《柯南脱口秀》第121期:卖不出去的咖啡桌书

 Like complete idiots¹ from the commercial break.We have a great show tonight.Amy Schumer will be out here in a few minutes.She will? 广告的时候我像个白痴一样 今晚节目很棒 艾米·舒默待会就上场了 是吗

I wanted to mention something.You know,something earlier about how I like to watch TV. 我想提件事 我之前提到了我喜欢看电视

My other hobby,I have two hobbies.one is watching a lot of television. 我得另一个喜好 我有两个喜好 其中一个是看电视

I also like to sometimes check out in book stores and see if they have any coffee table books. 我有时候还喜欢逛书店 看他们是不是出售咖啡桌书

You know,coffee table books?We all konw coffee table books.They are really popular. 知道吗 我们都知道那是什么 都很受欢迎

What I'm fascinated² with is the ones that don't sell,that nobody wants. 但我喜欢的 是那些卖不出去的 没人想要的

The lousy ones.The lousy ones and they pile up on a desk and you can go in there and for ten bucks³ I can get all of them. 不怎么样的那些 他们都摞了一摞 你可以进书店 10块钱就全部买下

That's one of my favorite thing to do,that's how cool this character is right here. 这是我最喜欢做的事之一 我就是这么酷炫

We're going to do a litte thing right now called "Coffee table books that didn't sell." 我们现在要做一节 《卖不出去的咖啡桌书》

I went into Los Angeles to a book store and I bought a whole bunch of these and some of them I guess you can tell why they didn't do well. 我去洛杉矶一家书店 买了这些书 有些书不难看出为什么卖不动

This one right here is called "The big book of people who never found Waldo." 比如这个 《那些一直没能找到沃尔多的人》

It's just a whole,these people are really depressed⁴.Look at that guy.Never found Waldo.They are just really depressed,kid.well,yeah,there's a guy. 全部都是 非常郁闷的人 看他啊 一直没找到沃尔多 他们好郁闷啊 这孩子 他们都好伤心啊 这人

That's just a cheap joke.I can't believe we did it.But the book,we didn't do it.A book did it. 真是低俗的笑话 我们居然真这么做了 那是书 跟我们无关 不是我们 是书里的

Here's one.It's called "product placement in old movies."I don't know if you remember in Casablanca when they were promoting footlocker. 这里有本 《老电影中的植入广告》 不知道大家是否记得《卡萨布兰卡》中对军用提箱的推销

Of course in "Gone with the wind." you have that nice little Starbucks promotion⁵ right there everybody talked about.Then of course down here. 《飘》里 人人热议的星巴克植入广告 还有这里

I'm surprised they got away with that.But they did.They did. 居然毫无违和感 他们做到了 是啊

 

1 idiots   

傻子，笨蛋( idiot的名词复数 )； 白痴

参考例句：

• "How I hate them-those idiots in charge of the town! “我恨极了，那班混账东西！ 来自子夜部分
• 'May the Devil carry away these idiots! “但愿魔鬼把这些白痴都抓了去！ 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

2 fascinated   

a.被强烈地吸引住，感到着迷的

参考例句：

• China has always fascinated me. 中国一直令我心驰神往。
• The children watched, fascinated, as the picture began to appear. 电影开始以后孩子们入迷地观看着。

3 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

5 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。