影片对白  Saturday night, the big night, date night, Saturday night, Sat-ur-day night!

思想火花  单身时代

考考你  一展身手

3. burn someone up

意思是“使某人大怒”。例如：The news that some beautiful girl dates someone burns me up. 我一听哪个漂亮姑娘跟人搞对象就上火。电影中的 That guy, he burns me up. 意思是“那家伙，他真让我来气”。

4. make it

意思是“成功”。例如：I made it. My book sold a million copies. 我做到了。我的书卖了一百万册。电影中的 You'll never make it on your own.意思是“你永远都不可能独立生活”。

5. agree with

意思是“适合，适宜”。例如：The climate here doesn't agree with me. 这里的气候不适合我。电影中的 Wow, being dumped by you obviously agrees with her. 意思是“哇，对她来说被你甩显然是件好事”。

6. You don't say.

意思是“不会这样吧！不至于吧！真的吗？（表示心里同意对方所说的话，但是嘴上不服。）”例如：-The biology professor is too harsh on us. - You don't say. -生物学教授对我们太狠了。-不是吧。电影中的-That's because I'm wearing a dress that accents my boobs. -You don't say.意思是“-那是因为我穿了一件突出胸部的衣服。-不会吧。”

文化面面观

1. The Mississippi River 密西西比河

The Mississippi River is one of the world's major river systems in size, habitat diversity, and biological productivity. It is the longest and largest river in North America, flowing 3,705 kilometers from its source at Lake Itasca in the Minnesota North Woods, through the mid-continental United States, the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain, and its subtropical Louisiana Delta. "Mississippi" is an Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indian word meaning great river or gathering of waters---an appropriate name because the river basin, or watershed, extends from the Allegheny Mountains in the eastern United States to the Rocky Mountains, including all or parts of 31 states and 2 Canadian provinces. The river basin measures 4.76 million square kilometers, covering about 40% of the United States and about one-eighth of North America. Of the world's rivers, the Mississippi ranks third in length, second in watershed area, and fifth in average discharge.

2. One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi.

这是美国人在童年时候的就已经学到的一种数秒的方法，因为读Mississippi这个单词刚好大约需要一秒钟时间。雨天的时候孩子们看到闪电，父母和老师便让他们用这种方法开始数秒，等雷声响起的时候孩子们就可以根据数到的秒数来计算闪电发生的地方距离自己有多远了（声音的速度大约是每秒0.2英里）。为什么不用其他的单词而一定要用Mississippi呢？这是因为Mississippi这个词是小孩学习拼写时最开始遇到的比较复杂的单词之一。人们用的多了，便成为一个沿用下来的说法。当然，还有其他类似的说法，例如，one steam boat, two steam boat, three steam boat，也可以说 Mississippi One, Mississippi two, Mississippi three。

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