Neil Armstrong (Astronaut): That's one
small step for man, are giant leaps for mankind...
Forrest: I thought I was going back to Vietnam but instead they decided the
best way for me to fight the communists was to play ping pong. So I was in the
special services, traveling around the country, cheering up all those wounded
veterans and showin' how to play ping pong. I was so good that some years later,
the army decide that I should be on the All-American Ping Pong Team. I was the
first American to visit the land of China in like a million years or something
like that. Somebody said would peace is in our hands. But all I did was play
ping pong. When I got home, I was a national celebrity. Famous even than
Captain kangaroo.
TV Host: Here he is, Forrest Gump, right here. Forrest Gump, John Lennon.
John: Welcome home.
TV Host: Can you tell us, what was China like?
Forrest: In the land of China. People hardly got nothin'at all.
John: No possessions?
Forrest: And in China, they never go to church.
John: No religion, too.
TV Host: Wow. It's hard to imagine.
John: Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.
Forrest: Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way
home to see his little boy, and was signing some autographs, for no particular
reason at all, somebody shot him.
妙詞佳句,活學(xué)活用
1.That's one small step for man, are giant leaps for
mankind...:阿姆斯特朗登月時(shí)說(shuō)的第一句話,標(biāo)志人類里程碑的這句話意思是指他邁出的這一小步卻是人類的一個(gè)巨大飛躍.
2.Captain
kangaroo:當(dāng)時(shí)一個(gè)非常出名的電視節(jié)目,其實(shí)這種說(shuō)法也是在告訴我們當(dāng)時(shí)的年代。在1985年后這個(gè)節(jié)目就停播了。但這種表達(dá)我們也可以借鑒,如果你想說(shuō)自己很出名,就可以說(shuō)I
am even famous than 后面加一個(gè)當(dāng)時(shí)很流行的事物。
Commander of the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar mission, Neil Armstrong was the first
person to walk on the moon. An aeronautical pioneer, Armstrong also took part in
the first in-space docking of two vehicles. He was the first civilian to enter
NASA's astronaut program.
Mao Zetong shook
hands with Richard Nixon
Nixon Visits China
Chinese leader Mao Zedong, left, greets United States president
Richard Nixon in February 1972. Nixon's visit to China improved relations
between the two countries and helped reestablish trade that had ceased two
decades earlier.
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono
John Lennon and Yoko
Ono
British musician John Lennon originally gained fame for his singing and
songwriting with the Beatles during the 1960s. After the breakup of the band in
1970, he pursued a solo career, writing and performing songs that advocated
peace. He is pictured here with his wife, Japanese conceptual artist Yoko Ono.
Together they produced experimental music and conceptual art.
Let It Be The recording of the Beatles' album
Let It Be began in January 1969 and became the Beatles' last album.