外刊阅读：It's all a lie
我们都希望家人健康快乐地生活。但是，万一自己的亲人得了治不好的疾病，很多人都会选择不告诉他/她实际情况。这种隐瞒的出发点是好的，但是这样的做法到底好不好呢？
It's all a lie
by Kevin Fallon
This is the biggest moment of breakout director Lulu Wang's career, and it is all based on a lie. She couldn't be more upfront about it. The first thing audiences see when Wang's Sundance darling The Farewell begins is a title card that reads "based on an actual lie."
breakout /ˈbreɪkaʊt/ adj. 一炮走红的
director /dɪˈrektə(r)/ n. 导演
career /kəˈrɪə(r)/ n. 事业、职业生涯
based on 基于
upfront /ʌpˈfrʌnt/ adj. 坦诚的
audience /ˈɔːdiəns/ n. 观众
Sundance 是一个电影节
darling /ˈdɑːlɪŋ/ n. 心爱之物
farewell /feəˈwel/ n. 告别
title card 指电影中带有简短文字的画面（比如“十年以后”）
read /riːd/ v. 读作、写道
actual /ˈæktʃuəl/ adj. 实际存在的
When her grandmother, nicknamed "Nai Nai," was 80, she received a terminal cancer diagnosis. As is sometimes common in China, Wang's family didn't tell Nai Nai the truth about her condition, believing it better that she live out the end of her life without fear of death.
nickname /ˈnɪkneɪm/ v. 给予昵称
terminal /ˈtɜːmɪn(ə)l/ adj. （疾病）晚期的
cancer /ˈkænsə(r)/ n. 癌症
diagnosis /ˌdaɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/ n. 诊断
truth /truːθ/ n. 真相、实情
condition /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ n. 疾病
As a ruse（计策） for Wang and her extended family of expatriates（侨民） – Wang moved to the U.S. from Beijing at age 6 – to visit with Nai Nai one last time, they pretend to throw a wedding for her cousin; another lie.
extended family 大家庭
visit with someone 跟某人交谈
pretend /prɪˈtend/ v. 假装
throw /θrəʊ/ v. 举办（社交聚会）
wedding /ˈwedɪŋ/ n. 婚礼
cousin /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ n. 堂兄弟姐妹、表兄弟姐妹
In the film, a headstrong aspiring（有抱负的） artist named Billi is tormented（使痛苦） by the family's decision to lie to her Nai Nai. When she makes the pilgrimage（拜见之旅） to China, she is confronted with a host of emotions, from the looming loss, to whether what they're doing is ethical, to the power of tradition and what home, family, and identity really mean to a girl living half a world away from her birthplace.
headstrong /ˈhedstrɒŋ/ adj. 犟的、固执的
confront /kənˈfrʌnt/ v. 直面、正面交锋
a host of 很多
emotion /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)n/ n. 情绪、情感
looming /ˈluːmɪŋ/ adj. （不好的事）即将到来的
loss /lɒs/ n. 去世
ethical /ˈeθɪk(ə)l/ adj. 合乎道德的
power /ˈpaʊə(r)/ n. 力量、影响力
tradition /trəˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ n. 传统
identity /aɪˈdentəti/ n. 身份
birthplace /ˈbɜːθpleɪs/ n. 出生地（由birth和place组成）
That's how Wang ended up in Changchun, China, shooting The Farewell in the neighborhood where her grandmother lived. As she was making this film about the lie her family was telling her Nai Nai, she was spending more time with her grandmother than she ever had in her adult life.
end up 以…告终
shoot /ʃuːt/ v. 拍摄
neighborhood /ˈneɪbəhʊd/ n. 住宅区
The impossible tornado of feelings when it comes to loss in a family and the question of who carries the emotional burden of illness and death resonate in nearly every culture. Just because the family in the film is Chinese-American and a portion of the dialogue is in Mandarin doesn't make it any less relatable（让人有同感的）. In fact, if the reaction to the film is any barometer（晴雨表）, it only makes it more so.★
impossible /ɪmˈpɒsəb(ə)l/ adj. 难处理的、难应付的
tornado /tɔːˈneɪdəʊ/ n. 龙卷风（引申为破坏力强的事物）
emotional /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)n(ə)l/ adj. 情感的、情绪的（由emotion加后缀-al变成形容词）
burden /ˈbɜːd(ə)n/ n. 负担
resonate /ˈrez(ə)neɪt/ v. 引起共鸣
portion /ˈpɔːʃ(ə)n/ n. 一部分
dialogue /ˈdaɪəlɒɡ/ n. 对话
Mandarin /ˈmænd(ə)rɪn/ n. 普通话
reaction /rɪˈækʃ(ə)n/ n. 反应、回应
★ 这句话最后的more so指more relatable
When The Farewell premiered（首映） at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the reaction was rapturous（反响热烈的）. The audience at the premiere screening burst into tears several times during the showing. Wang couldn't walk down Main Street without being stopped by people desperate to tell her how moved they were by the film, usually with tears in their eyes, which would make her cry as well.
screen /skriːn/ v. 放映
burst /bɜːst/ v. （情感）突然爆发
down /daʊn/ prep. 沿着
desperate /ˈdesp(ə)rət/ adj. 渴望的、极想要的
move /muːv/ v. 使感动
"The more I talk about it, the more I realize that, even after making the movie, I don't have an answer of what's right and what's wrong," Wang says, referring to the lie. "When I went through the experience I felt very much like I needed to figure out what was right and what was wrong. I think that this has made me realize that the process of figuring it out is the point."
refer to 谈到、提及
go through 经历
figure out 弄明白、找到…的答案
process /ˈprəʊses/ n. 过程
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