D: Hello, Modern English

你好，洋話連篇

A: May I please speak to Jet?

我可以同Jet講話嗎?

D: Speaking, may I ask whose calling?

我就是，請(qǐng)問(wèn)哪位

A: This is Marco, how are you Jet?

我是Marco,你好嗎?

D: I am good, I almost didn't recognize you, you sound so polite on the phone!!

很好，我都沒(méi)聽(tīng)出來(lái)是你，你聽(tīng)起來(lái)好多了

A: Yeah, I am trying to practice what you taught me last time.

是的，我在用上次你教我的東西

D: How was the movie you watched?

你看的片子怎么樣?

A: It was really good! It was a scary movie called *****. By the way that is what I want to talk to you about today.

特好，恐怖片，順便說(shuō)一下，今天我們談?wù)勲娪鞍?/p>

D: No problem what type of things do you want to know?

沒(méi)問(wèn)題，你想知道什么?

A: Well first what is the name of the person who makes the movie?

拍電影的人用英語(yǔ)怎么說(shuō)?

D: That is an interesting question; do you mean the person who films the movie or the person who tells all the actors what to do?

有趣。你是說(shuō)演電影的還是告訴演員們做什么的?

A: Both I guess.

都有

D: Well the person who controls the camera is called the cameraman and the person who tells the actors what to do is called the director.

拿攝像機(jī)的叫cameraman,告訴演員們做什么的叫director

A: Oh that's right I forgot. How do you say it when an actor is in a movie?

是的，那演員們演電影該怎么說(shuō)啊?

D: we usually say the actor is starring in a movie.

我們常用starring這個(gè)詞

A: What are your favorite types of movies Drew?

你最喜歡什么類(lèi)型的片子?

D: My favorite genre of movies is…

我最喜歡的類(lèi)型是。。。。

A: Genre

Genre是什么意思?

D: Genre means type or style, like horror, action, romance, drama or sci-fi…

就是類(lèi)型，比如說(shuō)，恐怖片，動(dòng)作片，愛(ài)情片，感情片，或是科幻

A: sci-fi?

Sci-fi是什么意思?

D: Science fiction, movies about space and the future…but back to the original question, my favorite genre of movies is horror, I like to be scared.

是science fiction的縮寫(xiě)，是關(guān)于宇宙和未來(lái)的，回到剛才的問(wèn)題上，我最喜歡恐怖片，我喜歡被驚嚇

A: Not me, I guess I like romance movies, they are fun to watch with my girlfriend, but I guess I like all types of movies, I own maybe a hundred.

我可不喜歡，我最喜歡愛(ài)情片，和女朋友一起看最好了。我喜歡所有的類(lèi)型，我有一百多部片子

D: You're quite the movie buff aren't you Allan?

你是徹底的影迷，是嗎?

A: What does that mean?

什么意思?

D: It means you know a lot about movies and you have seen quite a large number of them.

就是說(shuō)你很懂電影并且看過(guò)很多片子

A: That's me!!

是的

D: What is your favorite movie Allan?

最喜歡看哪部片子?

A: It is sleepless in Seattle, have you seen it?

西亞圖不眠夜，看過(guò)嗎?

D: No I haven't, but I think I will go rent it tonight!

沒(méi)有，不過(guò)今晚我要去祖一部來(lái)看看

A：I'll give it 2 thumbs up.

我給它打滿分

D: Well, yeah! Hey Allan I have to run, I'll talk to you tomorrow.

是的，嘿，Allan,我得走了，明天再聊吧

解釋{1}作為名詞，star表示星星，電影明星用英語(yǔ)講就是movie star.作為動(dòng)詞時(shí)它表示演電影，類(lèi)似的說(shuō)法還有who played the role?{2}genre，這是一個(gè)法語(yǔ)詞，在國(guó)外，人們用它來(lái)表示電影類(lèi)型，當(dāng)然我們也可以用type，可是，入鄉(xiāng)隨俗。讓自己聽(tīng)起來(lái)更地道。通常的電影類(lèi)型包括sci-fi科幻，romance,愛(ài)情片action,動(dòng)作片，horror恐怖片, drama,情感片chick flick浪漫喜劇片, indie獨(dú)立制作片和blue movies黃色電影等{3}movie buff表示影迷，也可以說(shuō)成movie fan{4}在西方，碟片很貴，難怪老外們通常都會(huì)租片子看{5}2 thumbs up表示電影很棒，如果不好的話，就說(shuō)2 thumbs down.