Betty Warren: All her life she had wanted to teach at Wellesley College. So when a position opened in the Art History department, she pursued it single-mindedly until she was hired. It was whispered that Katherine Watson, a first year teacher from Oakland State, made up in brains what she lacked inpedigree, which was why this Bohemian from California was on her way to the most conservative college in the nation...
Katherine Watson: Excuse me, the bus?
Train Attendant: Keep walking, ma'am.
Katherine: Thank you.
Betty: ...ButKatherine Watson didn't come to Wellesley to fit in. She came to Wellesley because she wanted to make a difference.
Bill Dunbar: Violet.
Violet: My favorite Italian professor.
Bill: Nice summer?
Violet:Terrific! Thanks!
Bill: Who's that over there?
Violet: Where? Oh, Katherine Watson, new teacher, Art History.I'm dying to meet her.
President: Who knocks at the door of Learning?
Joan Brandwyn: I am every Woman.
President: What do you seek?
Joan: To awaken my spirit through hard work and dedicate my life to knowledge.
President: Then you are Welcome. All women who seek to follow you can enter here. I now declare the academic year begun.
妙詞佳句，活學(xué)活用
1. pedigree
這是一個相對比較正式的單詞，意思一般是“出身；家族；血統(tǒng)；門第”等。當(dāng)然在指動物時(shí)一般是指“純種”。這種詞在題材相對嚴(yán)肅的影片中比較容易遇到。給大家舉幾個例子以便更容易記住它：
1） A penniless lass with a long pedigree and a sweet face, she had been raised by a scheming aunt to find a million dollars and marry it.
這位小姑娘雖然一貧如洗，卻是世家出身，由姑母撫養(yǎng)大，長得俏麗動人。這位長輩頗有心計(jì)，一心想讓侄女嫁個百萬富翁。
2）He comes from a family of pedigree.
他出身名門。
Betty Warren: All her life she had wanted to teach at Wellesley College. So when a position opened in the Art History department, she pursued it single-mindedly until she was hired. It was whispered that Katherine Watson, a first year teacher from Oakland State, made up in brains what she lacked inpedigree, which was why this Bohemian from California was on her way to the most conservative college in the nation...