Friends 1 《老友记》1（视频精讲九）

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Ross: Look, if she's talking to it, I just think that I should get some belly 1 time too. Not that I believe any of this.

Phoebe: Oh, I believe it. I think the baby can totally hear everything. I can show you. Look, this will seem a little weird 2, but you put your head inside this turkey, and then we'll all talk, and you'll hear everything we say.

Chandler: I'd just like to say that I'm totally behind this experiment. In fact, I'd very much like to butter your head.

Monica: Hey, Rach, did you make your money?

Rachel: No, not even close. Forget Vail, forget seeing my family, forget shoop, shoop, shoop.

Monica: Rach, here's your mail.

Rachel: Thanks, you can just put it on the table.

Monica: No, here's your mail.

Rachel: Thanks, you can just put it on the table.

Monica: Would you just open it?

Rachel: Oh my god, oh, you guys are great.

Monica: We all chipped in.

Ross: We did?

Monica: You owe me 20 bucks 3.

Rachel: Thank you. Thank you so much!

Monica: Chandler, here you go, got your traditional holiday feast, you got your tomato soup, your grilled 4 cheese fixin's, and your family size bag of Funyuns.

Rachel: Wait, wait, Chandler, this is what you're havin' for Thanksgiving dinner? What, what, what is it with you and this holiday?

Chandler: All right, I'm nine years old.

Ross: Oh, I hate this story.

Chandler: We just finished this magnificent Thanksgiving dinner. I have--and I remember this part vividly--a mouthful of pumpkin 5 pie, and this is the moment my parents choose to tell me they're getting divorced.

Rachel: Oh my god.

Chandler: Yes. Yes. Very difficult to appreciate a Thanksgiving dinner once you've seen it in reverse.

Joey: Uh, hi. We uh, we used to work together.

Girl: We did?

Joey: Yeah, at Macy's. You were the Obsession 6 girl, right?

Girl: Yes?

Joey: I was the Aramis guy. Aramis? Aramis? Aramis?

Girl: Yeah, right.

Joey: I gotta tell you. You're the best in the business.

Girl: Get out.

Joey: I'm serious. You're amazing. You know when to spritz, you know when to lay back.

Girl: Really? You don't know what that means to me.

Joey: Ooh, you smell great tonight. What're you wearing?

Girl: Nothing.

Joey: Listen, uh, you wanna go get a drink or something?

Girl: Yeah. Oh.

Joey: What's wrong?

Girl: I just remembered, I have to do something.

Joey: Oh. What?

Girl: Um, leave.

Joey: Wait, wait, wait!

妙词佳句，活学或用

1. not even close 差得远呢

- Hey, Rach, did you make your money?
- No, not even close.
- 咳，瑞秋，你赚到你的钱（数目）了吗？
- 没有，差得远呢。

Close的本意是“接近”，比如：

Yao Ming was this close to become the most valuable player in the history of basketball.
姚明差一点就成了篮球史上最有价值的运动员。

2. chip in 凑份子

We all chipped in.
我们每个人都凑了份子钱。

Just like classmates across the country, they all chipped in to buy a classmate a birthday gift.
和全国一样，他们凑钱给同班同学买了一份生日礼物。

3. in reverse 颠倒、逆转
这里Chandler的意思是感恩节给他的感觉和通常人们认为的欢乐气氛相反。

It's very difficult to appreciate a Thanksgiving dinner once you've seen it in reverse.
一旦经历过那样不愉快的感恩节晚餐，你是很难会喜欢它的。

Could Iraq be Vietnam in reverse?
伊拉克有可能成为第二个越南吗？

4. get out 胡说、去你的
记住，在这里可不是“滚蛋”的意思。

- You're the best in the business.
- Get out.
- 你是这行里最优秀的。
- 少来了。

5. lay back 放松

You know when to spritz, when to lay back.
你知道什么时候需要动，什么时候需要静。

Just lay back and enjoy the ride.
只管放松享受这一程吧（指骑马）。

文化面面观

Thanksgiving 感恩节

对感恩节这个节日大家应该都不陌生。现在让我们一起来追溯一下感恩节的历史和习俗吧！

The History and Origin of Thanksgiving Day

Almost every culture in the world has held celebrations of thanks for a plentiful 7 harvest. The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies almost four hundred years ago.

