Garfield 2《加菲猫》2（视频精讲之六）

影片对白

Garfield: Aha! I so knew you weren't me.

Prince: And you must be Garfield.

Garfield: How do you know my name?

Prince: I've lived your life for the past few days. Yes, if ever a man loved a cat, it's your Jon. Return to him, Garfield. Return to your home.

Garfield: Your Highness, you don't have to tell me twice. Bye-bye.

Winston: Sire, thank heavens. You've returned. The real prince!

Animals: The prince is home, back with us!

Preston: It's the real prince, the genuine article.

Prince: Yes, my friends, I have returned to you at this, our darkest hour. So, Winny, what exactly is Lord Dargis up to?

Winston: He intends to level our homes and kill us all.

Prince: O... kay. Well, in that case, I decree that we pack our bags and get our scraggy bottoms out of here. Perhaps to the castle next door.

Garfield: Oh, boy.

Animal: What?!

Marten: Well, that was inspirational.

Cow: Brilliant.

McBunny: I am so fired up.

Garfield: You know, I have to believe we can do better.

Preston: I thought you were leaving.

Garfield: Hey, button the beak², Fruit Loops, or I'll stick that thing on backwards³. Look, Lord Doofus is just another bully⁴. And what do we do to bullies⁵?

Duck: Well, generally, we run from them.

Garfield: No, we don't leave. We stand and we kick royal butt¹. Trust me, if you beasts can bake a two-cheese lasagna, you can beat Dargis.

Hobbs: There you are, man. God! What happened to your clothes?

Dargis: Indeed, it's been that kind of day.

Hobbs: Mr. Dargis, I demand an explanation.

Dargis: I had no choice. The cat just won't die.

Greene: What did you say?

Dargis: You will sign the deeds over to me, cat or no cat.

Veterinary Assistant: Oh, my!

Westminster: Mr. Hobbs, you were right. Lord Dargis was willing to go to any lengths to get the estate. I can see you're busy. I'm just gonna...

Dargis: Uh! Young lady. Get over there. Traitoress. You were working with them all along!

Jon: Odie! Odie, wait for me! Odie!

Dargis: Get on with it!

Prince: Hello, everyone. Sorry I'm late. Shall I ring for tea?

Hobbs: Well, it's Prince, and he's alive!

Dargis: I am bushed⁷.

Garfield: All this running-for-my-life stuff. What say we break for lunch, take a quick nap and pick it up later? Sound good?

Dargis: There are two of you little monsters, hmm?

Garfield: For those keeping score at home, that's 18 lives.

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. be up to

这里的意思是"to be busy or occupied with (an activity etc)"，例如：What is he up to now? 这个用法还可以表示"进行诡计/坏事occupied with or devising something harmful"意思，例如：We knew those two were up to something. 当表示这一意思的时候，也作up to no good，例如：I'm sure those kids are up to no good.

be up to还有几个常用的意思：
1） Be able to do or deal with 例如：When I got home, she asked if I was up to a walk on the beach. 这个用法常用于否定意义 not be up to something，例如：He's not up to a long drive.
2）to reach the standard of 例如：This work isn't up to your best.

2. fired up

是个形容词短语，意思是Feeling a very strong emotion: atingle, excited, thrilled, worked up. 在这个片断里是反语。

需要注意的是不要和fire up搞混了。Fire up 是个动词短语，它的意思有：

1) Inflame⁸ with enthusiasm, anger, or another strong emotion 例如：Her speech fired up the crowd in favor of her proposals.
2) Light a pipe, cigar, or cigarette 例如：Do you mind if I fire up?
3) Start the ignition of an engine 例如：Whenever he tried to fire up the motor, it stalled.

3. kick butt

也作kick butt，意思是"Punish or discipline harshly; also, defeat soundly, to take forceful or harsh measures to achieve an objective."。例如：
That foreman's furious; he's going to kick ass⁶ before the day is over.
Our team is out to kick butt today.

4. That kind of day

这里的that kind of 可以根据语境理解成 weird⁹, good, bad 等等，在本片断中自然是 a bad day了。

5. Go to any length

也写作go to any lengths / go to great lengths，意思是“Take a great deal of trouble for something, go to extremes; to disregard any impediment that could prevent one from accomplishing one's purpose 千方百计，不择手段，竭尽全力”，例如：He'll go to great lengths to make a perfect chocolate cake.

文化面面观

Froot Loops and its mascot¹⁰ -- Toucan¹¹ Sam

A Froot Loops box of the 1960s

Froot Loops is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kellogg's and sold in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Latin America as well as South Africa. The cereal pieces come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963.

