看《悲惨世界》学地道口语：现在应该是新故事的开始

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        【内容简介】
        电影版《悲惨世界》上映了，不得不说演员们的演技十分到位，一举一动都令人深陷其中。贫苦的冉·阿让（休·杰克曼 Hugh Jackman 饰）为了挨饿的孩子去偷面包，结果被判处19年的苦役。选段中，出狱后走投无路的他偷走了收留他过夜的主教的银器潜逃，被警察捉回。主教声称银器是送给他的，使他免于被捕。主教的言行感化了他，他化名马德兰，从此洗心革面奋发向上开始新生活。
        【选段台词】
        Messieurs: Get in there. Put it down. Stay there. Monsignor, we have your silver. We caught this man red handed. Het the nerve to say you gave him these.
        Monsignor: That is right! But my friend, you left so early! Surely some thing slipped your mind. You forgot I gave these also. Would you leave the best behind? Messieurs, release him. This man has spoken true. I commend you for your duty. Now God's blessing go with you.But remember this, my brother. See in this some higher plan. You must use this precious silver, to become an honest man. By the witness of the martyrs, by the passion and the blood, God has raised you out of darkness, I have saved your soul for God!
        Jean Valjean：What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done? Become a thief in the night! Become a dog on the run! And have I fallen so far, and is the hour so late. That nothing remains, but the cry of my hate? The cries in the dark that nobody hears! Here where I stand at the turning of the years?
        If there's another way to go, I missed it 20 long years ago. My life was a war that could never be won. They gave me a number and murdered Valjean. Just for stealing a mouthful of bread! Yet why did I allow this man. To touch my soul and teach me love? He treated me like any other. He gave me his trust, he called me brother. My life he claims for God above.
        Can such things be? For I had come to hate the world, This world that always hated me!  Take an eye for an eye! Turn your heart into stone! This is all I have lived for! This is all I have known! One word from him and I'd be back! Beneath the lash, upon the rack. Instead he offers me my freedom! I feel my shame inside me like a knife. He told me that I have a soul. How does he know?
        What spirit comes to move my life? Is there another way to go? I am reaching, but I fall, And the night is closing in. As I stare into the void, To the whirl pool of my sin. I'll escape now from that world, From the world of Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!

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        【重点词汇】
        1. catch sb. red handed
        当Jean Valjean被警察抓回，因为他偷了主教的银器时，主教声称这是送他的。句子 ：“We caught this man red handed.” 中的“catch sb. red handed”的意思为“当场将……人赃并获”。善良的主教告诉他要做一个诚实的人，于是Jean Valjean准备洗心革面。
        2. slip one's mind
        当Jean Valjean被警察抓回时，主教为了为他掩饰，承认了是他送给Jean Valjean银器的。“这是真的，但是我的朋友，你离开得太早了，肯定有些事情你一下没想起来。” “slip one's mind”本意为“从脑海中滑落”，“一般是指没想起来”，“疏忽了”，“大意忘记了”。
        3. a mouthful of sth.
        当Jean Valjean在被警察放了之后，他开始忏悔，“上帝啊，我做了什么？我的人生就是一场永无停息的战争，他们要杀了我，仅仅因为我偷了一口面包！” “a mouthful of”作为量词，可以形象地表达“一口”。
        4. close in
        Jean Valjean为自己的错事感到后悔，十分感谢主教的帮助，但是同时又愤懑世道不公。“他告诉我我有灵魂，他怎么知道？我有别的路可走吗？什么才能改变我的生活？我在向这条改变生活的路前进，但是我失败了，而黑暗在迫近。现在应该是新的生活新的故事开始的时候了。” “close in” 意为“迫近”，“接近”。