Jessica在北京學(xué)漢語(yǔ)，她的中國(guó)朋友要是遇到了不知道用美語(yǔ)怎么說(shuō)的詞，就會(huì)來(lái)請(qǐng)教她。今天是吳瓊要問(wèn)的：劇透。

JESSICA: 吳瓊, I sent you a movie review article yesterday. Have you read it?

WQ: 你是說(shuō)那篇電影的影評(píng)，我可不能看!

JESSICA: Why not?!

WQ: 因?yàn)殡娪拔疫€沒(méi)看啊！影評(píng)上來(lái)就警告讀者說(shuō)：本文有劇透！也就是說(shuō)，看了文章就知道電影結(jié)局了！Jessica, 這令人掃興的“劇透”用美語(yǔ)怎么說(shuō)呢？

JESSICA: It's called a spoiler. Spoiler is spelled s-p-o-i-l-e-r. A spoiler will reveal the ending of the movie to you when you'd rather find it out by yourself.

WQ: I see！Spoilers can really ruin the fun of watching a movie!

JESSICA: True. That's why people write a warning at the beginning of a review, which says "the following review contains spoilers."

WQ: 對(duì)！影評(píng)應(yīng)該先警告大家有劇透內(nèi)容，省得掃觀眾的興！不過(guò)話(huà)說(shuō)回來(lái)，有些片子編得很濫，只要看了開(kāi)頭，不用劇透，傻瓜都能猜出結(jié)局！

JESSICA: I agree. Those movies are no fun to begin with. You only need to avoid spoilers when there are plot twists.

WQ: Plot twist? P-l-o-t, plot是故事情節(jié)， t-w-i-s-t, twist，是扭曲，所以plot twist我猜就是出乎意料的情節(jié)，電影里的形勢(shì)大逆轉(zhuǎn)，對(duì)不對(duì)？

JESSICA: Yes! Plot twists are the development that viewers don't expect to happen. Good writers use plot twists to keep viewers interested.

WQ: 我就特別喜歡結(jié)局出人意料的片子，特別是電視劇，一集結(jié)尾留下個(gè)懸念，吊胃口！

JESSICA: In English, we call that a cliffhanger. It's usually a dilemma or a dangerous situation. So you want to watch the next episode to see how the characters deal with it.

WQ: 哦！原來(lái)，在結(jié)尾時(shí)留下的懸念就是cliffhanger! C-l-i-f-f-h-a-n-g-e-r, cliffhanger. 哎呀，我要走了，My favorite show is about to start, and last episode ended on a cliffhanger!

JESSICA: Okay, but before you go, tell me what you've learned today!

WQ: 第一，劇透是a spoiler； 出乎意料的故事情節(jié)是a plot twist；電影或電視結(jié)尾時(shí)的懸念是a cliffhanger.

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（來(lái)源：美語(yǔ)怎么說(shuō)? 編輯：Rosy）