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當成績 A 成為平均分
瘋狂的谷子：年輕人為何愿意為一枚徽章花錢?
在網上，什么內容賽道更容易火？
2 Angle 角度
8 Phenomenon 現象
2
5
8
FOCUS/ 關注
INFORMATION / 信息儲存店
一次征友，終身自閉
22 Word 段子客
22
娛樂圈，熱搜之下的標簽
26 娛樂聚焦
26
媒體在發聲
30 多媒體
30
50 多年了，《百年孤獨》真被拍出來了
36 影視基地
36
12 Topic 話題
16 View 言論
19 Voice 聲音
12 別人以為的我VS實際上的我
PREFACE / 卷首
1 別燃燒自己來給別人取暖
CONTENTS
APPRECIATION ZONE / 美文精粹
SOUP / 讀書時間
TEENS’ WORLD / 同齡生態
LETTER / 讀者往來
毛坯人生與精裝照片
請你原諒我好嗎？
上網，約等于裸奔
38 美文鮮讀
38
42
46
為什么今天人們不再“瓊瑤”了？
52 經典
52
子彈正中眉心時，教育完成了閉環
64 花young曬場
64
68 悄悄話
THE TOUR OF WORLD / 環球采風
社交禮儀：數字時代，我們如何社交？
56 環球視角
56
FUN CLASS / 快樂學堂
毒液：最后一舞
聽力模擬試題（三十九）
60 口語通
62 隨身聽
60
62
56
46
ANGLE 角度 PHENOMENON 現象
當成績 A 成為平均分
Grade inflation is spreading from
high school to college — and it
hurts learning. This might sound
impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like
the idea that education is about learning:
facts, skills, concepts, research, culture,
analysis, inspiration. It’s supposed to
enrich our lives and make us better citizens
and independent thinkers. But over the
last decade and a half, the goal of learning
has given way to proxies for learning:
grades and degrees. The unfortunate result
has been inflation of both. They rise ever
higher; learning doesn’t.
E m p l o y e r s a r e r e q u i r i n g a
bachelor’s degree or more for work
that really doesn’t need it. Fortunately,
hiring managers have begun to learn
that, and degree requirements have
been dropping in many fields. But
grade inflation marches on. A 2022
Los Angeles Times analysis showed
Today,
Grade A
Is for
Average
文章選自美國
《洛杉磯時報》
2 英語街·高中版（第 2 輯）
I
n playgrounds, it has become
common to see groups of children
huddle together, striking swap
deals for My Little Pony cards like
they’re trading stocks on Wall Street. “You
have this one, but I don’t!”
The cards are part of a wider mania
for collectibles based on popular anime
characters that is sweeping across China
— sparking an economic frenzy that is
even being felt on the country’s stock
markets.
Anime and manga have been popular
in China for decades, but the trend for
collecting related merchandise has blown
up over the past couple of years. Children
一枚手心大小的徽章，在外人看來可能就是一個沒什么用
處的鐵片，但年輕人愿意花幾十乃至上百元去買。除了徽章，
他們還會花錢去買跟自己偶像有關的海報、手辦等。這些收藏
品，在坊間有一個名稱——“谷子”，源于英文“goods（商
品）”的諧音，在當下主要代指漫畫、動畫、游戲、偶像等衍
生出的周邊產品，包括海報、徽章、亞克力、手辦等。2024
年，“谷子經濟”成為人們熱議的話題，谷子、吧唧、痛包、
柄圖這些二次元術語，也被更多圈外人所知。
瘋狂的谷子：
年輕人為何愿意為一枚徽章花錢?
