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| HE is a child in a grown man's body. Everywhere he goes, he causes chaos , making his fans split their sides with laughter. | 他是个成年人却也是个孩子。无论他走到哪里都制造混乱，使他的粉丝们笑破肚皮。 | |
| He is Mr Bean, the lead character of the hugely popular film and TV series. |
他就是憨豆先生，当下十分流行的影视作品的领衔演员。 | |
| Now he is back in a new movie called Mr Bean's Holiday. It will open in China on July 7. This time, our hero and his peanut-sized brain travel to the sunny south of France. What kind of trouble will he cause? |
现在，他带着他的新电影《憨豆先生2》回来了。该电影将于7月7日在中国首映。电影讲的是我们那长得像花生一样脑袋的英雄前往法国南部度假的故事。这一次他又将闯出什么祸呢？ | |
| Created by British comic actor Rowan Atkinson, Mr Bean first appeared in 1990. Since then the idiot hero has been a hit around the world. Why has the character enjoyed success with people of different cultures? One reason is that there's very little dialogue in the stories and thus no language barrier. The sight of Mr Bean as a barber making a terrible mess of some poor customer's hair doesn’t need translating. | 憨豆先生最早于1990年出现在荧屏上，由英国著名喜剧演员罗温·阿特金森饰演该角色。自此，这个傻瓜英雄便风靡全球。为什么不同文化背景的人们都喜欢这个角色呢？一个原因是：在憨豆先生的做作品中极少出现对话，因此就没有语言上的障碍。剧中憨豆先生是一名理发师，他把一些顾客的头发剪得乱七八糟，这样的情景是不需要翻译的。 | |
| But there's a deeper reason. Although he is British and the stories generally take place in British settings, Mr Bean is really nation-less. People from different cultures laugh at Mr Bean for the same reason earlier generations laughed at comic star Charlie Chaplin. |
但是，除此之外还有一个更深的原因。尽管憨豆先生是个英国人，而且故事大多发生在英国，他所带来的影响是不受国界所限制的。人们喜欢憨豆的作品就和从前人们喜爱查理·卓别林的作品是一个道理。 | |
| Mr Bean breaks social rules wherever he goes — he jumps the queue , tries to cheat in exams — we all secretly want to do but generally don't. | 憨豆先生无论走到哪里都打破社会常规——他插队，在考试中作弊——这些我们都暗地里想做却通常不会去做的事。 | |
| While you are waiting for the new film to be released, think back to Mr Bean’s previous stories: | 在等待新片发行期间你可以回想一下憨豆先生之前的作品。 | |
| Bean makes himself a sandwich in the park: he cuts the bread with scissors, spreads the butter with his credit card, washes a lettuce but uses his sock to dry it. He crushes peppercorns with his shoe. The pepper makes him sneeze and he drops the sandwich. | 在公园里，憨豆为自己做了个三明治：他用剪刀把面包剪开，用信用卡在上面涂上奶油，洗了一片生菜却用自己的袜子把它擦干，最后他又用一支鞋把胡椒粒碾碎。然而，胡椒却害得他打喷嚏，还把三明治丢到了地上。 | |
| Mr Bean goes to a swimming pool, and tries out the high diving board, but gets scared. He is "helped" by two impatient boys who push him off. Bean loses his swimming trunks, and tries to get back to the changing room unseen, and fails. | 憨豆先生去了一个游泳池想尝试一下高空跳水但却害怕。最后，他被两个迫不及待的男孩儿推了下去。憨豆先生更找不到自己的泳裤，他想偷偷跑回更衣间，不想让别人看见，但是很不幸的，他的计划失败了。 |
(from page 1, 21st Century Teens Senior 1 Edition Issue No.280)
