影片对白  She's distraught. You're there for her. You pick up the pieces, and then you usher in the age of Ross!

3. usher in 宣布进入，开辟

You pick up the pieces, and then you usher in the age of Ross!
你去收拾局面，然后开创罗斯的时代！

Africa and China usher in the 50th anniversary of sincere cooperation.
非洲和中国迎来了真诚合作的50周年纪念。

4. overwhelm 使受不了，不知所措

I really think just one of us should go out there so she's not overwhelmed...
我真的认为我们之中应该只去一个，以免她不知所措。

Personal problems can overwhelm an already stressful young university student.
一个备受压力的年轻大学生将无法面对个人问题。

文化面面观

Table football 桌上足球

Table football (also called foosball) is a table-top game based on football (soccer). The origins of the game are unclear, but most historians agree that the first tables probably appeared in France or Germany in the 1880s-1890s.

While several have claimed the honor of inventing the sport, no one has yet been able to produce irrefutable evidence of the exact time and place of the birth of the sport. Patents exist from as far back as the 1890s, and more detail on these is available in the external links section. Table football is also known in the US as foosball, from Fu?ball, the German word for football.

Foosball is often played for fun in pubs, bars, workplaces, schools, and clubs with few rules. Foosball is also played in official competitions organized by a number of national organizations, with highly evolved rules and regulations. Organized competition can be traced back to the 1940's and 50's in Europe. But the professional tours and bigtime money events began when the founding father of modern professional table soccer, Lee Peppard of Seattle, Washington, United States announced a "quarter million dollar tour" in 1975. Peppard went on to award several million dollars in prize monies and since his Tournament Soccer Organization went out of business in 1981 several orgs and promoters have continued holding large purse professional table soccer events worldwide. An international organization named ITSF (International Table Soccer Federation) was established in August 2002 to bring together all of them, as well as organizing World Championships.

Numerous local leagues exist around the world and there are huge differences in levels of skill between "pub" players and "tournament" players. A National League involving pub teams and University sides has recently been set up in the UK, and on an international level the ITSF World Cup took place in May 2006 on a variety of ITSF-sanctioned tables in Germany to coincide with the FIFA World Cup. Austria, Germany and Belgium took the Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively.

考考你

用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1. 一些进入青春期的学生很容易被抑郁的春天压跨，从而自杀。
2. 小妞们刚开始大学第一年的生活，学长们就乘虚而入。
3. 我是基督徒，所以不想扁你。因此我得好好向耶稣祈祷，让他老人家显灵来替我收拾你。
4. 专家说21世纪会迎来第二个信息时代。人们任何时间，任何地点都能使用无线科技。

Friends 1 《老友记》1（精讲之十） 考考你 参考答案

1. 汤姆以前很沉闷，但是自从苏姗对他有好感之后他开朗多了。
Tom used to be very withdrawn but he's really come out of his shell since Susan took an interest in him.

2. 失去几个老朋友，花掉你所有的空闲时间，你才能做好主席的工作。
Lose a couple of old friends, throw in all your spare time, and you can make a good president.

3. 很多宏伟计划都是由于资金不足而泡汤的。
Money problems killed off many big plans.

4. 也许日常琐事使我失去了时间概念。
Perhaps in my daily routine I had lost track of time.

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