新编大学英语视听说Unit5答案

Unit 5 Dreams

Part One Viewing, Understanding and Speaking

Video Script

Topic: Interpreting Dreams

Setting: At the river bank

Characters: John (young man), Mary (young woman)

[John and Mary, a newly married couple, are on their honeymoon. While they are sitting at the river bank, John is reading Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams and Mary is having a nap.]

Mary: (awakes from a sweet dream) Ah…Darling, everything is so wonderful! The sun, the air, the water… I feel as if I were in a dream.

John: (still reading the book with not much response) A dream? Yes, a dream.

Mary: Have a look at the beautiful scenery around you, Darling. Don’t you think it’s too good to be true?

John: Mm, maybe.

Mary: Eh, you aren’t listening to me. What are you reading now?

John: (finishes the last page of the book and closes the book) It’s Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. Honey, have you ever wondered what…what the meaning of your dreams? You might get some satisfactory explanations for your dreams from this book, because Freud explains various kinds of dreams in it.

Mary: It must be a very interesting book! Otherwise, you wouldn’t have ignored me. It seems to me that I am not as attractive as Freud.

John: Yes, it really is.

Mary: Yes?! You mean I am not charming enough? I can hardly stand your rudeness.

John: Of course not. I mean it’s really an interesting book. Freud says that everything in our dreams has something to do with our real life.

Mary: Really? I often dream about gathering fruit in an orchard. What does fruit represent in my dreams?

John: It predicts good fortune. You’ll be rich, Honey.

Mary: But the fact is we still can’t afford to buy a house.

John: I have to admit that’s absolutely true. I spent about all I had on our honeymoon.

Mary: Well, there must be something wrong with your interpretation, Darling. I doubt whether dreams can predict the future.

John: Before I can be more exact, you have to give me more details.

Mary: What further information do you need?

John: Well, Honey, could you tell me what the color of the fruit is in your dreams?

Mary: Er… the fruit doesn’t seem to be ripe. In my dreams, I think it’s green.

John: Mm…I’ve got it. If the color of the fruit is green, you can’t be rich immediately, because only ripe fruit is interpreted as good fortune at hand.

Mary: Oh? Are you sure about that?

John: Definitely. I’ve just looked it up in Freud’s book.

Mary: Then we’ll just have to wait and see?