In 1620, a boat filled with more than one hundred people sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World. This religious group had begun to question the beliefs of the Church of England and they wanted to separate from it. The Pilgrims settled in what is now the state of Massachusetts. Their first winter in the New World was difficult. They had arrived too late to grow many crops, and without fresh food, half the colony died from disease. The following spring the Iroquois Indians taught them how to grow corn (maize), a new food for the colonists 8. They showed them other crops to grow in the unfamiliar 9 soil and how to hunt and fish.

In the autumn of 1621, bountiful crops of corn, barley 10, beans and pumpkins 11 were harvested. The colonists had much to be thankful for, so a feast was planned. They invited the local Indian chief and 90 Indians. The Indians brought deer to roast with the turkeys and other wild game offered by the colonists. The colonists had learned how to cook cranberries 12 and different kinds of corn and squash dishes from the Indians. To this first Thanksgiving, the Indians had even brought popcorn 13.

In following years, many of the original colonists celebrated 14 the autumn harvest with a feast of thanks. After the United States became an independent country, Congress recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole nation to celebrate. George Washington suggested the date November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. Then in 1863, at the end of a long and bloody 15 civil war, Abraham Lincoln asked all Americans to set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of thanksgiving.

Celebration

Turkey, corn (or maize), pumpkins and cranberry 16 sauce are symbols which represent the first Thanksgiving. Now all of these symbols are drawn 17 on holiday decorations and greeting cards.

The use of corn meant the survival of the colonies. "Indian corn" as a table or door decoration represents the harvest and the fall season.

Sweet-sour cranberry sauce, or cranberry jelly, was on the first Thanksgiving table and is still served today. The cranberry is a small, sour berry. It grows in bogs 18, or muddy areas, in Massachusetts and other New England states. The Indians used the fruit to treat infections. They used the juice to dye their rugs and blankets. They taught the colonists how to cook the berries with sweetener and water to make a sauce. The Indians called it "ibimi" which means "bitter berry." When the colonists saw it, they named it "crane-berry" because the flowers of the berry bent 19 the stalk over, and it resembled the long-necked bird called a crane.

The berries are still grown in New England. Very few people know, however, that before the berries are put in bags to be sent to the rest of the country, each individual berry must bounce at least four inches high to make sure they are not too ripe!

In 1988, a Thanksgiving ceremony of a different kind took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. More than four thousand people gathered on Thanksgiving night. Among them were Native Americans representing tribes from all over the country and descendants of people whose ancestors had migrated to the New World.

The ceremony was a public acknowledgment of the Indians' role in the first Thanksgiving 350 years ago. Until recently most schoolchildren believed that the Pilgrims cooked the entire Thanksgiving feast, and offered it to the Indians. In fact, the feast was planned to thank the Indians for teaching them how to cook those foods. Without the Indians, the first settlers would not have survived.

考考你

用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1. 他所有的亲戚都凑钱给他交高昂的学费。
2. 先发制人，罗伯特说，不是美国的风格--那将是“第二个珍珠港”。
3. 有些时候你需要放松放松，享受生活。
4. - 你是我见过的最漂亮的女生。
   - 胡说。我没那么好啦。

Friends 1 《老友记》1（精讲之八）考考你 参考答案

1. 真的很遗憾，但是我要离开了，因为我不能接受你对待我的方式。
It's such a shame, but I'm leaving, 'cause I can't take the way you treated me.

2. 我需要你给我介绍一个合适的对象。
I need you to set me up with someone right for me.

