J: Hey, Elena! Vm over here!
J:喂,伊莲娜我在这边!
E: Hi, James, been waiting long?
E:你好,詹姆斯,等很久了吧?
J: Nope, just got here.
J:设有。我也是刚刚到的。
E: James, what’s wrong with you? You look a little peaky.
E:詹姆斯,不舒服吗?你脸色看起来有点差啊。
J: It doesn’ t matter. I just had a sleepless night yesterday.
J:没事,我只是昨晚失眠。
E: Sleepless? Why?
E:失眠?为什么?
J: I watched a movie at first. When I went to bed later, I found I couldn’ t stop thinking the story in the movie.
J:开始是看电影,后来躺下就一直在想电影里面的故事情节,怎么也停不下来了。
E: Oh, I see. I always do the same thing. Which movie did you watch? It must be pretty good.
E:哦,明白了。我也总是这样。你看的是哪部影片啊?它一定非常精彩。
J: It was a British romantic comedy film, Four Weddings and a Funeral, making Hugh Grant an overnight international star. Released in 1994, it became the highest-grossing British film to date, with a worldwide box office revenues in excess of $244 million.
J:《四个葬礼与一个婚礼》,这是一部英国浪漫喜剧电影,它使休格兰特一夜红遍全世界。它于 1994年上映后就成为了英国票房最高的电影,迄今为止,该在全球拥有的票房已经超过 2.44亿美元。
E: Four Weddings and a Funerall I have watched this film last year. As I know, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards. It also earned Grant a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor.
E:《四个葬礼与一个婚礼》?我去年就看过这部电影。据我所知,这部影片曾经 两次荣获奧斯卡金像奖提名。而且,格兰特还获得了金球奖最佳表演奖和英 国电影电视艺术学院奖最佳男演员奖。
J: Grant’s performance in the film was perfect. He acted as a debonair but faux pas prone Englishman. It was so funny!
J:格兰特在这部影片中的表演堪称完美。他在里面扮演成一个乐观,但是却经 常出丑的英国人。太有趣了!
E: I agree with you. However, the entirety of Grant’s mainstream movie is almost romantic comedy. It seems that he has stuck to the genre of comedy.
E:我同意你的说法。但是,格兰特的全部主流电影基本上都是浪漫喜剧。好像 他被定格在了喜剧风格上。
J: Really? What other comedies have you watched?
J:是吗?你还看过他演的什么喜剧电影?
E: A great many! For example, Sirens, Sense and Sensibility, Nine Months, Extreme Measures, Notting Hill, and so on. Netting Hill is the most famous among them, which is a romantic comedy acted by Grant and Julia Roberts, a world known American actress.
E:很多啊!像《相约在今生》、