《丑女贝蒂》精讲 52隔墙有耳

Christina:Love, you're gonna have to slow down.I can't understand what you're saying.Now what exactly is a Gina Gambarro?

亲爱的，你说慢点。我听不懂你在说什么。谁是Gina Gambarro？

Betty:My neighbor.

我的邻居。

She's the one who has the book, and she's holding it, ransom¹.

她偷了我的样刊，并且拿它作威胁。

Christina:The book?The book with the unretouched photographs of Natalie?Oh, dear.

样刊？有Natalie原始照片的样刊？啊，天哪。

Betty:This is bad, isn't it?

真糟糕，不是吗？

Christina:Uh, well, I wouldn't count on "employee of the month."

呃，我就不指望“员工之星”了。

Betty:Oh, my god!

哦，天哪！

Christina:What?

怎么了？

Betty:Christina, everything up until this point has been a big lie.

Christina，直到现在所有的一切都是骗人的！

I didn't get the job because I was qualified².

公司不是因为我的能力才雇用我的。

I got the job because Bradford Meade didn't want his son to be tempted³ to sleep with his assistant.

我得到这份工作是因为Bradford Meade不想再让他的儿子被秘书勾引到上床。

Christina:And you have more than proven yourself.

你已经充分证明你的能力了。

Betty:It doesn't matter.I keep getting told that I have to twist the truth to fit in,and maybe I just don't belong to "Mode⁴", and my bunny is paying the price for it.

我的能力这件事情不重要了。总是有人告诉我应该歪曲事实来适应，也许我本就不该来《时尚》的。我的巴尼兔就是为此付出的代价。

Christina:Your bunny?Listen, sweetheart, there's an awful lot of information coming out of your mouth right now, and to be honest, I can't really make any sense of it.

你的巴尼兔？听着，亲爱的，你说的情况很糟糕，而且老实说，我真的搞不懂是怎么回事。

Betty:Look, I just need to come clean to Daniel, tell him the truth.

听着，我得向Daniel开诚布公，告诉他真相。

Christina:Well, the truth might get you fired.

说出真相你会被开除的。

Betty:Well, I need to do it. Bye, Christina.

我一定得这么做。再见，Christina。

Driver:There's hardly any traffic on the bridge, miss. We should be there in no time.

桥上路况很好。小姐。我们马上就到了。

Betty:Great. This must be my lucky day.

太好了。今天肯定是我的幸运日。

1 ransom   

n.赎金，赎身；v.赎回，解救

参考例句：

• We'd better arrange the ransom right away.我们最好马上把索取赎金的事安排好。
• The kidnappers exacted a ransom of 10000 from the family.绑架者向这家人家勒索10000英镑的赎金。

2 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

3 tempted   

v.怂恿（某人）干不正当的事；冒…的险（tempt的过去分词）

参考例句：

• I was sorely tempted to complain, but I didn't. 我极想发牢骚，但还是没开口。
• I was tempted by the dessert menu. 甜食菜单馋得我垂涎欲滴。

4 mode   

n.方式，样式，模式，风格，时兴；[音乐]调式

参考例句：

• Wearing jeans is out of mode at present.现在穿牛仔裤过时了。
• His mode of doing business is offensive to me.他干事情的方式叫我很不喜欢。