亲爱的听友们元旦快乐~ 抱歉这些天是我今年第一次放小长假调休，想放松一下，耽误了前些天更新。不过趁休息时间去看电影，终于在院线电影看到了一部很喜欢的电影，《心灵奇旅》，这部温暖小片很适合年末看。今天我们就来聊聊这部电影吧~ 【节目的中英文文本可以关注微信公众号Zoey八点英语 回复 心灵 即可】 The movie follows Joe Gardner, a middle school music teacher who has dreamed of performing jazz music onstage, and finally gets a chance at a club. However, an accident caused Joe’s soul to be separated from his body and transported to the heaven-like You Seminar. 影片讲的是一个叫Joe的初中音乐老师在好不容易拿到了能在正式的音乐场合表演爵士的机会、离自己的音乐梦想就差最后一步的时候，被一个意外带到了类似天堂的一个地方——叫You Seminar，介于生与死之间的心理中心。 Joe wants to get back to earth and returns to his life, so he teams up with another soul, named 22, who has never understood the appeal of human experience. 后来为了能回到地球，Joe和一个对人类生活一点兴趣都没有的灵魂22结伴了。最后他们意外地发现了人生中很多被大家忽略的乐趣，开始了新的生活。 在看电影的时候就想到了一本书叫《被讨厌的勇气》，里面提到的很多道理是一样的。比如电影探索的主题是：人活着，一定要有人生目的吗？ Many people are struggling to find a life purpose. We try to figure out what we’re good at, what we’re born to do, and what we hope to achieve. But, does everyone has to have a life purpose? 很多人穷尽一生都在焦虑自己的人生目的、人生意义是什么。 就像影片里有很多被困在“the zone”组的人。 So what is the zone? In positive psychology, the zone means a flow state. It is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. 心理学上把“心流”口语化地叫做the zone, 形容人在很专注地投入某件事并且很享受的时候会有的一种感觉。就像一直有音乐梦的Joe在弹钢琴的时候就有这种感觉。 但电影里说，有很多人却因为过度执迷于the zone, 而成了lost soul——迷失的灵魂。 Moonwind says, The zone is enjoyable. But when that joy becomes an obsession, one becomes disconnected from life. Lost souls are obsessed by something that disconnects them from life. 心流区是很让人享受的，但如果那种乐趣变成了一种执迷，就会让你跟生活脱离。迷失的灵魂总是对这些让他们跟生活没有连接的事而固执。 Just like Joe, he knows very well he is obsessed with jazz music and believes that he was born to be a jazz musician. So when he finds he died before he had the chance to perform at a club, he says, “my life was meaningless. No, no, no, no. I will not accept this.” Joe在第一次去世后回顾自己的一生，发现自己在即将上台表演前就去世了，他非常懊恼地说：“我的人生是没有意义的！我不能接受！” Before Joe is sent to the heaven, Joe shouts, “I’m not dying today. Not when my life just started.” 他不愿意自己在那一天去世，因为觉得自己的人生自此才刚刚开始。 可是当他后来真的有机会去表演了以后，走出表演厅，却开始质疑自己：I thought I would feel different. 以为自己在好不容易达成梦想之后感觉会不一样。可达到目的后的快感消失得比自己想象中的快很多。 所以其实人生不只是一个目的地，不是到达了就结束了。 它是无数个瞬间连接在一起的旅程。 If you forget to enjoy the countless moments in your life and only focus on chasing for your goal, the path to get to your goal will become meaningless. That’s why many people are stuck in pain, maybe because they don’t know what their dreams are, or maybe because they haven’t been there yet. 如果意识不到人生重要的是当下的瞬间，就会执着于探究自己未来的目的地到底是什么。所以很多人都焦虑于自己的心流区和梦想是什么，或者因为还没有达成目的而苦恼。 就像灵魂22。她和我们很多人一样，目前不清楚自己具体想做什么，似乎人生也因此就没有了意义，总是被家人和朋友嘲笑自己一事无成。 直到后来，当她到了人间，会感动于落叶飘到自己手上的美好，为自己能自由走路而兴奋，才意识到其实自己的spark--触发激情的点，就是享受生活中的每一刻。 So just like what the book The Courage to be Disliked says, “No matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on. That you, living in the here and now, are the one who determines your own life.” 回到最开始说的《被讨厌的勇气》，这本书最后也说了，“以前发生的事都不应该对你从此刻开始该如何过生活有影响。只有活在此时此刻的你，才决定了你的人生。”所以请用心过好当下的每一天，认真做好每一件事，它总能带你到达某一个地方。而对你而言的人生意义在做好“此时此刻”的同时，也会逐渐明晰。

