1. The challenge of programming outdoor movies is to match the film to the setting.
如何使得电影与环境能够达到和谐一致是组织露天电影的困难所在。match A to B: 把A与B完美结合。
2. New Yorkers are spreading their blankets and kicking off their workday shoes to relish the romance of open-air cinema again. (Para 2)
纽约人开始铺开他们的毯子，踢脱工作鞋，重新享受露天电影的浪漫。kick off: 踢掉。
3. ----the popularity of outdoor screenings is a no-brainer. (Para 3)
4. Pizza Grande. (Para 5)
5. The Mall in Washington. (Para 5)
6. the National Institutes of Health. (Para 6) 美国全国卫生研究所。
7. a 10-day series gets under way next month with a lineup of family-friendly fare. (Para 6)
下月将举行为期10天的系列电影放映活动，届时观众将会看到一批适于家庭观看的电影。a lineup of: 一系列，一批。
8. the memory of a bygone era is part of the pitch. (Para 7)
9. What is singular about open-air cinema in New York City is the sheer scope of offerings. (Para 9)
纽约户外电影院的不同之处在于它所提供的影片种类齐全。
10. a surfeit of arts institutions eager to organize summertime screenings and movie buffs eager to watch the most deliciously arcane film. (Para 9)
许多艺术机构热切希望组织夏季电影放映，而且影迷们希望看到最吸引人的情节神秘的影片。
11. Lacking corporate patrons, a home-grown film series in a playground in Little Italy died earlier this summer. (Para 10)
由于缺少合作赞助商，这个夏季早期在小意大利一个操场举办的国产电影系列放映取消了。home-grown: 国产的。
12. cult films. (Para 11)
13. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a clutch of loft-dwellers mount a homemade sheet-metal screen on their roof every other Friday. (Para 11)
在布鲁克林的威廉姆斯堡，一群住在阁楼的人每隔一个星期五就在屋顶装上国产的金属薄板屏幕。
14. Prospect Park. (Para 12)
15. Fritz Lang. (Para 13)
16. Amstel Light. (Para 14)
17. Curators and moviegoers alike say there’s something about the giant screen and the sweating multitudes and the stars trembling overhead that lead themselves to the familiar. (Para 15)
巨型银幕，汗流浃背的人们以及夜空中闪烁的星星，都是组织者及电影观众提到的能勾起他们熟悉回忆的东西。
18. They sort of appeal to the audience’s imagination. (Para 15)
19. “Rebel Without a Cause,” come on screen in all its garish Cinemascope glory. (Para 17)
宽银幕影片《无因的反抗》投放在银幕上时十分壮观，光辉四射。
20. Reese Witherspoon. (Para 18)
22. All evening long, a few strays lined up before vendors who offered cups of cheap wine, sweaty cans of cold beer, heaping plastic foam plates of fried chicken and candied yams. (Para 19)
整晚都有一些流浪者排队站在摊贩面前，这些小贩为观众提供杯装廉价酒，罐装啤酒，以及盛有炸鸡和糖裹番薯的塑料泡沫盘。line up:排队。
23. And so a selling point of other film series is that they are not Bryant Park. (Para 21)
因而其他电影放映系列的卖点在于它们不是布兰特公园。selling point: 卖点。
24. The lapping of the water and the twinkling lights across the river are a mighty distraction from whatever is on screen. (Para 23)
不论屏幕在上演什么，水浪的重叠拍击，河对岸闪亮的灯火都是强有力的分散注意力的事物。
25. the American Museum of the Moving Image. (Para 24)
26.You kind of want to look around, look at the sky. (Para 24)
你们总是喜欢四周观望，或是仰望天空。kind of: 似乎，有几分。
