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Emily: Okay, so I was Mirandas second assistant... but herfirstassistant recently got promoted, and so now Im the first.
Andy: Oh, and youre replacing yourself.
Emily: Well, I am trying. Miranda sacked the last two girlsafteronly a few weeks. We need to find someone who can survivehere. Doyou understand?
Andy: Yeah. Of course. Whos Miranda?
Emily: Oh, my God. I will pretend you did not just ask methat.Shes the editor in chief of Runway, not to mention a legend.Youwork a year for her, and you can get a job at any magazineyouwant. A million girls would kill for this job.
Andy: It sounds like a great opportunity. Id love tobeconsidered.
Emily: Andrea, Runway is a fashion magazine... so an interestinfashion is crucial.
Andy: What makes you think Im not interested in fashion?
Emily: Oh, my God. No! No! No!
Andy: Whats wrong?
Emily: Shes on her way. Tell everyone!
Nigel: Shes not supposed to be here until 9:00.
Emily: Her driver just text messaged, and her facialist rupturedadisk. God, these people!
Nigel: Whos that?
Emily: That I cant even talk about.
Nigel: All center, everyone! Gird your loins! Did somebody eatanonion bagel?
Woman: Sorry, Miranda.
Emily: Move it! Ooh!
Miranda: I dont understand why its so difficult to confirmanappointment.
Emily: I know. Im so sorry, Miranda. I actually did confirmlastnight.
Miranda: Details of your incompetence do not interest me.TellSimone Im not going to approve that girl that she sent me fortheBrazilian layout. I asked for clean, athletic, smiling. She sentmedirty, tired and paunchy. And R.S.V.P. yes to the MichaelKorsparty. I want the driver to drop me off at 9:30 and pick me upat9:45 sharp.
Emily: 9:45 sharp.
Miranda: And call Natalie at Glorious Foods, tell her no forthe40th time. No, I dont want dacquoise. I want tortes filledwithwarm rhubarb compote. Then call my ex-husband and remind himtheparent-teacher conference is at Dalton tonight. Then callmyhusband, ask him to please to meet me for dinner at that placeIwent to with Massimo. Also tell Richard I saw all the picturesthathe sent for that feature on the female troopers…and theyre allsodeeply unattractive. Is it impossible to find a lovely,slenderfemale trooper?
Emily: Yeah.
Miranda: Am I reaching for the stars here? Not really. Also,Ineed to see all the things that Nigel has pulled forGwynethssecond cover try. I wonder if shes lost any of thatweight yet.Whos that?
妙語佳句，活學活用1. Sack
俚語，意思是「解僱，開除」，既可以做動詞也可以做名詞用，例如：
If you are late again the boss will give you thesack.如果你再遲到，老闆就會把你解僱。
He got sacked yesterday. 他昨天被解僱了。
2. Text message
如果你的手機是英文語言提示，你對這個表達一定不陌生，沒錯，它就是「簡訊息」的意思，例如：I just got yourtextmessage. 我剛收到你的簡訊。那要表示「發簡訊」該怎麼說呢？除了用send a textmessage外，textmessage也可以做動詞用，表示「發簡訊」，例如片斷中的例句：Her driver just textmessaged.他的司機剛發了簡訊。
3. Gird ones loins
這個片語也寫作gird up ones loins，意思是「Prepare oneselfforaction準備好（行動）」，例如：Im girding up my loins for thatcrucialinterview.
4. R.S.V.P.
Reply to an invitation，既可以做動詞也可以做名詞，例如：
Dont forget to RSVP before Thursday.
He sent a lovely bouquet of flowers with his RSVP.
此外，當送出請柬的時候，也常在上面寫上R.S.V.P.，意思是「要求回復（會不會來）」。
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影片對白 I will pretend you did not just ask me that.Shesthe editor in chief of Runway, not to mention a legend. Youwork ayear for her, and you can get a job at any magazine you want.Amillion girls would kill for this job.
我觀之我見隨著司機的一條簡訊提示，整個辦公室都開始進入備戰狀態：穿平底鞋的秘書抓起備用的高跟鞋往腳上套、高級助理飛快地把各種雜誌往她桌上擺好、連帶倒上礦泉水捧起日程安排表…… 考考你 一展身手 文化面面觀 The Devil Wears Prada: 電影與暢銷書的結合The Devil Wears Prada is a comedy-drama film, the screenadaptationof Lauren Weisbergers 2003 novel of the same name. Itstars AnneHathaway as Andrea Sachs, a recent university graduatewho gets ajob as a co-assistant to powerful fashion magazine editorMirandaPriestly, played by Meryl Streep. The film co-stars EmilyBlunt asPriestlys first-assistant, Adrian Grenier as Sachsboyfriend, andStanley Tucci as a male co-worker of Priestlys.Tracie Thoms playsLily, a close friend of Sachs and Simon Bakerhas the role of awriter who assists her with some difficult tasksassigned byPriestly.