Other varieties of the cereal include Froot Loops 1/3 Less Sugar and Marshmallow Froot Loops.

Toucan Sam

The cereal's mascot is Toucan Sam, a blue cartoon toucan with a striped beak. Although his beak originally had two pink stripes, during the 1970s it became a tradition that each stripe on his beak represented one of the flavors of the pieces in the cereal. (red = cherry, yellow = lemon, orange = orange) The additions of new flavors have made this color scheme no longer accurate. There are now, in fact, 7 different flavors of this widely enjoyed cereal.

The colors perhaps represent different flavors present in the cereal, but each color has the same flavor.

Toucan Sam, Froot Loops' mascot

The cartoon character Toucan Sam was originally voiced by Mel Blanc, using an ordinary American accent. The ad agency later decided¹² to switch to the English accent more commonly associated with the character. They then employed Paul Frees to do what is, in effect, an imitation of Ronald Colman. In the most recent cartoon advertisements for Froot Loops, Toucan Sam's voice has been performed by Canadian voice actor Maurice LaMarche.

Biologically speaking, Toucan Sam is a Keel-billed Toucan, also known as Ramphastos sulfuratus.

Since 1994, Toucan Sam has been joined onscreen by three nephews, not unlike Donald Duck's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Taglines（标志性口号）
Follow your nose.....wherever it goes.
Follow my nose...it always knows!

在这个片段里，加菲把Preston比作Froot Loops的mascot Toucan Sam，因为他们都有一张大嘴。

考考你

用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1．那调皮孩子哪儿去了? 我看, 他到哪儿也做不出好事来。

2．别那样发火，谁也没有存心伤害你。

3．他不择手段，为所欲为。

Garfield 2《加菲猫》2（精讲之五）考考你 参考答案

1． 她觉得她的计划到处碰壁。
She found her plans frustrated¹³ at every turn.

2． --保尔赢了。这可太让人吃惊了。
    --Paul won! That makes a big surprise!
    --我也非常吃惊。
    --That make two of us.

3． 那个混蛋竟然骚扰我女朋友。
That wretch¹⁴ is hitting on my girl. 

1 butt   

n.笑柄；烟蒂；枪托；臀部；v.用头撞或顶

参考例句：

• The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
• He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。

2 beak   

n.鸟嘴，茶壶嘴，钩形鼻

参考例句：

• The bird had a worm in its beak.鸟儿嘴里叼着一条虫。
• This bird employs its beak as a weapon.这种鸟用嘴作武器。

3 backwards   

adv.往回地，向原处，倒，相反，前后倒置地

参考例句：

• He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
• All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。

4 bully   

n.恃强欺弱者，小流氓；vt.威胁，欺侮

参考例句：

• A bully is always a coward.暴汉常是懦夫。
• The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.那男孩用石子掷击小流氓的背脊。

5 bullies   

n.欺凌弱小者, 开球 vt.恐吓, 威胁, 欺负

参考例句：

• Standing up to bullies takes plenty of backbone. 勇敢地对付暴徒需有大无畏精神。
• Bullies can make your life hell. 恃强欺弱者能让你的日子像活地狱。

6 ass   

n.驴；傻瓜，蠢笨的人

参考例句：

• He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
• An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。

7 bushed   

adj.疲倦的

参考例句：

• I'm bushed.Let's call it a day.我很疲倦，今天到此为止吧！
• I'm bushed.I'm going to bed.我太累了，我要睡觉了。

8 inflame   

v.使燃烧；使极度激动；使发炎

参考例句：

• Our lack of response seemed to inflame the colonel.由于我们没有反应,好象惹恼了那个上校。
• Chemical agents manufactured by our immune system inflame our cells and tissues,causing our nose to run and our throat to swell.我们的免疫系统产生的化学物质导致我们的细胞和组织发炎，导致我们流鼻水和我们的喉咙膨胀。

9 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

10 mascot   

n.福神，吉祥的东西

参考例句：

• The football team's mascot is a goat.足球队的吉祥物是山羊。
• We had a panda as our mascot.我们把熊猫作为吉详物。

11 toucan   

n.巨嘴鸟，犀鸟

参考例句：

• A toucan is a South American bird.巨嘴鸟是北美的一种鸟。
• There is a toucan in this zoo.这个动物园有一只巨嘴鸟。

12 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

13 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 wretch   

n.可怜的人，不幸的人；卑鄙的人

参考例句：

• You are really an ungrateful wretch to complain instead of thanking him.你不但不谢他，还埋怨他，真不知好歹。
• The dead husband is not the dishonoured wretch they fancied him.死去的丈夫不是他们所想象的不光彩的坏蛋。