VOICE 聲音
關注 > 角度 5
Collectible Card Craze
Grips China’s Youth
TOPIC 話題 VIEW 言論 VOICE 聲音
總有新“?！痹诼飞系牧髁繒r代，接“?！痹臁肮！?，
也成了網民的必修課。在過去的2024年里，爆火的短視頻層
出不窮，熱“?！币粋€接一個：
#city不city啊？#
#重生之我在……#
#偷感很重#
#Passion：人生需要passion！#
#北京到底有誰在啊？#
#小小……拿捏#
#聽勸文學#
#8個瑞士卷#
#對齊顆粒度#
#柯學微do#
#班味#
#我配擁有一杯咖啡嗎？#
一個視頻火了，就能帶火一個熱“?！?。但大多數人不
知道它是怎么火的，很多人就是看個熱鬧，或者有人會覺得是
運氣好，其實每一個爆火出圈的短視頻背后都是有邏輯的。
WHAT MAKES
SOMETHING GO
VIRAL?
You’ve seen it happen—a post explodes;
a video racks up millions of views overnight, or
a blog post dominates your social media feed
for days. That’s the magic of virality. But what
fuels this contagion of clicks and shares?
What makes people want to click that little
arrow? Understanding the psychology of social
sharing is a game-changer for anyone aiming
to make a substantial impact online.
在網上，什么內容賽道
更容易火？
ANGLE 角度 PHENOMENON 現象
你已經見證了這樣的事情——某篇帖子爆火、某段
視頻一夜之間收獲數百萬瀏覽量、某篇博客霸榜熱搜好幾
天。這就是病毒式傳播的魔力。但是，到底是什么推動了
這些內容在人群中的點擊量和分享量呢？
是什么在驅使人們點擊那個小箭頭？對于任何想要
在網上擁有重大影響力的人來說，了解人類社交分享的心
理很關鍵。
8 英語街·高中版（第 2 輯）
What People Think I Do / What I Really Do 別人以為的我 VS實際上的我
VOICE 聲音 ANGLE 角度 PHENOMENON 現象 TOPIC話題 VIEW 言論
Teacher
12 英語街·高中版（第 2 輯）
FOCUS 關注 > 話題 13
You hesitate to spend 1,000,
but you spend 9.9 yuan for
one hundred times so easily.
— For many, hidden
costs and small expenditures are the main
reason why their wallets are empty.
不敢花 1000，但是敢花 100 個 9.9。
——對于很多人來說，隱形消費、小額支
出是錢包空空的主要原因。
You can do one task in five hours, and
you can also finish five tasks in one hour.
— The unique quality of selective
procrastination
五個小時只做了一件事，一個小時可以做五
件事。
——選擇性拖延癥的特別之處
At home: It tastes awful. At school:
It’s a royal tribute. If it’s somebody else’s
apple, it tastes 100% better.
— The changing taste
在家的時候：難吃。在學校的時候：皇家貢品。
如果是別人的蘋果，好吃程度再加 100%。
——味道的變化
Are you there?
— What does “too purpose-driven”
mean?
在嗎？
——什么叫“目的性太強”？
ANGLE 角度 PHENOMENON 現象
“Love you” just means thank you now.
“Baby” is just a way to say hello. “Dear”
essentially equates hey.
— Language has indeed become inflated.
“愛你”現在只是謝謝你的意思，“寶寶”
只是打招呼的意思，“親”就是喂的意思。
——語言已經通貨膨脹了
A person who is not afraid of exams
will succeed in everything he does.
— A netizen commented on exams.
一個人如果不害怕考試，那他做什么事都
會成功的。
——網友如是評論考試
The real freedom to dress means
“I don’t know why, but I respect your
choice.”
— A Weibo user said she rode
her motorbike to the library to study.
She found the learning particularly
challenging and heavy that day. It was
only when she left that she realized she
was still wearing her helmet — she had
spent the whole afternoon studying with
a helmet on, and no one gave her an odd
look or reminded her.
真正的穿衣自由就是，“我不理解，但是
我尊重你的選擇?！?/p>
——微博一網友說自己騎車去圖書館復習，
她那天學得異常吃力和沉重，走的時候才發現
自己還戴著頭盔——她戴著頭盔看了一下午書，
沒有一個人投來異樣目光，也沒人提醒她。
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FOCUS 關注 > 言論 17
Everyone is either going through
a storm, coming out of the storm, or
preparing to enter a storm.
