时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(九)月


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The Charlestown section of Boston is steeped in Early American history. Its landmarks 1 include the monument to the Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill. Paul Revere 2 began his famous "midnight ride" on its the cobblestone streets. But the recent history of The Town is more about midnight raids against organized crime and a rash of armed robberies.


Doug, the leader of a notorious bank crew, starts getting second thoughts when their latest job runs into a snag and they take the bank manager hostage. Claire is her name and they release her unharmed, but under the guise 3 of making sure their identities are safe, Doug finds and gets to know Claire.


He isn't supposed to fall in love with her, but he does and decides it is time to quit his life of crime. That is not what his buddies 4 want to hear and they force him to pull one last heist.


 


 

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(L-r) JEREMY RENNER as Jem Coughlin and BEN AFFLECK as Doug MacRay in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary 5 Pictures' crime drama "The Town," distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Ben Affleck stars as Doug and also directed the film. He says he found the dual 6 role daunting 7.


"It was really challenging to do both," admits Affleck. "I'm still new to directing and I need a lot of time to focus on my directing. Acting 8 takes time away from that. It was a hard thing. I hoped I would be up to it."


"You and your boys didn't just roll a Star Market over in Milton for a box of quarters. No, you decided 9 to bang it out in the north end at nine o'clock in the morning with assault rifles. You dummies 10 shot a guard. Now you're like a half-off sale at "Big and Tall." Every cop is in line."


Jon Hamm, star of the hit TV series Mad Men, plays the FBI agent determined 11 to track down and stop Doug's gang. Although the crime investigation 12 bureau did not officially support the film, Hamm says agents and officers on their own time did help him get his portrayal 13 right:


 


 

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JON HAMM as FBI Special Agent Adam Frawley in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' crime drama "The Town," distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

"Researching the character, it was a tremendous advantage to be able to hang out and talk to several of the law enforcement officials in Boston at the Federal, state and local level," notes Hamm. "They do amazing work. There are a lot of robberies in Boston and a lot of them get solved because of the hard work by these guys. So it was nice to see from the inside how clear their objective is. Their job is to stop bad people from doing bad things. They are very clear on that, so that was very helpful to me."


As audacious as the gang seems to be, their exploits are drawn 14 from real police accounts of robberies in the script adapted from the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan.


 


 

Claire Folger

(L-r) BEN AFFLECK as Doug MacRay and JEREMY RENNER as Jem Coughlin in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' crime drama "The Town," distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

"There was an article in the local paper, the Boston Globe, that said that the FBI said there are more armored car robberies coming from Charlestown than from anywhere else," explains Hogan. "Living in the [Boston] area I was kind of aware of that reputation for robbery, but to see it spelled out like that really tripped something in me. That was really the starting point back in 1995 when I started to think about it."


Even so, star and director Affleck says The Town taps into a long tradition of films about cops and robbers.


"The fact that there are a lot of movies in this genre 15 points to the fact that it is very tricky 16 to do," Affleck says. "You don't change the genre. You can retell those things over and over again, so the danger is the audience is going to feel it's a little predictable; but those movies stand as reminders 17 that even with following the same genre conventions you can do something special, so that's what we were trying to do."


"I'll see you again ...this side or the other."


 


 Claire Folger

REBECCA HALL as Claire Keesey in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' crime drama "The Town," distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The Town also features Rebecca Hall as Claire, the woman who gives bank robber Doug a reason to go straight. Jeremy Renner co-stars as Doug's best friend and partner-in-crime Jem. Blake Lively is Jem's sister who also is in love with Doug; and Chris Cooper is Doug's estranged 18 father serving a long prison sentence for just the sort of crimes his son now commits. The cast and filmmakers spoke 19 about The Town when it premiered in September at the Toronto International Film Festival.

