影片对白

Grandpa: Perfect. Perfect. You're the world champion growler. Time for your beauty rest. Get in there. There you go. Good night.

Olive: Grandpa?

Grandpa: Yeah.

Olive: I'm kinda scared about tomorrow.

Grandpa: Are you kiddin' me? You're gonna blow 'em out of the water. They're not gonna know what hit 'em.

Olive: Grandpa?

Grandpa: Yeah.

Olive: Am I pretty?

Grandpa: Olive, you are the most beautiful girl in the whole world.

Olive: Nah, you're just saying that.

Grandpa: No, I'm not. I'm madly in love with you. And it's not because of your brains or your personality. It's because you're beautiful, inside and out.

Olive: Grandpa?

Grandpa: What?

Olive: I don't want to be a loser.

Grandpa: You're not a loser. Where'd you get the idea you're a loser?

Olive: Because Daddy hates losers.

Grandpa: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up a minute. You know what a loser is? A real loser is somebody that's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try. Now, you're trying, right?

Olive: Yeah.

Grandpa: Well, then, you're not a loser. We're gonna have fun tomorrow, right?

Olive: Yeah.

Grandpa: We can tell 'em all to go to hell. Good night, sweetie. I love you.

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. Blow out of the water

这个片语挺有趣的，它的意思是"defeat decisively"，起源于19世纪中期的海军，最初的意思是"将敌方的军舰打成碎片"，现在用来指各种各样的"打败"对手，例如：With a great new product and excellent publicity, we could blow the competition out of the water.

此外，blow out of the water 还可以表示"surprise greatly"，例如：I was blown out of the water when I heard that I was promoted.

2. Nah, you're just saying that.

Nah 这里表示"no"，you're just saying that 的意思是"你不过是说说罢了"，这可是一句很实用的口语，赶紧记下来哦！

3. Back up

Back up 这个片语有很多意思，我们来一一看一下：
a. to bring (a stream of traffic) to a standstill 停止，例如：A stalled car backed up traffic for miles. 影片中采用的也是这个意思，爷爷叫Olive"先不要哭"。
b. to move backward 后退，例如：Back up into the garage.
c. to reinforce 加固，例如：We backed up the cardboard with slats so it wouldn't fall down.
d. to support or confirm 支持，例如：He backed up my story and they let us go.
e. Computers. to duplicate (a file or a program) as a precaution against failure 备份，例如：Have you backed up the files in the computer?

文化面面观

Beauty contest: an introduction 选美大赛的历史

A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition based mainly, though not always entirely, on the physical beauty of its contestants. Almost invariably, competitions for men and women are separate events, and those for men are not referred to as beauty contests. Beauty contests for women are more common, and winners are called beauty queens. Beauty contests for men, like Mr. Universe, are more likely to be "body building" contests-quite unlike the traditional "beauty contest" in which women are judged upon many attributes both physical and otherwise. However, in the 1990s, male "beauty contests" began to shift focus. Instead of only considering muscle mass, the competitions began to judge the natural physical attributes of the contestants as well as their physiques. These include Mr. World and Manhunt International.

Miss Japan Riyo Mori adjusts her crown after being crowned Miss Universe 2007 at the National Auditorium in Mexico City May 28, 2007. [Reuters]There are also beauty contests for children. These events are often controversial, particularly when children are dressed provocatively and described in adult terms.

History of beauty contests

Choosing symbolic kings and queens for May Day and other festivities is an ancient custom in Europe in which beautiful young women symbolize their nation's virtues and other abstract ideas. The first modern American pageant was staged by P. T. Barnum in 1854, but his beauty contest was closed down by public protest-he previously held dog, baby, and bird beauty contests. He substituted daguerreotypes for judging, a practice quickly adopted by newspapers. Newspapers held photo beauty contests for many decades: In 1880, the first "Bathing Beauty Pageant" took place as part of a summer festival to promote business in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Contests became a regular part of summer beach life, with the most elaborate contest taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the "Fall Frolic" attracted women from many cities and towns.

The modern beauty pageant's origin is traceable to the Miss America Pageant, which was first held in Atlantic City in 1921, under the title "Inter-City Beauty Contest." The Miss America Pageant eventually included preliminary eliminations, an evening gown competition, musical variety shows, and judging by panel. Still, the contest was at first shunned by middle-class society. Pageants did not become respectable until World War II, when "beauty queens" were recruited to sell bonds and to entertain troops. Scholarships and talent competitions evoked even closer scrutiny of contestants' morals and backgrounds.

Other major contests include the yearly Miss World competition (founded by Eric Morley in 1951), Miss Universe (founded in 1952), Miss International and Miss Earth (founded in 2001 with environmental awareness as its concern). These are considered the Big Four pageants, the four largest and most famous international beauty contests. Minor contests, such as the Miss Bondi contest in Australia, are common throughout the world in the summer months. During the 1950s, pageants thrived to promote county fairs and local products. For example, some of Raquel Welch's titles included "Miss Photogenic" and "Miss Contour." Across the world, women from around the world participate each year in local competitions for the chance to represent their country's international title.