—Storms
每個人要么正在經歷一場風暴，要么剛走
出風暴，要么準備進入風暴。
——人生的風暴
TOPIC 話題 VIEW言論 VOICE 聲音
Boundaries should not be crossed
without permission. You can only cultivate
affection and then wait for an invitation.
— Boundaries
界線是不能隨便穿過的。你只能培養感情，
然后等待邀請。
——界線
If you are afraid, why bother desiring
it? If you desire it, why bother being afraid?
— Always remember these lines from
The Peony Pavilion whenever you hesitate
between the yearning for an opportunity
and the anxiety of competition and
unworthiness.
你既怕又何必想，你既想又何必怕。
——當你每次在對機會的渴望和對競爭與
不配得的焦慮里徘徊時，請牢記《牡丹亭》里
的這句念白。
Do not spoil what you have by
desiring what you have not; remember
that what you now have was once among
the things you only hoped for.
— Epicurus (341 BC – 270 BC,
ancient Greek philosopher)
莫因渴望你沒有的，而錯過你已擁有的。
要知道，你現在擁有的，也曾是你渴望的。
——伊壁鳩魯（前 341—前 270，古希臘
哲學家）
We are subtle in expressing our
feelings, but really direct in saying hurtful
things!
— Subtle vs direct
我們表達感情很含蓄，但在說傷人的話
時真的很直接！
——含蓄與直接
People who can save money can do so
no matter what method they use. Even if
you store a spender’s money on the moon,
he will travel to the moon for the money
eight hundred times a day.
— In response to this statement, a
netizen joked: Don’t scold me anymore,
because I’m the same when dieting.
能存錢的人，不管用啥方法都能存得住。
存不住錢的人就算把錢給他放月球存著，他也
會一天去八百趟月球。
——針對這一說法，有網友調侃回應：別
罵了，我減肥吃東西也這樣。
停車場沒有位置了，
你能說我的車不好嗎？
I
s it accurate to say my car
is bad just because the
parking lot is full?
事件導讀
2024 年 11 月底，網紅博主“羊毛月”因為發布了一則嘲笑年輕人找工作難的視頻，
在互聯網上引起軒然大波。與此同時，“羊毛月沒資格嘲笑每個努力生活的人”“羊毛
月曾稱萬柳書院業主為少爺”“羊毛月 60 秒視頻廣告報價 35 萬”等相關詞條也先后沖
上微博熱搜。反感、批評的聲音像潮水一樣迅速涌向“羊毛月”，許多網友批評他“何
不食肉糜”。
TOPIC 話題 VIEW 言論 VOICE 聲音
FOCUS 關注 > 聲音 19
一次征友，終身自閉
One Attempt,
a Lifetime of
Being Reclusive
One Attempt,
a Lifetime of
Being Reclusive
I ran into my niece today. She told
me, “The Qing Dynasty has already
ended.” Suddenly, I became a bit
preachy and started to test her, asking
her when the Qing Dynasty ended.
She said, “The Qing Dynasty ended
in the eighth grade, the first term.”
Well, my bit of preachy attitude was
completely defeated by her pure
student innocence.
今天碰到我侄女，聊天時她說“大清
已經亡啦”。我突然人味下沉爹味上升，
開始考她，問她大清啥時候亡的。她說“大
清是八年級上冊亡的”。我這點爹味在她
濃烈的學生味面前不堪一擊。
I took a class for someone once
in college and the course was civil
engineering. What I was told was
that it was an easy class, not that a
male student was needed. Since I was
planning to go out with friends after
that class, I wore full makeup and a
sling dress. As soon as I entered the
classroom, I found I was the only girl
there. The teacher directly asked me
if I was there to take someone else’s
place because there was no girl in this
class.
