牛津!巴黎! with Mr right!这是多少少女的梦想。Classical music! Fancy restaurant! The pre-Raphaelites! Art gallery! Auction! 是否也曾是谁白日梦中频频出现的场景。电影《成长教育》(AN EDUCATION)淋漓尽致地将这一少女幻景搬上了大荧幕，并由有“小赫本”之称的85后Carey Mulligan担当主演。一提到Mulligan，人们都会先联想到她在《伟大的盖茨比》中扮演的那个娇媚、做作、虚荣、世故，另男主角神魂颠倒的黛茜。但真正使Mulligan崭露头角的却是这部英伦范儿十足的《成长教育》。片中她饰演的16岁少女Jenny是个对巴黎的浮华有着无限向往的普通英国女学生，但因为父母反复督促她学好拉丁文考上牛津的唠叨而感到不厌其烦。一日偶遇成熟时髦、风流倜傥的David，并闪电般地与他陷入爱河不可自拔。David带她见识了伦敦的灯红酒绿和浮华奢靡，跟她谈艺术、聊音乐，带她逛牛津、游巴黎。这一直都是Jenny梦寐以求的生活。很快她就沉迷其中不可自拔，直到她发现了David背后的故事……

这部以英国校园为主背景的影片很适合备考雅思的同学作为听说练习的材料。尤其是女主角Jenny字正腔圆的标准英式发音，值得大家跟读模仿。但通常在看完一部外国电影后，最能另“考鸭”们产生“I’ve learnt a lot indeed!”这种感叹的还是得数英语词汇的积累。随着影片的尾声，看着自己记下的精神食粮，内心别提有多满足啦!今天，Charlotte就带你走进这部影片，看看其中有哪些“可用之材”：

和David次约会后，Jenny受到了闺蜜Tina和Hettie的“嘲弄”，却不巧被走进教室的老师Miss Stubbs撞见了他们的谈话：

Jenny--I can think of two violins, one cello…two violas, a harp…

Tina--I don’t want to hear about ravel. I want to know what else was on the program.

Jenny--Oh, there was nothing like that. He was a perfect gentleman. He just said he wanted to

take me places and show me things.

Hettie--Things?

Tina--Plural? My God!

Miss Stubbs--I knew that “Jane Eyre” would eventually work its magic on you. I’m assuming that’s what you’re so animated about.

Jenny--Of course.

Tina--“Jane Eyre” and Jenny’s new boyfriend.

Jenny--He’s not my “new boyfriend”.

Tina--Oh, sorry. He’s more a man-friend actually.

Ravel的本意是指乱成一团的线，引申为麻烦的状态或琐碎的细节。剧中两个闺蜜鼓足了兴致想听Jenny和David的love story，却换来Jenny的环顾左右而言他。于是闺蜜Tina说“我不想听你的碎叨，我想知道还有什么别的有意思的事没”。一模一样的句式，可以加以改写吸收为学生自己的囊中之物。针对雅思口语，我们可以这么做：当考官问及你的日常兴趣时，可以回答: “I do have a lot of hobbies actually, but I’m going to leave all the ravel and talk about my favourite…” 而animated 完全可以当做是excited来理解。在谈话中都通常以be animated about 的形式出现。对于它的记忆也是很具有联想意义：animal!和animated!动物!和像动物一样活跃，兴致正浓!当雅思听力中出现这个词的时候，别弄不清楚speaker’s attitude!

和David走得越来越近的Jenny也不在有心思投入到学业当中去了。她的拉丁文翻译也越来越糟：

Teacher—Test results for the Virgil translation. We’ll start from the bottom. Patricia. Absent. Margaret. 48%. Jenny. 52%. That would just about scrape a pass in the exam proper. Not good enough for Oxford candidates.

Jenny—(sign)…

Scrape的字面意思和本文毫不相关。在这里是“勉强凑个数，勉强可以做什么”的意思。类似的表达还有：We don't have much money but we scrape along somehow.(虽然我们没多少钱，但是还可以过得下去)I'll try to scrape a team together for tomorrow's game.(我设法拼凑一个球队参加明天的比赛)

David和Jenny筹谋一起骗Jenny的父母说David是牛津大学毕业的并熟识那儿知名的教授，好让他们同意Jenny随David一行人去牛津游玩：

David—Have you ever come across Clive Lewis?

Jenny—Dad’s never come across anyone.

David—He wrote a children’s book called… “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” that did very well, I believe.

Jenny’s Mother—C. S. Lewis?

David—Well, to us he was just the old codger who taught Medieval Literature. But I came to know him very well. We just… got along.

Jenny’s Mother—Jenny used to devour those books.

Jenny—I’d love to meet him.

Devour原是形容狼吞虎咽地吃东西。而还可以表达对某物爱不释手的程度。同学们在英语听说时，也不要只认识或老用like.. very much这样的低水平表达了。

雅思备考需要准备的词汇很多，但单纯的靠背单词书记单词会发现很快就忘得个一干二净。原因就在于，单词这个事物本就不是独立存在于语言系统当中的，一定的与语言环境相配合。这启示我们学习单词也得结合语境。看电影研究台词是个不错的方法，既有文字环境，又有情感环境。慢慢地便会发现，记单词，用单词会比想象的轻松有趣许多。