在本课的短剧中,我们将会听到三个场景:
1)一个年轻男孩,在骑车上班的路上,不小心撞上了一位女孩。男孩子赶着上班,看女孩伤势不大,于是急着想赶到单位开会;但女孩还是受了轻伤,男孩见状,给单位打电话请了假;
2)女孩没有大碍。但是男孩依旧觉得抱歉,于是主动请女孩晚上吃饭,就这样,他们相识了,恋爱了;
3)女孩Veronica在给男孩Steven打电话,她在餐厅等男孩吃饭,可是男孩迟迟未到,依旧还在工作。女孩觉得男孩子心里只有工作,没有自己,也不愿听男孩过多解释,她觉得自己应该 “take a break”…
对了,你们能猜出来,男孩的工作是什么吗?他们分手了吗?
【刘博士英语知识介绍】:什么是Romance?它和浪漫真的关系不大。
中文将这一外来词语翻译成“浪漫史,爱情关系”等等。这一定义截取了英语Romance的一部分近代史的部分定义,然后将其国产化了。正因如此,我们在中文语境很难理解Romance这一词所演化出来的欧洲语言体系,文学体裁和哲学分支。
英语Romance一词来源于法语(Romanz),以其为代表的最早的文学体裁大致源于中世纪的13-14世纪。
Romance 的中心词 是“Roman”,是的,是罗马人。虽说罗马帝国在公元5世纪正式灭亡,但是就如同罗马攻占了希腊,但希腊语却在罗马帝国早期攻占了罗马一样,罗马帝国陨落以后,作为罗马帝国后期发展起来的自己的语言—拉丁语,却占领了欧洲上千年,一直到18世纪-19世纪。
我们虽然说Romance一词来源于法语(Romanz),但是13-14世纪的法语,其实也被认为是源于拉丁语的法国民间语言而已。
欧洲的许多语言今天被称之为罗曼语系,所谓罗曼语系,就是由拉丁语的口头语为原型发展而来的。
南欧的一些主要国家语言,包括法语、西班牙语、葡萄牙语、意大利语和罗马尼亚语等,均属于罗曼语系。
正因如此,早期的romance,通常指的就是用罗曼语言(如用法语)写的民间故事。
法语旧语(Romanz)含义大致是“口头叙述”,“民间语言”,其相对的是当时作为官话的拉丁语。从其文学内容体裁来看,早期的Romanz 主要是“口头或是书面讲述的骑士和英雄故事”,其主题主要以冒险、精神探索、展示勇敢和英雄的价值观等,爱情也是故事的内容之一。
Romanticism:中文翻译成“浪漫主义运动”。
而在欧洲思想史中,Romanticism 是一种知识理性的批判运动。
它出现于18世纪末-19世纪,是启蒙运动(Enlightenment)的姊妹运动,某种程度上也是对强调绝对科学绝对理性的一种纠正。
如果说启蒙运动为现代自然科学的发展奠定了基础(世界是什么?)的话,浪漫主义运动则为现代人文科学的发展奠定了方向(人是什么?)
而浪漫主义文学只是浪漫主义思想在文学领域的一个表现,浪漫主义在广泛的艺术上的表现包括绘画,音乐、诗歌和建筑等。其实一个有意思的现象是,虽然我们并不理解也似乎并不赞同这种作为理性对立面的“浪漫主义运动”,然而西方文学在国内最普遍的引进和最熟悉的名人名著,几乎全部都是西方浪漫主义时期的文学产物。
我就随便举几个例子:
William Wordsworth (威廉·华兹华斯)
John Keats(约翰·济慈)
Lord Byron (拜伦)
Percy Bysshe Shelley(雪莱)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (歌德)
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë (勃朗特三姐妹)
Victor Hugo (雨果)
Aleksandr Pushkin (普希金)
Ludwig van Beethoven (贝多芬)
Franz Schubert (舒伯特)
太多了,不说了。其实我们的民族本来就是一个浪漫的民族。
下面,我们将进入全英语的基础英语内存构建时间,请切换你的语言程序,进入纯英文模式。
刘博士英语学习法的学习方式:
1) 首先阅读文字材料,完全理解对话的书面内容,包括扫除单词障碍和语法障碍,领会对话的含义。
2) 然后开始听音频材料,将书面文字和声音表达进行匹配:即能够看着阅读材料清晰地听出音频内容 (这一步是听清楚的练习。如果可能,可以在有空时试着做听写练习)。
3) 将听力内容从他人的声音信息转化成你的口语声音信息:请一边阅读,一边跟着音频复述,最终,学习者可以流利地将音频内容跟读下来,并同步理解(这一步是练习你的口语表达,也是为了让你形成自己的英语声音内存)。
【Audio Transcript】I’m Sorry , I Love You.
Scene 1:
A: Whoa, whoa, what’s going on? Watch out!
B: Hey, watch where you’re going!
A: Oh, no! I’m so sorry! Are you all right?
B: Oh...I don’t know.
A: I feel terrible, I really didn’t mean to knock you over. My tire, just exploded, and I lost control of my bike. Really, it was an accident. Please accept my apologies.
B: Just let me try to stand up.
[SONG]: Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?
A: Are you okay?
B: Oh, wait a second, you seem really familiar, I think I know you from somewhere.
A: Yeah, That’s right! I think we’ve met somewhere before.
We met at Aaron’s place last weekend! What a coincidence! But anyway, I’m glad to see that you’re not too badly hurt, and I should probably get going. I have a nine o’clock meeting.
But here is my number, call me so we will exchange insurance information.
B: Ouch! My ankle! I think it’s broken! You can’t just leave me like this! Are you calling an ambulance?
A: Nope, I’m canceling my appointment so that I can stay here with you.
<SONG: Do you remember when we met? That’s the day I knew you were my pet. I wanna tell you how much I love you.
Scene II:
A: I’m so relieved that your ankle wasn’t broken! I feel just awful about this whole thing. I wanna make it up to you. Let me take you out to dinner tonight. My treat.
B: That sounds great! I’d love to! Here is my address.
Pick me up at eight?
A: Perfect!
B: Thank you for such a lovely evening! The food was amazing, and I had a great time.
A: Me too. You look so beautiful tonight! I wish this night would never end. There’s something I have to tell you...
B: What is it?
A: I woke up today thinking this would be just like any other ordinary day, but I was wrong. A twist of fate brought us together. I crashed into your life and you into mine, and this may sound crazy, but I’m falling in love with you, Veronica…
Part III:
A: Steven! Where have you been? I’ve been trying to get a hold of you for hours!
B: I... um... there was an emergency at work, so...
A: I was waiting for you in the restaurant for three hours! And you didn’t even have the decency to call me! Do you have any idea how embarrassed I was?
B: Honey, I promise this won’t happen again, it’s just that I...
A: Yeah, right. I’ve heard it all before. I’m not going to take any more of your empty promises. This is the 5th time you’ve stood me up in two weeks!
You need to get your priorities straight. I’m tired of you putting your job first all the time!
B: Come on, Veronica, that’s not fair. I do care about you a lot, you know that. I tried to...
A: You know what? Maybe we should just take a break. I need some time to think about where this relationship is heading.
B: But...Veronica, would you just listen to me? There was a fire alarm at my office building today and I was stuck...
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英语 文学 爱情故事,