Friends 1 《老友记》1（视频精讲六）

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Joey: ...Ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven. See, I told you! Less than a hundred steps from our place to here.

Chandler: You got waaaay too much free time.

Joey: Hey! Here's the birthday boy! Ross, check it out: hockey tickets, Rangers-Penguins, tonight at the Garden, and we're taking you.

Chandler: Happy birthday, pal 1!

Joey: We love you, man.

Ross: Funny, my birthday was seven months ago. 

Joey: So?

Ross: So, I'm guessing you had an extra ticket and couldn't decide which one of you got to bring a date?

Chandler: Well, aren't we Mr. "The glass is half empty."

Ross: Oh my God, oh --- is today the twentieth, October twentieth?

Monica: Oh, I was hoping you wouldn't remember.

Ross: Ohhh.

Joey: What's wrong with the twentieth?

Chandler: Eleven days before Halloween... all the good costumes are gone?

Ross: Today's the day Carol and I first... consummated 2 our physical relationship. Sex... You know what, I-I'd better pass on the game. I think I'm just gonna go home and think about my ex-wife and her lesbian lover.

Joey: The hell with hockey, let's all do that!

Chandler: C'mon, Ross! You, me, Joey, ice, guys' night out, c'mon, whaddya say, big guy, Huh? Huh? Huh?

Ross: What are you doing?

Chandler: I have no idea.

Joey: C'mon, Ross!

Ross: Alright, alright, maybe it'll take my mind off it. Do you promise to buy me a big thumb finger?

Chandler: You got it.

Rachel: Look-look-look-look-look, my first paycheck! Look at the window, there's my name! Hi, me!

Phoebe: I remember the day I got my first paycheck. There was a cave in one of the mines, and eight people were killed.

Monica: Wow, you worked in a mine?

Phoebe: I worked in a Dairy Queen, why?

Rachel: God, isn't this exciting? I earned this. I wiped tables for it, I steamed milk for it, and it was totally-not worth it. Who's FICA? Why's he getting all my money? I mean, what- Chandler, look at that.

Chandler: Oh, this is not that bad.

Joey: Oh, you're fine, yeah, for a first job.

Ross: You can totally, totally live on this.

Monica: Yeah, yeah.

Ross: Oh, by the way, great service tonight.

All: Oh! Yeah!

Guys: Hockey! Hockey! Hockey.

Leslie: Rachel?

Rachel: Oh my God!

Monica: I swear I've seen birds do this on Wild Kingdom.

Rachel: What are you guys doing here?

Kiki: Well, we were in the city shopping, and your mom said you work here, aaand it's true!

Joanne: Look at you in the apron 3. You look like you're in a play.

Rachel: Look at you, you are so big I can't believe it!

Leslie: I know. I know! I'm a duplex.

Rachel: So what's going on with you?

Joanne: Well, guess who my dad's making partner in his firm?

Kiki: And while we're on the subject of news...

Phoebe: Look, look, I have elbows!

妙词佳句，活学或用

1. way too much

意思是“太多”。其中的“way”是副词，表示“远远地，大大地，非常”。例如：Are we teaching our kids way too much about sex? Or not nearly enough? 我们为孩子提供的性教育是太多了？还是远远不够？电影中的 You got waaaay too much free time.意思是“你的闲工夫太多了”。

2. check something out

意思是“查看，检查” ，往往表示让对方看看某种令人兴奋的事物。例如：Be sure to check out our FAQ if you have further questions! 如果你还有疑问，请查看我们的“常见问题”栏目！电影中的 Ross, check it out: hockey tickets, Rangers-Penguins, tonight at the Garden, and we're taking you. 意思是“罗斯，看呐：冰球票，骑兵队对企鹅队，今晚在花园体育场，一块去吧。”

3. pass on

意思是“放过……不要，放弃”，通常用在拒绝对方的提议时。例如：I would pass on the trip. I got tons of things to do at the weekend. 我周末有一大堆的事要做，旅游我就不去了。电影中的You know what, I-I'd better pass on the game. 意思是“这么说吧，球赛我还是免了。”

4. the hell with

意思是“让……见鬼去吧。”例如：The hell with democracy, let's hire a king. 去他的民主，我们雇一个国王吧。电影中的 The hell with hockey, let's all do that! 意思是“让冰球见鬼去吧，我们都那样做（指罗斯回忆与前妻在一起的时光）！”

5. take one's mind off

意思是“转移某人的注意力。”例如：I can't take my mind off of you for the last summer vacation. 整个暑假我满脑子想的都是你。电影中的Alright, alright, maybe it'll take my mind off it. 意思是“好吧，好吧，也许它会使我转移注意力。”

6. live on

意思是“靠……过活。”例如：Don't live on the past. You should look ahead. 你应该朝前看，不要老想着过去。电影中的 You can totally, totally live on this. 意思是“你完全，完全可以靠这个（工资）过活。”

文化面面观

Halloween 万圣节

在西方，万圣节（每年10月31日）被认为是死去的祖先的灵魂回家的日子。这些灵魂会寻找活人附身，所以所有人都打扮成鬼魂的模样而且喧闹地游行，以吓跑鬼魂。常见的习俗有 trick or treat和南瓜灯等。一到万圣节，孩子们就穿着古怪的衣服，挨家挨户去敲门，一边说“trick or treat”。这时主人就会打开门，将一些糖果分发给孩子们。

The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from a contracted corruption 4 of All Hallows Eve. November 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New year.

