看老友记学英语 今天真不是鸟儿的好日子

Chandler: I am telling you, years from now, schoolchildren will study it as one of the greatest first dates of all time.

告诉你们，几年后学童将会把它奉为第一次约会的经典加以研读，

Phoebe: Yeah

是的。

Chandler: I'll say.Yeah

要我说，是的。

Chandler: It was unbelievable! We could totally be ourselves; we didn't have to play any games...

它太令人无法置信，我们可以完全作自己，无须再玩任何游戏。

Monica: So have you called her yet?

你打过电话给她没？

Chandler: Let her know I like her? What are you, insane¹? It's the next day! How needy² do I want to seem? I'm right, right?

让她知道我喜欢她？你这是怎么了？疯了？才第二天......你要我显得有多渴望？对吧？

Joey and Ross: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Let her dangle³.

对，让她慢慢等吧。

Monica: I can't believe my parents are actually pressuring me to find one of you people.

我无法相信我爸妈强迫我找你们这种男人。

Phoebe: Oh, God, just do it! Call her! Stop being so testosteroney!

快，拿起电话打给她，别摆出一付臭男人的样子。

Chandler: This, by the way, is the real San Francisco treat. I got her machine.

对了，旧金山真有这道菜，是电话答录机。

Joey: Her answer machine?

她的答录机？

Chandler: No, interestingly enough her leaf blower picked up.

不，真有意思，是落叶机清扫机。

Phoebe: So, uh, why didn't you say anything?

你为何不说话？

Chandler: Oh, nononono. Last time I left a spontaneous⁴ message I ended up using the phrase "Yes indeedo."

上次我留话时，结果说了“对，的确”。

Monica: Look! It's Rachel and Barry. No, don't everybody look at once!

看，是Rachel和Barry不，别一起看。

Ross: Okay, okay, what's going on?

怎么了？

Phoebe: Okay, they're just talking...

他们只是在讲话。

Ross: Yeah, well, does he look upset? Does he look like he was just told to shove⁵ anything?

是吗？他是否神情落寞？

Phoebe: No, no actually, he's smiling... And... Oh my God, don't do that!!

他是否像被告知去死的样子？没有，而且他正在微笑。我的老天，不要那样干？

Ross: What? What? What?!

怎么了，怎么了？

Phoebe: That man across the street just kicked that pigeon! Oh!

怎么啦？对街的男人踢了一只鸽子。

Chandler: (bluffing) and basically, that's how a bill becomes a law.

这就是法案成为法律的原因。

All: Oh... Right!

好的。

Chandler: Hey Rach!

你好，Rach。

Monica: How did it go?

情况如何？

Rachel: You know, it was, uh.. it was actually really great. He took me to lunch at the Russian Tea Room, and I had that chicken, where you know you poke⁶ it and all the butter squirts out...

他带我到俄国茶室吃饭，我点了那种鸡肉，一刺就有奶油啧出来的那种。

Phoebe: Not a good day for birds...

今天真不是鸟儿的好日子。

Rachel: Then we took a walk down to Bengal's, and I told him not to, but he got me a little bottle of Chanel...

然后我们去精品店，我告诉他不要,他还是买了香奈儿给我。

Ross: That's nice... now, was that before or after you told him to stop calling, stop sending you flowers and to generally leave you alone, hmm?

真体贴。是在你跟他说之前还是之后送的，叫他别再打电话来，别再送你花，别再来烦你？

Rachel: Right, well, we never actually got to that... Oh, it was just so nice to see him again, you know? It was comfortable, it was familiar... it was just nice!

老实说我没机会开口，能再见到他的感觉真好，感觉是那么自在而熟悉，感觉真好！

Ross: That's, that's nice twice!

你已讲了两遍！

1 insane   

adj.蠢极的，荒唐的，精神错乱的，疯狂的

参考例句：

• Insane people are sometimes dangerous.精神病人有时非常危险。
• The letter made her insane with jealousy.那封信使她妒忌得发疯。

2 needy   

adj.贫穷的，贫困的，生活艰苦的

参考例句：

• Although he was poor,he was quite generous to his needy friends.他虽穷，但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨。
• They awarded scholarships to needy students.他们给贫苦学生颁发奖学金。

3 dangle   

v.(使)悬荡，(使)悬垂

参考例句：

• At Christmas,we dangle colored lights around the room.圣诞节时，我们在房间里挂上彩灯。
• He sits on the edge of the table and dangles his legs.他坐在桌子边上，摆动著双腿。

4 spontaneous   

adj.自发的，不由自主的

参考例句：

• The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。
• Spontaneous applause broke out as soon as she finished speaking.她一讲完，大家不约而同都鼓起掌来。

5 shove   

vt.乱推，乱塞；vi.用力推，挤；n.猛推

参考例句：

• She will not shove the heavy load onto others.她不愿意把重担推给别人。
• Help me shove this furniture aside.帮我把这家具推到一边去。

6 poke   

n.刺，戳，袋；vt.拨开，刺，戳；vi.戳，刺，捅，搜索，伸出，行动散慢

参考例句：

• We never thought she would poke her nose into this.想不到她会插上一手。
• Don't poke fun at me.别拿我凑趣儿。