Welcome to the land of good taste
a country where life itself is an art form,
大连理工大学 2008级 经济英强、化工英强 英语听说（四）作业成果展示
a land where it's easy to love, 感谢zimuku.net 提供的汉语字幕
and where food and drink, history and tradition are taken seriously.
Such things are not an adornment to life,
they are the good life. la belle vie
Of course, what is good in life is worth fighting for.
This is the country that ushered in the modern world for all of us
via bloody revolution.
This is France.
And here is the thing about revolutions.
They still go on.
Change is good.
These are the French men and women who are in the vanguard of today's countless revolutions.
There is a whole new France coming.
See them, and you can see it.
France has long been the intellectual and emotional heart of Europe as well as its geographical center.
That is the head and heart of the continent.
But it's not just Pairs that's at the forefront,
all over the country, a new generation is redefining what it means to be French.
To the east in the Alps,
Chef Mark Verra is an agent for radical change in cuisine.
In the southwest, sport and tradition are being tested,
by bull fighter Christopher Clarion,
who is reconsidering an ancient way of life
and death.
One hundred miles inland,
rock climber Alain Robert defies civil law even as he defies the laws of gravity.
On the eastern border,
Michelle Shablian is challenging some very old ideas about what women's work is meant to be.
And in the capital Paris
Sebastien Foucan brings a sense of grace to a brand new sport
part speed, part dance, part magic
Every year, on the 14th of July
France throws a vast street party
Ironically, it's traditional
Even though,it celebrates a revolution
the overthrow of the monarchy in 1789.
This is Bastille Day
When the Paris Prison was forced to release its prisoners to make room for the rich and infamous
It's Independence Day, French style
The biggest part of this blast would be at the Eiffel Tower.
Constructed to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution
this iron monument was considered a threat to life and limb when it was built in 1889
With 6 million visitors every year
it is a French icon,and the world's most visited monument
Tonight,half a million people are gathering underneath it
hoping to witness the most spectacular fireworks display in French history
And it's all down to one man to get it right
The tension is terrible
People are expecting a lot from us
No other show exists on this scale
Christophe Bertonant, for more than three months he has worked around the clock
to create a pyrotechnic spectacle on the grandest of scales
Already behind schedule,the riggers still have to lift 16 tons of explosives to the top of the tower
For Christophe,tonight is the culmination of 15 years’ work
a dream that began with a very hot love affair
The hottest in fact Christophe is in love with fire
Everyone is fascinated by fire
but some people like to get up close to it
If you want to create fireworks,you've got to love fire
Fire was once the weapon of choice for revolutionaries,and apparently it still is
The spirit of today's France is based on the revolution
This is the day that Parisians were liberated
so it's heavily ingrained in French tradition
So on this day, when Frenchmen tend to reflect back on their noisy past
Christophe knows that his audience could be unforgiving
And so the pressure is on
But Christophe is not the only Frenchman in the midst of epic struggle
Five hundred miles southeast of Paris in the Southern Alps
lies some of France's most formidable geology
the Gorges du Verdon
these limestone cliffs plummet more than twelve hundred feet
Europe's deepest canyon
but one man has a firm grip on this landscape
he is the world's grestest climber-- Alain Robert
Even in French, he is known as spiderman
Alain climbs without safety ropes
It's called free solo climbing
any and every mistake means almost certain death
you know, I do enjoy to take some risks
because it makes my life more interesting than just living and not taking any risks
Alain grew up 100 miles from the gorge in the medieval village of Pezenas培兹纳斯
here at an early age,he discovered that climbing was about more than strengh and agility
I guess, nearly from the beginning I am seeing that what I am doing is more mental than physical
The physical aspect is just training
So everybody is capable to train
but having a good...a good mental stamina, this is something different
I am capable to make a pull up with one arm and one finger
Years ago I could do it with the pinkie
but it's not all mind over matter
Physics tends to have its way
In 1982, Alain snapped half- way of cliff face
and Alain stepped into the void
I was in a coma
my pelvis was broken, my heel was broken
my..of course, my skull was broken, my nose was broken
my cheek also was broken
Alain should have died, and seem destined for a wheelchair
but climbers tend to be stubborn
the impossible is just something else to overcome
Even though those people were thinking that I could not climb any more
I had decided to try
Alain’s accident changed him forever
and not in the direction of caution, far from it
He had relied on ropes, and they failed him
He’d never be fooled like that again
the first rockface that the new Alain attempted was the killer Gorges du Verdon
but now, there was another demon in the mix
The accident had left Alain with a new affliction
Vertigo
I was climbing,with some dizziness,
a little bit bike when you're hungover.
