【跟着美剧练发音】摩登家庭2

Phil:Every year,Luke’s birthday falls right around Thanksgiving,and so it gets lost in the holiday shuffle¹.

Clare:One year we forgot completely,and we had to improvise² a cake of stuffing.

Phil:Which,by the way,he was fine with.He’s one of those kids,you get him a gift and all he wants to do is play with the box.

Clare:Yeah,one year we actually just got him a box,a really nice box.

Phil:And we made the mistake of putting it in a gift bag.

Clare:So he played with the gift bag.

Phil:We can’t get it right.

Clare:No.

1 shuffle   

n.拖著脚走，洗纸牌；v.拖曳，慢吞吞地走

参考例句：

• I wish you'd remember to shuffle before you deal.我希望在你发牌前记得洗牌。
• Don't shuffle your feet along.别拖着脚步走。

2 improvise   

v.即兴创作；临时准备，临时凑成

参考例句：

• If an actor forgets his words，he has to improvise.演员要是忘记台词，那就只好即兴现编。
• As we've not got the proper materials,we'll just have to improvise.我们没有弄到合适的材料，只好临时凑合了。