Die Hard I

　　在洛杉矶市中心的一座日本商业大厦内，一群计划周详的恐怖分子挟持着一群在该大厦阁楼开派对的人质，与此同时，一名休班探员麦约翰也在此大厦内，而他自己的妻子正是其中人质之一，麦为了拯救妻子，独力与这班恐怖分子周旋，并粉碎他们的大阴谋。

　　本片成为1988年全美票房收入最高的电影之一。 片中火爆的动作场面和新颖的场景设计以及打不死的英雄，确实令当时的观众大开眼界，布鲁斯·威利斯也因此片成为好莱坞一线 明星，影片的形式后来被很多影片模仿，使影片本身成为恐怖惊险犯罪电影的经典之作。

　　Tough New York cop John McClane finds himself in a tight situation when an office building in Los Angeles is taken over by terrorists. Apart from himself, everyone else in the building - including his wife - is held at gunpoint while their captors spell out their demands. The F.B.I. are called in to survey the situation, but John McClane has other plans for the terrorists...

　　影片片段：

　　John: Oh, God...

　　Al: Roy! Roy, you all right?

　　John: Just trying to fire down a 1,000-year-old Twinkie(一种饼干名称). What do they put in them?

　　Al: Sugar-enriched flour, partially hydrogenated(氢化的)vegetable oil, polysorbate 60(聚山梨醇酯), and yellow dye number 5. Just everything a growing boy needs.

　　John: How many kids you got, Al?

　　Al: Well, as a matter of a fact, my wife is working on our first. How about you, cowboy? You got any kids back on your ranch?

　　John: Yeah. Two. Sure hope I can see them swinging on a jungle gym with Al Jr. someday.

　　Al: Well now, thats a date, but youre gonna have to bring the ice cream.

　　Hans: Touching, cowboy, touching! Or should I call you Mr. McClane, Mr. John McClane of the New York Police Department?

　　Richard: Get on the phone to Harry in New York.

　　Woman reporter: Got it!

　　Al: Youd better get hold of somebody at Dispatch.

　　John: Sister Theresa called me Mr. McClane in the third grade. My friend call me John...and youre neither, shithead!

　　Hans: I have someone who wants to talk to you. A very special friend who was with you at the party tonight.

　　Ellis: Hey, John boy.

　　John: Ellis?

　　Ellis: Yeah. Listen, John, theyre giving me a few minutes to try to talk some sense into you. I know you think youre doing your job, John, and I can appreciate it, but youre just dragging this thing out. No one gets out of here until these guys talk to the LA police. That aint happen until you stop messing up the works.

　　John: Ellis, what have you told them?

　　Ellis: I told them we were old friends and you were my guest at the party.

　　John: Ellis, you shouldnt be doin this.

　　Ellis: Tell me about it.

　　Ellis: All right, John, listen. I want you to tell them where the detonators(雷管, 炸药) are. They know people are listening. They want the detonators or theyre gonna kill me. John, didnt you hear me?

　　John: Yeah, I hear you.

　　Ellis: John, get with the program a little, huh? The police are here now. Its their problem. So tell these guys where the detonators are so no one else gets hurt! Im putting my life on line for you, pal!

　　John: Ellis, listen to me very carefully!

　　Ellis: John...

　　John: Shut up, Ellis! Just shut your mouth! Put Hans back on the line!

　　John: Hans, this shithead does not know what kind of man you are but I do. Listen...

　　Hans: Good. Then youll give us what we want and save your friends life. Youre not part of this equation.

　　Ellis: Hey, what am I? A method actor? Hans! Babe put away the guns, this is radio, not television.

　　John: Hans, this asshole is not my friend! I just met him tonight and I dont know him! Jesus Christ, Ellis! These people will kill you! Tell them you dont know me!

　　Ellis: John, how can you say that after all these years? John? John? John!?

　　Key Words and Expressions：

　　1. talk some sense into somebody

　　给某人讲道理，劝某人做出明智的选择

　　2. drag something out 拖延某事

　　这里Ellis在指责John拖延了人质获救的时间。

　　3. mess up somehing 把某事搞砸了

　　也可以说screw up something.

　　4. put ones life on line for somebody 为了某人而拼命；命悬一线。也可以说 put ones life at risk for somebody