One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed 5. So on the night of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable 6. They would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess.

The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with the Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians 7 would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes", made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors 8. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo 9 for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage to heaven.

The Jack 10-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore 11. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt 12 him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.

According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid 13 darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip 14 to keep it glowing longer.

The Irish used turnips 15 as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins 17 were far more plentiful 18 than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin 16, lit with an ember.

思想火花

在美国，平等和相互尊重的思想是主流。只有本选段中那些依靠父母或丈夫生活的贵妇人才会看不起Rachel的服务生工作。其实，工作不分贵贱，自己能够独立自主才是最重要的。

考考你

用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1. 你泡网吧的时间太多了。
2. 自从我第一眼见到她就开始朝思暮想。
3. 看电影我就不去了，不如在家呆着呢。
4. 看我新买的手机，够酷吧？

Friends 1 《老友记》1（精讲之五）考考你 参考答案

1. 要想进入上流社会，你必须得脸皮厚。
You have to develop some thick skin if you want to crack your way into the upper class.

2. 还有两天就期末考试，我现在该怎么办？
What am I supposed to do with the final exam coming in two days?

3. 大学四年是他一生中的大好机会，可惜他给荒废了。
He idled away his 4 years in college, which was the big break in his life.

4. 热带风格已经不流行了。
The tropical style is already out.

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1
pal

  
 


n.朋友，伙伴，同志；vi.结为友


参考例句：





He is a pal of mine.他是我的一个朋友。
Listen,pal,I don't want you talking to my sister any more.听着，小子，我不让你再和我妹妹说话了。












2
consummated

  
 


v.使结束( consummate的过去式和过去分词 )；使完美；完婚；（婚礼后的）圆房


参考例句：





The marriage lasted only a week and was never consummated. 那段婚姻仅维持了一星期，期间从未同房。
We consummated an agreement after a year of negotiation. 经过一年的谈判，我们达成了协议。 来自《简明英汉词典》












3
apron

  
 


n.围裙；工作裙


参考例句：





We were waited on by a pretty girl in a pink apron.招待我们的是一位穿粉红色围裙的漂亮姑娘。
She stitched a pocket on the new apron.她在新围裙上缝上一只口袋。












4
corruption

  
 


n.腐败，堕落，贪污


参考例句：





The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。












5
possessed

  
 


adj.疯狂的；拥有的，占有的


参考例句：





He flew out of the room like a man possessed.他像着了魔似地猛然冲出房门。
He behaved like someone possessed.他行为举止像是魔怔了。












6
undesirable

  
 


adj.不受欢迎的，不良的，不合意的，讨厌的；n.不受欢迎的人，不良分子


参考例句：





They are the undesirable elements among the employees.他们是雇员中的不良分子。
Certain chemicals can induce undesirable changes in the nervous system.有些化学物质能在神经系统中引起不良变化。












7
Christians

  
 


n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )


参考例句：





Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。












8
donors

  
 


n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者


参考例句：





Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》












9
limbo

  
 


n.地狱的边缘；监狱


参考例句：





His life seemed stuck in limbo and he could not go forward and he could not go back.他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地，进退两难。
I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead.I felt as if I was in limbo.我不知道家人是生是死，感觉自己茫然无措。












10
jack

  
 


n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克


参考例句：





I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。












11
folklore

  
 


n.民间信仰，民间传说，民俗


参考例句：





Zhuge Liang is a synonym for wisdom in folklore.诸葛亮在民间传说中成了智慧的代名词。
In Chinese folklore the bat is an emblem of good fortune.在中国的民间传说中蝙蝠是好运的象征。












12
tempt

  
 


vt.引诱，勾引，吸引，引起…的兴趣


参考例句：





Nothing could tempt him to such a course of action.什么都不能诱使他去那样做。
The fact that she had become wealthy did not tempt her to alter her frugal way of life.她有钱了，可这丝毫没能让她改变节俭的生活习惯。












13
frigid

  
 


adj.寒冷的，凛冽的；冷淡的；拘禁的


参考例句：





The water was too frigid to allow him to remain submerged for long.水冰冷彻骨，他在下面呆不了太长时间。
She returned his smile with a frigid glance.对他的微笑她报以冷冷的一瞥。












14
turnip

  
 


n.萝卜，芜菁


参考例句：





The turnip provides nutrition for you.芜菁为你提供营养。
A turnip is a root vegetable.芜菁是根茎类植物。












15
turnips

  
 


芜青( turnip的名词复数 )； 芜菁块根； 芜菁甘蓝块根； 怀表


参考例句：





Well, I like turnips, tomatoes, eggplants, cauliflowers, onions and carrots. 噢，我喜欢大萝卜、西红柿、茄子、菜花、洋葱和胡萝卜。 来自魔法英语-口语突破（高中）
This is turnip soup, made from real turnips. 这是大头菜汤，用真正的大头菜做的。












16
pumpkin

  
 


n.南瓜


参考例句：





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！












17
pumpkins

  
 


n.南瓜( pumpkin的名词复数 )；南瓜的果肉，南瓜囊


参考例句：





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）












18
plentiful

  
 


adj.富裕的，丰富的


参考例句：





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。