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1、National Research Centre for Foreign Language EducationBeijing Foreign Studies University北京外国语大学中国外语教育研究中心许永建飞屋环游记飞屋环游记UP The film centers around an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen and an earnest young Wilderness Explorer named Russell who flies to South America in a house suspended by balloo

2、ns.The film has received overwhelmingly positive reviews,making it Pixars second-most commercially successful film,behind Finding Nemo.Carl Fredricksen is a shy and quiet boy who idolizes renowned/well-known/famous explorer Charles F.Muntz.He learns,however,that Muntz has been accused of fabricating

3、 the skeleton of a giant bird he had discovered in Paradise Falls,South America.Muntz vows to return there to capture one alive.One day,Carl befriends an energetic tomboy named Ellie(Elizabeth Docter),who is also a Muntz fan.Detailing her ambitions in her personal scrapbook,she tells Carl her desire

4、 to move her clubhouse-an abandoned house in the neighborhood-to a cliff overlooking Paradise Falls,making him promise to help her.Carl and Ellie eventually get married and grow old together in the restored house,working as a toy balloon vendor and a zookeeper,respectively.Unable to have children,th

5、ey repeatedly saved money for a trip to Paradise Falls,but end up spending it on other urgent things.An elderly Carl finally arranges for the trip,but Ellie suddenly becomes ill and passes away.Years later,Carls house becomes surrounded by urban development,but he refuses to sell his property.He the

6、n ends up in a fight/tussle with a construction worker over his broken mailbox,and is forced by a court order to move into a retirement home.However,Carl comes up with a scheme to keep his promise to Ellie:he turns his house into a flying house,using thousands of balloons to lift it off its foundati

7、ons.A young Wilderness Explorer named Russell becomes an accidental passenger,having begged/pestered Carl earlier in an attempt to earn his final merit badge for assisting the elderly and become a Senior Wilderness Explorer.After surviving a thunderstorm,the house lands near a large rock facing Para

8、dise Falls.Carl and Russell tie/harness themselves to the still-buoyant house and begin to walk it around the rock,hoping to reach the falls before the balloons die away/deflate.They later befriend a tall,colorful flightless bird(whom Russell names Kevin)trying to reach her chicks.Then a dog named D

9、ug,who wears a special collar that allows him to speak.They are then ambushed by a pack of similar dogs led by Alpha,and taken to Dugs master,who turns out to be an elderly Charles Muntz.Muntz invites Carl and Russell aboard his plane,where he explains that he has spent the years since his disgrace

10、searching Paradise Falls for the giant bird.When Russell innocently reveals his friendship with Kevin,Muntz becomes disturbingly unfriendly/hostile.So the pair,Kevin,and Dug had to flee,chased by Muntzs army of dogs;Kevin is injured during the escape.Muntz eventually catches up with them and starts

11、a fire beneath Carls house,forcing Carl to choose between saving it or Kevin.Carl rushes to put out the fire,allowing Muntz to take the bird.Carl and Russell eventually reach the falls,but Russell is angry with Carl over his selfishness.Settling into his home,Carl is sadly poring over Ellies childho

12、od scrapbook when,to his surprise,he discovers photos of their married life on the formerly blank pages,and a final note from Ellie thanking him for the adventure,encouraging him to go on a new one.Regaining the courage,he goes to find Russell,only to see him sailing off alone on some balloons to sa

13、ve Kevin.Carl lightens his house by dumping all his possessions.Russell is captured by Muntz,but Carl manages to free both him and Kevin.Muntz pursues them around the airship,finally cornering Dug,Kevin,and Russell inside Carls house with a hunting rifle.Carl then lures Kevin out through a window wi

14、th a chocolate bar,with Dug and Russell clinging to her back,just as Muntz is about to break in.Muntz leaps after them,only to snag his foot on some balloon lines and fall to his death.Carl reunites Kevin with her chicks,then flies Muntz plane back to the city.When Russells father misses his sons Senior Explorer promotion ceremony,Carl takes over and proudly presents Russell with his final badge:the grape soda cap badge that Ellie gave to Carl when they first met.Meanwhile,Carls house is shown to have landed on the cliff beside Paradise Falls.