商務(wù)英語綜合輔導(dǎo):風(fēng)月俏佳人1

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【劇情導(dǎo)讀】一段另類的愛情故事。墮入情網(wǎng)的是一位商界巨子和一位下層妓女。妓女維維安與愛德華邂逅街頭,很快她成為了愛德華金錢下的情婦,維維安答應(yīng)陪愛德華一個星期。然而短暫的相聚使他們感到不能夠離開彼此。盡管是一段讓人恥笑的情緣,但是愛德華最終擺脫了世俗的羈絆,驅(qū)車來到維維安的住處,向維維安求婚。整個場面在浪漫的節(jié)拍中結(jié)束。
    風(fēng)月俏佳人 (Pretty Woman)
    【鼎力星陣】
    導(dǎo)演: 加里·馬歇爾 (Marshall Garry)
    主演: 李察德·基爾 (Gere Richard)
    朱麗婭·羅伯茨 (Roberts Julia)
    拉爾夫·貝拉米 (Bellamy Ralph)
    出品: 1990美國試金石影片公司
    【獲獎獎項】榮獲金球獎音樂和喜劇電影女主角
    (商業(yè)巨子愛德華在比華利山迷路了,他邂逅了妓女維維安。維維安主動要求給理查德指路,于是他們一起到了酒店。)
    精彩對白:來源:www.examda.com
    Vivian: Hey sugar, are you looking for a date?
    維維安: 嘿,親愛的,想找個伴嗎?
    Edward: No! I want to find Beverly Hills, could you give me the directions?
    愛德華: 不是的,我想去比華利山,能告訴我怎么走嗎?
    Vivian: Sure, five bucks.
    維維安: 可以,五美元。
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    額外成就
    事實(shí)上,在美國口語中美元用 buck 代替dollar 更為常見。
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    Edward: That's ridiculous【荒謬的】!
    愛德華: 太荒謬了!
    Vivian: Price just went up to ten.
    維維安: 現(xiàn)在是十美元了。
    Edward: Can you charge for the direction?
    愛德華: 指路也能收費(fèi)?
    Vivian: I could do anything I want to, baby, I'm not lost!
    維維安: 我會做任何事情,親愛的,但我可沒有迷路!
    Edward: All right, ok? Right, you win, I lose, have changes for twenty?
    愛德華: 好了,你贏了,我輸了! 二十美元有找嗎?
    Vivian: For twenty I will show you personal and show you where stars live.
    維維安: 二十美元我會親自帶你去并告訴你明星住在哪里。
    Edward: Oh, that' s all right, I have been to the Stalon's.
    愛德華: 好吧!我剛到史泰龍的家。
    Vivian: Right.
    維維安: 是的。
    Edward: What's your name?
    愛德華: 你叫什么名字?
    Vivian: What do you want to be? Vivian, my name is Vivian.
    維維安: 你想它是什么?維維安,我的名字叫維維安。
    Edward: Vivian?
    愛德華: 維維安?
    Vivian: So what hotel are you staying at?
    維維安: 那你住在哪個酒店?
    Edward: The--er--Regemt Beverly Wilshire.
    愛德華: 是……是里根·比華利·利歇酒店。
    Vivian: In down the block right the conner.
    維維安: 就在下個街區(qū)的右拐角處。
    Edward: Tell me what kinda, what kinda money you girls make this days? ball-park【估計的數(shù)目】.
    愛德華: 現(xiàn)在你們做這一行的大概要多少錢?
    Vivian: Can't take less than hundred dollar.
    維維安: 不少于一百美元。
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    額外成就
    kinda 是口語中的一種變音形式,相當(dāng)于 kind of,在后面我們還會看到其他幾種常見的變音形式。
    如: wanna (want to),gotta (got to),lotta (lot of),ya(you)等。
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    Vivian: Hundred dollar a night?
    維維安: 一個晚上嗎?
    Vivian: For an hour.
    維維安: 一個小時。
    Edward: An hour? You make one hundred dollar an hour, you get a safty pin holding the boot up? You getta to be joking.
    愛德華: 一個小時? 你一個小時掙一百美元,那你的鞋洞還用別針補(bǔ)起來?你一定是開玩笑。
    Vivian: I never joke about money.
    維維安: 我從不開錢的玩笑。
    Edward: Hundred dollar an hour, was it stiff?
    愛德華: 一百美元一個小時,真是太好賺了!
    Vivian: No, but it have got potential【有潛力的】!
    維維安: 不,但卻很有吸引力!
    Vivian: So what do you do?
    維維安: 那你是干什么的?
    Edward: I buy companies.
    愛德華: 收購公司。
    Vivian: What kind of companies?
    維維安: 什么樣的公司?
