《丑女贝蒂》精讲 111我让你们实现在时尚的价值

What would you say

你觉得如何

if I told you that I figured out a super fun way for you

我告诉你我相处一个极好的办法

to prove your worth around here?

证明你的价值

I would say it's nighttime. Tell me tomorrow.

我会说现在该睡觉了 明天再说

That doesn't sound like a woman who wants to be taken seriously.

一个想得到尊重的女人可不会说这样的话

That sounds like a girl who wants to go out,

想出去饮酒作乐的小姑娘才会

get drunk¹, fall in bed with a man who doesn't love her,

而且还会随便跟人上床

come back here tomorrow and answer phones for the next 20 years

第二天回来 接下20年都接电话

or at least until the hard living' catches up to her

或者至少等到被生活压得喘不过气的时候

and Mode² wouldn't dare let that grizzled face out from behind a cubicle³.

时尚可不会让那张老态龙钟的脸从工作间探出来

I'm listening.

我听着

Wait here.

等等

Matt, I just had the best idea.

Matt 我有个好主意

For the magazine?

关于杂志

No, no, for you.

不 是你

Remember today when you brought all those pitches to Willie

记得吗 今天你把所有提议告诉Willie

and she shamed you in the worst way?

她却把你骂得一文不值

Yeah,thanks for reminding me.

谢谢你提醒我

Sorry, but come on. Can you blame her?

抱歉 但是说实话 你能怪她吗

You really don't know anything about fashion.

你真的对时尚一无所知

And as long as she thinks that you're only here because...

只要她还以为你在这是为了

well...that's not important.

唔 那不是关键

No, no, no, that sounds important.

不 不 听起来很关键

Only thinks I'm here because... because you want to be near betty.

以为我是为了 为了接近Betty

But relax. She only thinks that because everyone else does.

放心 她只是随大流才这么想

Everyone else does?

大家都这么想

Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt...

Matt Matt Matt Matt Matt

you haven't exactly been soaking⁴ up information,

最近你可没怎么打听消息啊

trying to prove that you actually belong here, have you?

这是你融入这里的证明

No, I gus not. But it's not that easy.Or is it?

的确没有 说来容易 做起来也容易吗

1 drunk   

adj.醉酒的；(喻)陶醉的；n.酗酒者，醉汉

参考例句：

• People who drives when they are drunk should be heavily penalised.醉酒驾车的人应受重罚。
• She found him drunk when she came home at night.她晚上回家时，经常发现他醉醺醺的。

2 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。

3 cubicle   

n.大房间中隔出的小室

参考例句：

• She studies in a cubicle in the school library.她在学校图书馆的小自习室里学习。
• A technical sergeant hunches in a cubicle.一位技术军士在一间小屋里弯腰坐着。

4 soaking   

v.浸，浸湿(soak的现在分词)；吸收，吸入adj.湿透的；浸透的n.浸湿，浸透adv.湿透地

参考例句：

• That coat is soaking—take it off. 上衣湿透了—脱下来吧。
• I tried to squeeze the water out of my soaking skirt. 我用力拧掉我那件湿透了的裙子上的水。 来自《简明英汉词典》