Lope

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.

2. to canter leisurely with a rather long, easy stride, as a horse. 



canter 

馬的慢跑 (介於 gallop 與 trot 之間)

–noun 

1. an easy gallop.



–verb (used with object) 

3. to cause to lope, as a horse. 



–noun 

4. the act or the gait of loping.

5. a long, easy stride. 





　

The whole film, in fact, with its loping pace and plaintive score, feels like a woefully polite, not to say British, take on a foreign horror; was there really no one, from the fierce new wave of German filmmakers, prepared to dramatize the Schlink? 



Or did they feel, as I did, that it was pernicious from the start—a low-grade musing on atrocity, garnished with erotic titillation? Imprisoned for life, Hanna must read to herself, but are we really supposed to be moved by the thought—or now, in Daldry’s film, by the sight—of an unrepentant Nazi parsing Chekhov? 



That is not culturally nourishing; it is morally famished. There is a fine scene, near the end, when a survivor of Hanna’s crimes (the great Lena Olin) tells the middle-aged Michael (Ralph Fiennes) that "nothing came out of the camps," that they 'weren’t therapy." Quite true, so why has the film pretended otherwise?





harness

tandem

They swam [in] tandem. 

Bryan [Singer] and writer Christopher [McQuarrie]—the tandem previously responsible for The Usual Suspects

hoofbeat

and there is menace in the sound of [hoof]beats but no cheer in the cry of trumpets.

trot

balk 

prance

she never seems happier than when prancing [around] in her underwear and a pair of nine-inch heels.

equestrian

A middle-aged circus owner has [forsaken] his family for Anne, a proud, passionate [equestrian] performer who eventually allows herself to be seduced by a neurotic young actor. Albert takes to the [bottle] and mercilessly [taunts] Anne.

saddle

saddled [with] debts

Strut