Hoping to work her way to the The New Yorker or VanityFair,Andrea Andy Sachs, fresh out of college, lands a plummagazinejob: personal assistant to Miranda, who dominates thefashion worldfrom her perch atop Runway magazine. She puts up withthe eccentricand humiliating requests of her boss because, she istold, if shelasts a year in the position she will get her pick ofother jobs,perhaps even the journalistic position she trulycraves.
Gradually, though, Andrea adjusts to the position and itsmanyperks, including free designer clothing and otherchoiceaccessories. She also comes to prize chance encounters withhotyoung writer Christian (Baker), who earns her eternalgratitudewhen he helps her with one of her more impossibleassignments.However, her family and, especially, friends arefeeling neglected.Ultimately Andrea realizes she must make a choicebetween them andher job lest she become more like the woman shedespises workingfor.
Differences between film and novel1. In the movie, Andrea is a graduate of Northwestern insteadofBrown, and is from Ohio instead of Connecticut. Hercareeraspirations have been changed from literature to journalism,andshe is a brunette rather than a blonde.
2. Lilys role is the most significant change between thenoveland the film. In the former, she is a graduate student inRussianliterature at Columbia rather than working at an art galleryas shedoes in the film. Her role in the novel is much larger, andthenarrative goes into lengthy detail about her past withAndrea,depicting her as more free-spirited in contrast to her. Inboth thefilm and the novel she comes to enjoy the free designergiftsAndreas job provides. Lily encourages Andrea to pursueChristianin the novel, while in the film she is angry when she seesthe twoclose together. Shes also Andreas roommate instead of Nateand,over the course of the novel, starts to pick up men in barsanddevelops a drinking problem as a result of stress from herstudies.A car accident she suffers while Andrea is in Paristriggers theclimax of the novel.
3. Nate is named Alex in the novel and is teaching fourthgradersin the South Bronx through Teach for America rather thanbeing achef as in the movie. He and Andrea do not live together asthey doin the film, and have broken up at the end, although theyremainfriends.
4. Emily is seen much more often in the novel, and is morecynicalin her attitude toward Miranda, sometimes not doing thingsshe hastold Miranda she has done. Overall, she is a moresympatheticcharacter in the novel. In the film, it is Emily, notLily, who isinjured in a traffic accident.
5. In both the novel and the film, Andrea is required todeliverthe Book and Mirandas dry cleaning to her home. In thenovel,Andrea walks in while Miranda, B-DAD, Cassidy and Carolinearehaving dinner and starts to talk without cue, obviouslyhumiliatingherself. In the film, this scene is simplified by havingher listento the daughters tricking her into heading upstairs whereshe walksin on Miranda and her husband arguing.
6. Generally, Miranda is extensively much more cold, abusive,anddistant to Andy in the novel. The film offered the two a muchmorecolorful connection and sense of understanding.
7. The Doug character does not exist in the novel.
8. Christians last name is Collinsworth in the novel. He andAndreado not sleep together as they do in the film. However, bythe end ofthe book, he and Andrea still maintain theirflirtatiousfriendship.
9. Mirandas explanation of how Andreas cable knit sweaterwasultimately influenced by the couture in the magazines pages,andNigels lecture about how important Runway truly is and whatitrepresents to so many people, are not in the novel and werewrittenfor the film.
10. Andreas effort to get the new Harry Potter books (notcopiesof the unpublished manut) is less successful in the novel.Whileshe is aware that the twins want sete copies, only one isactuallydelivered (to Paris, not the train) and Miranda againberatesAndrea over it. Also, in the novel she is asked to get thefourthbook in the series, not the seventh, as is shown in the film.(Acloseup of the manut the twins read says Harry Potter:BookSeven.)
11. In the novel, the twins attend the Horace Mann School inTheBronx, New York, while in the movie, they attend The DaltonSchoolin New York, New York.
12. There is less confusion in the novel on Andreas partoverwhere to put the Book and the dry cleaning at Mirandas home(inthe novel, a Fifth Avenue penthouse rather than a townhouse asitis in the film).
13. Irv Ravitz, played by Tibor Feldman and seen in severalscenesthroughout the movie, is only referred to in the novel.
14. In the novel Nigel is very tall, British, black and enoughofa celebrity that even Andrea recognizes him; whereas thefilmsNigel (Stanley Tucci) is white, of normal border=1 Heightand from RhodeIsland. Also, he is not so nice in the book and infact most of hisniceness is arranged by Emily in the book.
15. He, and the other male Runway staffers in the novel, arealsoopenly, even flamboyantly, gay. But while his character in thefilmcould be gay, there are no references to it in the t, the othermenwere cut from the story and this aspect of the novel islargelyabsent from the film.
16. Nigel is never offered a new job in the novel, andChristianis never offered a job at Runway.
17. Both Andrea and Miranda are described in the book ascomingfrom Jewish families (Miranda had even changed her nametosomething less Jewish). In the film, no reference is made toeithercharacters religious or ethnic background.
