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A Family Reckoning 兄妹对峙IMDb ↗
家人多年不见一见面先争谁负责
Enola Holmes · 2020
Learning settings
The story so far
Everything you need before watchingAfter their mother vanishes, Enola is left alone at Ferndell Hall until her estranged brothers, Mycroft and Sherlock, arrive to take charge. What begins as a search for clues quickly becomes a family argument about money, education, respectability, and who gets to decide Enola’s future. The scene balances sharp comedy with real hurt, as every polite remark reveals an old grievance.
Chapters
12 parts · AI-cutTranscript
Language points
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Review right after watchingfoul play
不正当手段;谋害
have one's wits about one
头脑清醒
on one's own account
凭自己的意愿;靠自己
keep ahead of the times
走在时代前面
a firm hand
严格管教
turn in one's grave
死后也会气得翻身
out of someone's hands
不由我控制
what the hell
到底搞什么鬼
Golden lines
A great line in its own right — why and how to use it“and yet she disguised her intentions perfectly”
可她却把自己的打算藏得天衣无缝。
转折与 perfectly 收束出母亲缜密、从容的布局。
disguise one’s intentions perfectly
形容某人把真实计划隐藏得很彻底。
conceal one’s plans completely / keep one’s intentions hidden
neutral
重读 disguised 和 perfectly,转折后语气收紧。
“She simply had to ensure Enola a decent life”
她只是必须确保伊诺拉过上体面的生活。
simply had to 把复杂动机说得克制而坚定。
ensure someone a decent life
谈到父母或照护者对孩子未来的责任时。
secure a decent future for someone / make sure someone has a decent life
formal
had to 连读,重音落在 ensure 和 decent life。
“And if you still can t see that then shame on you both”
如果你们到现在还看不出来,那真该为你们感到羞耻。
把失望升级为公开谴责,情绪和节奏都很有力。
if you still can’t see that, shame on you
批评别人忽视显而易见的事实,语气很重。
You should be ashamed of yourselves / If you can’t see it, that’s your shame
informal
重读 still、see、shame,末尾 both 降调收责备。
Monologue
One character carrying the scene — shadow the whole passageShe taught me herself She made me read every book in Ferndell Hall s library Shakespeare Locke and the encyclopedia and Thackeray and the essays of Mary Wollstonecraft And I did it on my own account For my own learning Which Mother said was the best way to become a young woman
她亲自教我的。 她让我读完费恩德尔庄园图书馆里的每一本书。 莎士比亚、洛克 还有百科全书 还有萨克雷,以及玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特的散文。 而且是我自己主动读的。 为了我自己的学习。 妈妈说,这是成为一个年轻 女人的最好方式。
