《别对我撒谎》精讲03 别对老爸撒谎

Lightman: Hello, love. How's it going at your mum's?

你好，亲爱的。在你妈妈那儿待得开心不？

Emily: Okay, I guess. I mean, you know how mum is.

凑和吧。你也知道我妈那人。

She needs to know everything I'm doing every second.

我每秒钟做些什么，她都得知道。

Bloody¹ intrusive², isn't it?

好烦人啊，是不是？

Lightman: What are you doing this very second?

那你这秒在干什么呢？

Emily: Dad.

老爸。

Lightman: Well, you still need a lift later?

一会儿还要我送你吗？

Emily: Uh, no, um, actually I've got a big chem. test on Friday.

不用了，其实我周五有化学考试。

I... I'm gonna sleep over at Katie's house.

我…我今晚睡Katie家

Lightman: You sure about that?

确定吗？

Emily: Yeah.

是的

Lightman: All right, love you.

好吧，我爱你。

Emily: love You, too.

我也爱你。

Lightman: You heard that, right?

你也听到了吧？

Word repetition and her vocal³ pitch went up when she was talking about staying Katie's.

词语重复，并且说到住在Katie家时音调升高。

Foster: I’m sure it was nothing.

那没什么的。

Lightman: Well, what did you hear then?

那你听到了些什么？

Foster: I heard a typical teenager in the process of forming her selfidentity.

我听到一个正在形成自我个性的典型少年。

Lightman: That's psychobabble, that is.

什么乱七八糟的。

She was lying.

她在说谎。

Foster: Emily needs to have her own secrets. That's not the same thing as lying.

Emily 也有自己的隐私，那跟撒谎不一样。

1 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

2 intrusive   

adj.打搅的；侵扰的

参考例句：

• The cameras were not an intrusive presence.那些摄像机的存在并不令人反感。
• Staffs are courteous but never intrusive.员工谦恭有礼却从不让人感到唐突。

3 vocal   

adj.直言不讳的；嗓音的；n.[pl.]声乐节目

参考例句：

• The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
• Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。