Jay: Are you doing good? How are you getting along?
Chris: Good. I’m doing good.
Jay: You’re doing good.
Chris: How you doing?
Jay: I'm doing great. Where you going?
Chris: L... Sacramento. Because I'm trying to move a couple guys from... They're at PacBell, and I'm trying to bring them over... Get them over to us. So they got me going out there golfing.
Jay: Awesome. Hey, let them win a round.
Shelter worker 1: Deborah, someone's asking for you.
Deborah: Where?
Shelter worker 1: He's outside. Please come with me.
Deborah: Hi.
Chris: Can I ask you a question?
Deborah: Sure.
Chris: We need a room. Just until I can fix this and sell it. There's just some glass work.
Deborah: Let me stop you right there. I wish I could help you...
Chris: This is my son, Christopher. He's 5 years old.
Deborah: Hi, baby.
Chris: We need some place to stay.
Deborah: Okay, and I would love to help you but we don't take men here. It's only women and children. He can stay here, but you have to find someplace else to go.
Chris: We gotta stay together. We got... We're...
Deborah: Okay, listen.
Chris: You gotta have some place...
Deborah: OK, OK, listen, you could try Glide Memorial. The building books up at 5. So you hurry up, get over there. There's a line.
Chris: And where is it? Come on.
Deborah: Ellis and Jones.
Shelter worker 2: Hey, everybody. We have four spots left, and that's all.
Chris: Hey, come on, man. Come on.
Rodney: Come on, what?
Chris: Hey, that's my spot.
Rodney: Back off.
Chris: Come on, don't do this to me. Don't...
Christopher: Dad! Dad! Dad!
Shelter worker 2: Stop it! Break it up! Break it up! Stop! Stop! Come get out of the line, both of you. Both of you.
Chris: I was here first. I was here first. They told me that we had to be here on time. I got here on time. I was in line. I got… I came from work, I got my son. I was here on time. We were here on time!
Homeless man: He sliced in front of him in line.
Shelter worker 2: Who did?
Homeless man: He did.
Shelter worker 2: Come on, come on, Rodney. Come on. Let's go. Get out of line.
Shelter worker 3: That's it. No more.
妙语佳句,活学活用
1. Because I'm trying to move a couple guys from...
“因为我正试着把一些人拉到(我们这里来)……”,这里的意思是“劝说他们买我们的金融产品”。
2. let them win a round
这句话的意思是“让他们这次赢了吧。”Win a round 指的是赢得某次胜利,如:Democrats win a round on voting, but it's only the beginning. 民主党在这轮投票中胜出,但这仅仅是个开始。
我们常见的短语还有win someone round 指的是“把某人争取过来”。例如我们可以说:Can you win the director round to our point of view?意思就是:你能把主任争取过来吗?