看绯闻女孩学英语 199

Bart: This seat taken?

有人坐吗?

Chuck: Father.

爸爸。

Bart: Wow. The light of day doesn't do this place any justice.

白天的灯光对这里的欣赏有影响。

Pauletta Cho: I told him he had to check it out when the joint¹ was in full swing.

我告诉他要检查一下当这里最热闹的时候。

Bart: Chuck, this is Pauletta Cho.

Chuck，这位是Pauletta Cho。

Chuck: Chuck Bass², pleasure.

Chuck Bass，你好。

Pauletta Cho: All mine.

你好。

Bart: Pauletta interviewed me for that recent piece in "the observer,"roped me into a lunch yesterday to pitch me on the idea of helping³ her with a career change.

Pauletta为最近的"观察家报"采访我。昨天拉我去吃午餐，问我关于帮她事业转型的意见。

Pauletta Cho: What can I say? I'm tired of reporting on titans. I wanna be one myself. Right.

该怎么说呢? 我厌倦了采访那些大人物了，我只是想做我自己。

Chuck: Well,uh,she’s better to help than my father?

那是...... 谁会比我爸更能帮忙?

Bart: As a test, I gave her your proposal that I was given to take a look at.

作为测试，我把你的建议给她了就是你给我看的那份。

Pauletta Cho: The math was fine, but what interested me was the wish fulfillment quality to the report.

计划不错，但我感兴趣的是能否按完全按照计划实现。

Bart: So perhaps,some,uh,old-school thinking and fatherly bias⁴ clouded my judgment⁵.What do you say?Hmm?

所以也许一些陈旧的思想和父亲的偏见阻碍了我的判断。你觉得呢?嗯?

I love the idea of being a patron of burgeoning⁶ talent.

我觉得为刚斩露头角的人才，投资的想法不错。

Pauletta Cho: Shall we take a full tour?

我们参观一下?

Bart: Yeah.you know,I've been trying to get a hold of Lily,but,uh,I don't seem able to.

你知道，我一直都在尝试留着Lily，但看起来行不通了。

Chuck: Oh,and. There's something I have to tell you.

爸爸，有些事我得告诉你。

1 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

2 bass   

n.男低音(歌手)；低音乐器；低音大提琴

参考例句：

• He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
• The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。

3 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

4 bias   

n.偏见，偏心，偏袒；vt.使有偏见

参考例句：

• They are accusing the teacher of political bias in his marking.他们在指控那名教师打分数有政治偏见。
• He had a bias toward the plan.他对这项计划有偏见。

5 judgment   

n.审判；判断力，识别力，看法，意见

参考例句：

• The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
• He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。

6 burgeoning   

adj.迅速成长的，迅速发展的v.发芽，抽枝( burgeon的现在分词 )；迅速发展；发（芽），抽（枝）

参考例句：

• Our company's business is burgeoning now. 我们公司的业务现在发展很迅速。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• These efforts were insufficient to contain the burgeoning crisis. 这些努力不足以抑制迅速扩散的危机。 来自辞典例句