And still,i can manage to do it.Even though i feel that my balance is not very good.
i won’t say that I'm crazy.
At least I'm doing what I want
In 1993,Alain became a world record holder
when he scaled this insane 1200-foot cliff without ropes
Now he is seeking new challenges of the untethered kind in Paris
In France,free time is a right under law.
Ever since the 1930s,no one can be forced to work more than 35 hourse a week.
And the average French worker has 7weeks paid vacation every year
It's a society that works to live,not lives to work
And here,time off is almost always accompanied by food.
Nine out of ten families eat their main meal together everyday of the week
But the French diet is not healthy
Somehow the French have managed to thrive on a cuisine based on red meat,cream,sugar and wine
They eat 4 times as much butter
60%more cheese,and 50%more saturated fats than Americans
But in a fitness and health-conscious world
a revolution is overtaking in the kitchen as well
In the French Alps
A radical chef is storming the ultimate Bastille of French culture
--cuisine
In the kitchen that resembles a laboratory
The man some consider the world's finest chef
is taking French menus where none have gone before
This is Mark Verra
And this is virtual spaghetti
He creates it without flour or eggs, instead he uses an intense puree of of shallots and watercress
What's fantastic is that by using less animal fat
I developed flavors more fully
Using less butter,less cream
All these flavors, these vegetables are more powerful when you don't use fat
French cuisine is very traditional and very conservative,just like French people
I've got the cast of mind which wants to shake things up a bit
To show that we can drag Franch cuisine into the 21st century
Mark Verra 's meteoric rise to the top is legendary
Raised on a small Alpine farm
His maverick attitude got him kicked out of the top cooking school
So he taught himself
And now is one of only 3 chefs to receive Franch cuisine's highest accolade
Three Michelin stars for each of his two restaurants
Here,"la ferme de mon père","My father's farm", patrons and livestock share the dinning room
And surprises don't end there
This is no raw egg
It has been cooked for 9 hours at 134 degrees
Only the yolk remains
Mark then cocoons the yolk in cornflour paste
Which he dunks in the solution that sets the flour.
in its new shell. Wow, it's an egg again.
Sort of
He serves it with a jab of wild cumin
Dinners wait up to a year for a reservation here
And a meal for two can cost nearly 1000 dollars without wine
A restaurant should surprise when it costs a certain amount of money.
It should leave you with an unforgettable memory
This is Mark's take on an American classic soda pop
A low calorie herb infusion flavored with licorice
harvested from woods behind his restaurant
A place where Mark finds many of his secret ingredients
These forests are where Mark played as a child
Memories of wandering here with his father gave him his greatest inspirations
When I was a teenager, this library was planted in my brain
wild cumin to go in cheese
Wild spinach for soup
Myrtle香桃木, all unforgettable aromas that I stored away
Mark is driven by his father's love of the land
So it's really nostalgia as well as nutrition he is selling here
Personal history as comfort food
I've had the best learning experience in the world
Why？Because my parents were both peasants
For the French, the word "peasant" is no insult
To be close to the land, it's a badge of honor
This is the place of memory
A memory of my parents
I don't think there's anything more powerful in life than to love and remember
Nothing sadder than to forget
Paris sits at the heart of all things French
On the banks of the River Seine
The city arose at the crossroads of ancient Gaelic and Roman trade routes
It has dominated French culture for almost 2000 years
Today, with more than 11 million souls
It's 5 times larger than any other French city
and home to 1 in 6 of the French population.
