英语学习 - Disney

生词

• it overwhelms my analytical mind to think about it 超越了理性思维

• feel grounded 感觉接地气

• It’s like I spent a month in a timeless world, and now I’m trying to transition back 穿越回 to a world where the clock ticks forward and the calendar has meaning.

• appreciate the quietude of my Vegas neighborhood，感激邻居的安静

• spontaneous 自发的：the experience felt less fun and spontaneous to me and more engineered.

• Obesity .n /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/ 肥胖：the problem of obesity among children
  obese .adj /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːs/ : a hugely obese young man

1 . Lots of people seemed to waddle around 蹒跚 the park, shifting their heavy bodies from side to side to get around instead of walking like a healthy human.
overweight people
*Of course Disneyland has * adapted to * the growing obesity * epidemic流行病 /ɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/爱皮demic

2 . In general I found that Disneyland basically tries to hide the ugly parts of society.

3 . On multiple occasions, I saw cast members redirecting/rerouting traffic around unpleasantness, such as a child who vomited.
在多个场合，我发现工作人员会指示人们绕过不美好的场景，比如一个呕吐的孩子。
Sometimes they effectively form a human shield 人墙 around a problem, so it’s hard to even see it. I think of them as guardians 保镖 of the fantasy.
break the fantasy
4 . We were queuing in the ** security screening ** line – all guests have to undergo mandatory bag searches just to enter the park each day – we saw a girl wearing a backpack with a couple of Disney princesses on it and the words Dream Big.
安检, 安全检查线
5 . Many girls wore princess **costumes ** in the park.
**costumes /ˈkɒstjuːm/ cost -- umes **
6 . I couldn’t find any equivalent place in the park where boys were converted into princes, however.
7 . In the final days, my feelings about the experience kept oscillating between disappointment and hope. 在失望和希望之间摇摆

• oscillating /ˈɒsɪleɪt/ 摇摆

8 . On multiple occasions I wondered how intelligent this human species really is....
在多个场合，我想知道人类这个物种是多么聪明。。

It seemed like the Disney corporation was just manipulating people’s emotions for profit, and most people didn’t seem to notice or care. Many Disney properties promote the idea that if you’re dumb and naive but kind-hearted, just focus on being emotional and taking risks, and everything will work out okay. Of course such a lifestyle is more likely to lead to a wheelchair than a princess-like existence, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Plenty of people still want more.

• manipulate /məˈnɪpjʊleɪt/ 么奶puleit 操纵

• profit 利润

• Many Disney properties 人物形象

• dumb and naive 又蠢又天真

• work out

• a princess-like existence

• 迪士尼快速通行 Disney's Fastpass

the ticket checker 检票员
cast members:
Any employee of the various Disney theme parks, including the original Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California [1]
and the Walt Disney World Resort. Other Disney parks and resorts around the world also use similar terminology. Employees of Disney Store locations are also referred to as cast members. This terminology is derived from Walt Disney's use of theatrical analogies when referring to park operations.

dj1.jpeg

• accommodate
  1 . 容纳
  ‘the cottages accommodate up to six people’
  2 . Fit in with the wishes or needs of:
  ‘any language must accommodate new concepts’
  3 . Adapt to:
  ‘making users accommodate to the realities of today's marketplace’让用户适应今天的市场