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SUKI: It was just last night that San Francisco"s own little princess partied at the beach but what started out as innocent fun soon turned into allegedly too much fun. This is Suki Sanchez for KPFW.
MIA: Please say something.
CLARISSE: Well, there"s not much to say. A picture"s worth a thousand words and you have two pictures.
MIA: I embarrassed the family, didn"t I?
CLARISSE: Not to put too fine a point on it, yes, you did. I think you"re making a wise decision to abstain from the job.
MIA: I suppose I won"t come to the ball.
CLARISSE: Of course you should come. You"re still family. Just because you don"t want to be our princess doesn"t mean we"re sending you into exile. Your mother"s planning to come. All your guests are invited. Except for your beach friends. Now, if you"ll excuse me, I"m meeting with the press to do some damage control. You can come in now.
JOE: If I may say so that did not go very well.
CLARISSE: Is this the way a princess should act?
JOE: My information tells me that boy was using her. The kiss was merely a device so that he could get his 15 minutes of fame. And her friends didn"t help, either. Anna, Falana, Banana, Bandana, Montana...
CLARISSE: I have no idea what you"re talking about. Why didn"t she have enough common sense to deal with this?
JOE: She"s only 15 but today, she acted beyond her years. She showed great respect and gracefully accepted your criticism.
CLARISSE: You"re saying that as a queen, I was too harsh on her. I was critical of the person who could become the next ruler of my country.
JOE: No. I"m saying, as a grandmother you might have been too harsh on your granddaughter.
CLARISSE: Do you think she can do it?
JOE: Oh, I have no doubts, ma"am.
CLARISSE: I thought so, too.
妙语佳句，活学活用
1. Not to put too fine a point on it
看了剧情，你有没有猜出来这个片语是什么意思呢？没错，就是“to mean exactly what is said 说得没错”，例如：Her performance, not to put too fine a point on it, was terrible. （豪不夸张地说，她的表现太糟了。）
Not to put too fine a point on it 也用来表示“原谅我说得很直接excuse me for making a pointed comment”，后面加表示转折的句子，例如：Not to put too fine a point on it, but you were the one who suggested we should split up so we could search the creepy old house more efficiently for the axe murderer. （原谅我这么说，但是是你建议我们分开行动，好更有效地搜查这所恐怖的房子找到用斧子杀人的凶手的。）
这个用法和片段中下文的 if I may say so的功用差不多，是一种委婉的开场白。
2. If you"ll excuse me…
当你要结束和某人的谈话而转去做其他事实，就可以说If you"ll excuse me…，是一种请求对方谅解的表达，例如：If you"ll excuse me, I should be getting back. 抱歉，我得回去了。
3. 15 minutes of fame
从字面上大家可以看出来，15 minutes of fame 指“短暂的出名/名声”。15 minutes of fame (or famous for 15 minutes) is an expression coined by the American artist Andy Warhol. The expression is a paraphrase of Andy Warhol"s statement in 1968 that "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." It refers to the fleeting condition of celebrity that attaches to an object of media attention, then passes to some new object as soon as the public"s attention span is exhausted. It is often used in reference to figures in the entertainment industry and other areas of popular culture.
4. Beyond one"s years
这里的意思是“超越了年龄（的限制）”，例如：Copper is clearly a child, but in some ways he"s wise beyond his years. 考伯无疑是个孩子，但在某些方面他的聪明超过了他这个年龄应有的。
文化面面观
Anne Hathaway 安妮·海瑟薇
Born: Nov 12, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
First Major Screen Credit: The Princess Diaries (2001)
An actress whose first big screen gig also proved to be her breakthrough, Anne Hathaway became a familiar face to millions of moviegoers thanks to her starring role in Garry Marshall"s 2001 hit The Princess Diaries. Cast as a clumsy high school girl who finds out she is the princess of a small country, Hathaway was able to prove her comedic timing opposite no less than Julie Andrews.
Hailing from Brooklyn, where she was born November 12, 1982, Hathaway became involved in the theater at a young age, and as a teenager performed with the Barrow Group, a prestigious New York theatre company. She did her first industry work in the short-lived but
critically praised TV series Get Real before auditioning for Marshall, who, according to legend, cast the actress as the accident-prone princess after she fell off a chair during her audition. The success of The Princess Diaries opened a number of doors for Hathaway, but she chose the one that led to Vassar College, where she enrolled in 2000. In the years that followed Hathaway"s studies in English and Women"s Studies took notable precedence over her screen career - but alas the call of Hollywood was too much to resist and it didn"t take long for the studious young actress to once again step before the cameras.
Though a supporting performance in the 2002 box-office disappointment Nicholas Nickleby offered the radiant Hathaway little chance to shine, a lead performance as the eponymous character in the fantasy-themed romantic comedy Ella Enchanted (2004) found her stepping into some big slippers for the unique take on the Cinderella legend. If one large-scale Hollywood production wasn"t enough to usher in Hathaway"s return to film, fans could rest easy knowing that in
addition to returning to familiar territory in The Princess Diaries 2 (2004) she would be moving into edgier territory with the gritty street drama Havoc (also 2004). A supporting role as Jake Gyllenhall"s character"s devestated wife in Ang Lee"s Oscar-winning drama Brokeback Mountain helped to add notable depth to the proceedings, and in 2006 Hathaway ventured into the world of high fashion in director David Frankel"s The Devil Wears Prada. An ultra-stylish adaptation of author Lauren Weisberger"s wildly popular novel, The Devil Wears Prada capitalized on Hathaway"s endearingly convincing onscreen naïveté by casting her as a unassuming small town girl who lands a job working bitterly cynical and outspoken fashion magazine editors in all of New York City.
The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which she starred opposite Meryl Streep, has become the highest-grossing film of her career, and Becoming Jane, in which she stars as Jane Austen, was released in 2007.
Hathaway"s acting-style has been compared to that of Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn, and she cites Hepburn as her favorite actress and Streep as her idol. People magazine named her one of 2001"s breakthrough stars and in 2006 she was listed as one of the world"s "50 Most Beautiful People". (answers.com)
考考你
用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。
1. Well, not to put too fine a point on it, it"s entirely your fault.
2. Now, if you"ll excuse me, Mr. Butler is our guest.
3. In the age of internet, everyone can get 15 minutes of fame.
4. Young golfer plays beyond her years.
The princess diaries《公主日记》1 精讲之四 考考你 参考答案
1. 我上班迟到了，不要告发我！
I"m late for work — don"t tell on me!
2. 尽管她没有经验，但她能巧妙地克服这些困难。
Inexperienced she was, she could cope with the difficulties wonderfully well.
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