影片對白
Grandpa: Perfect. Perfect. You"re the world champion growler.Timefor your beauty rest. Get in there. There you go. Goodnight.
Olive: Grandpa?
Grandpa: Yeah.
Olive: I"m kinda scared about tomorrow.
Grandpa: Are you kiddin" me? You"re gonna blow "em out ofthewater. They"re not gonna know what hit "em.
Olive: Grandpa?
Grandpa: Yeah.
Olive: Am I pretty?
Grandpa: Olive, you are the most beautiful girl in thewholeworld.
Olive: Nah, you"re just saying that.
Grandpa: No, I"m not. I"m madly in love with you. And it"snotbecause of your brains or your personality. It"s becauseyou"rebeautiful, inside and out.
Olive: Grandpa?
Grandpa: What?
Olive: I don"t want to be a loser.
Grandpa: You"re not a loser. Where"d you get the idea you"realoser?
Olive: Because Daddy hates losers.
Grandpa: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up a minute. You know whataloser is? A real loser is somebody that"s so afraid of notwinning,they don"t even try. Now, you"re trying, center?
Olive: Yeah.
Grandpa: Well, then, you"re not a loser. We"re gonna havefuntomorrow, center?
Olive: Yeah.
Grandpa: We can tell "em all to go to hell. Good night, sweetie.Ilove you.
妙語佳句，活學活用1. Blow out of the water
這個片語挺有趣的，它的意思是"defeatdecisively"，起源於19世紀中期的海軍，最初的意思是"將敵方的軍艦打成碎片"，現在用來指各種各樣的"打敗"對手，例如：Withagreat new product and excellent publicity, we could blowthecompetition out of the water.
此外，blow out of the water 還可以表示"surprise greatly"，例如：I wasblownout of the water when I heard that I was promoted.
2. Nah, you"re just saying that.
Nah 這裡表示"no"，you"re just sayingthat的意思是"你不過是說說罷了"，這可是一句很實用的口語，趕緊記下來哦！
3. Back up
Back up這個片語有很多意思，我們來一一看一下：
a. to bring (a stream of traffic) to a standstill 停止，例如：Astalledcar backed up traffic for miles.影片中採用的也是這個意思，爺爺叫Olive"先不要哭"。
b. to move backward 後退，例如：Back up into the garage.
c. to reinforce 加固，例如：We backed up the cardboard with slats soitwouldn"t fall down.
d. to support or confirm 支持，例如：He backed up my story and theyletus go.
e. Computers. to duplicate (a file or a program) as aprecautionagainst failure 備份，例如：Have you backed up the files inthecomputer?
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A real loser is somebody that"s so afraid of notwinning,they don"t even try.
思想火花《陽光小美女》不是一部普通的志勵片，它沒有把堅信追尋的過程賦予最後完美的大團圓。奧利弗幸運的是，她有一群真正愛她的家人，他們並沒有因為得不到第一而放棄幫助奧利弗千裡迢迢參加選秀大賽，一家人也在這場不尋常的旅途中重新認識自己，把缺失變成另一種人生態度。 考考你 乘熱打鐵 文化面面觀 Beauty contest: an introduction選美大賽的歷史
A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competitionbasedmainly, though not always entirely, on the physical beauty ofitscontestants. Almost invariably, competitions for men and womenaresete events, and those for men are not referred to asbeautycontests. Beauty contests for women are more common, andwinnersare called beauty queens. Beauty contests for men, likeMr.Universe, are more likely to be "body building"contests-quiteunlike the traditional "beauty contest" in whichwomen are judgedupon many attributes both physical and otherwise.However, in the1990s, male "beauty contests" began to shift focus.Instead of onlyconsidering muscle mass, the competitions began tojudge thenatural physical attributes of the contestants as well astheirphysiques. These include Mr. World and Manhunt International.
Miss Japan Riyo Mori adjusts her crown after being crownedMissUniverse 2007 at the National Auditorium in Mexico City May28,2007. Reuters
There are also beauty contests for children. These eventsareoften controversial, particularly when children aredressedprovocatively and described in adult terms.
History of beauty contestsChoosing symbolic kings and queens for May Day andotherfestivities is an ancient custom in Europe in which beautifulyoungwomen symbolize their nation"s virtues and other abstractideas.The first modern American pageant was staged by P. T. Barnumin1854, but his beauty contest was closed down by publicprotest-hepreviously held dog, baby, and bird beauty contests. Hesubstituteddaguerreotypes for judging, a practice quickly adoptedbynewspapers. Newspapers held photo beauty contests for manydecades:In 1880, the first "Bathing Beauty Pageant" took place aspart of asummer festival to promote business in Rehoboth Beach,Delaware.Contests became a regular part of summer beach life, withthe mostelaborate contest taking place in Atlantic City, NewJersey, wherethe "Fall Frolic" attracted women from many cities andtowns.
The modern beauty pageant"s origin is traceable to theMissAmerica Pageant, which was first held in Atlantic City in1921,under the title "Inter-City Beauty Contest." The MissAmericaPageant eventually included preliminary eliminations, aneveninggown competition, musical variety shows, and judging bypanel.Still, the contest was at first shunned by middle-classsociety.Pageants did not become respectable until World War II,when"beauty queens" were recruited to sell bonds and toentertaintroops. Scholarships and talent competitions evoked evencloserscrutiny of contestants" morals and backgrounds.
