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本片段剧情：吉斯是一个热爱跑步、画画但性格十分内向的小男孩，他有四个姐妹，但是他并不喜欢和自己的姐妹相处。拮据的家境使他不得不穿姐姐的旧鞋去参加田径比赛……
影片对白：
Mother: Want toast?
May Belle: Yes, please!
Mother: Ellie, where's your cereal bowl?
Ellie: I'm not hungry.
Mother: You need to eat.
Ellie: I'm not hungry, Mom.
Mother: You need to eat before school. One more bite.
Ellie: You want some jelly on it?
May Belle: Yes, please.
Ellie: Watch it, Brenda. Don't mess my clothes up. Billy Baker's in my class this year.
Brenda: Oh, did he flunk too?
Ellie: Shut up!
Mother: Hey!
Ellie: You're one to talk.
Mother: Are you excited about your first day in school?
May Belle: Yeah.
Mother: Isn't your sister cute?
Brenda: You! You stink!
May Belle: Very cute.
Brenda: He stinks. He's gotta shower before he eats with us.
Mother: May Belle? Honey, here's your juice.
May Belle: Thanks.
Jess: OK, who hid my sneakers?
Mother: Jess, you could hardly call them sneakers anymore. I threw them out.
Jess: What? Mom!
Mother: I'm sorry, but I will not send any child of mine to school looking like somehobo. There's a perfectly good old pair of Brenda's I put out for you.
Jess: These are girls' ones.
Father: It's the fan belt this time, but I got another.
Mother: Ellie? Honey, here you go.
Father: What's the matter with you?
Jess: There's a big race today.
Father: And?
Jess: My sneakers.
Mother: I got a perfectly good pair for him.
Jess: These are girls' ones. I can't race in these.
Brenda: You couldn't race in your old ones either.
Father: He needs some new sneakers, Mary.
Mother: We don't have anything for extras.
Father: They make them the same. You got your chores done?
Jess: Just about to.
妙语佳句 活学活用
1. Watch it: 当心！
2. mess up: 把……弄糟。例如：They told us not to mess up the room.（他们告诉我们不要把房间弄脏。）
3. flunk: （考试、测验等）失败，不及格。看一下例子：She flunked the physics examination. 她物理考试不及格。又如：He flunked in the final examination.（他期终考试不及格。）
flunk也可以表示“使（某人）不及格；给（某人）打不及格分数”。例如：The professor flunked Hunter.（教授给亨特打了不及格分数。）
4. stink: 发恶臭，发出难闻气味。例如：The butcher's shop stank in hot weather.（肉铺热天散发腥臭味。）
此外，stink还可以表示“惹人讨厌，令人厌恶，坏透”或“水平很低，差劲”的意思。例如：
Your idea stinks. It will only get us into trouble.
你的主意糟透了，只会给我们惹麻烦。
Anyway, you're too slow and your math stinks.
不管怎么说，你太迟钝了，而你的数学又一团糟。
5. sneaker: 帆布胶底运动鞋，旅游鞋。
6. hobo: 流浪汉，游民。hobo还可以作动词用，意思是“流浪着过（日子），过流浪生活。例如：hobo one's way out to San Francisco（一路流浪到旧金山去）。
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