我大學里面給別人代過一次課，是土
木工程。對方只說是水課，但是沒說要男
生。我當時準備上完課出去玩的，便化了
全妝，穿了吊帶裙。我一進去發現就我一
個女生。老師直接問我是不是代課的，因
為這個班沒女生。
22 英語街·高中版（第 2 輯）
Hot Hashtags
in the
Showbiz
娛樂圈，
熱搜之下的標簽
26 英語街·高中版（第 2 輯）
養貓、不生育，是現
代人的一種生活方
式， 但 在 美 國 的 當
下， 這 兩 個 詞 的 疊
加，變成一種政治表
達。在一些人看來，
這無疑是一種羞辱和
污名化。
LINK
Pop superstar Taylor Swift signed an Instagram
post last September as “Taylor Swift Childless
Cat Lady”. Swift’s “Childless Cat Lady”
remark is a clear dig at controversial comments made
by Republican vice presidential JD Vance,
Donald Trump’s running mate, interpreted
by many as disparaging toward women
without kids. JD Vance had previously
claimed that a bunch of childless cat
ladies who were miserable at their own
lives and the choices that they had made
wanted to make the rest of the country
miserable, too.
Taylor Swift
Childless Cat Lady
去年 9 月，流行天后霉霉
在 Ins 上發表了一篇署名為“泰
勒·斯威夫特——無孩貓女士”
的帖子。霉霉的“無孩貓女士”
言論明顯是在諷刺特朗普的競
選搭檔、共和黨副總統萬
斯的爭議言論。萬斯說，
一群沒有孩子的貓女士痛
苦于自己的生活和選擇，
她們想讓這個國家的其他
人也感到痛苦。許多人將
萬斯的言論解讀為對無孩
女性的蔑視。
無孩貓女士
霉霉
INFORMATION 信息儲存店 > 娛樂聚焦 27
Media 媒體在發聲
An alarming phenomenon has
sprung up over the past few
years: Many
students are arriving
at college unprepared
to read entire books.
A Columbia professor
said his students are
overwhelmed at the
thought of reading multiple books a
semester; a professor at the University
of Virginia said that his students shut
down when they’re confronted with
ideas they don’t understand. Criticizing
young people’s literacy is a pastime
that stretches back centuries, but in the
past decade, something seems to have
noticeably shifted. Most of the professors
said they’ve seen a generational change in
how their students engage with literature.
Why is this happening? The allure of
smartphones and social media came up,
and it appears that many middle and high
schools are teaching fewer full books. The
problem does not appear to be that “kids
these days” are incurious or uninterested
in reading. Instead, young people might be
responding to a cultural message: Books
just aren’t that important.
《大西洋月刊》
Professors didn’t think their students
were lazy. If anything, they were shocked
at how overscheduled and anxious
college kids are today—and
they saw that their students’
schedules are crowded with
activities that are less about
personal development and
more relevant to future
employment. There are too
many demands on their time and focus
to immerse themselves easily or fully
in works of literature that might take 20
hours to consume.
In 1971, 37 percent of students said
that a central objective of their college
years was to become well-off financially.
Seventy-three percent said it was to
develop a meaningful philosophy of
life. By now, those numbers had almost
reversed. Eighty-two percent of students
said that it was essential for them to use
college to become well-off financially,
while 47 percent said they wanted to
develop a meaningful philosophy of
life. Pundits and parents alike have
emphasized preprofessional courses and
downplayed the importance of humanistic
study. In this environment, spending hours
reading a novel may seem unproductive.
Gen?Z?came?to?see
books?as?a?waste?of?
time.
年輕人覺得讀書是一件浪費
時間的事。
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coverage
INFORMATION 信息儲存店 > 多媒體 31
literacy /?l?t?r?si/ n.
讀寫能力；識字；精通文學
illiteracy /??l?t?r?si/ n.
文盲
illiterate /??l?t?r?t/
adj.
文盲的；不識字的；不會讀寫的；( 對某
學科 ) 了解不多的；外行的；不通順的；行文
拙劣的
n.
文盲；無知識的人
literate /?l?t?r?t/
adj.
有讀寫能力的；有文化的
n.
