The Patriot《愛國者》（精講之五）
[ 2007-03-28 18:01 ]
影片對白 To your
mind, what are appropriate levels of hostile attention?
考考你
現學現賣
2. To one's mind
和 in one's opinion 同義，例如：To my mind we have enough money to start building
now.
3. Become of
“Happen to, befall, be the fate of 使遭遇，發生于，變成”的意思，例如：I haven't seen Joe in a
year; what has become of his book?
4. Make way
意思是“讓路”，例如：Make way for the king!
Make way 還表示“給別人讓位”，例如：He resigned to
make way for a younger man.
此外，make way 還表示“發展，進步”，如：Is this enterprise
making way?
Please make way for the wheelchair.
5. Hell
Hell 在這里是個語氣詞，用來加強語氣，如：“Hell no!”。Hell也可以用來表示驚訝，憤怒，厭惡等感情。
文化面面觀
人物：Charles
Cornwallis & William Tavington (Banastre Tarleton)
1. Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess, 1738-1805, English general and
statesman.
 He was commissioned an ensign in the British army in 1756 and
saw service in Europe in the Seven Years War. As a member of Parliament (which
he entered in 1760), he opposed the tax measures that helped bring on the
American Revolution. When the war came, however, he placed himself at the king's
service and was sent (1776) to America. He served under Gen. William Howe at the
battle of Long Island, in the New Jersey campaigns, and at the battle of
Brandywine, acquitting himself with credit in all the engagements. In 1778,
Cornwallis became second in command to Sir Henry Clinton, British commander in
America. Two years later Cornwallis began the fateful Carolina campaign, which
led directly to the Yorktown campaign and the major British defeat that in 1781
ended the fighting. Cornwallis was not held responsible for the disaster and in
1786 became governor-general of India. There he reformed the civil service and
the judiciary and distinguished himself in the campaigns against Tippoo Sahib of
Mysore. He was created a marquess in 1792 and returned to England in 1794. In
1798, Cornwallis was sent to Ireland as viceroy and commander in chief, and he
was stern in repressing the rebellion there in the same year. He worked to
achieve the Act of Union (1800), which initiated the unhappy experiment of
uniting the Irish and British parliaments, but he resigned (1801) with William
Pitt when George III refused to accept Catholic Emancipation. Cornwallis was
then commissioned British minister plenipotentiary and helped to draw up the
Treaty of Amiens (1802), which temporarily halted the war with Napoleonic
France. In 1805 he was again appointed governor-general of India, but he died
two months after his arrival there.
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