最近朋友圈突然被一部神剧刷屏了——「我不是药神」，首日票房就破3亿，豆瓣评分 9.0，好评率高达 93%！

如果你还没看过，借着周末一定要好好去看一看，强烈推荐，当然，看前记得备好纸巾！

好了，废话不多说，我们开始今天的学习，来看看这部电影究竟有多火。

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Quartz 新闻网的标题就足以说明，

China's next box office hit? A dark comedy about smuggling in cancer drugs from India

○ box office 售票处；票房 (the place at a theatre, cinema/movie theater, etc. where the tickets are sold)

○ hit 作为名词，表示“非常受欢迎的人（或事）；非常成功的人（或事）”(a thing or person that is very popular or successful)

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The Beatles had a string of number-one hits in the 1960s.

20世纪60年代甲壳虫乐队推出了一系列排行榜冠军曲目。”

标题中也告诉我们，这是一部讲述从印度走私抗癌药的「dark comedy」黑色喜剧，实际上就是讲述主演徐峥代购印度仿制抗白血病(leukemia)药物的故事。

○ 白血病：leukemia [luː'kiːmiə]

○ smuggle 就是“走私；（常指非法）偷运”的意思 (to take things or people to or from a place secretly and often illegally)，环球时报(Global Times)则用了“the illicit import”非法进口来替代“smuggle”这一说法。

环球时报将「我不是药神」称之为中国版「达拉斯买家俱乐部(Dallas Buyers Club)」，据说讲述的是主人公被诊断出感染上艾滋病后，与病魔和美国食品与药物管理局斗争的故事，感兴趣的也可以看看。

Chinese ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ focuses on the illicit import of generic anticancer drugs from India to China

这里还出现的“generic drug”就是“仿制药，通用名药”的意思，相当于是和“正版药”、“商标名药”或者有说“原研药”相对的。

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下面这段话也说明了「我不是药神」的火爆情况：

It already looks set to be a major hit, having won acclaim when it debuted at the Shanghai Film Festival last month and racked up thousands of raves on Chinese film portal Douban after preview screenings.

○ acclaim 这里作为名词“（公开的）称誉；赞赏；欢迎”(public approval and praise)

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Despite the critical acclaim, the novel did not sell well.

虽然这部小说在评论界赢得一片叫好之声，但并不畅销。

○ win acclaim 和后面的“rack up thousands of raves”均表示在上月的上海电影节首映中这部电影就已经受到广泛好评。rack up 有“累积；聚集，累计（得分或获利），彻底击败”等意思，rave=rave review，指的是豆瓣中的好评或者说高度赞扬的一些影评。

○ debut 可以作动词也可以当名词，表示“首演，首次公演，首次亮相”(the occasion when someone performs or presents something to the public for the first time)

○ 还有另一个词 premiere 同样也表示表示“首映，首演”(the first public performance of a play or any other type of entertainment)，这里要注意的是这个词去掉末尾的 e 就变成了 premier“首相，总理”在新闻中还是比较常见的；另外，它作为形容词则表示“首位的，首要的”(best or most important)

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He's one of the nation's premier scientists.

他是该国最重要的科学家之一。

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这一句则更有画面感，在片尾播放演职人员列表时，观众都起立欢呼鼓掌：

At a show in Beijing this week, the audience stood for a standing ovation as the credits rolled.

○ standing ovation 表示“（表演或演讲结束时的）起立欢呼，起立鼓掌”(an occasion when the people in an audience stand up to clap at the end of a performance or speech because they liked it very much)

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She received a standing ovation at the end of her speech.

她的讲话结束时听众们起立欢呼。

○ the credits 指的就是“（电影、电视或广播节目的）演职人员名单”(a list of people who helped to make a film or a television or radio programme, that is shown or announced at the beginning or the end of it)

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对于具体的故事情节，这里就不剧透介绍了。最后以剧中非常感人的一段话结束。

“Over the years since I became ill, the drugs have cost me my home and bled my family dry. Sir, can you tell me which family doesn't have a patient, and can you guarantee that you'll have a lifetime free of illness?”

“四万块一瓶的药，我吃了好几年了，房子吃没了，家也吃垮了！......，谁家还没个病人呢？你能保证自己一辈子不生病吗？……”

○ bleed sb dry: to take a lot of money from someone over a period of time 榨干…的钱财

The West is bleeding poorer countries dry through interest payments on their debts.

西方国家通过收取债务利息正在把穷国榨干。

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对了，这部剧的英文名叫「Dying to Survive」，可译为「向死而生」，看完电影相信你会深有感触。