18. Emily is English. The novel made no reference tohernationality.
19. Conversely, Miranda is English in the novel, but Streepplaysher as an American.
20. In the novel, Emily cannot go to Paris due to a boutwithmononucleosis. In the film, Miranda decides Andrea is morecapablewhen Andrea remrs who an oncoming guest is at a museumbenefitafter the cold-stricken Emily fails. She puts Andrea up totellingEmily shes going with her instead, and the film impliesEmily isalso fired. However, before Andrea can tell Emily this, shegetshit by the car.
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影片對白 I will pretend you did not just ask me that.Shesthe editor in chief of Runway, not to mention a legend. Youwork ayear for her, and you can get a job at any magazine you want.Amillion girls would kill for this job.
文化面面觀 The Devil Wears Prada: 電影與暢銷書的結合21. In the book Andy has been told by Miranda that she hastobabysit her friends son at this party. The son ends upbeingChristian. None of this happens in the film
22. Andy has a sister who gives birth to a baby boy which Andyisunable to meet for the first few months of his life becauseofMirandas tight noose on Andy.
23. Mirandas husband does not leave her in the novel. Thetwohave a stable and happy marriage.
24. Mirandas job is not in danger at the end of the novel, asitis in the film.
25. In the novel, Andrea ends her time with Miranda bytellingher, very publicly, Fuck you, Miranda. Fuck you. insteadofsimply throwing her cell phone into a nearby fountain.Thishappened, in the novel, after Miranda blamed her for notrealizingthat her daughters passports had expired a week earlierand thatshe needed to get them new passports and on a plane toParis bythat very night. She immediately returns to New York toattend tothe comatose Lily. Miranda actually does not make muchmore of anappearance in the novel after that moment. She doesnthelp withany connections. The major connection that Andrea was ableto makewas enhanced by a loathing for Miranda that she had incommon withthe woman at Seventeen.
26. The novel ends with Andrea, finally having launched amoreserious writing career with a somewhat autobiographical shortstoryin Seventeen, returning to Elias-Clark to discusswritingassignments with another of the companys magazines. In thefilm,she gets the reporting position she always wanted with the NewYorkMirror (a fictionalized Village Voice) instead.
27. The film gives the impression that Miranda has a veryhighregard for Andrea at the end, despite her cold, unfeelingexterior,and that even Andrea has come to like Miranda. In thenovel, howMiranda truly feels about Andrea is not known, althoughshe doesoffer to let Andrea write short pieces for the magazine andpullstrings at The New Yorker. Andrea does show some appreciationforMiranda and what she does at some points in the novel, but notasmuch as she does in the movie.
28. At the end of the novel, it is implied that Emily is likelytopretend she does not know Andrea because of thecontroversysurrounding her confrontation with Miranda. In themovie, however,it is made clear by Emily to the new assistant thatshe greatlyrespects and likes Andrea, and believes she did ahonorable job assecond assistant.
29. In the film, Andrea kindly offers Emily the clothingshereceived from Paris. In the book, Andrea sells the clothing toasecond-hand shop for $38,000 and finances her writers life forthenext year.
30. In the Book we can read that Miranda and Andrea arebothstaying at the Hotel Ritz Paris. In the movie its thePlazaAthénée.
31. In the novel version, the white Hermès scarves thatMirandalikes to wear are discontinued, however in the movie, whenEmilygets hit by a taxi, there is a shot of white scarves flyingallover the street. (answers.com)
我觀之我見隨著司機的一條簡訊提示，整個辦公室都開始進入備戰狀態：穿平底鞋的秘書抓起備用的高跟鞋往腳上套、高級助理飛快地把各種雜誌往她桌上擺好、連帶倒上礦泉水捧起日程安排表……當米蘭達抵達公司時，女助理立刻跑到身邊，開始記錄米蘭達的任務，她說話語調從來不會抑揚頓挫，兩片薄薄的嘴唇在短時間內不停地輕微運動，連珠炮地把一大堆事務交代給助理去辦，語句之間不需要停頓，一氣呵成。完了之後一句冷冰冰的Thatsall就把人打發走，即便是沒聽清楚也不能問她。這就是這部電影給我們呈現的一個時尚界的女魔頭形象。跟著這樣的老闆幹活大約新陳代謝都要提高二十倍才能保證跟得上步伐、不會被fire掉，同時還得有強大的心理承受力，不然每天對著這樣一張冰冷的臉人都會瘋掉。誇張嗎？不，職場中人很多都經歷過這樣的上司，這部電影引發了他們心中的共鳴，這也是這部小成本的電影能獲得巨大成功的原因。
考考你用今日所學將下面的句子譯成英語。
1. 公司威脅說誰罷工就解僱誰，那只不過是虛張聲勢罷了。
2. 大家各就各位。主編來了！
Prison Break 1《越獄》1（精講十二）考考你 參考答案1． 這個團夥那天晚上出去搞破壞了。
The gang was out to raise hell that night.
2． 他說如果他們不還錢給他的話，他就要搞點動作。
He said hed raise Cain if they wouldnt give him a refund.
3． 如果她還是那麼粗魯的話，我就離開。
If shes rude again Im just going to take a walk.
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