This is the top tourist destination on earth.
More than 30 million visitors every year
and along the Seine, romance.
The French,it seems to have fallen in love like this and always will,
we hope so anyway.
Still, there are many Parises and some of them are hidden.
Far from the millions who visit the city every year is a very different Paris.
It is the Pairs that everybody know,
but I going to show you my Paris.
Meet Sebastien Foucan
he belongs to a new generation of performance artists.
His art is called free running or in French "parkour".
It's a ballet over the roof tops and across an urban jungle.
A lot people think parkour is a sport.
Yes, it's physical,you know,
but for me, is more like an art.
You'll find some obstacle,
and you just use your body with the obstacle.
This is parkour.
plainly, parkour is an art form for the very fit and young.
It to ballet what hip-hop is to Bach and Keats.
And so it flourishes in the suburb of Avery(艾弗利)
an immigrant community 25 miles from downtown Paris.
The French citizens who live here come from former French colonies in North Africa.
Yet the street life of African cities
seems far away in a place where the architecture can seem designed to isolate,
With unemployment among the young as high as 40%,and crime increasing each year.
这些贫民区是法国民众发出强烈抗议的原因 these ghettoes are a cause of public outcry in France.
但对谢巴斯汀而言，这个诡异的水泥丛林代表着机会 But for Sebastien Foucan, this quirky cement jungle presented opportunities.
This is where I grew up.
My playground.
When we were kids we played tag and all kinds of games like this
And we practiced Parkour, free running
Sebastien and his friends were inspired by the 1960s architecture around them
They didn't find its utilitarian nature depressing at all
They envisioned movement and grace on a great big stage
You see your city like a big story and you can create your own adventure, you know
Like kids you just say, follow me! Oh, be careful, there's a crocodile
But there's no crocodile, but with your imagination, you can go...
...wherever you want
Now 32 years old, Sebastien never abandoned his childhood dreams
He kept at it, perfecting his technique
Elevating Parkour from a trick to a way of life
It's your spirit and your body
A way to help you join both
Sebastien is what the French call" a traceur"
Not just an athlete, but a path finder
Parkour has enabled Sebastien to bounce right out of the ghetto and into the wider world
He struts for the paparazzi, and stars in commercials and blockbuster movies
I know I worked very hard for this
Nothing happened to me easily
Er...I know where I come from
I never thought I would be where I am now
It's unbelievable
I don't think people take time to dream
It is very important to have a passion or something close to your dream
We find a new way to express ourselves
To have creativity and to believe in what you want to do
is the most important point
Sebastien is forging the future of the new France
In another part of the country
the nation struggles with its past
Of the tens of millions killed in the two World Wars
more than four million died on French soil
That's the downside of living in a rich and beautiful land
it inspires envy
Everybody wants it
and will stop at nothing literally to get it
Entire generations bear silent witness to the awful struggles that shaped modern Europe
It's astonishing but that violent history continues to kill in the French countryside
It's a threat that Michelle Shablian understands only too well
My little boy is ten
he liked me to do a different job, but he knows that I enjoy what I do
and I wouldn't be happy working in an office
so he accepts it
When I leave for work in the morning
I know it's a strong chance that I may not make it back home
Michelle is a bomb disposal expert
Everyday she risks her life to make her nation safer
She lives and works in Alsace where France shares a border with Germany
Here in the Second World War, nearly six hundred thousand tons of bombs were dropped
destroying one million French homes
wiping entire cities off the map
Trouble is one in three of these bombs failed to detonate
Michelle and her colleagues spend their days making potential explosive house calls
Today Michelle is investigating an object found in the garden of this country cottage
Where did you find it?