識字的人；有學問的人
權威人士和家長們都強調就業指導課程，而
輕視了人文研究的重要性。在這種環境下，花
幾個小時讀一本小說似乎只是一種徒勞。
你 寫 的：________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
外 刊 寫 的：Pundits and parents alike
have emphasized preprofessional courses
and downplayed the importance of
humanistic study. In this environment,
spending hours reading a novel may seem
unproductive.
Word Family
Translate it into English.
在過去的幾年里，有一個現象令人擔憂：很多
學生在進入大學時并沒有做好閱讀完整本書的準備。
哥倫比亞大學的一位教授說，他的學生只要一想到
一學期要讀完好幾本書，就會感到不知所措；弗吉
尼亞大學的一位教授說，他的學生只要一遇到自己
不懂的觀點就會關閉思維。批評年輕人的讀寫能力
是一種消遣方式，可以追溯到幾個世紀前，但在過
去的十年里，有件事似乎變化很大。大多數教授表示，
他們發現學生接觸文學的方式發生了代際變化。
為什么會這樣呢？智能手機和社交媒體正在吸
引學生，而且許多初中和高中似乎正在減少完整的
書籍教學。問題似乎不是“現在的孩子”對閱讀感
不感興趣。年輕人可能是在回應一種文化信息：書
并沒有那么重要。
教授們認為他們的學生并不懶惰。如果說有什
么不同的話，那就是他們對當今大學生繁忙的日程
安排和焦慮感到震驚——他們發現學生的日程安排
中全是與未來就業有關的活動，幾乎與個人發展無
關。時間和注意力被大量占用，以至于他們很難輕
松地或完全沉浸于那些可能需要 20 小時才能讀完的
文學作品中。
1971 年時，37% 的學生表示，他們上大學的核
心目標是掙錢，而 73% 的學生認為是為了培養一種
有意義的人生哲學。時至今日，這一比例幾乎完全
逆轉。82% 的學生表示，利用大學時間實現經濟富
裕對他們來說至關重要，而 47% 的學生表示，他們
希望培養一種有意義的人生哲學。權威人士和家長
們都強調就業指導課程，而輕視了人文研究的重要
性。在這種環境下，花幾個小時讀一本小說似乎只
是一種徒勞。
《百年孤獨》，魔幻現實
主義代表作，是公認最難搬
上銀幕的文學作品。馬爾克
斯在世時沒有授權改編，他
認為，電影在有限的時間里
無法充分展現這部時間跨度
長、內容龐雜的作品。直到
2019 年——馬爾克斯去世
5 年后，網飛拿下《百年孤
獨》的改編權，并由馬爾克
斯的兩個兒子擔任制片人。
網飛籌備多年，誠意十足。
全拉美團隊，全西語制作，
在哥倫比亞（馬爾克斯故鄉）
拍攝，投入 5000 萬美元。
作為一部了解名著的入門
劇，《百年孤獨》的劇版絕對
是不容錯過的年度大戲。
One Hundred Years of
Solitude Brings
Magical Realism
to the Screen
50 多年了，
《百年孤獨》真被拍出來了
“Many years later, as he faced the
firing squad, Colonel Aureliano
Buendía was to remember that
distant afternoon when his father
took him to discover ice.”
So begins Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez’s
1967 masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. The iconic
opening refrain is also used in the Netflix’s TV adaptation.
The novel’s first sentence is one of the most admired in
modern literature for the way it immediately grips the
readers. The novel has delivered a grand opera of the alluring,
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Why I Gave
up Trying
to Delete
Myself from
the Internet
上網，
約等于裸奔
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As a reporter I know how easy
it is to find stuff out about
people online. The other day
I was researching a piece
about the newly appointed chief executive
of a Nasdaq-listed company. I messaged
the people who had written endorsements
on his LinkedIn page to ask what sort
of manager he was. Public profiles on
Venmo, a peer-to-peer payments app, are
a goldmine. When they’re transferring
money to a friend, people often add
a message or a string of emojis. By
deciphering a man’s transaction history,
I found out whom he was living with,
holidaying with, going out for meals with.