今天跟你们分享一部挺治愈的电影《实习生》The Intern，是主演过《教父2》《美国往事》的罗伯特·德尼罗和安妮海瑟薇主演的。 A fashion company run by Jules Ostin, played by Anne Hathaway hired an unconventional intern, a seventy-year-old widower, Ben Whittaker. Ben went through a period of retirement, he felt empty void in his heart and decided to get back to work. Later Ben became a valuable employee and stared an unexpected friendship with the company’s CEO Jules Ostin. 【节目的中英文全文可以关注微信公众号Zoey八点英语 回复 实习生 获取】 （抱歉今天的节目全文不知道为什么一直上传失败）

今天跟你们分享一首我最近在单曲循环的歌，Finneas O’Connell的Let’s Fall in Love for the Night. 节目全文可关注微信公众号Zoey八点英语 回复 let's fall in love获取 Finneas就是Billie Eillish的亲哥，真的是个宝藏男孩啊，很多歌都很好听，今年也才23岁。 他常说“Billie has the most beautiful voice I’ve ever heard.”一直都帮妹妹一起写歌，其实自己也非常有才华，被很多人忽略了。 Alright, go back to the song, Let’s Fall in Love for the Night. It was inspired by a girl Finneas never met in person. Talking to Billboard, Finneas says he was in Osaka, Japan, FaceTiming a girl he’s never met and knowing there was nothing he could really do about it. So he wrote the song about the day he would fantasize having with her. 这首歌其实讲的是关于Finneas幻象和一个一直在聊天但从没见过面的女孩儿见面后会发生的故事。 他当时在日本大阪和她FaceTime，却没办法见面，启发了他写下这首歌。 歌里说的是： Let's fall in love for the night 今夜让我们坠入爱河 And forget in the morning 明日便相忘于江湖 You need to pick me up 你需要载我一同上路 I'll be there in twenty five 与你相处的时光我贪多无厌 I like to push my luck 我偏爱得寸进尺 So take my hand, let's take a drive 所以就牵起我的手一齐开车兜风吧 他幻想和她一起开车兜风 I've been living in the future 我一直对未来满怀憧憬 Hoping I might see you sooner 希冀着不久后便能见你容颜 I want you, right at shotgun I knew 我想要你乘坐在车副驾 When I got one right 我知道你就是我的命中注定 （双关one right原指副驾驶位 此处亦指对的人） 尽管 You won't stay with me, I know 我深知你不会为我停留 But you can let away with me until you go 但在离去之前你还有时间对我敞开心扉 很像《爱在黎明破晓前》，他们只是聊天、爱上了彼此但最后没办法在一起。不一样的是爱在系列有后续还结婚了。而Let’s Fall in Love for the Night只有“You won’t stay with me, I know.”—我知道你不会为我停留。 歌里提到了I like to push my luck, so take my hand and let’s take a drive.想要得寸进尺、让自己再幸运一些，牵起我的手一起开车兜风吧。 这句其实跟他发布的上一首歌Luck Pusher是互相呼应的。 Finneas says, They do reference each other a bit! “If you’re bad odds, I’m a luck pusher” and “I like to push my luck” -- it feels like two songs that know that the other one exists. Luck Pusher也很好听，这两首放在一起的话会发现讲的可能是同一个故事。 它的歌词是： On again, off again 开开关关 That's the way it's always been for you and me 这就是你我一起的方式 Fall in love, fall apart 分分合合 Draw the circle 'till you start to see 这段感情画上一个圈，直到你能看见我的爱 You don't make it easy for me to stay or try to leave 你让我难以做出离开的选择 I don't take it easy, had to walk away if it's killing me 我很难受，如果这份爱让我窒息，我便离开 If you're bad odds then I'm a luck pusher 如果你是不幸的那么我会是好运的推动者 Better off, later on when the rain has come and gone, and we've ran dry 幸运的是，一场雨过后我们又分开了 We can both find our own place to live and love and die 我们都可以找到属于各自的地方去生活，去爱，直至死去 是不是很像五月天《突然好想你》的那句歌词 --为何我们还是要奔向各自的幸福和遗憾中老去。 写的都是那个想在一起却没办法在一起的人。 好吧今天就分享到这儿啦，Finneas的其他歌也很多很好听的，强烈推荐你们去听一听。预祝周末愉快。

