影片對白  I love you too, Dad. I'll miss you.

 

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神奇遙控器：Remote features

影片中的遙控器可是神奇的不得了，有了它，可以回到過去，也可以沖向未來。下面我們就來近距離的“觀察”一下它吧。

The film shows that the remote control’s features include:

Pause

Causes everyone and everything but Michael (and Morty, near the end of the film) to freeze in place. Michael sometimes assaults people while they are paused; they feel sudden pain and suspect nothing.

Fast forward

Can be used to accelerate other people or the family dog (who apparently do not notice this change). When used on Michael’s life, puts him on auto-pilot during the skipped interval. (While on auto-pilot, Michael cannot change his habits. His wife notices when he has been on auto-pilot for a long period, but nobody else does.)

Rewind

Cannot undo anything, but allows Michael to revisit (without changing) the past. The Michael with the remote control is separate from the Michael in the revisited time period and can walk in and around the revisited scene unnoticed. It is revealed in the graveyard scene that Michael can only rewind to scenes in which he was present at that time.

Volume control

Used to silence a barking dog.

Language selection

Options include, but are not limited to English, Spanish and Japanese. Produces a perfect translation, unlike the garbled output of real machine translators. Michael uses this in combination with volume control to eavesdrop on prospective Japanese clients and learn what they think of his proposal; this helps him win their account. He also uses this to break the tedium of a sexual harassment seminar by switching everyone’s language, including his own, to Spanish. (Michael is the only one aware of either change.)

Color adjustment

Michael experiments with this on his own complexion. He has a bit of fun by changing his skin color to Green, Purple and Yellow (Green being the Hulk, Purple being Barney, and Yellow being Scurvy). Seems to work only with hue (although the saturation increases greatly during his experimentation). Other people notice his "tan."

Aspect ratio selection

Choices are normal, wide and panoramic. Michael uses this to make his boss much shorter and fatter; his voice also changes correspondingly. (No one but Michael is aware of the change.)

Main menu

This includes scene selection and bonus features such as a making-of and a running commentary (voiced by James Earl Jones).

Picture in Picture

Michael uses this while Janine is complaining. When the button is pressed, a picture of Hideki Matsui of the New York Yankees hitting a two-run home run shows up at the bottom right corner of the screen (only Michael can see this).

Mute

Similar to the volume control but much faster. It is shown when the man (played by Terry Crews) in the Chevrolet Corvette C6 is singing annoyingly and loudly to Working for the Weekend and Michael Newman smiles and presses mute and chuckles at him after he has no sound.

Memory

The remote remembers your actions with the remote and will automatically act according to your previous using of the remote. For example, when Michael tells the remote to fast forward through a cold, the remote remembers this and automatically fast forwards through any sickness. This proves to be one of the major problems of the movie as Michael gets cancer and is automatically fast forwarded 6 years. It also remembers your actions in life so the remote immediately "knows" how to make yourself act when in auto-pilot.

考考你

用今日所學(xué)將下面的句子譯成英語。

1. 拳擊手們今晚去體育館訓(xùn)練。

2. 我們下個(gè)月去中國。

3. 約翰不久前寫信給我，談到他剛出生的孩子。

Click《人生遙控器》（精講之七）考考你 參考答案

1. 別告訴瑪吉任何機(jī)密的事情，她的大嘴巴是出了名的。

Don't tell Peggy anything confidential; she's known for having a big mouth.

2. 她計(jì)劃休學(xué)一年。

She planned to drop out from college for a year.

3. 奈杰爾棄學(xué)從商后，過了很長時(shí)期才適應(yīng)于那種競爭激烈的環(huán)境。

After Nigel left his academic post and went into business, it took him quite a while adjust to the rat race.

 

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