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获取更多资讯，欢迎关注@新联学院英语教育广播电台 主播:喻照迪 节目配文:As soon as the familiar music starts up and the blue Warner Brothers logo appears on the screen, you‘re transported back to that oh-so-familiar magical world created by British writer J.K. Rowling. But it’s definitely not all-too-familiar– Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is Harry Potter (2001-2011) for adults. 当熟悉的音乐响起，蓝色的华纳兄弟标志出现在大银幕上时，人们又回到了英国作家J.K.罗琳笔下那个熟悉的魔法世界。但也不是那么熟悉——《神奇动物在哪里》是为成年人打造的“哈利•波特”系列电影。 Unlike previous stories in the Harry Potter series, there is no Harry, Ron or Hermione this time around. It‘s 1926, and our hero is named Newt Scamander, a messy-haired, *freckle-faced young *wizard from the UK, and author of a textbook that Potter later studies at Hogwarts. And it’s from that textbook the film gets its name. 有别于先前的“哈利•波特”系列电影，这一次，电影中没有哈利、罗恩和赫敏的身影。故事发生在1926年，头发蓬乱、满脸雀斑的主人公纽特•斯卡曼德是一名来自英国的年轻巫师。哈利后来在霍格沃茨魔法学校学习时，所用的一本课本便是由他所著。而这部电影的名字也源于这一课本。 Traveling from the UK, Scamander arrives in New York carrying a strange suitcase filled with magical creatures, that accidentally ends up being switched with someone else‘s. The creatures are soon *unleashed upon the streets of New York, while Scamander spends the rest of the story hunting them down while fighting US authorities. 斯卡曼德带着一个装满神奇动物的古怪箱子，千里迢迢从英国来到纽约。然而，这个箱子却被意外掉包开箱，里面的神奇动物逃进了纽约城的大街小巷。在接下来的故事中，斯卡曼德不光要将神奇动物们一个个捉回来，还要和美国魔法部抗争。 Not only providing viewers the thrill of seeing the magical creatures being chased down, the storyline of Fantastic Beasts also contains a more serious angle that relates to the real world. 《神奇动物在哪里》的故事不光令观众体验了一把追击魔法生物的惊险，也为人们观察现实世界提供了一个更为严肃的角度。 “I dealt with some dark themes,” Rowling told The Guardian when she described writing the movie. “There was a lot of stuff in the *sewers.” “我设计了一些暗黑主题，”罗琳在接受《卫报》采访时如此形容这部电影的创作。“下水道里有很多东西可以挖掘。” Through the experience of Scamander, a British man in the US, the movie explores the issues of racial inequality and *discrimination toward immigrants. 这部电影借助英国人斯卡曼德在美国的历险，深入探究了种族不平等和歧视移民的问题。