美剧《The Newsroom》中那些鲜活的语言

众人给没看过《Rudy》（《追梦赤子心》）这部影片的 Jim 讲述大家公认的最感人的一个情节。无论托福口语第一题还是雅思口语第二题，都要求考生描述一件事，所以练就描述一件事情的能力是考试必备技能。先看剧中这段一分钟时长的剧情片段描述吧！

建议同学们计时读一下，看看是否可以在一分钟之内读完，当前语速和正常美剧中人物的是否一致。

Listen up, because it's Rudy's last chance to dress for a game, NCAA rules only allow a certain number of players to be in a uniform, and everytime the list goes up, Rudy's name is left off if. And the list for the last game goes up and Rudy's name is left off it again.

Four years of futility.

First he's got up to make the grades to get in the school.

Then he's got to make the practice squad.

And he's getting creamed by guys twice his size.

But he didn't care cause it's all about the team and all he wants is to just once to be on the list to dress for a game.

And it's the last game of his last year of college and he's not on the list. So one by one the players came to the coach's office and put their jerseys down on the desk, and say " Coach, I want Rudy to take my place on Saturday." And there's a whole line snaking out of the coach's office of players holding their jerseys.

描述一件事情，言之有物并且有词汇支持是前提，首选自己真实经历回答，可好处是事物内在逻辑的一致性，回答连贯。

以上这段描述符合口语的几个特点：

1）没有特别长的句子，更没有从句套从句，口语答案句子不宜过长，控制在 three clauses 之内。注意，句子长短和句式结构不是一回事，短句子依然可以结构多样。

2）连词可以使用较简单的 and，but，so 等，而无需使用书面语气十足的 nevertheless，therefore，consequently，moreover，furthermore 等。

3）在claim性质的内容后需要有解释，即层级使用要正确，如 “Four years of futility” 一句，后面平行列举出三个原因。形成一种排比的气势，这在英语口语中是比较常见的，考试时如果能使用排比句也是证明自己英语能力的一种有效手段。如剧中如下两段对话中排比的运用。

场景一：

Don: How do you define "best"?

Mac: I define it by the source. I define it by the number of relevant facts it contains, and I define it by an X factor that I trust Will and myself to determine, using our combined five decaces in the field.

场景二：

Will: Charlie, I understood the Tea Party in the beginning, just like I understood the SDS. The Tea Party was a middle-class movement responding spontaneously to bad trends--wages were stagnant, jobs were disappearing, Wall Street get trillions, and everybody was laughing at them.(请注意模仿剧中在说这段台词时的语气)

4）引语的使用。如，" Coach, I want Rudy to take my place on Saturday."。少用引语也是我们同学口语答案普遍现象，建议大家尝试在答案中设计使用，同样可以起到四两拨千斤的作用。

至于最后那句橘黄色标记的内容 there's a whole line snaking out of the coach's office of players holding their jerseys.，在本段剧情描述中虽然只有一句，但是在雅思口语Part Two两分钟的答题内容中，确是最应该好好发挥扩展的。同学们觉得这属于什么方法？你的总结是什么？同学们可以留言给我，听过课的孩子不要剧透哦！