周末去看了《小妇人》 Little Women. The movie was set in 1860s in Concord, New Hampshire, in the aftermath of the American Civil War. It follows the lives of four sisters, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth. （抱歉最近出差和工作耽误了节目更新，这周开始恢复更新，谢谢听友们的等待。） 节目的中英文全文可关注微信公众号Zoey八点英语 回复 小妇人 获取 故事发生在19世纪60年代美国南北战争期的Concord，New Hampshire州的首府。当时因为战争把男性都召上了战场，脱离了生产，越来越多的女性开始摆脱传统家庭束缚，投身社会劳动和政治。 当时看完电影只觉得对Jo和Laurie没在一起意难平。 （没看过小说原著，仅从电影剧情上聊） Jo and Laurie met at a party. Jo had scorched her dress so she didn’t join the dancing party. Laurie didn’t laugh at her. They turned out dancing happily outside of the party room. Jo和Laurie最开始认识是因为在一个舞会上，Jo烧焦了自己的裙子不好意思出去跳舞，而Laurie就陪着她很开心在屋子外面跳起了舞。 他们见面后Jo说的第一句话就为后面的故事埋下了伏笔。 Jo说的是：I can’t get over my disappointment in being a girl. 我真的很失望为什么我是一个女生。 当时的社会环境认为女性应该完全依附于男性。 出版商Mr. Dashwood就直接对投稿的Jo说: If the main character is a girl, make sure she is married by the end. Or dead. Either way. 如果故事的主角是个女生,请确保她最后要么结婚了,要么死了。 So Jo at that time was very very afraid of being married. She said she supposed marriage has always been an economic proposition. It’s mercenary, and has nothing to do with romance. 当时的Jo是很恐惧婚姻的。她觉得婚姻是女性对男性的屈服，是功利主义。 在姐妹Meg结婚的时候Jo的反应也很激烈。 She said to Meg--We can leave right now. I can make money. I’ll sell stories. I’ll do anything…And you, you should be an actress, and you should have a life on the stage. 她觉得Meg应该成为一名舞台上闪闪发光的女演员，而不是走进婚姻。对那时候的Jo来说婚姻是对事业的抹杀，而她热爱自己的写作事业。 所以当时Meg结婚后，Laurie对Jo的深情表白遭到了残忍拒绝。 Laurie said to Jo, I have loved you ever since I’ve known you, Jo. I couldn’t help it. And I tried to show it, and you wouldn’t let me, which is fine. But I must make you hear now, and give me an answer, because I cannot go on like this any longer! I gave up billiards [ˈbɪljərdz]. I gave up everything you didn’t like. I’m happy I did. It’s fine, and I waited, and I never complained, because I figured you’d love me, Jo. And I realize I’m not half good enough, and I’m not this great man. 他能感觉到Jo也是爱他的，想跟她在一起。但Jo却说： You’re a great deal too good for me. And I’m so grateful to you, and I’m so proud of you. And I just , I don’t see why I can’t love you as you want me to. 我只是没办法以你希望我爱你的方式爱你。 Jo: Listen, you’ll find some lovely accomplished girl, who will love you and adore you. And she’s going to make a fine mistress [ˈmɪstrəs] for your fine house. But I wouldn’t, alright? 你会找到那个可爱的出色的崇拜你的女孩，会成为你豪宅的女主人。但我不会。 And we would quarrel, because we can’t help it, even now. I’d hate elegant society, you’d hate my scribbling [ˈskrɪblɪŋ]. And we would be unhappy…Teddy, I don’t believe I will ever marry. I’m happy as I am. And I love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up. 我们会争吵，我不会喜欢上层社会的做派，你不会喜欢我乱写东西，我们在一起不会开心的。 我热爱自由，不认为自己会结婚。 Laurie却说：I think you will marry, Jo. I think you’ll find someone, and love them, and you will live and die for them, because that’s your way, and you will. And I’ll watch. Laurie最后这句“我会看着的”真是心酸。 