《丑女贝蒂》精讲 02有趣的晚餐

Justin: I hate telenovelas. I want to watch Fashion TV.

我讨厌拉美电视剧,我想看时尚节目。

Hilda: Justin, you can watch Fashion TV later，when your aunt Betty is babysitting¹, okay? Come have some flan.

Justin，你Betty阿姨去当保姆的时候，你就能看时尚节目了。过来吃点馅饼。

Justin: I don't want flan. I'll get fat.

我不吃馅饼会长胖的。

Hilda: Honey, you're a boy. It doesn't matter if you're fat or not. Betty, did you order dad's birthday cake?

宝贝, 你是个男孩胖不胖没关系.Betty, 你订了爸爸的生日蛋糕了吗?

Mr. Suarez: So... how was your interview?

那么……你面试怎么样了？

Betty: Um... I think it was really good. I mean, they were impressed.

恩, 我觉得很不错。我是说, 我令他们印象深刻。

Hilda: You didn't get it.

你没通过。

Betty: Well, they said that they had hired everyone they needed.

他们说人都招满了。

Mr. Suarez: I don't understand... you're sharp, you're prepared. Someone should have begged you to work for them the day you graduated from Queens College.

我搞不懂……你很机灵，准备又充分.你从Queens大学毕业那天，人家就应该求你去工作的。

Hilda: Betty, have you thought about exploring other options²?

Betty, 你有没有想过做别的?

Betty: Hilda, I am not going to sell Herbalux.

Hida，我是不会去卖HerbaLux的。

Hilda: Well, I wasn't saying that... necessarily³.

我不是说……有这个必要。

Betty: Dad.

爸。

Mr. Suarez: This career is Betty's dream.

这工作是Betty的梦想。

Hilda: Okay, but I hear somebody else has some pretty big dreams, too.

好吧, 但我听说还有人也有很美的梦想。

Betty: What are you talking about?

你说什么啊?

Hilda: Justin, tell your aunt Betty what her boyfriend was saying the other night.

Justin，告诉你Betty阿姨，那天晚上她男朋友是怎么说的。

Justin: Walter was on his cell⁴ phone talking to someone, and he said, she's the one.

Walter当时正给别人打电话，他说，我要的就是她。

Justin: Walter was on his cell phone talking to someone, and he said, she's the one.

Walter当时正给别人打电话，他说，我要的就是她。

Mr. Suarez: He wants to marry you?

他想娶你?

Betty: He does?

不是吧？

Justin: Well, would you do it?

你会答应吗？

Betty: Well, I mean…we haven't talked about that yet, but…

这个……我们还没谈过，但是……

Hilda: Well, I think he's a catch. Flan?

我觉得他还不错。馅饼？

Betty: That's him.

是他。

Walter: Hi, Ignacio, Hilda. Hi, Betty.

嗨, Ignacio, Hilda。嗨, Betty。

Betty: Hey.

嘿。

Walter: Here. It's a return. The mute⁵ doesn't work, but it sounds awesome⁶.

给。这个是退货的，静音不管用，但声音很棒。

Betty: Thank you.

谢谢。

Walter: Uh... Betty, can we talk?

Betty，能谈谈吗？

Betty: Yes. Sure. Oh, um, outside. Yeah, okay.

好啊，当然行。去外面，是的，好啊。

1 babysitting   

n.托婴服务v.临时受雇代外出的父母照料小孩( babysit的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• If you ever need help with the babysitting, I'd be glad to oblige. 如果你什么时候需要找人照看孩子，我很乐意帮忙。 来自辞典例句
• Do you think any of the cops outside would like to do a little babysitting? 你不知道这外面的警察就好像是在代人照看小孩吗？ 来自电影对白

2 options   

n.选择(option的名词复数 )；选项；选择权，选择能力；[经济]买卖的特权

参考例句：

• She considered her options. 她仔细考虑了自己的各种选择。
• We are considering the options available to us in this no-win situation. 在这种取胜无望的情形下，我们在考虑有什么选择。

3 necessarily   

adv.必要地，必需地；必定地，必然地

参考例句：

• More work does not necessarily call for more men.增加工作量不一定就要增添人员。
• A voter must necessarily be no younger than eighteen.选民必须在18岁以上。

4 cell   

n.区，细胞，血球；小室，牢房；电池，光电管；基层组织

参考例句：

• Soap destroys the cell walls of bacteria.肥皂破坏细菌的细胞壁。
• They have locked the prisoners up in their cell.他们已把犯人监禁在小牢房里。

5 mute   

n.哑子，默音字母，弱音器；adj.哑的，无声的，沉默的；vt.减音，减弱；vi.（鸟）排泄

参考例句：

• He is mute on the subject of social system.他对社会制度的问题保持沉默。
• Her daughter was mute after a serious illness.她的女儿在一场重病之后失去了说话能力。

6 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.