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Haunted Hotel

Haunted Hotel

Haunted Hotel

万圣节就要来了！一年一度“万物皆可装神弄鬼”的季节，又双叒叕来了～

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这期不吓人，只上头。给大家推荐一部今年刚上线的动画新剧：《闹鬼酒店》，由《瑞克和莫蒂》团队打造，豆瓣评分高达 8.3分！

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剧情简介

Our setting is the Undervale hotel, which suffers from a poor location, terrible decor and a lack of professional staff, but that’s not why it has very few guests.It’s haunted!It is crawling with ghosts, ghouls, demons and spooky supernatural phenomena.

故事背景设定在安德维尔酒店——一家地理位置糟糕、装修品味堪忧、员工极不专业的酒店。可它门可罗雀的真正原因，却不是这些……而是——它闹鬼了！酒店里满是鬼魂、恶灵、妖魔，以及各种诡异的超自然现象。

At first, it seems we are in a Ghosts rip-off, as the resident spirits offer an unpredictable blend of assistance and hindrance, and bargain pathetically forperks: just as in Ghosts, the boredom of eternity has caused an obsession with asking humans to leave their televisions switched on.

一开始，你可能会以为这是在模仿《鬼屋欢乐送》：那些常驻的幽灵们时而帮倒忙、时而添乱，还会为了微不足道的好处可怜兮兮地讨价还价。就像《鬼屋欢乐送》里的鬼魂一样，他们因为永恒的无聊，竟然对人类的电视节目着了迷——总是央求人类别关电视。

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人物介绍

Grappling with the undead residents is a pretty conventional sitcom family unit, led by smart, put-upon single mother Katherine (Eliza Coupe) and ineffectual dreamer Nathan (Will Forte).

与这群“亡灵住户”打交道的，是一个看似普通的情景喜剧家庭：由聪明能干却常被生活压得喘不过气的单亲妈妈凯瑟琳（伊丽莎·库伯 配音）领衔，还有那个理想主义、办事不靠谱的“梦想家”内森（威尔·福特 配音）。

The twist here is that classic comedy dad Nathan is Katherine’s brother, not her partner, and he is also a ghost,albeitone who thinks and talks like a living human.

不过，这剧的巧妙设定在于——这个典型的喜剧“爸爸”内森不是凯瑟琳的伴侣，而是她的哥哥。而且，他早就死了，是个鬼魂——只是思维和言语方式都跟活人一模一样。

He and Katherine act as parents to her two kids Ben (Skyler Gisondo), a 13-year-old at the wrong end of the high school coolness spectrum, and little sister Esther (Natalie Palamides), who like a lot of sitcom little sisters has a dark energy that tends towardsmegalomania.

内森和凯瑟琳一起抚养她的两个孩子：13岁的本（斯凯勒·吉桑多 配音），是那种校园里公认很不酷的少年；以及妹妹埃丝特（娜塔莉·帕拉米迪斯 配音），和许多情景喜剧里的妹妹一样，自带一股蔫儿坏的劲头，颇有几分妄自尊大的倾向。

Completing the lineup is diminutive agent of chaos Abaddon (Jimmi Simpson), a demon trapped in the body of a small boy from the 18th century – and if that sounds like an original creation, rest assured that Abaddon is essentially Stewie from Family Guy: “The night is my canvas and terror my paint! I’d likePB&Jfor lunch.”

最后登场的是一位制造混乱的小能手——阿巴顿（吉米·辛普森 配音），这个恶魔的灵魂被困在一个18世纪的小男孩身体里。若你觉得这设定够新颖，不妨听听这句台词：“黑夜是我的画布，恐惧是我的颜料！……不过我午餐想吃花生酱果酱三明治。” 没错，阿巴顿活脱脱就是《恶搞之家》里的史蒂薇。

对喜剧动画片感兴趣的宝子们，可以来看这部剧。不仅能笑出声，还能练听力和口语。对话节奏贼快、俚语地道又带点黑色幽默，看几集你就能熟练掌握“英语式吐槽”的精髓。

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今日词汇

haunted/ ˈhɔːntɪd / adj.（地方，场所）幽灵出没的，闹鬼的

perk/ pɜːk / n.（工资以外的）额外收入；特殊待遇，好处

albeit/ ˌɔːlˈbiːɪt / adv.尽管

megalomania/ ˌmeɡələˈmeɪniə / n.自大狂

PB&J花生酱果酱三明治（peanut butter and jelly sandwich）

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