【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语1034期

STEFAN:You know, that comet... it's been traveling across space for thousands ofyears. All alone.

ELENA: Yeah, Bonnie says it's aharbinger of evil.

STEFAN:I think it's just a ball of... snow and ice, trapped on a path that it can'tescape. And once every 145 years, it gets to come home. I'm sorry aboutyesterday. I wasn't myself.

ELENA: You seem to spend a lot oftime apologizing.

STEFAN:Well, I have a lot to apologize for. Yesterday, that wasn't about you, ok?

ELENA: You didn't tell me that youhad a brother.

STEFAN:We're not close. It's, uh... it's complicated.

ELENA: Always. He told me aboutyour ex, Katherine.

STEFAN:What did he say?

ELENA: That she broke your heart.

STEFAN:That was a long time ago.

ELENA: When you lose someone, itstays with you, always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.

STEFAN:Elena...

ELENA: It's ok, Stefan. I get it.You have no idea how much I get it. Complicated brother? Check. Complicated ex?Check. Too complicated to even contemplate¹ dating, double check. It's ok. Wemet, and we talked, and it was epic², but... then the sun came up and realityset in.

1 contemplate   

vt.盘算，计议；周密考虑；注视，凝视

参考例句：

• The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate.战争的可能性太可怕了，真不堪细想。
• The consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate.后果不堪设想。

2 epic   

n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的

参考例句：

• I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
• They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。