其实Jo说的“I’d hate elegant society”不喜欢做作优雅的上流社会做派，从他们第一次在party屋子外面独自跳舞就可以看出，Laurie也不迎合这些虚伪的东西，这方面他们并没有不合适。只是Jo单纯地不想结婚。 她爱Laurie吗？我认为是爱的。 在Jo经历了Beth去世回家后，已经七年过去了。 Jo对她妈妈说：Perhaps I was too quick in turning him down, Laurie. 我当时拒绝Laurie拒绝得太快了。 Her mom asked her: Do you love him? Jo said: If he asked me again I think I would say yes. Do you think he’ll ask me again? 如果Laurie再问一次是否爱他，Jo会说Yes。 妈妈还反问了一句 But do you love him? Jo说I care more to be loved. I want to be loved. “我更在意被爱。我想要被爱。”很多人听到这里觉得Jo只是受了打击为了被爱而回来找Laurie，但Jo后面解释了她对女性地位低下的无奈，这里她说的I want to be loved，我认为其实指的是I want to be loved, and respected. Jo的下一段说的是： You know, I just feel like, women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it! But I’m so lonely! 女性也有想法、有灵魂、有野心、有天赋，而不只是美貌。Jo很烦大家都说爱情是女性的全部。她觉得很孤单。 这也回应了她之前不接受婚姻的理由，害怕自己的才华被婚姻埋没。 而后来Jo已经有了转变，因为她发现比起令人恐惧的结婚，她更害怕的，是失去Laurie。 Jo wrote a letter to Laurie seven years later after she returned home. My dear Teddy, I miss you more than I can express. I used to think that the worst fate was to be a wife. I was young and stupid. But now I have changed. The worst fate is to live my life without you in it. I was wrong to turn you down and run away to New York. 但很可惜，当时Laurie已经和Jo的妹妹Amy结婚了，Jo的信Laurie也没机会看到了。 Laurie明明也还爱着Jo。重聚的时候当Jo很开心跟他说Oh Teddy you’re back! Laurie问：Are you glad to see me then? Jo说：Yes! Laurie淡淡说了一句：Oh I was worried.我想太多了。也就是Laurie以为这七年来Jo并不想见他。 到后来和Jo最后在一起的Friedrich教授出现后，Laurie反复问了三四遍， Who’s this? Who are you? Can someone tell me who this is? I’m Laurie. Who are you? --你是谁？Laurie并不想接受教授的出现。 再到把Jo送上马车追Feirdrich，Laurie依靠在扶梯很失落。 那Laurie爱Amy吗？也爱，但更多的是享受被爱吧。 他在告诉Jo自己结婚了的时候，对Jo说： I‘ve always loved you. But the love I feel for Amy, it’s different. You’re the only one that ever calls me that, Jo, “Teddy.” Amy calls me “My lord.” Jo是唯一一个叫Laurie “Teddy”的人，就像一起的玩伴。但Amy叫他“My lord”我的殿下。 Laurie自幼失去父母，很缺爱。而Amy从最开始就默默爱Laurie，为了他不跟富人Fred结婚；用一句“I despise you”骂醒了失去Jo以后花天酒地的Laurie。等了七年Jo的Laurie也是累了吧，接受了“被爱”。 所幸Jo最后也找到了适合自己的Feirdrich教授——懂她对写作的热爱，最开始就匿名送了《莎士比亚三部曲》，作为评论家也能在写作上给Jo提供帮助。 It seems like they all have a happy ending. But I think it’s all about timing. Meet the right one, at the right time.看起来他们似乎都有了美好的结局，虽然有很多遗憾。其实就是对的时间，对的人，缺一不可。

》》》》》》》》一键领取入口《《《《《《《 之前我们聊了Taylor新专首单cardigan，今天来聊聊另两首跟这首歌密切相关的歌。 【节目中英文全文可以关注微信公众号Zoey八点英语 回复 abc 获取】 【英文参考】 Taylor once explained in a YouTube Q&A celebrating the album’s release that“These three songs explore a love triangle from all three people’s perspectives at different times in their lives.” Cardigan is told by a woman named Betty. She is now a grown woman and looks back on her younger self. So maybe like twenty years later, Betty still remembers being lost, and she says her ex, James, made her feel insecure at that time. Chase two girls, lose the one When you are young, they assume you know nothing. But I knew everything when I was young. 追求两个女生，失去了其中一个 当你年轻，人们总以为你什么都不知道 但其实我当时什么都知道