I found it over there by the corner of the house
While gardening?
I found it in the soil and thought I'd hit a stone
I looked a bit closer
But this isn't a stone, it's a grenade
If it goes off, it would be shrapnel everywhere that kill within 250 feet
The explosive is still inside, so it's still alive
so there's no point in taking any risks
This grenade may be small
but it's one of almost two thousand deadly devices that must be disposed off each month
Every year the French Bomb Disposal Unit is called out on more than twelve thousand missions all across the country
For them, in a way, World War II is still being fought.
The demining service disposed of 492 tons of explosives this year.
My colleagues and I see it as an endless task.
Our work will never end.
because we need at least 500 years to clear the French territory.
Michelle knows the risks, but she also feels a duty to her colleagues and her country.
It's true, as a mother
I tell myself protect French families and I'm very proud of that, very very proud
And that's why I take these risks.
Since the Second World War, 617 members of bomb disposal unit have lost their lives.
They and the soldiers of World War II were fighting for one thing
--liberty.
The Statue of liberty is an American icon.
But this statue isn't in New York, it's in Paris.
It's a smaller version of the one given to the United States by the French government in 1886.
Liberty is represented by the symbolic figure of a woman
The French call her La Marianne
And she can be seen in thousands of status across the country
all of them slightly different.
In a country where the road of women and society is still evolving.
For French women
The freedoms of the modern world have come much later than in many other countries.
It was only after the Second World War that women were given the vote
It wasn't until 1965 that women were allowed to work without their husbands' permission
Bur France is changing.
Today, half of French women have jobs.
And the new generation is pushing the edges of what’s possible for women to achieve in France.
For centuries France was not one kingdom,
It was many duchies and principalities who were sometimes at war with each other.
Many of the castles that controlled the countryside have long since fall into ruin.
But that old world still survives as France's 22 rural provinces.
The spirit of independence is strong in every region.
Fifty percent of the rural French live within 20 miles of where they were born.
Each province still retains its own distinct cuisine.
And food producers have their local identity protected by law
Champagne can only come from the Champagne region.
And Cognac from Cognac.
And it's against the law to make a Roquefort cheese more than 100 miles outside the town of Roquefort.
This is the Camargue
Formed on Europe's largest river delta
It is cut off by water from mainland France
The isolation has fostered an environment rich in unusual species
Rare birds, like the European pink flamingo
live along side the wild Camargue horses
who have roared here since prehistoric times
But one animal rules the Camargue
The bull
Revered above all others
For the bull, it's good to be king
In villages like Saint Laurant, life revolves around bulls
Restaurants serve bull steaks and bull wine
while the shops sell bull shoes and bull leather jackets
But the main traction is the annual bull fight
Over a four-week period each year
More than 90,000 spectators flock to the Camargue to watch the tournaments
Christopher Clarion is a woodcutter
But this year, for the first time, he is entering the ring
I remember when I was very little, we used to go to the bullfights
And I became passionate about them
And now, here I am, a bullfighter
If Christopher wins, he'll have a chance to become one of the regular bullfighters
But to win, Christopher faces terrifying odds
and sharp horns
July the 7th, time for the running of the bulls
Signaling the start of the tournament in Saint Laurant
The bulls emerge from a 400-year-old church
Unlike Spanish bullfights, no animals are killer or injured
Instead, the bull has ribbons tied to its horns
The bullfighter's job is to cut them off with his saw-tooth claw
Running at the bulls, Christopher knows that the slightest misstep could mean death
You are neither outside of danger
You can slip, you can miss your step when you jump
You can lose your balance
I think everyone has fear
A person who has no fear is a madman
Over the day-long match, a dozen bullfighters face half a dozen bulls
The man who captures the most ribbons wins
It's really a perilous version of Capture the Flag
In the last five years
Two bullfighters have been killed and dozens maimed
Only fifteen minutes remain
It's Christopher's last chance to take the winning ribbon
He's done it
Christopher has got the ribbon he needs
The feeling of winning, the sensation of winning
It's the feeling of being the best
It's really... Today, I was the best
I feel a great happiness and pride because it's my village
It's good, I'm very pleased
But the real winner is the Camargue
It is about as far from Paris as you can get
And it's full of people connected to a past that still makes sense
And that makes all the difference
100 miles northeast
spiderman---Alain Robert prepares to elevate his game
he is spending a last evening with his family
tomorrow he will head to Paris to, once again, reach for the sky
I know that they are afraid
but they are not telling me that much about it
you know, they just let me live my life, you know
before the ascent, my wife, she's always telling me that
“everything's going to be Ok, and then you just call me back when you have reached the top”
For Alain, life means taking risks and pushing limits
and in less than 24 hours, he will find out if the limits will push back
This is the Philips Tower
It's about to make history
Alain Robert, the spiderman, has defeated the best that geology could throw at him
now he's ready to take on Paris
in the form of the 40-storey Philips Tower
Alain is famous in France for climbing tall buildings
almost always illegally
I think people, they ... they quite like me
even though what I am doing is illegal, they like it very much...
