英语听力训练：通过电影《盗梦空间》台词提升理解力

名词权威; 权力; 学术权威; [复数]当权者

1. 当局;官方;当权者
The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.

e.g. This provided a pretext for the authorities to cancel the elections...
这给当局取消此次选举提供了借口。
e.g. The prison authorities have been criticised for not moving more quickly to end the protest by inmates.
监狱当局因没有尽快采取行动制止犯人抗议而受到批评。

2. 行政管理机构
An authority is an official organization or government department that has the power to make decisions.

e.g. ...the Health Education Authority...
卫生教育局
e.g. Any alterations had to meet the approval of the local planning authority.
任何改建都要取得当地规划机构的批准。

3. 权力；权限；职权
Authority is the right to command and control other people.

e.g. Local police chiefs should re-emerge as figures of authority and reassurance in their areas...
各地警察局局长应当重树其维护辖区安定的执法者形象。
e.g. The judge had no authority to order a second trial.
法官无权进行二次审判。

4. 威信
If someone has authority, they have a quality which makes other people take notice of what they say.

e.g. He had no natural authority and no capacity for imposing his will on others.
他天生缺乏威信，根本没有能力把他的意志强加于人。

5. （官方的正式）许可
Authority is official permission to do something.

e.g. The prison governor has refused to let him go, saying he must first be given authority from his own superiors.
监狱长拒绝释放他，说他首先必须得到上级官员的许可。

6. （某一方面的）权威人士，专家
Someone who is an authority on a particular subject knows a lot about it.

e.g. He's universally recognized as an authority on Russian affairs.
他是公认的俄罗斯事务专家。

7. 有可靠的消息来源
If you say you have it on good authority that something is true, you mean that you believe it is true because you trust the person who told you about it.

e.g. I have it on good authority that there's no way this light can cause skin cancer.
我有来自权威人士的说法，这种光不可能引起皮肤癌。

名词结合; 联合体; 密码组合; 连裤内衣

1. 结合;联合;混合
A combination of things is a mixture of them.

e.g. ...a fantastic combination of colours.
多种颜色的绝妙混合
e.g. ...the combination of science and art.
科学与艺术的结合

及物动词使失望; 使破灭，使落空

不及物动词使失望

1. 使失望
If things or people disappoint you, they are not as good as you had hoped, or do not do what you hoped they would do.

e.g. She knew that she would disappoint him.
她知道她会令他失望的。
e.g. A spokesman for UNHCR said he was surprised and disappointed by the decision.
联合国难民署的一位发言人说他对这一决定既震惊又失望。

名词真理; 真相，事实; 忠实，忠诚; 现实，现实性

1. 实情;真相;事实
The truth about something is all the facts about it, rather than things that are imagined or invented.

e.g. Is it possible to separate truth from fiction?…
有可能把事实与虚构分开吗？
e.g. I must tell you the truth about this business...
我必须告诉你这件事的真相。

2. 真实性;真实
If you say that there is some truth in a statement or story, you mean that it is true, or at least partly true.

e.g. There is no truth in this story...
这个故事纯属虚构。
e.g. Is there any truth to the rumors?...
那些谣言有什么事实依据吗？

3. 真理
A truth is something that is believed to be true.

e.g. It is an almost universal truth that the more we are promoted in a job, the less we actually exercise the skills we initially used to perform it.
这几乎是一条普遍的真理：我们在某一工作中越往上晋升，实际运用那些当初在工作中经常实践的技能的机会就越少。

4. see also: home truth;moment of truth

5. 实际上;事实上
You say in truth in order to indicate that you are giving your honest opinion about something.

e.g. In truth, we were both unhappy.
事实上，我们俩都不快乐。

6. 说实在的;坦白说
You say to tell you the truth or truth to tell in order to indicate that you are telling someone something in an open and honest way, without trying to hide anything.

e.g. To tell you the truth, I was afraid to see him...
坦白说，我害怕见他。
e.g. Truth to tell, John did not want Veronica at his wedding.
说实在的，约翰不想韦罗妮卡参加他的婚礼。

形容词有意义的; 意味深长的; 有意图的; 隽

1. 严肃的;重要的;有意义的
If you describe something as meaningful, you mean that it is serious, important, or useful in some way.

e.g. She believes these talks will be the start of a constructive and meaningful dialogue...
她认为这些谈话将是一次具有建设性的、有意义的对话的开端。
e.g. He asked people to tell him about a meaningful event or period in their lives.
他让人们讲讲他们生命中的重要事件或者阶段。

名词（行动的）方案; 剧情概要; 分镜头剧本

1. 设想;可能发生的情况
If you talk about a likely or possible scenario, you are talking about the way in which a situation may develop.

e.g. ...the nightmare scenario of a divided and irrelevant Royal Family...
对于王室四分五裂、无足轻重的可怕设想
e.g. In the worst-case scenario, you could become a homeless person...
最坏的情况是你可能会无家可归。

2. (电影的)剧情梗概
The scenario of a film is a piece of writing that gives an outline of the story.

名词继承; 遗传; 遗产

1. 遗产;继承物
An inheritance is money or property which you receive from someone who has died.

e.g. She feared losing her inheritance to her stepmother.
她担心她继承的遗产会被继母夺走。

2. 转接物;沿袭物
If you get something such as job, problem, or attitude from someone who used to have it, you can refer to this as an inheritance .

e.g. ...the situation that was Truman's inheritance as President.
杜鲁门继任总统时面临的状况

3. 得自遗传的特征
Your inheritance is the particular characteristics or qualities which your family or ancestors had and which you are born with.

e.g. Eye colour shows your genetic inheritance.
眼睛的颜色显示你的基因遗传特征。