《复仇》 第129期:未成年同居

 Yeah, there are two on the lease¹. 对  是两人合租

It's me and my girlfriend. 我和我的女友

No, I'll be 18 by the end of the month, so it's... 不  我月底就满十八岁了  所以...

Let me call you right back. 我待会给你回电话

What was that about? 这是怎么回事

Me and Charlotte are getting a place together. 我和夏洛特要搬到一起住

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What? 什么

Look, think about it, okay? 你想想看

You and me are crowding each other up here. 我们俩住在一起实在太挤了

And--and things are moving forward with you Amanda, 既然你和阿曼达已经有所进展了

so it's-- we need privacy². 我们都需要一点私人空间

Declan, listen to me. 德克兰  听我说

This is a spectacularly³ bad idea on so many levels 这个主意糟糕透了

You don't have the money. 你没钱

You haven't finishi high school. 你连高中还没读完

What's the plan? 你有什么打算

Gonna be a bar back the rest of your life? 当一辈子酒吧招待吗

I'm drowning downstairs 我在酒吧都快忙死了

'cause you can barely⁴ even do that right. 因为你连这点事儿都做不好

Okay. Hire someone else. 那你就去雇别人啊

I've got my own money, and Charlotte needs me. 我自己有钱  而且夏洛特需要我

She needs you?  Yeah. 她需要你  是

Declan, you're just a kid. 德克兰  你还只是个孩子

What you need is to finish high school, go to college. 你真正要做的是读完高中去上大学

You need to make yourself into the kind of man 你需要成长为一个

that a girl like charlotte grayson deserves⁵. 配得上像夏洛特·格雷森那样女孩的男人

If she's still around after that, 如果当那时她还在你身边

then you guys can talk about having a future. 你们再讨论共同未来

Otherwise, you're just... 不然  你就是..

you're just throwing both of yours away. 你只是在毁掉你们两人的未来

 

1 lease   

n.租约，租期，租；v.出租，租出，租得

参考例句：

• When does the lease of the house run out?这房子的租约何时到期？
• He signed the lease yesterday.昨天他在租约上签了字。

2 privacy   

n.私人权利，个人自由，隐私权

参考例句：

• In such matters,privacy is impossible.在这类事情中，保密是不可能的。
• She wept in the privacy of her own room.她在自己房内暗暗落泪。

3 spectacularly   

壮观地，令人吃惊地

参考例句：

• Was he even spectacularly sick, exceptionally blind, extraordinarily degraded? 难道他真的一身病态，格外愚昧，特别堕落吗？ 来自辞典例句
• Because this fact was no recognized, the early magnetic prospecting for iron deposits was spectacularly unsuccessful. 由于不了解这个事实，因此早期为寻找铁矿进行磁法勘深，遭到了惊人的失败。 来自辞典例句

4 barely   

adv.仅仅，几乎没有，几乎不

参考例句：

• The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
• He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。

5 deserves   

v.应受，应得，值得( deserve的第三人称单数 )；应受报答；应得报酬；应得赔偿

参考例句：

• A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon. 不能宽恕故意犯下的错误。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He is the only poet in this country that deserves the name. 他是这个国家唯一的一位名副其实的诗人。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》