影视听力 第45期: Charlie Wilson's War 查理的战争

风流倜傥的国会议员，休斯顿的社交名流和离经叛道的CIA特工，三人的通力合作，扭转了阿富汗对苏联战争的格局。

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Charlie Wilson's War is a new film directed by Mike Nichols from a script by Aaron Sorkin, adapted from an intriguing¹ best-seller, a true story by the late George Crile. It stars Tom Hanks as Charlie Wilson, a Texas congressman² who gets involved in the war against The Soviet³ Union in Afghanistan. His unlikely allies in this cause are a Texas socialite played with great blonde glamour⁴ by Julia Roberts.

And a kind of hangdog angry marginal CIA operative played wonderfully by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who's just all over the place this year, and has not given a bad performance in a very long time, if ever.

Now this movie is a lot of fun. There have been a lot of movies coming out recently about the war in Iraq, the war on terrorism, the Middle East and may all take a very somber⁵ grim view of the world, which is perfectly⁶ understandable.

The brilliance⁷ of Charlie Wilson's War is that it understands, I think thanks to Mike Nichols' and Aaron Sorkin's insights and ways of thinking about the role that politics and this is a political movie, a movie about politics. Politics is really a comic kind of a ridiculous undertaking⁸ even when the stakes are very very serious, as they are here.

So what we have is a lot of contradictory⁹ and wonderfully absurd figures working together in a very noble cause. You have Charlie Wilson, a liberal democrat¹⁰, a staunch anti-communist but mostly just a playboy and a womanizer and a drinker and a good time guy. One of his lovers happens to be Joanne Herring and together they somehow get mixed up in all of this intrigue¹¹ that ends up contributing a great deal to the collapse¹² of the Soviet Union. And in its way this movie is really a celebration of the American spirit. It's not just that we’re the good guys better than anyone else in the world, but it maybe that our great advantage in fighting communism and now perhaps in fighting terrorism is that we know how to have a good time.

1 intriguing   

adj.有趣的；迷人的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的现在分词)；激起…的好奇心

参考例句：

• These discoveries raise intriguing questions. 这些发现带来了非常有趣的问题。
• It all sounds very intriguing. 这些听起来都很有趣。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

3 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

4 glamour   

n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住

参考例句：

• Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
• The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

5 somber   

adj.昏暗的，阴天的，阴森的，忧郁的

参考例句：

• He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
• His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。

6 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

7 brilliance   

n.光辉，辉煌，壮丽，（卓越的）才华，才智

参考例句：

• I was totally amazed by the brilliance of her paintings.她的绘画才能令我惊歎不已。
• The gorgeous costume added to the brilliance of the dance.华丽的服装使舞蹈更加光彩夺目。

8 undertaking   

n.保证，许诺，事业

参考例句：

• He gave her an undertaking that he would pay the money back with in a year.他向她做了一年内还钱的保证。
• He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.他太胆小，不敢从事任何事业。

9 contradictory   

adj.反驳的，反对的，抗辩的；n.正反对，矛盾对立

参考例句：

• The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾。
• What he said was self-contradictory.他讲话前后不符。

10 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

11 intrigue   

vt.激起兴趣，迷住；vi.耍阴谋；n.阴谋，密谋

参考例句：

• Court officials will intrigue against the royal family.法院官员将密谋反对皇室。
• The royal palace was filled with intrigue.皇宫中充满了勾心斗角。

12 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。