《复仇》 第58期:花心萝卜

 You're home. 你回来了

I was beginning to question if you lived here anymore. 我开始疑问你是否还住在这里了

Well, then we're even, 那彼此彼此了

because I was beginning to question 因为我也开始疑问

if you'd lost my number. 你是不是丢了我的号码

W-w--actually, I lost my phone. 其实是我把手机弄丢了

Uh, Tyler told me you canceled dinner. 泰勒告诉我你取消了晚餐

What is he talking about? 他在胡说什么

I came by to see what you like to eat. 我还去找你问你想吃什么

I'll kill him. 我要杀了他

I stared at empty chair for two hours 我盯着空凳子两个小时

until I finally accepted that you had stood me up. 直到我接受你放了我鸽子的事实

Your chair didn't look so empty to me. 空凳子在我眼里可不空

I saw you and Jack¹ through the windows. 我看到你和杰克在一起

I know. I'm not proud of it. 我知道  我不该那么做

I made that dinner for you, Daniel. 那顿晚餐是特别为你而做  丹尼尔

Jack and I are just friends. 杰克和我只是朋友

He came by unexpected² and he was hungry. 他不期而至  刚好又很饿

I didn't want the food to go to waste. 我不想浪费食物

I'm such an idiot³. 我真傻

Yeah, a little bit. 是有点儿

You know, I was supposed to start working for my dad today, but couldn't do it. 今天我本该开始为我爸工作的  但做不到

Why not? 为什么不呢

Because he's a philandering⁴ dirtbag. 因为他是个花心大萝卜

And if I can't look at him, 如果我都不想看他

how am I supposed to work for him? 又怎么能为他工作

Are you sure you're not using 你确定你不是利用

the fact that he's a philandering dirtbag 他是花心萝卜这个事实

as an excuse not to have to work for him? 做借口而安慰自己不用非得为他工作

Well, it's not just that... 不仅仅是因为

I'm finally seeing him for what he really is. 我终于发现他的真实面目

I think it's also that he now sees me for what I really am. 我想也是因为他也重新认识了我

And what's that? 真实的你是什么样

Scared... 心怀恐惧

I guess. 我想

It's a hell⁵ of a lot harder to disappoint your father 让你父亲失望可比

than to let him know he disappointed⁶ you. 让他知道你对他失望困难得多

 

1 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。

2 unexpected   

adj.想不到的，意外的

参考例句：

• I always keep some good wine in for unexpected guests.我总保存些好酒，用来招待不速之客。
• His promotion was unexpected.他的升迁出人意料。

3 idiot   

n.白痴，傻子，笨蛋

参考例句：

• Only an idiot would make such a thoughtless remark.只有草包才会说出这样没有头脑的话来。
• You are behaving like a perfect idiot.你表现得像个十足的白痴。

4 philandering   

v.调戏，玩弄女性( philander的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• And all because of a bit of minor philandering. 何况这只是区区一桩风流韵事所引起的呢。 来自飘（部分）
• My after-school job means tailing philandering spouses or investigating false injury claims. 我的课余工作差不多就是跟踪外遇者或调查诈骗保险金。 来自电影对白

5 hell   

n.地狱，阴间；用以咒骂或表示愤怒，不满

参考例句：

• It's a hell of a hike from Sydney to Perth.从悉尼到珀斯的徒步旅行简直苦死了。
• The boss really gave me hell today.老板今天着实数落了我一通。

6 disappointed   

adj.失望的，不满意的，不如意的

参考例句：

• He seemed disappointed when the man refused his request.当那个人拒绝了他的要求时他看起来很失望。
• He was disappointed so often that he became hopeless.他屡次失望，以致变为了绝望。