3. 他们自贬形象，说：“我配不上她，”而不是说“我知道如何制造吸引力。”
"They say, "She's out of my league," diminishing their own self image, instead of saying, "I know how to create attraction."

4. 女为悦己者容。
Women dress up for their beholders.

点击收听单词发音  






1
belly

  
 


n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分，膛


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The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。












2
weird

  
 


adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的


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From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。












3
bucks

  
 


n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃


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They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》












4
grilled

  
 


adj. 烤的, 炙过的, 有格子的
动词grill的过去式和过去分词形式


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He was grilled for two hours before the police let him go. 他被严厉盘查了两个小时后，警察才放他走。
He was grilled until he confessed. 他被严加拷问，直到他承认为止。












5
pumpkin

  
 


n.南瓜


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They ate turkey and pumpkin pie.他们吃了火鸡和南瓜馅饼。
It looks like there is a person looking out of the pumpkin!看起来就像南瓜里有人在看着你！












6
obsession

  
 


n.困扰，无法摆脱的思想(或情感)


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I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。












7
plentiful

  
 


adj.富裕的，丰富的


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Their family has a plentiful harvest this year.他们家今年又丰收了。
Rainfall is plentiful in the area.这个地区雨量充足。












8
colonists

  
 


n.殖民地开拓者，移民，殖民地居民( colonist的名词复数 )


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Colonists from Europe populated many parts of the Americas. 欧洲的殖民者移居到了美洲的许多地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
Some of the early colonists were cruel to the native population. 有些早期移居殖民地的人对当地居民很残忍。 来自《简明英汉词典》












9
unfamiliar

  
 


adj.陌生的，不熟悉的


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I am unfamiliar with the place and the people here.我在这儿人地生疏。
The man seemed unfamiliar to me.这人很面生。












10
barley

  
 


n.大麦，大麦粒


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They looked out across the fields of waving barley.他们朝田里望去,只见大麦随风摇摆。
He cropped several acres with barley.他种了几英亩大麦。












11
pumpkins

  
 


n.南瓜( pumpkin的名词复数 )；南瓜的果肉，南瓜囊


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I like white gourds, but not pumpkins. 我喜欢吃冬瓜，但不喜欢吃南瓜。 来自《简明英汉词典》
Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put lights inside. 然后在南瓜上刻出一张脸，并把瓜挖空。 来自英语晨读30分（高三）












12
cranberries

  
 


n.越橘( cranberry的名词复数 )


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The tart flavour of the cranberries adds piquancy. 越橘的酸味很可口。
Look at the fresh cranberries. 你看这些新鲜的蔓越橘。 来自无师自通 校园英语会话












13
popcorn

  
 


n.爆米花


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I like to eat popcorn when I am watching TV play at home.当我在家观看电视剧时，喜欢吃爆米花。
He still stood behind his cash register stuffing his mouth with popcorn.他仍站在收银机后，嘴里塞满了爆米花。












14
celebrated

  
 


adj.有名的，声誉卓著的


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He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。












15
bloody

  
 


adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染


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He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。












16
cranberry

  
 


n.梅果


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Turkey reminds me of cranberry sauce.火鸡让我想起梅果酱。
Actually I prefer canned cranberry sauce.事实上我更喜欢罐装的梅果酱。












17
drawn

  
 


v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的


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All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。












18
bogs

  
 


n.沼泽，泥塘( bog的名词复数 )；厕所v.（使）陷入泥沼， （使）陷入困境( bog的第三人称单数 )；妨碍，阻碍


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Whenever It'shows its true nature, real life bogs to a standstill. 无论何时，只要它显示出它的本来面目，真正的生活就陷入停滞。 来自名作英译部分
At Jitra we went wading through bogs. 在日得拉我们步行着从泥水塘里穿过去。 来自辞典例句












19
bent

  
 


n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的


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He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。