重点讲解
1. based on sth：(以某事)为基础,为根据
eg. The movie is based on a real-life incident.
这部电影以现实生活中的一件事为基础。
2. glom onto sth：对…产生强烈的兴趣
eg. Kids soon glom onto the latest trend.
年轻人很快就迷上了最新的款式。
对话部分
Jefferson: Make one like that.
做个跟它一样的。
Emma: You want me to make a hat? You don't have enough?
你要我做帽子 你还嫌帽子少吗?
Jefferson: Well, none of them work, do they?Or else you wouldn't be here.Now make a hat and get it to work.
可那些不是都没用吗 不然也不用把你请来了 做一顶帽子 并让它显灵。
Emma: I don't...
我不......
Emma: You have magic. You can do it.
你有魔力 你能做到。
Emma: The hats, the tea... Your psychotic behavior.You think you're the mad hatter.
帽子 茶 你疯疯癫癫的行为 你认为自己是疯帽子先生。
Jefferson: My name's Jefferson.
我叫杰弗森。
Emma: Okay. You've clearly glommed on to my kid Henry's thing.They're just stories.
好吧 显然你完全接受了亨利的理论 那只是童话罢了。
Emma: The mad hatter is in "Alice in wonderland," a book. A book I actually read.
疯帽子先生是《爱丽丝梦游仙境》里的人 是本书 我读过的书。
Jefferson: Stories? What's a story?When you were in high school, did you learn about the Civil War?
童话吗 童话是什么 你上高中的时候 学过南北战争吗?
Emma: Yeah, of course.
当然。
Jefferson: How? Did you read about it, perchance, in a book?How is that any less real than any other book?
怎么学 会不会凑巧是在书上看到的 你怎么知道它就比别的书真实呢?
Emma: History books are based on history.
历史书是以历史为依据的。
Jefferson: And storybooks are based on what, imagination?
那么童话书以什么为依据 想象吗?
Jefferson: Where does that come from?It has to come from somewhere.
想象又从哪儿来的 总归有个出处。