1) anteroom: a small room, especially a waiting room, which leads into a larger, more important room
2) participate: to take part in or become involved in an activity
3) syn, sym: together, with
3-1) sympathy: (an expression of) understanding and care for someone else's suffering
3-2) synchronize: to (cause to) happen at the same time; When people synchronize their watches, they make sure that all their watches show the same time
4) de- 負面的
4-1) derailed: If a train derails or is derailed, it comes off the railway tracks.
5) curricular: the group of subjects studied in a school, college, etc.
6) e- 淨空,消滅
6-1) eliminate: to remove or take away
7) fatal: A fatal illness or accident, etc. causes death
8) 常考字尾ly卻是adj的字:
8-1) elderly: old
8-2) lovely: pleasant or enjoyable
8-3) friendly: behaving in a pleasant, kind way towards someone
9) embellish: to make something more beautiful or interesting by adding something to it
B. Physical senses
See, touch, taste, listen, smell
a. Entrapment
The film opened to mixed or average reviews as described by Metacritic. Rotten Tomatoes lists the film as receiving 38% positive reviews. Critics focused on a scene where Zeta-Jones trains for the heist by worming around a net of red threads that simulate laser beams. The camera lingers on her buttocks through much of the scene. Another similar scene takes place when she is actually crawling through the real laser beam field to steal the mask, including some close-ups of her derrière. The laser scene was choreographed by Paul Harris, who also choreographed the wand-to-wand combat sequences in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Other critics such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, Variety, and Desson Howe/Thomson of the Washington Post praised the film.
The film was a box office success, grossing over $87 million in the US and $212 million worldwide. Entrapment was nominated for two Razzie Awards including Worst Actress (Zeta-Jones, also for The Haunting) and Worst Screen Couple (Zeta-Jones and Connery). The film was screened out of competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
b. dangerous liaisons ( 1988)
Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 historical drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
The film was directed by Stephen Frears. The performances of Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer, the cinematography of Philippe Rousselot, the costume design by James Acheson, and the screenplay by Christopher Hampton, garnered critical acclaim. Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick and Peter Capaldi appeared in supporting roles, as did young relatively unknown actors Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman.
The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture; it won those for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Art Direction.
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