icansay英语学习电子杂志

　出版日期:2003年11月16日　　第三期试刊　　

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1.本周的 "Speak Up" Story
第一步：听本周时文
 第二步：开口说答案
 第三步：进一步提高表达能力

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本周的 "Speak Up" Story

It was a global revolution
骇客风暴席卷中国

It was a global "revolution".

Neophiles (Neo的影迷，“Neo”即片中男主角，词根“phile”来源于法语，解释为“对…有强烈感情”，合在一起“Neo-philes”成了现今好莱坞对黑客帝国影迷的代名词--编者注) showed up in droves for the worldwide release of The Matrix Revolutions. Tens of thousands of Chinese neophiles watched the premier of "The Matrix: Revolutions" on Wednesday night, along with Matrix fans in 80 countries and regions all over the world.

The “Revolution” started Wednesday on an 18,013 screens at 10,013 theaters in 107 territories, the largest ever.

While the final installment of the man-versus-machine epic starring Keanu Reeves wasn't quite the One with critics, Matrix fans still set their watches to see whether Zion gets saved.

Warner Bros. spent upward of $100 million to orchestrate Revolutions' debut, which began at the exact same moment around the globe--what the studio hyped as "zero hour"--6 a.m. in Los Angeles, 9 a.m. in New York, 2 p.m. in London, 5 p.m. in Moscow, and 11 p.m. in Tokyo.

In Beijing, the movie made its debut at 12 cinemas in the evening at 10:00 pm. Tickets were sold as high as 80 Yuan, or nearly 10 US dollars.

Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations, called the synchronized release a smart move.

"The global release strategy is a good one. It really prevents piracy," Dergarabedian tells E! Online. "It takes the value out of these pirated DVDs or videos if everyone in the whole world can get the movie at the same time in the theater."

HELP BOX
premier
[n] 首映式
final installment
指本电影系列最后一部
critics
[n] 评论家
orchestrate
[v] 精心安排
debut
[n] 初次登台
hype
[v] 宣传造势
synchronized
[adj] 同时发生的
piracy
[n] 盗版行为

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第一步：听本周时文

请按下播放按钮，确认你的计算机处于联网状态，然后仔细听英文原文。语速很慢，不要担心有生词，让自己处于放松状态，尽量理解和记忆。

如果您看不见播放器界面请点击此处。

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第二步：开口说答案

听完了？感觉怎么样？如果有理解模糊的地方不要轻易放弃，先试着回答一下简单的问题：

问题一：

What did the Chinese film fans do on Wednesday night?

凭记忆试着回答一下这个问题。对自己的回答满意吗？

来听听原文的回答吧：

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问题二：

接着来一个稍难的问题：

Do the critics like Keanu Reeves, who acted Neo in the film?

原文的回答:

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问题三：

最后来迎接一下挑战：

Why the global release strategy effectively prevented piracy(盗版)?

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怎么样？并不象想象地那么简单吧。那时因为英语对中国人来说是第二外语，并不会像母语那样本能反应，我们的注意力被分散在记忆和理解之间，语速再慢也会有理解偏差。记忆力人各不同，在语言学习过程中，我们要做到的是提高理解的效率和准确性。

如果觉得自己表达还不理想，请再模仿一下原文的回答，让准确、简洁高效地回答成为自己的本能。

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第三步：进一步提高表达能力

接下来分析几个本文的闪光句型，争取在最近的英语对话中多多采用:

[certain groups of people] showed up in droves for [some place] : 趋之若鹜

... is wasn't quite the one with sb: ...并不得某人得赏识

... set their watches to see sth happen: 翘首企盼某事的发生（很口语化，但却很形象的表达方式）

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"Show Off"专栏

本周的"Killer Sentence"：

Foreigner: Hey, Wang, do you have the D-Copy of the newly realsed film: "The Matrix: Revolutions"?

Xiao Wang: Are you kidding? The global release strategy of the film takes the value out of these pirated DVDs or videos. Together with other people across the world, we watched the movie at the same time in the theater.

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