Mrs. Texas crowned in beauty contest其实，选美活动从未脱离一个游戏规则，那就是选出男性心目中最有魅力的女人。就目的而言，西方选美与过去东方君主选美的不同之处，在于一种是为一个男人，一种是为了一群男人。社会学家们则将二者区分为，一个是父权专制文化的产物，一个是父权民主文化的产物。

选美大赛说到底，是利用美女来吸引眼球，是一种真正意义上的"注意力经济"，观众的注意力给赛事的参与者带来了巨大的财富。世界级选美赛事由于运作成熟，都有固定的赞助商，因此往往给赛事带来上亿美元的收益。

选美之所以有生命力，得益于其经济联姻所创造的神话。并在世界各地不断地得到验证。1952年，世界经济大萧条的时候，美国首次举办"环球小姐"选美大赛。随之而来的是美国经济的大复苏。于是这次比赛也就成为美国经济史上的一个神话，人们也首次尝到了选美带动经济的甜头。

而自从1996年，印度小姐首次在"世界小姐"选美比赛中获胜后，世界选美比赛的后冠频频落在印度头上，印度成了世界著名的美女盛产国，旅游业等产业迅速攀升，于是印度人提出了"美女救国"的口号。

在南美小国委内瑞拉的"美女经济"众所周知，选美是委内瑞拉头号"工业"，该国美女在国际三大选美竞赛中已获得12次头衔，被誉为"美人工厂"。该国多数人认为：这是一个对外表特别关注的社会。即使48小时发生两次政变，即使是坦克横行，电视台仍在播出选美比赛，美女制造业也从没有瘫痪。

思想火花

曼哈顿的联合广场矗立着华盛顿、林肯、甘地等历史名人的雕像，是纽约一些重要街道的交汇地，也是北美最重要的社会活动集会地之一。联合广场周围的电影院被视为电影业的"另类"标杆，能在这里的电影院卖出一百万美圆票房，比获得一百万个影评人的好评还要荣耀。

一共有五部影片获得过这份荣耀，前三名分别是《星战前传》，《黑客帝国》和《蜘蛛侠》，第五名是2004年的独立电影《杯酒人生》，第四名是2006年的独立电影《阳光小美女》。

这是一个成员完整却各有缺失的家庭，不肯承认失败自以为是的父亲，偷偷嗜烟无力面对现实的母亲，不肯说话崇拜尼采偏执的哥哥，爱上男人自杀未遂的叔叔，还有一大把年龄还钟爱色情和嗑药的爷爷，奥利弗在这个问题多多的家庭中茁壮着自己的小肚子和眼镜度数，也努力去实现自己的梦想。

《阳光小美女》不是一部普通的志励片，它没有把坚信追寻的过程赋予最后完美的大团圆。奥利弗幸运的是，她有一群真正爱她的家人，他们并没有因为得不到第一而放弃帮助奥利弗千里迢迢参加选秀大赛，一家人也在这场不寻常的旅途中重新认识自己，把缺失变成另一种人生态度。

影片最后的高潮戏到来之前，德威恩知道自己是色盲不可能报考军校而绝望地打破沉默。他对舅舅弗兰克说，真希望一觉睡到18岁，跳过烦人的高中时代。弗兰克没有马上劝导他，而是说起自己研究了一辈子的普鲁斯特。

"他是个法国作家。彻底的失败者。一生没工作，情事不断还是个同性恋。花20年写了一本没几个人看的小说。但他也许是莎士比亚之后最伟大的作家。晚年回首人生，他发现那些难熬的日子才是一生中最好的时光，因为那些日子造就了他。而快活的日子全是浪费时间，没有任何收获。你想一觉醒来就到18岁，觉得这样可以跳过高中时期的苦。但高中是你一生中最重要的苦难时光，你不可能经历比这更好的苦难了。"

“你不可能经历比这更好的苦难了”，也唯有苦难，才会留给我们最有回味的回忆。影片最后，为了保护 Olive，全家人一起上台跳舞。一场痛快的放纵之后，他们又推着车子上路了。人生中充满着机会，不过也许挫折会更多。有时候，只要自己用力推自己一把，便又继续上路了。不管怎样，人生都要继续往下走呀。

考考你

将下面的句子译成汉语。

1. I'm madly in love with you. And it's not because of your brains or your personality. It's because you're beautiful, inside and out.

2. You know what a loser is? A real loser is somebody that's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try. Now, you're trying, right?

Little Miss Sunshine《阳光小美女》（精讲之五）考考你 参考答案

1. 亚洲之旅让他认识到数百万人真实的生活境况。
A trip through Asia opened his eyes to the conditions under which millions had to live.

2. 今晚饮料免费。
Tonight the drinks are on the house.

3. Yeah, and I can detect that note of sarcasm there, Frank.
是啊，弗兰克，怎么听起来有点酸溜溜喔。

4. We were, uh, on the highway, and I lost you on my cell.
我们刚才在高速路上，我手机没信号了。