听美剧学英语:《淘小子看世界》 Boy Meets Girls-2

Tell me something. How do you ask a girl out?

Simple, you open the door and say, "get out, you are bothering me".

No, I mean like on a date.

Well, Eric uses the shotgun approach. He just keeps dialing random¹ numbers till he hears the word "yes".

Sounds like a lot of work.

Yeah, after all that, what do you got? A girl. What's the point?

Excuse me, I couldn't help overhearing your pathetic conversation. Perhaps, you two neophyte²s would like some coaching from a seasoned veteran.

OK, Minkus, let's pretend for just a minute that I'm actually interested in what you've got to say.

Well, girls are the soft, caring gentle creatures of nature yet, so complex and mysterious.

Minkus, get a cat.

Here, my research material.

Perkey Magazine?

Perkey tells girls everything they wanna know about themselves. Therefore, if we read it we'll know everything about them, too. It's the roadmap to their very souls.

Shaving your legs. How high is high enough.

Your little friend there hasn't got his telegram yet.

Mascara, use it, don't abuse it.

Well, um, as long as I don't actually have to go to the newsstand and buy it, I might as well borrow it for a couple of days.

Guys with one eyebrow³. What's their problem?

You know, this is the encyclopedia⁴ to everything you don't wanna know.

Yeah, can you imagine reading this kind of garbage?

I know, every morning when I look for a magazine to hide my math book I think Sports Illustrated(magazine), Road and Tracker(magazine). Wait, how about the lip gloss⁵ issue of Perky?

Hi, Shawn.

Hehehe...

Would you like to go to the movies with me?

Hehehe...

Great, we can meet at my locker⁶ after school. And my mom will drop us off at the mall. See you later, terminator.

Did she just tell a joke I didn't get? Shawn, stop laughing.

I can't. Well, I don't even know what just happened. I'm feeling really weird⁷, Cory. Hehehe...

You looked really weird. Shawn, what's happening?

I don't know, hehehe...

You're scaring me. Shawn, talk to me.

I can't talk about it. I can laugh about it, but I cannot talk about it, hehehe...

Words & Information:

neophyte: A neophyte is someone who is new to a particular activity.
seasoned : You can use seasoned to describe a person who has a lot of experience of something. For example, a seasoned traveller is a person who has travelled a lot.

1 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

2 neophyte   

n.新信徒；开始者

参考例句：

• The neophyte began to stammer out a reply,but fell silent.新门徒嗫嚅了两句，然后沉默了。
• He is a neophyte at politics.他是个初涉政界的人。

3 eyebrow   

n.眉毛，眉

参考例句：

• Her eyebrow is well penciled.她的眉毛画得很好。
• With an eyebrow raised,he seemed divided between surprise and amusement.他一只眉毛扬了扬，似乎既感到吃惊，又觉有趣。

4 encyclopedia   

n.百科全书

参考例句：

• The encyclopedia fell to the floor with a thud.那本百科全书砰的一声掉到地上。
• Geoff is a walking encyclopedia.He knows about everything.杰夫是个活百科全书，他什么都懂。

5 gloss   

n.光泽，光滑；虚饰；注释；vt.加光泽于；掩饰

参考例句：

• John tried in vain to gloss over his faults.约翰极力想掩饰自己的缺点，但是没有用。
• She rubbed up the silver plates to a high gloss.她把银盘擦得很亮。

6 locker   

n.更衣箱，储物柜，冷藏室，上锁的人

参考例句：

• At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
• He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。

7 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。