It tells of her life when she was about five years old. She calls her mother and father Ma and Pa.

它讲述了她大约五岁时的生活。她叫她的父母" 妈" 和" 爸" 。

Instead, he heard Ma and Pa talking quietly.

相反，他听到妈妈和爸爸小声地说话。

Ma and Pa were talking together and Laura smelled tobacco smoke.

妈妈和爸爸在一起聊天，劳拉闻到了烟草味。

But today, farm subsidies in the US were not about giving a little money to help ma and pa make it through a tough season.

但现在的美国农业补贴并不是为了给爸爸妈妈提供一点儿钱来帮助他们度过艰难时期。

Ma and Pa were not well educated.

马和爸爸没有受过良好的教育。

Ma and Pa came in very quietly and very quietly went to bed.

妈妈和爸爸非常安静地进来，也非常安静地去睡觉了。

Over the next five years, five more Ma and Pa Kettle movies were made.

在接下来的五年里，又制作了五部 Ma and Pa Kettle 电影。

" Ma (Ma) and Pa (Pa)" are short versions of " Mama" and " Papa."

“Ma（马）和Pa（Pa）” 是“Mama” 和“Papa” 的简称。

We turn now to our second topic, the Ma and Pa Kettle movies of the 1950s.

我们现在转向第二个话题，即 1950 年代的 Ma and Pa Kettle 电影。

One of the reasons Ma and Pa Kettle movies were popular was because they were funny, but also because they were nostalgic.

Ma and Pa Kettle 电影受欢迎的原因之一是因为它们很有趣，但也因为它们很怀旧。

It has lots of new machines and lots of new devices that Ma and Pa Kettle, being poor, had never seen before.

它有许多新机器和许多新设备，贫穷的妈妈和爸爸以前从未见过。

The Ma and Pa Kettle characters actually first appeared in another movie, and in that movie they weren't the stars of the movie.

Ma 和 Pa Kettle 角色实际上首次出现在另一部电影中，在那部电影中他们并不是电影中的明星。

The characters were so popular that they then got their own movies, and the first of those was called Ma and Pa Kettle in 1949.

这些角色非常受欢迎， 以至于他们后来拍了自己的电影，其中第一部在 1949 年上映， 名为 Ma and Pa Kettle。

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town involved the two main characters going to New York City to visit their oldest son and his new wife.

。 Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town 讲述了两个主要角色去纽约市看望他们的大儿子和他的新婚妻子。

There were a few more Ma and Pa Kettle movies made in the 1950s, but by the 1960s, American popular culture had changed, focusing more on city life than country life.

1950 年代又拍了几部 Ma and Pa Kettle 电影，但到了 1960 年代， 美国流行文化发生了变化， 更加关注城市生活而不是乡村生活。

" I never heard a mockingbird sing so early, " said Ma, and Pa answered, softly, " He is telling us good-by" .They rode down through the low hills to the creek.

“我从来没有听到这么早的反舌鸟唱歌， ” 妈妈说，爸爸轻声回答，“他在向我们告别。 ” 他们骑马穿过低矮的山丘， 来到小溪边。

In the movie, Ma and Pa Kettle appear to be doing things that are foolish, that are stupid, but in fact they are able of course to " outsmart" – to be smarter than – the bank robbers.

在电影中，Ma 和 Pa Kettle 看似在做一些愚蠢、愚蠢的事情，但实际上他们当然能够“智取”——比——银行劫匪更聪明。

We're also going to talk about a famous series of movies from the mid-twentieth century – the Ma and Pa Kettle movies – and what they say about popular culture in the twentieth century.

我们还将讨论 20 世纪中叶的一系列著名电影——Ma and Pa Kettle 电影——以及它们对 20 世纪流行文化的看法。

Nevertheless, if you go back and watch some of the old Ma and Pa Kettle films, I think you'll get a sense of that nostalgia for rural or for country life that was present during the early 1950s.

尽管如此，如果您回去观看 Ma 和 Pa Kettle 的一些老电影，我想您会感受到 1950 年代初期存在的对农村或乡村生活的怀旧之情。