捷进英语 lesson 39
NANCY:And she doesn't want any rugs.
Yvonne,Klara may be our strangest client ever.
YVONNE:She's not so bad.
NANCY:You must be joking.
YVONNE:Hey.She knows what she wants and she can pay for it.What's the problem?
NANCY:She doesn't know what she wants.She can't have known.
She's been through a dozen designers.
YVONNE:Nan,she's not that hard to read.
We may not like what we read.But she is the boss.
NANCY:That's another thing.We're freelance.We're supposed to be our own bosses.
YVONNE:Freelance just means everyone is your boss.
But I'm still glad I left my old job.
I'd rather have a crazy rich lady tell me what to do,
than an office full of state attorneys,thank you.
NANCY:Richard was not a bad boss.
YVONNE:No.But some of the others could have been prison guards.
Anyway,who would you rather look at:a State House lawyer,or Antonio?
NANCY:Please.Antonio is very strange.
YVONNE:Nan.It's an iteresting project.She's paying us for our time.
We'll do a good job.
NANCY:I guarantee she will change her mind about what she wants.
YVONNE:She might.
NANCY:She will.
HANNAH:Danny,this is a wonderful meal.Please come and live with me.
MICHAEL:Do you think he does this all the time?
Lisa,you see how we live.Ask Hannah if she wants to sink to our level.
LISA:This is unusually civilized 2.
DANNY:It's not often I make my sauce.
TONY:I want to know if this is your mother's sauce.
DANNY:The basic recipe is the same,
but I put in a few things my mother would not approve of.
I broke a couple of the rules.
HANNAH:Your mother has rules about spaghetti sauce?
TONY AND DANNY:Of course!
LISA:My mother's rules are about clothes.
MICHAEL:Like what?
LISA:Like skirt length.No minis.
TONY:Bummer. DANNY:Bummer.
LISA:In high school she'd always ask me if I intended to leave the house that way.
HANNAH:She must have been surprised the first time you came home from college.
LISA:Oh yes.
DANNY:My parents sure were.My dad has one rule:be practical.
And I had changed my major from business to theater arts.Oh well.
TONY:Besides Danny,you're using that theatrical 3 stuff in your job now.
DANNY:Oh yeah,ha ha,it's always a show down at the copy place.
HANNAH:How's your film coming,Michael?Are you breaking any rules?
MICHAEL:I don't think so.My advisor 4 asked me who my major influence has been.
I told him it changes every week.I haven't even found the rules yet.
TONY:Well,you'll know what to do when you find them.
ALL:Break'em!
JOE:Richard,if your dinners are like this every night,
I'm going to be a very jealous man.
RICHARD:Oh,absolutely.Five courses.Candlelight.
NANCY:It is so easy to please Richard.
YVONNE:Sorry guys.I've been here.I've seen the Chinese food cartons.
NANCY:I told you he was easy to please.Any food will make Richard happy.
MARIE:You're lucky,Nancy.I cook,and half the time he's too tired to eat.
JOE:We eat too late.
MARIE:You don't get home until 8 o'clock.
DOUGLAS:So you guys have been putting in a lot of hours?
RICHARD:Who isn't?
YVONNE:Really.Well,I bought a lottery 5 ticket.
NANCY:Uh-oh.What happened to my practical partner?
YVONNE:What do you all want when I win?
Douglas,honey,you and I are taking a cruise 6.
JOE:Is it too much to ask for a new sailboat?
YVONNE:You got it,Joe.
RICHARD:I'll have one,too.
DOUGLAS:No,no Richard.Yvonne should make a big contribution to your campaign.
RICHARD:No,no,no,no,hey....We have not yet decided 7 that.
MARIE:What haven't you decided?
NANCY:If Richard is going to run for Attorney 1 General.
MARIE:Oh. JOE:Ow.
MARIE:I'm sorry.I didn't know.I guess Joe was too busy to tell me.
JOE:Ow. MARIE:I'm sorry dear.Was that your foot?
- He acted as attorney for me.他充当我的律师。
- The attorney for the union accused the Mayor of playing politics.工会的律师谴责市长在这次罢工中耍阴谋。
- Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
- rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为
- The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.最后一场缺乏戏剧效果,叫人失望。
- She always makes some theatrical gesture.她老在做些夸张的手势。
- They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
- The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
- He won no less than £5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
- They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。
- They went on a cruise to Tenerife.他们乘船去特纳利夫岛。
- She wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge.她想乘驳船游览法国的运河。