一对个性迥异的姐妹——天生会打扮却爱惹是生非的漂亮妹妹，名校毕业勤勤恳恳的姐姐，她们只有高跟鞋的尺寸是一样的——从亲密到反目再到重新团聚到奶奶膝前，妹妹学会了对别人负责任，姐姐学会了……
In Her Shoes (2005)
Two sisters have nothing in common but size 8 1/2 feet. Maggie and Rose are both best friends and polar opposites when it comes to values, goals and personal styles.
Maggie is a party girl who barely graduated from high school, recycles jobs as quickly as yesterday's newspapers and believes her biggest asset is her attractiveness to the opposite sex.
Her recurring1 state of unemployment leaves her virtually homeless as she bounces between the sofas of her friends and relatives. With no confidence in her intellectual ability, she prizes makeup2 over books and has innate3 talent for choosing the perfect accessories and clothes for any occasion.
Rose is a Princeton educated attorney at a top law firm in Philadelphia. Her beautifully decorated prewar apartment is her haven4 from the outside world. With her nose perpetually to the grindstone, she struggles constantly with her weight and never feels comfortable in the clothes she wears.
Her low self-esteem regarding her physical appearance has left her dating life non-existent. Rose's one joy in life is shoes (because they always fit), but unfortunately she has few social opportunities to remove them from her closet.
Maggie gets kicked out of her dad and stepmother's house and winds up on the doorstep of her sister. The Feller girls were close once when they were young girls, especially after their mentally unstable5 mother died. But now their grown-up personalities6 clash rather dramatically. And when Maggie seriously crosses the line by seducing7 Rose's new boyfriend, the straw is broken.
After a calamitous8 falling out, the two sisters travel a bumpy9 road toward true appreciation10 for one another--aided along the way by the discovery of the maternal11 grandmother they thought was dead. Through their re-connection with their grandmother, Ella, Maggie and Rose learn how to make peace with themselves and with each other.
网上评论
In a story about two estranged12 sisters who must overcome years of anger and resentment13 while reconnecting with a lost relative, In Her Shoes certainly aims for the touchy14 feely crowd.
重点词汇
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touchy a. 暴躁的，难以处理的
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sidekick n. 伙伴
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estrange v. 疏远
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bumpy a. （道路）颠簸的，崎岖不平的
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haven n. 港口，避难所
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closet n. 壁橱，储藏室
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fall out v. 争吵，吵架，闹翻
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calamitous a. 多灾难的，不幸的
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seduce v. 引诱，勾引
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hip15 up for v. 向（某人）讨（某物）
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stumble v. 绊倒，使困惑
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ingratiate v. 使迎合，使讨好
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