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Lights, camera, action! When we go to the cinema we sometimes experience scenes that reflect reality. But does the imagery affect our behavior?
灯光，镜头，开拍！我们去看电影的时候，有时会看到一些反映现实生活的镜头。
这些场景能影响到我们的行为吗？
Scene 场景
I found the scene in which Percy proposed to Olive tremendously poignant.
Imagery 图像 比喻
This is an ambitious and intriguing film, full of striking imagery.
这是一部气势恢宏、引人入胜的电影，充满了惹眼的镜头。

A new study has found that teenagers who see actors smoking on screen are more likely to take it up. 5,000 15 year olds in the UK were questioned and many said seeing blockbuster films that depict smoking would encourage them to light up.
一项新的研究显示青少年看到荧屏上的演员吸烟后，更容易染上吸烟的习性。被调查的5千名15岁的青少年中，很多人称观看有演员吸烟镜头的电影会引起他们吸烟的欲望。
Take up 作为爱好从事
He left a job in the City to take up farming.
depict 表现 描绘
The painter depicted Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
画家描绘了滑铁卢战役中的拿破仑。

This research by Bristol University looked at the potential influence of some of the 360 top US box office films released between 2001 and 2005 that showed smoking, such as Spider-Man and The Matrix.
布里斯托尔大学研究人员调查发现在2001-2005年间上映的美国电影中,票房排在前360位的都对青少年吸烟有潜在影响,其中包含电影《蜘蛛侠》和《黑客帝国》。
Potential 潜在的，可能的：有存在可能但还不存在的；潜伏的：
We are aware of the potential problems and have taken every precaution.
Top
1. 处于…的最前头：
TOP 10 univeristy
2. 顶端：最高的程度，声音或据点；山顶，最高峰或顶峰：
“It had come at a time when he was not feeling at the top of his form”(&b{Anthony Powell}) “有时他会觉得他没处于最佳状态”(安东尼•鲍威尔)

Dr Andrea Waylen, who led the research, said "We saw a linear relationship between adolescent smoking and the number of films they had seen depicting smoking."
领导该研究的安德里亚•韦伦博士说：“我们发现青少年吸烟与他们所接触的含有吸烟场景的电影有直接关系。”
Linear
1. 线性
Linear algebra
Linear movement or force occurs in a straight line rather than in a curve.
2. 直接
linear relationship
Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative.

In the UK, films with ratings U (universal) or PG (parental guidance) ban scenes showing drug misuse but not cigarette smoking. But is seeing the lead puffing on a cigarette really glamorizing smoking?
在英国，等级划分为U（普通级）和PG（父母指导级）的电影都禁止包含吸食毒品的场景，但是都没有限制吸烟场景。难道电影中的主角吞云吐雾是在美化吸烟？
Ban 禁止= prohibit
Last year arms sales were banned.
Opposition groups see the bannings as the latest stage of a government clampdown.
puff 抽 (香烟、雪茄、烟斗等)
例句：He lit a cigar and puffed on it twice. 他点上一支雪茄，抽了两口。
glamorize 使有魅力 美化
例句：Yet, within a few years, Chinese society had begun to glamorise wealth and the most ostentatious forms of consumption.
但仅仅几年内，中国社会开始美化财富，宣扬最炫的消费方式。

If so, would the motion-picture industry have to re-think what goes in every scene from the start to the end credits?
如果真的这样的话，电影制造业是不是要从头到尾重新设计每一个场景？
credit
1. 常作 credits 致谢名单：在电影或出版物中对工作完成的致谢或姓名表：
At the end of the film we stayed to watch the credits.
电影结束后我们留下来看致谢的名单
2. 学分：由此证明的学科的学习量：
This course carries three credits.这门课程有三个学分

3. 信用：给予某人的证明，其在买入或借款时可以信任的在清偿能力和诚实上的声誉：
You should have no trouble getting the loan if your credit is good.
如果你信誉良好，要取得这笔贷款就没有什么问题了

Simon Clark, director of the smoker's group Forest, said: "We go to the cinema to escape from the nanny state… what next? Should government reclassify films that feature fat people as well in case they are bad role models?"
吸烟者组织Forest的负责人西蒙•克拉克表示：“我们去电影院就是为了逃离保姆政府...接下来还会发生什么？为了防止以胖人为特色的电影产生不良影响，政府是不是要把电影重新分类？”
Escape
1. 逃脱
“It is curious . . . what shifts we make to escape thinking” (James Russell Lowell).
“令人好奇的是…我们能采取什么措施来逃脱思考” （詹姆斯•罗斯维尔•洛威尔）。
2. 逃避现实：从忧虑、担心和不愉快中得到暂时的解脱的方法：
Television is my escape from worry.电视是我逃避现实的方法
3. 忘记：超出记忆和理解范围：
Her name escapes me. The book's significance escaped him.
我忘了她的名字。他不懂那本书的重要意义