听美剧学英语:《淘小子看世界》 Boy Meets Girls-7

May I ask you a personal question?

Sure.

Why are there socks all over your floor?

Oh, I was just practising.

I envy your flexibility¹.

Oh, this is not so hard. Come on, I'll give you some pointers. All right, first, you got some ammo.

Ninja turtles?

And now they're gone. The key is good color commentary. If you can live up to your own height, you've got a mate. Watch this. Matthews sees an open wing. He drives hard to the boards. He leaps over Shaquille O'Neal. Kisses it off the glass. It's scored. He scores.

I could never do that.

Sure, you can. Give it a try.

But I'm not familiar with the terminology².

And I'll do the color, you just worry about getting the ball in the basket. Topanga's triple teamed to the timeline. She breaks the trap, heads to the top of the key, and leaps toward the basket. Doing a spiraling tomahawk 360. Slam dunk!

Look, we both made a basket.

Technically³ yeah. But basketball's so much more fun when you actually move. All right, you try make another basket, I'll try block you.

Way to go! Topanga.

It's nice that you help your father with the laundry.

Yeah, well, we're a fairly cutting-edge family. So my mom does most of the laundry. I'm just helping⁴ out 'cause Mother's Day is coming up.

So you're doing chores for your Mother's Day gift?

You think I can get away with that? What are you getting your mom? I can use some ideas.

At our house, we don't celebrate Mother's Day. We feel it's merely a commercial fabrication of the greeting card industry. She has, however, asked for a dust buster.

My mom is pretty well set for small appliances. And my funds are sort of limited.

You don't need money. You just need to use your right brain.

Wow, all these years I've been using the wrong one! So what do you think I should get my mom?

You can never go wrong with something from the heart.

Right or left heart?

You're killing⁵ me, Cory.

1 flexibility   

n.柔韧性，弹性，（光的）折射性，灵活性

参考例句：

• Her great strength lies in her flexibility.她的优势在于她灵活变通。
• The flexibility of a man's muscles will lessen as he becomes old.人老了肌肉的柔韧性将降低。

2 terminology   

n.术语；专有名词

参考例句：

• He particularly criticized the terminology in the document.他特别批评了文件中使用的术语。
• The article uses rather specialized musical terminology.这篇文章用了相当专业的音乐术语。

3 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

4 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

5 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。