    Edward: I buy companies that are in financial【經(jīng)濟(jì)的】 difficulty.
    愛德華: 我買那些有財政困難的公司。
    Vivian: That promise you can afford a bargain.
    維維安: 那可以保證你買個便宜貨。
    Edward: Well, the company I'm buying this week can be a bargain price but one billion.
    愛德華: 我這個星期要買的公司也是個便宜貨,但價格是十億。
    Vivian: A billion dollar?
    維維安: 十億美元?
    Edward: Yes.
    愛德華: 是的。
    Vivian: Wow! Nothing was really smart, I haven't got the eleven grade. How far did you go in school?
    維維安: 哇!你太聰明了,我還沒有讀完高二。你讀了多少書?
    Edward: I went all over.
    愛德華: 我一直念完大學(xué)。
    Vivian: Your folks【俚語:父母】 must be very proud!
    維維安: 你父母一定很驕傲!
    Vivian: So you actually have billion dollars?
    維維安: 你真的有十億美元嗎?
    Edward: No, get it some from bank investors. Not easy thing go.
    愛德華: 沒有,一些是金融投資商的,這可不是件容易的事。
    Vivian: And you don't make anything and you don't build anything.
    維維安: 你不生產(chǎn)什么東西也不建造什么東西。
    Edward: No.
    愛德華: 不。
    Vivian: So what would you do with the company once you buy?
    維維安: 你買進(jìn)公司后怎么做?
    Edward: I sell.
    愛德華: 賣掉。
    Vivian: Help me do that. You sell them?
    維維安: 是嗎!你把它們賣掉?
    Edward: Well. I don't sell the whole company. I break it up into pieces and I sold little of it which is worth the whole.
    愛德華: 我并不全部賣掉它們,我把它們分成幾部分,只賣掉一些能夠值全部價錢的那部分。
    Vivian: So, sort of like stealing car and sold them of the parts, right?
    維維安: 是不是有點(diǎn)像偷汽車然后拆開賣掉零部件,對嗎?
    Edward: Yes, sort of. But legal【合法的】.
    愛德華: 有點(diǎn)是這樣,但合法。
    (維維安浸泡在浴缸里,閉上眼睛,戴著耳塞,陶醉地唱著“貓王”的歌。對維維安萌發(fā)了愛意的愛德華被她的歌聲引入浴室,希望維維安愿意陪他一個星期。)
    Vivian: Don't you just love Prince?
    維維安: 你喜歡聽“王子”的歌嗎?
    Edward: More than life itself.
    愛德華: 比他自己還喜歡。
    Vivian: Don't you knock?
    維維安: 怎么不敲門?
    Edward: Vivian, I have a business proposition for you.
    愛德華: 維維安,我想跟你做個交易。
    Vivian: What do you want?
    維維安: 你想要什么?
    Edward: I'm going to be in town until Sunday like you to spend the week with me.
    愛德華: 我將呆在這里直到星期天,我想要你陪我一個星期。
    Vivian: Me?
    維維安: 我嗎?
    Edward: Yes, best like to hire you as my employee【職員】. Would you consider spending this week with me?
    愛德華: 是的,就象雇傭你為我的職員一樣,你愿意考慮陪我一個星期嗎?
    Vivian: (Laugh)
    維維安: (笑)
    Edward: I'll pay you to be my becking-call.
    愛德華: 我會付錢給你,只要你隨傳隨到。
    Vivian: I'd like to be your becking-call girl, but you are a rich good-looking guy. You could get a million girls free.
    維維安: 我愿意做你隨傳隨到的女孩,但你是個有錢的帥哥,你可以免費(fèi)叫到一百萬個女孩陪你。
    Edward: I want a professional. Don't need any romantic hassles this week.
    愛德華: 我想要個專業(yè)級的,在這個星期,我不想狗屎般度過。
    Vivian: If you are talking twenty-four hours a day, it's gonna cost ya!
    維維安: 你是說一天二十四個小時,這需要很多錢的!
    Edward: Yes, of course. All right here we go. Give me a ball-park figure, how much?
    愛德華: 是的,當(dāng)然。好吧,我們談?wù)劇D隳懿荒艽致缘挠嬎阋幌?,多少錢?
    Vivian: Six for nights, days too, four thousand.
    維維安: 六天六夜,四千美元。
    Edward: Six nights say three hundred is eighteen hundred.
    愛德華: 六個晚上,一晚三百,那就是一千八百美元。
    Vivian: You want days too.
    維維安: 白天你也要。
    Edward: Two thousand.
    愛德華: 兩千美元。
    Vivian: Three thousand.
    維維安: 三千。
    Edward: Done.
    愛德華: 成交。
    Vivian: Holy shit!
    維維安: 太好了!