A：Look at this, A Brief Introduction of Hollywood.

看這條消息，好萊塢簡介。

B：Hackneyed theme!

都老掉牙了!

A：What? How much do you know Hollywood?

什么?關(guān)于好萊塢你知道多少?

B：Nearly eveythyng.

了如指掌。

A：You are full of boasts. I can examine you by question and answer. What is Hollywood? Where is it? What is the function of it?

別吹了。讓我用問答的方式考考你。好萊塢指什么?在哪兒?它是干啥的?

B：Too easy queations. Listen carefully. Hollywood is the movie capital of the world.It is located in southern Califomia. Many films have been made there, and the kinds have changed often.

這也叫問題。仔細聽著。好萊塢是世界電影之都，坐落在加利福尼亞南部，很多影片都是在這兒拍的，影片的風(fēng)格也在不停地變化。

A：Not bad. What kind of film did it produce from the eady to mid 1930's

還行。那么從20世紀30年代初期到中期它生產(chǎn)什么樣的片子?

B：Gangster movies. Movie-goers at that time could get a look at the people involved in crime and their violent activities by watching it.

警匪片。那時的影迷們通過看這種片子可以看到犯罪的人和他們的暴力行為。

A：Mm. What came after that?

嗯，后來呢?

B：After all that violence, people needed to laugh, so from the mid-to-late l940's, many detective movies about policemen who solved crimes were made. Then came musicals.

看夠了暴力片過后，人們需要一些笑料。這樣30年代中后期，喜劇開始得到觀眾的青睞。

A：Pretty good. Please continue.

不錯，接著說。

B：Right. By the mid-50's, this light-hearted genre was competing with films about more serious aubjects. There was one kind that could be found throughout all of these years, and that was the ,mm,the. . .

很好。到了50年代中期，這種輕喜劇形式受到嚴肅題材影片的沖擊。還有一類片子是貫穿整個時期的，是……，嗯，是……。

A：The western films about America's cowbays,Indians and early settlers.

西部片。是關(guān)于美洲牛仔印第安人和早期移民的。

B：Come on.

請繼續(xù)。

A：Since the early 1960's, there are horror movies about people who encounter frightening, unnatural situations, and serious films such as documentaris about events that actually happened, and science fiction movies about possible frrture and future worlds. Some people have also enjoyed watching psycho-dramas about the everyday problems that people have.

從60年代起，關(guān)于人們經(jīng)歷恐懼、神秘事件的恐怖片開始興趣。也有嚴肅題材的關(guān)于真實事件的紀錄片，以及關(guān)于有可能發(fā)生的未來事件和未來世界的科幻片。還有些觀眾喜歡看的關(guān)于日常問題的心理劇。

B：Any more?

還有嗎?

A：Of course, no list of film would be complete without animated movies. These are especially popular among children.

當(dāng)然，如果沒有動畫片，那電影世界就不算完整。這也是小觀眾喜歡看的影片。