Jewish refugee movie to be shot in Shanghai

    SHANGHAI, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Schindler' s list producer（制作人） Branko Lustig visited the Jewish Refugees Museum in Shanghai on Friday, announcing his plan to produce a movie about Jewish refugees in Shanghai during the Second World WarWith an investment of 30 to 45 million U. S. Dollars, "The Melanie Violin", a joint¹ work of China and America, will be filmed by the end of this year.
    The movie, which is an adaptation of a novel written by Chinese American writer He Ning, tells stories about a Jewish violinist who fled to Shanghai and fell in love with a Shanghainese woman.
    Dubbed² as the Noah's Ark of the Orient, Shanghai sheltered more than 30,000 Jewish refugees during the Second World War, preventing their being slaughtered³ by the Nazis⁴.
    Today, there are still some Jewish descendants living in Shanghai.
    Being a survivor⁵ from the Auschwitz concentration camp himself, Lustig is grateful to Shanghai.
    "It's very difficult to be a survivor. I know the most," said Lustig, "In the concentration camp, the food was bad. Germans were killing⁶ them (Jews), but here in Shanghai it was different. It was a life here."（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

2 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 slaughtered   

v.屠杀，杀戮，屠宰( slaughter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The invading army slaughtered a lot of people. 侵略军杀了许多人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered. 数百名无辜平民遭残杀。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 Nazis   

n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

6 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。