打工姐妹花第二季 第69期:免费无线网络

 Look at all these people just sitting here and not tipping, working on their computers. 瞧瞧这些人，也不给小费，就会坐在那里啪啪啪地玩电脑。

This guy has a brand-new Apple. 这家伙有一台全新的苹果电脑。

I've been eating the same apple for a week. I blame Steve Jobs. 而老娘同一个苹果啃了快一周。都怪史蒂夫·乔布斯。

These people are more like Steve-I-have-no-jobs. All right, that's it. 这些人更像是"史蒂夫·没工作吧"。好吧，真是够了。

Earl, I need to get the wireless¹ router. 厄尔，给我无线路由器。

Oh, is that what this is? I thought it was a cookie-warmer. 原来那玩意是干这个的啊？我还以为是饼干加热器呢。

Attention deadbeat diners. 听着，你们这些蹭网客

You can't just sit here all night and only order coffee. This is not a Starbucks. 你们不能点杯咖啡，就赖一整晚。这又不是星巴克。

And I know that because we don't sell Norah Jones cds or bananas. 而且一看我们这里不卖诺拉·琼斯的CD或是香蕉就知道。

This is the router for the free wi-fi. 这是能提供无线网络的路由器。

And that is a waitress who needs to make some tips. 而这位是需要挣点小费的服务员。

Seriously, guys, I need actual cash. This guy just offered to pay me in ideas. 说真的，伙计们，我要的是钞票。那家伙居然想用创意来付账。

If I pull this plug², the internet will go down. 如果我拔掉这个插头，网络就会没掉。

And you -- that sad email you're in the middle of writing to your ex-boyfriend, 而你，写给前男友的可怜兮兮电邮会没掉，

the one you shouldn't send anyway--gone. 反正你也不应该发给他。

And you -- That vaguely³ pornographic anime film you've been illegally⁴ downloading for the past three hours-gone. 而你，花费了三小时非法下载的色情动漫，也会没掉。

And you--that screenplay you've been writing, 而你，埋头写的破剧本，

you can keep working on it, but we all know how it ends: 你可以继续写，不过我们都知道结局

with you moving back in with your mother. 就是你搬回去跟你老妈住。

Now, who's gonna order? 现在谁想点餐呀

Great, I'll go get some menus. Here, Caroline, put this back. 很好，我去拿菜单。给，卡洛琳，把这个放回去。

Ooh, my cookie-warmer. 可惜了我的饼干加热器。

 

1 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

2 plug   

n.塞子，消防栓，电插头；vt.插入，塞住，接插头；vi.被塞住

参考例句：

• The girl let her mother plug in the TV set.女孩叫母亲插上电视机的插头。
• They used electricity from a plug in the garage.他们通过车库插座取电。

3 vaguely   

adv.含糊地，暖昧地

参考例句：

• He had talked vaguely of going to work abroad.他含糊其词地说了到国外工作的事。
• He looked vaguely before him with unseeing eyes.他迷迷糊糊的望着前面，对一切都视而不见。

4 illegally   

adv.不法地

参考例句：

• We were alleged to have brought goods into the country illegally. 我们被指控非法携带货物入境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The landlady found they had been illegally subletting the flat. 女房东发现他们一直在违法转租公寓。 来自《简明英汉词典》