 



n.陆标( landmark的名词复数 );目标;(标志重要阶段的)里程碑 ~ (in sth);有历史意义的建筑物(或遗址)
  • The book stands out as one of the notable landmarks in the progress of modern science. 这部著作是现代科学发展史上著名的里程碑之一。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The baby was one of the big landmarks in our relationship. 孩子的出世是我们俩关系中的一个重要转折点。 来自辞典例句
vt.尊崇,崇敬,敬畏
  • Students revere the old professors.学生们十分尊敬那些老教授。
  • The Chinese revered corn as a gift from heaven.中国人将谷物奉为上天的恩赐。
n.外表,伪装的姿态
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors.他们假装成视察员进了学校。
  • The thief came into the house under the guise of a repairman.那小偷扮成个修理匠进了屋子。
n.密友( buddy的名词复数 );同伴;弟兄;(用于称呼男子,常带怒气)家伙v.(如密友、战友、伙伴、弟兄般)交往( buddy的第三人称单数 );做朋友;亲近(…);伴护艾滋病人
  • We became great buddies. 我们成了非常好的朋友。 来自辞典例句
  • The two of them have become great buddies. 他们俩成了要好的朋友。 来自辞典例句
adj.传奇(中)的,闻名遐迩的;n.传奇(文学)
  • Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
  • Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。
adj.双的;二重的,二元的
  • The people's Republic of China does not recognize dual nationality for any Chinese national.中华人民共和国不承认中国公民具有双重国籍。
  • He has dual role as composer and conductor.他兼作曲家及指挥的双重身分。
adj.使人畏缩的
  • They were faced with the daunting task of restoring the house.他们面临着修复房子的艰巨任务。
  • Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.开始一项新工作有时会让人望而却步。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.仿制品( dummy的名词复数 );橡皮奶头;笨蛋;假传球
  • If he dummies up, just try a little persuasion. 如果他不说话,稍微劝劝他就是了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All the articles in the window are dummies. 橱窗里的全部物品都是仿制品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
n.饰演;描画
  • His novel is a vivid portrayal of life in a mining community.他的小说生动地描绘了矿区的生活。
  • The portrayal of the characters in the novel is lifelike.该书中的人物写得有血有肉。
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
n.(文学、艺术等的)类型,体裁,风格
  • My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
  • Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看, 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。
adj.狡猾的,奸诈的;(工作等)棘手的,微妙的
  • I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手,你能帮我吗?
  • He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题,只做了个笼统的表述。
n.令人回忆起…的东西( reminder的名词复数 );提醒…的东西;(告知该做某事的)通知单;提示信
  • The film evokes chilling reminders of the war. 这部电影使人们回忆起战争的可怕场景。
  • The strike has delayed the mailing of tax reminders. 罢工耽搁了催税单的投寄。
adj.疏远的,分离的
  • He became estranged from his family after the argument.那场争吵后他便与家人疏远了。
  • The argument estranged him from his brother.争吵使他同他的兄弟之间的关系疏远了。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
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aeroball system
agreement on
all legs and wings
allegrissimo
alnus veridis crispas
angelicic acid
artificial breeding
aston bay
automated merchant vessel rescue system
bay barrier
be employed
ben lomond mount
Berle,Milton
Bidzina
black saltwort
blind flying
bubbe meise
Buffalo Bill
busy idleness
Cammett table
cellar lid pin
certificate of of re-export
chiu shao chih wu chui chaot'u
clutch releasefinger
cubital supplement
cyanizes
dark-field microscopes
demagnetizing component
detective novels
disquisitively
distorted change
duple time
emelyn
epididymal duct
fabric cutting machine
file encoding characters
first epistle of paul the apostle to timothies
footprint identification
gas thrust bearing
general continuum hyperthesis
goatburgers
haida gwaii (queen charlotte is.)
hargaash
high field electroluminescence
ilastical
input segment space
intrinsic q
inverse hyperbolic functions
invertases
IP multicast IP
Kesint
lean mix
make versus buy decision
man-induced event
Maradi
mefenamic
mooch off
mudbanks
network primary distribution system
pelobatids
periodic network of 3-connected points
phase contours
phonestheme patterning
pinoleum
postern
protectingly
research aerodynamicist
resonance monochrometer
resurrection men
round-bottomeds
Samantha Eggar
sandry
sarcoadenoma
semidominant diagonal
set-on
shell fine tooth face milling cutter
shock absorbing spring for vehicle
sororal
string sth out
strongylocentrotus
tanks left flank
Thyregod
tooth mesh leakage
total annual cost
treaties of versailles
trombiculid
twin-tube heater
unicellular plastics
unsieved
urethro-vaginal septum
us banknote
valve burning
valvular regurgitation
venturiella
vertical ejector rack
virgina
volumetric hopper
wiseass
xiphoid angles
zeaxanthin(e)
zinc sulfite