影片对白
Le Chiffre: Anyone wants to play poker now? Someone is in a hurry.
Bond: Would you excuse me? You taste nice.
Lynd: I thought we dispense our covers.
Bond: No, we dispense the one with no use and create another it is. Is he watching?
Mathis: Yes. Good.
Lynd: This is me in character pissed off because you're losing so fast, we wouldn't be able pass mid night. I think my character's feeling mirrors my own.
Bond: You know that's not half bad. I am gonna have to think of a name for that. It was worth it, to discover his tell.
Mathis: What do you mean?
Bond: The twitch he has to hide when he bluffs.
Lynd: Bluffs? He has the best hand?
Bond: Which he got on the last card, the odds against was 22:1 and he knew that. When he did his first raise, he had nothing. Winning was blind luck. You get the bug?
Mathis: Yes.
Bond: Thank you.
Mathis: Maybe he can actually pull this off.
妙语佳句，活学活用
1. In character
这个片语的意思是"in harmony with one's personal character or disposition与某人的特性或行为相符的"，例如：Her failure to answer the invitation was completely in character.
In character 还可以表示"（演员）符合角色的"，例如：an actor in character
In character 的反义词是 out of character，意思是"与某人特性或行为不相符的"，例如：It was out of character for him to refuse the assignment.
2. I think my character's feeling mirrors my own.
Bond 和Lynd 是以假身份作掩护的。Lynd的意思是"她真的生气了，她扮演的这个角色也生气了"。
3. Not half bad
这个片语也写作not bad, not so / too bad, not too shabby，意思是"Fairly good"，例如：The movie wasn't half bad, but Jerry wanted to go home.
4.The odds against was 22:1
Odds 这里表示"机会"，这句话的意思是"赢的几率"是二十二分之一。
5. Raise
在游戏中，raise 指"增加赌注，加注超过他人" 或者"加叫：增加（某人的桥牌对家）的叫牌"。
6. Blind luck
"纯粹的运气"。Where the person who has the luck doesn't do anything to make it happen, but just gets lucky without doing anything to help it along.
文化面面观
James Bond 之父--Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 - August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Naval Officer. He is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. Additionally, Fleming wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two non-fiction books.
Ian Fleming was born in Mayfair, London, to Valentine Fleming, a Member of Parliament, and his wife Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming (née Rose). Ian was the younger brother of travel writer Peter Fleming and the older brother of Michael and Richard Fleming (1910-77). He also had an illegitimate half-sister, the cellist Amaryllis Fleming. He was the grandson of Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. (since 2000 part of JP Morgan Chase). The actor Christopher Lee is his cousin, and actress Dame Celia Johnson is his sister-in-law (wife of his brother Peter).
Fleming was educated at Durnford School in Dorset, Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He won the Victor Ludorum at Eton two years running, something that had only been achieved once before him. He found Sandhurst to be uncongenial, and after an early departure from there, his mother sent him to study languages on the continent. He first went to a small private establishment in Kitzbühel, Austria run by the Adlerian disciples Ernan Forbes Dennis and his American wife, the novelist Phyllis Bottome, to improve his German and prepare him for the Foreign Office exams, then to Munich University, and, finally, to the University of Geneva to improve his French. He was unsuccessful in his application to join the Foreign Office, and subsequently worked as a sub-editor and journalist for the Reuters news service, including time in 1933 in Moscow, and then as a stockbroker with Rowe and Pitman, in Bishopsgate. He was a member of Boodle's the gentleman's club in St. James's Street, from 1944 until his death in 1964.
His marriage in Jamaica in 1952 to Anne Charteris, daughter of Lord Wemyss and former wife of Viscount Rothermere, was witnessed by his friend, playwright Noel Coward.
World War II
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Fleming's commissioned impression of 007 used as an example to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. |
Writing career
As the DNI's personal assistant, Fleming's intelligence work provided the background for his spy novels. In 1953, he published his first novel, Casino Royale. In it he introduced secret agent James Bond, also famously known by his code number, 007, which indicates that he has a licence to kill. Bond appears with the beautiful heroine Vesper Lynd, who was modelled on SOE agent Christine Granville. Ideas for his characters and settings for Bond came from his time at Boodle's. Blade's, M's club (at which Bond is an occasional guest), is partially modelled on Boodle's and the name of Bond's arch enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, was based on a fellow member's name.
Initially Fleming's Bond novels were not bestsellers in America, but when President John F. Kennedy included From Russia With Love on a list of his favourite books, sales quickly jumped. Fleming wrote 14 Bond books in all: Casino Royale (1953), Live and Let Die (1954), Moonraker (1955), Diamonds are Forever (1956), From Russia With Love (1957), Dr. No (1958), Goldfinger (1959), For Your Eyes Only (1960), Thunderball (1961), The Spy Who Loved Me (1962), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), You Only Live Twice (1964), The Man With The Golden Gun (1965), and Octopussy/The Living Daylights (1966).
考考你
用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。
1．这样的行为和他的性格不符。
2．今年我们的花园还不错。
3．她继承的遗产助她在社会上成功。
Casino Royale《皇家赌场》（精讲之五）考考你 参考答案
Mr. Bond, we proceed alphabetically. Please be so kind as to enter the password of your choice. Six letters or more.
邦德先生，我们按字母顺序来。请您输入一下您选择的密码。至少六个字母。