英文电影宝典——The People vs. Larry Flynt

时间:2008-05-12 11:51:14 来源:英文大吧 作者:
 

ed criminal as soon as they arrest them. I've gotten the bail all taken care of. "Bail" is the money you need to get out of jail before a trial. Who hired you? "To hire" someone is to engage them in a steady job. Harvard Law School and three year's in the public defender's office. "Public Defender's" are government lawyers who defend people accused of a crime who don't have money to pay for a lawyer. You're pretty far out there, even for the guys who do a lot of this stuff. Something that is "far out there" is usually considered extreme or very strange by most members of society. I don't specialize in porn, I specialize in civil liberties. "Porn" is short and very common for pornography, the type of sexually explicit material that Flynt publishes. "Civil liberties" refer to rights such as the right to free speech and religion. I don't understand why they singled me out. "To single out" someone is to choose that one person from many that are in the same situation. He's not in the mob! A common word that refers to the Mafia, or organized crime. This is a completely bullshit charge! As a noun, "bullshit" is very common and crude for nonsense or lies. Here, used as an interesting adjective. You could conceivably be looking at 7-25 years. "Conceivably" means possibly, and the years referred to here are references to the possible number of years in prison! Bobby shot a preacher! :: What denomination? :: Baptist. A religious division, in this case within the Christian Church. I must apologize for the unpleasantness of this task. "A task" is another word for job or assignment. Hustler magazine depicts men and women posed together in a lewd and shameful manner! "Lewd" is a great adjective meaning sexually vulgar or obscene. Your honor, with the court's permission, we'd like to submit into evidence the following magazines... Note that all judges are addressed as "your honor," and referred to as "the court." If a lawyer "submits something into evidence," she presents it for the judge or jury to consider. Objection! :: Sustained! Two legal terms used in a trial. An "objection" is a request by a lawyer to a judge, and if it is "sustained," the judge agrees. If the judge does not agree, the objection is then "overruled." No counselor, the jury is representative of community standards, not a pile of magazines! "Counselor" is how some people address lawyers. "Community Standards" is a legal term referring to what the local society in general feels about a certain issue, such as pornography. Santa Claus.....is holding a large erect penis! "Santa Claus" is the fictional happy fat old man who is a symbol of Christmas. An "erect" penis is a hard one. Would you say this is what the founding fathers had in mind when t

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