Alex: You know dad played cards with both of them, sharing a joint.
Henry: Yeah, well...
Alex: Can't swim. There should be a stairway down to the water, a porch, a deck. Here you're in a... in a box. A glass box with a view to everything that's around you, but you can't touch it. No interconnection between you and what you're looking at.
Henry: I don't know. You know, he's got this big maple growing right in the middle of the house.
Alex: Containment. Containment and control. This house is about ownership, not connection. I mean, it's beautiful. Seductive, even. But it's incomplete. It was all about him. Dad knew how to build a house, not a home. But you know. I think he wants us to do what he couldn't. But admitting that would mean admitting that he came up short in some way; that he could do more. And that tortures him.
Henry: You remember being here with mom?
Alex: I remember she tried to make it work here... with us... with him.
Henry: Hey, what about Visionary Vanguard?
Alex: What about it?
Henry: Come on. You can't convince me you're gonna be happy building saltboxes for tourists. Nobody's gonna admire you for that.
Alex: Admire me for that?
Henry: Yeah, Visionary Vanguard. That's your idea.
Alex: I can't. But you can keep the name.
Henry: No, come on. It's gonna be you and me.
Alex: Henry, I'm sorry I can't. I just...
Henry: What?
Alex: I've got other plans.
Henry: You have a girlfriend?
Alex: No... no.
Henry: What's that? You hesitated.
Alex: No, I didn't hesitate. Come on, man. I don't have any time for that.
1) Her figure was slighter and therefore more seductive than Natalie. 她的身段比较苗条,因此比娜塔丽更加诱人。 2) She shouldn't wear her rather seductive purple dress for the journey. 她不应该穿这件相当诱惑人的紫衣服去。 3) This company gives us a seductive offer on engineering the merger with us. 这家公司在计划跟我们的合并时给我们提出了有诱惑力的条件。
3. come up (short)
这是一个有很多意思的短语,在口语中很常用,它的意思有: 1) 走近,靠近 He came up to me and said: "Come on, John!" 2) 发生,出现 I was late-something came up at home. 3) 讨论 This subject came up at a news conference in Beijing today. 4) 成为,出现 The silk dress came up beautiful. 这件丝绸衣服(洗后)显得很漂亮。
Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and writer. The most powerful advocate of the modernist school, he designed numerous functional concrete buildings and high-rise residential complexes. 柯勃彦,瑞士裔法国建筑学家和作家,现代主义学派最有力的倡导者,他设计了大量的功能主义混凝土建筑和高楼住宅区。
代表作品:The Pilgrimage Church of Notre-Dame-du-Haut
2. Frank Lloyd Wright
A Scottish-born American reformer who lectured nationwide on women's rights, birth control, and public education and wrote Views of Society and Manners in America (1823). 莱特,弗兰克·劳埃德1869-1959, 美国建筑师,他基于自然形式的特殊建筑风格极大地影响了现代建筑业。他的设计包括私人住宅,在威斯康辛州的拉辛市的约翰逊制腊公司办公大楼(1939年),和纽约的古根海姆博物馆(1943-1959年)。代表作品: