Erudite

erudite







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[er-yoo-dahyt]



a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    博學的





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–adjective 

characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly: an erudite professor; an erudite commentary.  





　

J. Hoberman is one of the greatest film critics to emerge from his generation—his writing is adventurous, erudite, and provocative, while simultaneously expressing [a] boundless pleasure in the art of cinema.









　

Woody Allen’s "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" has a [natural], [flowing] vitality [to] it, 



a sun-drenched splendor that never [falters]. Two young American women go to Barcelona for the summer—Vicky (Rebecca Hall), who is bright, skeptical, and cautious, and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), more adventurous than her friend but unformed and easily dissatisfied, 



a seeker without a lodestar. (北極星)



deluge

lode

But she spends the following summer [sitting] 

on a mother [lode] of [rage] that will be [unleashed] in the film’s finale

cf. ode



cumbersome

encumber

Deluge 





In the magnificent city, they meet Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), who is incapable of spending a night alone. Bardem’s natural-born lover—a painter, by trade—is as devastating as his natural-born killer in "No Country for Old Men." He’s almost criminally attractive—



soft-spoken and erudite, 



decent in his way but relentless, a Don Juan brought back to life as an English-speaking charmer. Both women get involved with him, and the movie becomes a complicated triangle that 



forms, 

breaks apart, 

and 

reforms; 



it’s also a lengthy exploration of the eternal struggle between security and passion, dependency and anarchic freedom. 





erudite

delve [into] the background of a case

disquisition (dissertation)

espionage



divulge (reveal)

transpire

1. escape as vapor

2. escape from concealment

3. occur

the suggestion of the political protests actually transpiring [as] the film [unspools].

It transpired [that] we were invited after all. 

unfurl

They [unfurled] the [flag] and let it [flutter] in the wind.

Threnody