These experiences should have made
me more careful about what I divulged
online. They didn’t. More than once I’ve
handed over my name and email address
to log into “AddisFreeWifi123” on a
layover in Ethiopia, called my mother to
let her know I arrived safely, then logged
into a banking app to transfer foreign
currency to my overseas account. Until
a couple of months ago I had never
checked my privacy settings on social
media.
With the release of the podcast
imminent, I began trying to minimise my
digital footprint. Step one was to figure
out what was out there. Thinking like a
stalker, I put my browser in private mode
and googled my name. The first few
pages of results were filled with stories I
had written over the years – most of them
Chiung Yao, a romance writer
who helped shape the idea
of romantic love there for
generations, died at her home in
Taiwan. She was 86.
“Without Chiung Yao, there would be
no youth.” Many people in their youth have
had scenes of secretly hiding Chiung Yao’s
novels under textbooks or within blankets to
read surreptitiously. Those memories of being
Life Is
Limited;
Literature
Remains
Eternal
“When snowflakes fall” 在很長一段時間里，瓊瑤，不是一個名
字，而是一個形容詞。在20世紀八九十年代，
說一個人太浪漫、太愛幻想、太迷戀愛情，不
說是“戀愛腦”，而是說“太瓊瑤了”。大多
數時候它不是褒義詞。它指代著瓊瑤劇里那些
被吐槽過千萬回的臺詞：“我是來加入這個
家，不是來破壞這個家?！薄澳銦o情，你冷
酷，你無理取鬧?！睉{借著始終熾烈的愛與
恨，瓊瑤成為一代文藝符號。比起小說，更多
人可能是通過影視作品認識瓊瑤的?！锻窬?/p>
《青青河邊草》陪伴著75后、80后成長，
《還珠格格》《情深深雨濛濛》則幾乎成了85
后、90后、95后們暑假必看的電視劇。
為什么今天人們
不再“瓊瑤”了？
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lifetime, she wrote over 60 novels. Many
of her works were adapted into films and
television series. Her plots are dramatic
and intricate, filled with twists and turns
of love in all its shades: bittersweet,
unrequited, obsessive, resentful and tragic.
In 1998, her drama My Fair Princess
achieved an average viewership rating of
45%. It was rerun many times in the next
20 years and still topped the ratings in
2018.
moved by first love and the pounding
heartbeats are the initial recognition of
innocent emotions. Transcribing “I have
a curtain of dreams, not knowing who to
share it with” onto small scraps of paper
to confide in each other reflects the pure
and beautiful yearning for love.
How influential was Chiung Yao on
her readers and viewers? There’s a popular
saying: “Wherever there are Chinese
people, there is Chiung Yao.” Over her
I
n the Middle Ages, courtesy was not only
a code of behavior that helped the landed
aristocracy gain and maintain status and
influence, it was a way of distinguishing
their whole class from the bourgeoisie and
the peasants below them. Nobility, who
Courtesy becomes
civility: manners move
down
How
Manners
Made the World
社交禮儀：
數字時代，我們如何社交？ “不學禮，無以立。”“質勝文則野，文勝質則史。文質彬彬，
然后君子?！薄胺嵌Y勿視，非禮勿聽，非禮勿言，非禮勿動?！薄抖Y
記》49篇，從古代風俗、服飾、飲食居住，到婚喪嫁娶、家庭禮儀、師
生關系，幾乎構架為一套上古禮儀寶典?！岸Y”之于中國，從一部《禮
記》、一個禮部，到一個由禮構成的社會，恰就像棋盤上的格局。
禮儀作為一種文化傳統，是人類社會發展的產物，它伴隨著人類
社會的進步而不斷演變。從野蠻人到文明人，禮節在歷史上是怎么發
展起來的？
A premium is placed
on learning proper manners
and etiquette from a n
early age. We’re taught
to say “yes ma'am” and
“no m'am” to our elders,
“please” and “thank
you” whenever warranted.
