Dreamgirls《追梦女郎》（精讲之一）
影片对白

Host: Ladies and gentlemen, the Detroit Theater continues our legendary talent contest with the indefatigable Stepp Sisters!

Stepp Sisters: (singing)
I'm lookin' for something, baby
Something that'll give me a rise
I'm lookin' for something, baby
Like a real nice surprise
I'm lookin' for something, baby
Something that you have got
I'm lookin' for something, baby
And it's gonna be real hot

Marty: Ladies, you can't go. What, what about Jimmy? What about the show?

Woman: Marty, you know I can talk. Now watch me walk.

Marty: Sugar, Jimmy was just being Jimmy. You know he's crazy about you. Just crazy.

Woman: Oh, really? Well, give the crazy man a message from me. Tell him I got his number. His phone number.

Marty: Now, baby...

Woman: At home, where he lives, with his wife. Come on, Joann. We don't have to put up with this shit.

Marty: Shit.

Stepp Sisters: (singing)
I'm lookin' for something, baby
I'm lookin' for something now
I'm lookin' for something, baby
I'm lookin' for something now

Host: The unstoppable Stepp Sisters! Let's hear it! All right now. Won't be long now, y'all. Coming your way is the wildest man in show business, Detroit's own James "Thunder" Early will be kicking off his national tour right here on stage tonight.

Marty: Mercy. Mercy, Mercy. Ladies? Ladies? I've got the break of your lives. The great Jimmy Early is looking for some backup help tonight...

Host: Now I want you to turn it on for Little Albert and the Tru-Tones!

Little Albert and the Tru-Tones: (singing)
Me and my baby goin' downtown
Me and my baby gettin' down tonight

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. Be crazy about someone / something

这是一个常见的片语，意思是"对……疯狂地迷恋"，也写作be mad about。例如：I'm crazy about lobster.

2. Kick off

这个片语的意思是"开始"，起源于球类比赛中的"开球"，后引申为"开始"。我们来看个例子：They kicked off the celebration with a parade.

3. Get down

Get down 在这里的意思是"to relax and enjoy oneself completely 彻底放松，休息"，例如：At our reunion we got down with all our old friends.

Get down 还常常用来表示"to depress; discourage; fatigue 沮丧"，例如：Nothing gets me down so much as a rainy day.

影片简介

Dreamgirls 追梦女郎——梦与现实

Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical film jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements beginning December 15, 2006, with a nationwide release on December 25, 2006 and an upcoming home video release on May 1, 2007. Dreamgirls won three awards at the 64th Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 2007, including Best Picture - Musical or Comedy, and won two Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards.

A period piece set in the 1960s and 1970s with a primarily African-American cast, Dreamgirls is adapted from the 1981 Broadway musical of the same name. The musical was loosely based upon the history and evolution of American R&B music during the eras of doo-wop, soul, the Motown Sound, funk, and disco. Onstage, Dreamgirls contained several allusions to the lives and careers of Motown Records act The Supremes, a connection the film version expands upon. Dreamgirls follows the lives of three women - Effie White, Deena Jones, and Lorrell Robinson - who, as members of an R&B singing group called "The Dreamettes," become famous as the backing group for soul singer James "Thunder" Early, thanks to manipulative manager and record label executive Curtis Taylor, Jr. Conflict arises when Curtis desires to transform the Dreamettes into "The Dreams," a pop-friendly act, particularly when he has Deena replace Effie, as both lead singer of the group and as his romantic interest.

The film adaptation of Dreamgirls, which had been in development at various times during the 1980s and 1990s, stars Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, and Eddie Murphy. The film also features Danny Glover, Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal, and Hinton Battle. Produced by Laurence Mark, Dreamgirls was written and directed for the screen by Bill Condon, screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Chicago, working from the original Broadway book by Tom Eyen and the Broadway songs by Eyen and Henry Krieger. Jennifer Hudson, an American Idol alumnus who made her film debut in Dreamgirls, won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Effie White.

考考你

用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1. 乔治对他的新萨克斯风爱不释手。


2. 明晚的集会标志着比赛的开始。


3. 别为玛丽的烦心事沮丧。


The Departed《无间道风云》（精讲之六） 考考你 参考答案

1. 我希望你能和你的儿子讲讲理。
I wish you'd talk some sense into that son of yours.

2．我等不及要见见我的女儿了。
I can't wait to see my daughter.