...because there is at the back of their mind and the back of my mind, of course ,that spirit of freedom
Now Alain is going where no man has gone before
up the 420-foot face of the tower
above the 8th storey, any slip will mean certain death
Alain's ascent will depend on a tiny design element in the tower's architecture
a two-inch wedge of metal which will be his working margin between life and death
I am going to use this groove which is, you know, no more than this little part of my fingers
and then I have to board my feet, you know?
Alain is on his own
It's 40 stories to the top
and there's no way to climb back down
When I am climbing, this is not the right time to think about falling... about danger, about stress
Only a handful of climbers in the world embrace the free solo, the bone chilling shiver of free solo climbing
but Alain is in a class by himself in taking on the insanity of climbing urban canyons
Every building has its own material and technical challenges
But this climb is suddenly much more difficult than expected
His entire weight is supported by his fingers
squeezed into a small sharp metal groove
now I find the groove a litter bit ... tinier than what I thought when I first saw it
if it starts to bleed, then it becomes very slippery
Fixed 20 stories up and unable to descend
Alain knows the consequences of failure
but nothing daunted
he presses on and hopes for the best from his bleeding fingers and spent muscles
After 28 minutes, the Gaelic spider man has taken Paris and
his eighty first building
This is unlikely to be his last
我甚至无法想像不再攀爬的情况 "I can't even imagine to stop,
对我来说，攀爬就像呼吸和走路一样 I feel like climbing for me is like breathing, like walking
它是我生活的一部分 it's part of my life"
Not far from the Philips tower
other more sensible climbers
are using ropes to scale another feature of the Parisian skyline
and they are carrying explosives
The 14th of July
With just hours to go, Christophe Bertonant is seriously pressed for time.
It's not the first night at some play with 400 people watching.
It's six hundred thousand people,plus two million television viewers
so the pressure is huge
Christophe has worked 15 years for this moment.
all of France, and especially Paris.
are hoping to see the ultimate celebration of the French Revolution.
Nobody knows quite what to expect
though everyone also realizes that fireworks are, well, bombs.
A firework display like this one is a bit like a castle made of cards
All that is needed is one card that has been placed incorrectly for the whole show to collapse
You find yourself with a feeling of stress that hits you and all the worry ,the nerves before the show
it's very difficult.
and for one brief moment, Christophe's dream unites a nation
once again Paris is not burning, except with the people's love for their country
Nationalism can be a positive thing
It allows people to be part of a common aim
just the pleasure of being all together makes you feel good
Bastille Day is a time to assert once more, that the French are a people connected in time
and that the good life also means working to make sure threats are defused
memories revived
challenges conquered
the French united
There have been rebels and revolutions here before
And, doubtless there will be others to come
but they’re used to it, the French
Change is good