千奇百趣学英文02.08

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"Avatar" dethroned at box office by "Dear John“
《阿凡达》被《亲爱的约翰》取代票房地位


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new romantic drama "Dear John" unexpectedly ended the seven-week reign of "Avatar" at the weekend box office in North America on Sunday, pulling in large numbers of young female moviegoers.


"Dear John" stars Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried as lovers whose romance is curtailed by the September 11 attacks. It is directed by Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom and based on "The Notebook," a novel by Nicholas Sparks.


Audiences for the film were 84 percent female and two-thirds were under the age of 21, Sony said.


"Avatar" earned $23.6 million in its eighth weekend, taking its total to $630.1 million. James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster surpassed the $601 million haul of his 1997 release "Titanic" last Tuesday to become the biggest movie of all time in the United States and Canada.




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洛杉矶（路透社）报道——最新的浪漫爱情片《亲爱的约翰》在星期日，出乎意料地结束了近7个周末占领北美票房冠军的《阿凡达》，吸引不计其数的年轻的戏院女性捧场客。

《亲爱的约翰》由CHANNING TATUM跟AMANDA SEYFRIED共同演出，扮演一对在9.11袭击中被逼分开的情侣的浪漫爱情故事。电影由瑞士电影制作者LASSE HALLSTROM执导，故事来源于《记事本》，这是一本出自NICHOLAS SPARKS的小说。

来观看的有百分之八十四都是女性观众，而且有三分之二是年纪小于21岁的，索尼公司说道。

《阿凡达》在它占领的8周中，票房达到二千三百六十万，把它的票房达推致总共6亿3千1百万。上星期二的时候，来自占士.金马伦的科幻小说票房冠军已经超过了他1997年的作品《泰坦尼克号》——当时票房达6亿零1百万，成为美国跟加拿大电影票房历史中最高的记录。



Useful Expression

• reign [rein]
  vi.
  统治, 支配, 盛行, 占优势
  n.
  统治, 统治时期, 支配

• curtailed [kE:‘teil]

    vt.
    缩减, 减少(经费等), 剥夺(某人的)特权(或官衔等), 简略

• sci-fi [’sai‘fai]

     n.
     science fiction的简写, 科幻小说