Other major contests include the yearly Miss Worldcompetition(founded by Eric Morley in 1951), Miss Universe (foundedin 1952),Miss International and Miss Earth (founded in 2001withenvironmental awareness as its concern). These are consideredtheBig Four pageants, the four largest and most famousinternationalbeauty contests. Minor contests, such as the MissBondi contest inAustralia, are common throughout the world in thesummer months.During the 1950s, pageants thrived to promote countyfairs andlocal products. For example, some of Raquel Welch"s titlesincluded"Miss Photogenic" and "Miss Contour." Across the world,women fromaround the world participate each year in localcompetitions forthe chance to represent their country"sinternational title.
Mrs. Texas crowned in beauty contest
其實，選美活動從未脫離一個遊戲規則，那就是選出男性心目中最有魅力的女人。就目的而言，西方選美與過去東方君主選美的不同之處，在於一種是為一個男人，一種是為了一群男人。社會學家們則將二者區分為，一個是父權專制文化的產物，一個是父權民主文化的產物。
選美大賽說到底，是利用美女來吸引眼球，是一種真正意義上的"注意力經濟"，觀眾的注意力給賽事的參與者帶來了巨大的財富。世界級選美賽事由於運作成熟，都有固定的贊助商，因此往往給賽事帶來上億美元的收益。
選美之所以有生命力，得益於其經濟聯姻所創造的神話。並在世界各地不斷地得到驗證。1952年，世界經濟大蕭條的時候，美國首次舉辦"環球小姐"選美大賽。隨之而來的是美國經濟的大復甦。於是這次比賽也就成為美國經濟史上的一個神話，人們也首次嘗到了選美帶動經濟的甜頭。
而自從1996年，印度小姐首次在"世界小姐"選美比賽中獲勝後，世界選美比賽的后冠頻頻落在印度頭上，印度成了世界著名的美女盛產國，旅遊業等產業迅速攀升，於是印度人提出了"美女救國"的口號。
在南美小國委內瑞拉的"美女經濟"眾所周知，選美是委內瑞拉頭號"工業"，該國美女在國際三大選美競賽中已獲得12次頭銜，被譽為"美人工廠"。該國多數人認為：這是一個對外表特別關注的社會。即使48小時發生兩次政變，即使是坦克橫行，電視臺仍在播出選美比賽，美女製造業也從沒有癱瘓。
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文化面面觀 Beauty contest: anintroduction選美大賽的歷史 思想火花曼哈頓的聯合廣場矗立著華盛頓、林肯、甘地等歷史名人的雕像，是紐約一些重要街道的交匯地，也是北美最重要的社會活動集會地之一。聯合廣場周圍的電影院被視為電影業的"另類"標杆，能在這裡的電影院賣出一百萬美圓票房，比獲得一百萬個影評人的好評還要榮耀。
一共有五部影片獲得過這份榮耀，前三名分別是《星戰前傳》，《黑客帝國》和《蜘蛛俠》，第五名是2004年的獨立電影《杯酒人生》，第四名是2006年的獨立電影《陽光小美女》。
這是一個成員完整卻各有缺失的家庭，不肯承認失敗自以為是的父親，偷偷嗜煙無力面對現實的母親，不肯說話崇拜尼採偏執的哥哥，愛上男人自殺未遂的叔叔，還有一大把年齡還鍾愛色情和嗑藥的爺爺，奧利弗在這個問題多多的家庭中茁壯著自己的小肚子和眼鏡度數，也努力去實現自己的夢想。
《陽光小美女》不是一部普通的志勵片，它沒有把堅信追尋的過程賦予最後完美的大團圓。奧利弗幸運的是，她有一群真正愛她的家人，他們並沒有因為得不到第一而放棄幫助奧利弗千裡迢迢參加選秀大賽，一家人也在這場不尋常的旅途中重新認識自己，把缺失變成另一種人生態度。
影片最後的高潮戲到來之前，德威恩知道自己是色盲不可能報考軍校而絕望地打破沉默。他對舅舅弗蘭克說，真希望一覺睡到18歲，跳過煩人的高中時代。弗蘭克沒有馬上勸導他，而是說起自己研究了一輩子的普魯斯特。
"他是個法國作家。徹底的失敗者。一生沒工作，情事不斷還是個同性戀。花20年寫了一本沒幾個人看的小說。但他也許是莎士比亞之後最偉大的作家。晚年回首人生，他發現那些難熬的日子才是一生中最好的時光，因為那些日子造就了他。而快活的日子全是浪費時間，沒有任何收穫。你想一覺醒來就到18歲，覺得這樣可以跳過高中時期的苦。但高中是你一生中最重要的苦難時光，你不可能經歷比這更好的苦難了。"
「你不可能經歷比這更好的苦難了」，也唯有苦難，才會留給我們最有回味的回憶。影片最後，為了保護Olive，全家人一起上臺跳舞。一場痛快的放縱之後，他們又推著車子上路了。人生中充滿著機會，不過也許挫折會更多。有時候，只要自己用力推自己一把，便又繼續上路了。不管怎樣，人生都要繼續往下走呀。
考考你將下面的句子譯成漢語。
1. I"m madly in love with you. And it"s not because of yourbrainsor your personality. It"s because you"re beautiful, insideandout.
2. You know what a loser is? A real loser is somebody that"ssoafraid of not winning, they don"t even try. Now, you"retrying,center?
Little Miss Sunshine《陽光小美女》（精講之五）考考你 參考答案1. 亞洲之旅讓他認識到數百萬人真實的生活境況。
A trip through Asia opened his eyes to the conditions underwhichmillions had to live.
2. 今晚飲料免費。
Tonight the drinks are on the house.
3. Yeah, and I can detect that note of sarcasm there, Frank.
是啊，弗蘭克，怎麼聽起來有點酸溜溜喔。
4. We were, uh, on the highway, and I lost you on my cell.
我們剛才在高速路上，我手機沒信號了。
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