英语PK台 第926期:跟《老友记》学美语(24)

 地点：莫妮卡公寓客厅
人物：罗斯，钱德勒，乔伊，瑞秋，莫妮卡
事件：钱德勒惧怕承诺，不知如何是好。


Chandler: Okay, last night at dinner, when the meals came, she put half her chicken piccata on my plate and then she took all my tomatoes.
钱德勒：昨晚吃晚餐，她把一半的烤鸡肉放到了我的盘子里，然后拿走了我所有的番茄。
Ross: And that’s bad because... you hate chicken piccata?
罗斯：这样很不好是因为……你不喜欢烤鸡肉吗？
Chandler: No.
钱德勒：不是啊。
Ross: You didn’t want to share your tomatoes. Tomatoes are very important to you.
罗斯：你不想与别人分享你的番茄，番茄对你来说很重要。
Chandler: No, it’s like all of the sudden①, we were this couple, Okay? And this alarm started going off② in my head, you know, “Run for your life③! Get out of the building3!”
钱德勒：不是的，是突然间，我们就是所谓的“情侣”了，明白不？然后我脑袋里的警报开始大响：“为了你的人生，快跑！快离开这栋大楼！”
Rachel: Men are unbelievable. Janice just thought she was giving you chicken.
瑞秋：男人真是让人难以置信。珍妮丝只是觉得她给你夹了鸡肉。
Monica: What is it with you people? I mean, the minute you start to feel something, you have to run away?
莫妮卡：你们这些人是怎么回事？我是说，你们心里一旦感觉到什么，就要马上逃开？
Chandler: I know, that, that’s why I don’t want to go tonight. I’m afraid I’m going to say something stupid.
钱德勒：我知道。这，这就是我今晚不想去的原因，我怕自己说出一些蠢话。
Monica: Oh, you mean like that guy thing where you act all mean and distant until you get us to break up with④ you.
莫妮卡：哦，你是说你们男人那一套：故意冷漠，保持距离，直到我们女人主动提出分手？
Joey: Hey, you know about that?4
乔伊：嘿，你们都知道？
Chandler: Look, what do I do? I wanna get past this. I don’t wanna be afraid of the commitment¹ thing. I wanna go through the tunnel², to the other side!
钱德勒：我该怎么办？我想快点度过这个阶段，我不想再害怕承诺，我要穿过隧道，到达另一端！

1 commitment   

n.奉献，忠诚，辛劳，委托，实行，承担义务，赞助

参考例句：

• The builder had a commitment to finish the work on time.那个承建商答应过准时完工。
• He made a commitment to pay the rent on time.他保证按时付房租。

2 tunnel   

n.隧道，地下道；vi.挖隧道；vt.掘隧道于

参考例句：

• They will have to block up the entrance to the tunnel.他们将不得不封闭通往隧道的入口。
• The train passed through a tunnel.火车通过了一条隧道。