【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语1037期

 : I’m just saying that I think that somebody somewhere is looking at him right now and thinking congressman¹ or senator or…

   You know?

C--(Nod…)

J: Can I ask you a personal question?

C: Don’t you want to get a couple more drinks in me first?

J: You’re married?

C: No.

J: But you wear a ring.

C: Oh, weeds out the guys looking for a relationship.

 (3 seconds later…)

    What?

J: Uh, I… I don’t know, I guess I’ve never heard it put so bluntly before.

C: I just find it a lot easier not to screw things up with people I don’t know.

J: Come on, you can’t be all that bad.

C: What if I told you I betrayed my only true friend in the world today, just played him for a fool, put his 35-year career at risk?

J: I would say that in this town you’re in good company.

C: Yeah.

 

congressman: 

['kɔŋgrəsmən,'kɔŋgresmən]  

n. 国会议员

senator: 

[sen·a·tor || 'senətə(r)]

n.  参议院议员, 现任参议员, 上议院议员

bluntly:

['blunt·ly || 'blʌntlɪ]

adv.  钝地; 迟钝地; 率直地

 

J: 我只是说心里话，现在大概什么地方的某个人正在看着他，琢磨着这是个众议员还是参议员还是… …

  你懂的。

  我能问你一个私人问题吗？

C: 你不先灌我几杯再问吗？

J: 你结婚了吗？

C: 没有。

J: 可你戴了婚戒。

C: 哦，这是为了筛除那些想建立长期关系的男人的。

  怎么了？

J: 呃，我… 我不知道，我想我还没听过这么直白的话。

C: 我只是觉得这样比较不容易和我不了解的人纠缠在一起。

J: 拜托。你可没那么糟。

C: 那如果我跟你说我今天刚背叛了我在这个世界上唯一的真正的朋友，把他当个傻瓜玩了，危及到他已经35年的事业？

J: 我得说你在这儿有伴儿了。

C: 是啊。

1 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。