【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语710期
时间：2019-03-06 作者：英语课 分类：跟着美剧练发音
英语课
R: We must go and let the servants get in here.
C: I should be grateful if we could stay just a minute more. I have… I have something to ask you. I was terribly sorry to hear about your cousins.
R: You said（您这样说）. Did you know them?
C: Not well. I…I used to see Patrick Crawley at the odd thing（偶然、偶尔）. I imagine it willmean some adjustments（要适应一下了） for you all. To lose two heirs（继承人） in one night, it’s terrible.
R: Indeed（确实）, it was terrible.
C: Awful. But then again, it’s an ill wind（塞翁失马焉知非福）. At least Lady Mary’s prospects 1 must have rather improved.
R: Have they?
C: Haven’t they?
R: I will not be coy（佯作不知） and pretend（假装、装作） I do not understand your meaning, though you seem very informed （消息非常灵通的）on this family’s private affairs（事务、私事、风流韵事）. But you ought perhaps to（ought to应该） know that I do notintend to（有意于做。。。） fight the entail 2. Not any part of it.
C: You can’t be serious.
R: It pains（使。。。痛苦） me to say it, but I am.
C: You’ll give up your entire estate（家产、财产）? Your wife’s money into the bargain（而且）, to a perfect stranger? You won’t even put up a fight（奋起抗争）?
R: I hope he proves to be perfect, but I’d rather doubt it.
C: Hah.....Very odd（奇怪的） thing to joke about（取笑、开玩笑）.
R: No odder than this conversation. So, there you have it. But Mary will still have her settlement, which you won’t find ungenerous.
C: I’m…I’m sorry?
R: I only meant that her portion, when she marries, will be more than respectable. You’ll bepleased, I promise you.
C: Oh, heavens（天啊）.
n.希望，前途(恒为复数)
- There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
- They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。