yours.
KEATING: You don't
have to perform. Just make it for yourself. Mr. Dalton? You'll be
joining us?
CHARLIE: Exercising
the right not to walk.
KEATING: Thank you,
Mr. Dalton. You just illustrated the point. Swim against
the stream.
妙词佳句,活学活用
1. at
stake
If something is at
stake, it is being risked and might be lost or damaged if you are
not successful. 濒临危险,得失攸关。
e.g. The
tension was naturally high for a game with so much at
stake.
面对一场得失攸关的比赛,压力自然很大。
此外stake一词还有一些其它常用意思,比如作为动词的时候有"以金钱、生命等赌、下注"的意思:
e.g. I'll stake my all on it.
我用我的一切做赌注。
2. take your
time
慢慢来,别着急。在日常生活里经常能用到这个句子,而且在一些
听力考试的对话部分,我们也经常能听到这个表达。
e.g. Take your time. We still have half an hour before the movie
begins.
别着急。电影还有半个小时才开始呢。
3. swim
against the stream
逆流而上、反潮流。另一个短语go
against the stream也是同样的意思。比如我们可以说一个特立独行的人:He always swims or goes
against the
stream to show how different he is from
others.
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