Tonight I finished 80 useful English expressions for the senior people in the community. Will start teaching from this weekend, in the great expectation of World Exposition 2010.

 

The China Pavilion is across the street from here! Maybe I am too old to be eligible for volunteer work by then. But I can do from now and here!

 

Will be a nice tutor, as always. If I could beimpatient sometimes, I am always patient to share knowledge with you!

周末去了街道参加了党小组会议。又通读了党章前章。并且打算教老同志们世博英文。下午教了赵俊华英语口语初级。这小孩非常地好学，和她的COUSIN完全不同。多年前教她的COUSIN是一种痛苦。我很愿意帮到她，看她成长，考上好的高中。教学相长。感觉初级已经不浅了。词汇都不基础了。

今天看了一直想看的老电影A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE。是GERRY给我并推荐的。非常地喜欢VIVIEN LEIGH的表演。也很同情她扮演的BLANCHE. 电影的语言很美，是现代电影不媲美的。我也分明觉得喜欢BLANCHE因为自己也和她一样敏感，多情，甚至有点神经质。可是那样的情感和生活才淋漓尽致，不是吗。

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tennessee Williams, 'A Streetcar Named desire' is set in post World War II New Orleans and centers around a young married couple attempting to keep their bond despite a noted class distinction. Stanley Kowalski, played by Marlon Brando in perhaps one of the greatest performances ever to project off the big screen, is a young Polish American living in a cozy apartment with his quasi-newlywed bride. Stella, a magnolia（1） fresh off a Southern plantation, portrayed with equal panache by Kim Hunter. Things seem to be going along pretty well until Stella's older sister shows up on the doorstep. Blanche Dubois, ( Vivian Leigh ) is a figure as obnoxious as she is tragic, and almost from the very start she is despised by her Polish brother-in-law. Kowalski suddenly discovers that his middle class roots, which hadn't seemed like a much of a point of contention with his new wife, are the subject of snide insinuations （暗讽） and clandestine conversations rolling off the tongue of his sister-in-law. Who, it turns out, is not without considerable baggage herself. That's when the once toasty love nest ( Complete with the memory of twinkling Christmas lights ) turns into a war zone. Things are further complicated when Stanley's Army/factory buddy, brilliantly portrayed by Karl Malden, suddenly takes a shine to Miss Dubois, The incredible thing about 'Streetcar' is not just the quality of the acting, but the way the actors approach the complex and beautiful dialog. Brando combines dynamic sexual magnetism with passionate anger, possessive love and cynicism. Vivian Leigh's tragic character perhaps mirroring the insanity she suffered through in her own life, is portrayed with raving vanity one minute and fleeting youth the next. As she often hears and sees flashbacks which the audience does not. William's dialogue manages to do the impossible, that is to blend in poetic imagery with normal conversation, while not sounding sickly sentimental or downright ridiculous. This is as much a credit to the actors themselves, especially Leigh, who really had to do the bulk of the tough solo.

scenes in which Blanche begins to lose her mind for good. But Brando is simply too hard to beat. Stanley Kowalski is fully rounded in every sense when this great American actor delivers his lines. Perhaps the only injustice is that Brando did not receive the Oscar for this film, while his costars Hunter, Leigh and Malden all did. Numerous attempts have been made to remake this film, both on the stage and for television. But no one has been able to execute the premise like this wonderful quartet. A fantastic and moving American classic.