文化面面观：NBA简介及常识

考考你：小试牛刀

本片段剧情：Andie到Michelle的公寓把满脸泪痕、蓬头垢面的Michelle从床上叫起来上班，原来Michelle刚刚失恋。但是听完Michelle的讲述后，Andie说如果她像Michelle这么谈恋爱，她也会被甩掉。

 

影片对白：

Michelle: Hi.

Jeannie: Hi.

Michelle: I-I don't really want to talk about it, okay?

Jeannie: Okay.

Andie: Okay.

Michelle: Okay. Why does this always happen to me? Things were going great for, like, a week and a half, and then, all of a sudden, it's over, and I am mystified. Seriously, I am mystified, because it always starts out so well.

Jeannie: Poor baby.

Andie: Let's just roll with this one.

Michelle: Oh, Mike and I had such a connection. The first time that we had sex,...it was so beautiful...I cried.

Jeannie: You cried?

Michelle: Yeah.

Andie: You mean, like, one glistening tear on your cheek, right?

Michelle: No. I was really emotional. I even told him that I loved him.

Andie: After how many days?

Michelle: Five. Two. It was how I felt. I wanted to express myself.

Andie: Okay, well, what did he say?

Michelle: Oh, Mike didn't have to say anything. I know that he felt the same. But then he started getting really busy, and I didn't know where he was. So I kept calling him and calling him. He was never home...

Andie: You kept calling him?

Michelle: I didn't leave a message. He didn't know it was me. My number's blocked.

Jeannie: Oh, l-I'm sure he thought it was one of his friends. You know, men frequently call their friends' answering machines and hang up 20 times.

Michelle: Anyway...I know why hedumped me: I'm too fat.

Andie & Jeannie: You're not fat!

Andie: Oh, Michelle, if the most beautiful woman in the world acted the way you did, any normal guy would still go running in the other direction.

Michelle: Oh, no. No guy would go running from you, Andie. You could barf all over him, and he would say, "Do it again."

Andie: That is both incredibly disgusting and categorically untrue. If I did the things you did, I'd get dumped, too.

妙语佳句，活学活用

1.mystified: 困惑。动词形式为mystify，意思是“把……难住，使困惑不解，使大为惊奇”。影片中Michelle指她实在不明白为什么会被甩。

例如：The banker's disappearance mystified the police.

银行家的失踪使警方大惑不解。

2. emotional: 情绪激动的。如果想表达一个人十分情绪化，我们就可以用emotional。例如：get emotional over a piece of costume jewellery（对一件服饰珠宝感到十分激动）

emotional也可以解释为“催人泪下的，表现强烈情感的”，例如：

an emotional scene in a play（剧中令人感动的一场戏）

3. My number's blocked: 我隐藏了电话号码。现在许多人的电话都设置了来电显示功能，如果不想让自己的号码显示在对方电话上，就可以用blocked number。

4. dump sb.: 甩掉某人。dump不仅可以用于男女恋爱关系中的“甩”或“被甩”，我们也可以说dump a friend，因为dump还有“抛弃，放弃”的意思。例如：dump a plan（放弃计划）。

5. barf: <美口> 呕吐。飞机上供乘客用的呕吐袋就是barf bag。

6. categorically: 绝对地，无条件地。在影片中categorically untrue相当于absolutely untrue。形容词形式categorical的意思是“明确的，无条件的”。例如：a categorical answer（明确的答复）。

文化面面观：NBA简介及常识

考考你：小试牛刀