So people are curious about
how manners have evolved
throughout history.
從小學習適當
的行為禮儀大有必
要。家長會教導我們
對長輩說話要禮貌，
比如“好的，夫人”
或“沒有，夫人”，
在任何必要的時候都
要加上“請”和“謝
謝”二字。也因此，
禮儀的演變史非常令
人好奇。
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refinement. Etiquette had started as a status
symbol of the nobility, but as the middleclass began to adopt its code as well, the
old manners lost their prestige and value
as a marker of class identity. So aristocrats
refined their manners further, in order to
continue to distinguish themselves from
commoners.
The evolution of table manners is one
of the most evident cases. Up until the 17th
century, forks were essentially a luxury
item; made of silver or gold, they were a
status symbol reserved for the upper class.
But as the centuries progressed, and forks
became de rigueur for the lower classes
as well, the rich upped their dining game,
and developed special utensils for each
dish — salad fork, dinner fork, dessert
fork; soup spoon,
teaspoon, dessert
spoon; dinner
k n i f e , b r e a d
knife, etc. And
all the utensils
were to be placed
on a certain side
of your plate and used only during the
appropriate part of the meal.
But of course, in time the common
people simply came to imitate those
newly refined manners too, forcing the
nobility to refine theirs even further. And
on the cycle went, until both the upper
and middle classes lived an elaborate and
detailed set of rules for their conduct.
didn’t have to work to earn a
living, had the time to refine
their taste and manners, and
the way they talked, walked,
dressed, and ate, separated
them as the elite and gave
them a special identity. Their
refinement set them apart
from all that was “vulgar” —
i.e., common.
An interest in manners
greatly expanded during the
Renaissance, as merchants,
clerics, and other emerging
professionals slowly began to
form a nascent middle-class.
This tier of society began
to mix a little more with the
landed aristocrats,
a n d w h i l e t h e
nobility knew how
to demonstrate
courtesy from lived
experience, the
bourgeoisie had to
intentionally study
and practice their courtly manners. Thus,
etiquette books proliferated during this time
as self-help manuals for middle-class strivers
who wished to be able to visit court and mix
comfortably with their social betters.
As courtesy began to be more
democratized, it started to be called civility
— the proper conduct for all citizens to
embrace. The democratization of manners
also led to their further and further
毒液和埃迪迎來至暗時刻——一邊是人類神秘組織
的窮追猛打，一邊是外星共生體大軍入侵地球，他們一
心同體，花式解鎖海陸空作戰新形態。面對兩邊的瘋狂
追捕，這對亡命搭檔將被迫做出毀滅性的決定，為他們
的最后一舞拉下帷幕。
劇情介紹
毒 液： 最 后 一 舞
Venom: Cute! I promise not to eat it.
Eddie: They’re 1._______(fight) dogs.
Venom: I draw the line at fighting dogs,
pal.
Javier: Oye, vato, you’re in the wrong
place.
Eddie: Oh, hello.
Javier: This is our territory.
Eddie: Well, I assume by the
threatening look on your faces that I
oughta be 2._______(scare), right?
Javier: But you took the wrong path,
hermano. We can’t let you leave.
Eddie: I have a headache on account
of the fact 3._______ I was drinking a
lot. I’m gonna be honest. I have a really
dark and unpredictable side to me.
精彩臺詞
Javier: We all have monsters inside us.
Eddie: Not like this. So dark that it
is 4._______(high) likely to tear your
head off and feed it to your asshole.
Venom: Or me! You can feed it to me!
Eddie: Yeah, or I can feed it to him.
All right. Look. Come on. I got a
suggestion.
Javier: No. Stop speaking.
Eddie: I’m not gonna stop speaking.
This is for you. I’m doing this for your
benefit, all right? I don’t have to. Okay.
So pay attention. We’re gonna find all
of these dogs loving forever homes,
because 5._______ you’re doing is
reprehensible. What does your mother
think of you, man?
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