成长的烦恼第二季:Higher Education

Mike: Alright! Say it one more time. We got one ski trip, seventy two hours, twenty three
women, thirty guys, and one near sighted chaperone. Gentlemen, the possibilities rae endless.
E Yeah, I'm only talking one ski.
Boner: There's no way my folks are going to let me go.
Mike: Boner. You just gotta learn how to handle old people.
Boner: Mike, you haven't even talked to your parents yet.
Mike: Come on Boner. Do you actually think that my parents could say no to me?
Boner: I know, you could talk to my mum and dad for me.
Mike: No. Eddie, go get a couple of chairs, alright. Now Bone. Look. I'll show you. I'll be your
dad, and Eddie, you be Boners mum.
Eddie: Yes dear.
Mike: Ok, it's evening at the Stabone residence and you and you charming parents are sitting
down for a lovely dinner.
Boner: My dad usually sits here.
Mike: Fine.
Eddie: pass the potatoes um, uh, what’s your dads name Boner?
Boner: Sylvester.
Mike: Wait a minute. Your dads name is Sylvester Stabone?
Boner: Who knew?
Mike: Yeah. Ok. So Richard, what is it you wanted to talk to us about?
Boner: Well, there is this ski trip.
Mike: Ski trip. Ha. Now why would you want to go on a ski trip? You don't even know how to
ski.
Boner: See guys. I told you. He aint going to even let me go.
Mike: Boner, it's just for pretend. Come on.
Boner: Oh!
Mike: Now give me one good reason why we should let you go.
Boner: Women.
Mike: Women?
Eddie: I will not have talk like this at my table. Go to your room Richard.
Mike: Come on. Look Bone. You never say women in front of your parents. You say stuff like
class spirit. You say growth experience. But you never ever say women.
Boner: Ok, class spirit.
Mike: Right!
Eddie: Growth experience.
Mike: Yes!
All: Women!
Carol: Don't leave your book there. Take them to you room.
No snacking. You'll spoil your dinner.
Ben: Mum and dad are sick and carols mad with power.
Carol: Is it clean yet?
Ben: I'm working, I’m working.
Mike: Hey wait a minute. Mum and dad are sick? Oh this is perfect. Now I can ask them about
the ski trip while they are weak.
(Goes up to parents room)
Mike: Carol just told me the awful news and well I just thought I'm come in to offer my
condolences.
Maggie: We're sick Mike, not dead.
Mike: Ok then. That settles it.
Maggie: Settles what?
Mike: Oh see, there was this class ski trip this weekend and I thought I’d try to get out of it so
I could spend some time palling¹ around with you guys. But obviously you are in no shape for
that. So I got to go.
Jason: Forget it Mike.
Mike: Dad?
Jason: You're not going anywhere while you are still flunking² English.
Mike: Oh great timing³ dad. I mean, we had an English test today. I mean couldn't you have
told me this before I took it. I mean if I’d known you would take this kind of an attitude, I just
may have studied for it.
Jason: Ah, I feel worse than mikes grades.
Maggie: Me too.
Jason: I got to try again to call a doctor.
Maggie: You are a doctor.
Jason: Oh, I guess that's why I keep getting a busy signal.
Eddie: Oh Seaver. Wait up. Oh Mikey Mikey Mikey. You're not going to believe this. This has
got to be the best news since Lucy came back to TV.
Mike: What?
Eddie: Boner! His folks are letting him go on the ski trip.
Boner: Thanks a lot Mikey. How come you aint sharing in my joy?
Mike: Cos I’m not going.
Boner and Eddie: What?
Mike: Yeah, my dad says I have to be passing English. He tells me this after yesterday's test.
Eddie: Well are you sure you flunked⁴?
Mike: Eddie come on. This is me we're talking about. Wake up and smell yourself.
Eddie: Well Mikey. As long as there's a grade curve, there's always a hope.
Mike: Hey, yeah you know, especially with Boner in the curve.
Boner: I do what I can.
Eddie: Why don't you go ask the teachers aid on this one. Hu?
Mike: Hey, thanks a lot guys.
Ah, hi.
Robin⁵: Hi mike.
Mike: Ah, Bobby right?
Robin: Robin.
Mike: Robin, yeah. So Robin have you finished grading those tests from yesterday yet?
Robin: Yeah. Your definition of a dangling⁶ participle was...
Mike: Inspired?
Robin: Dirty.
Mike: Well, how did I do overall?
Robin: Mike, I can't tell you.
Mike: Oh why?
Robin: It's the rules.
Mike: Come on Robin. I, I got to know. Whatever you want. I'll trade my body for the
information.
Robin: is that an offer?
Mike: Ah, look Robin. I really need to know this grade. If I don't pass, I don't go on the ski
trip.
Robin: Oh, you're going?
Mike: Yeah, if I get a C. So come on. Tell me what I got.
Robin: What you got rhymes with C.
Mike: Ah, the school’s giving out G's now?
Robin: D plus.
Mike: D plus. Is that with the curve?
Robin: It's with an incredible curve.
Maggie: You would not believe what the rest of the house looks like.
Jason: I'm going to kill those kids. We asked them for one favor, will the help with the house
while we're sick. But do they do it? No.
Maggie: Jason, the house is perfect.
Jason: What?
Maggie: It's like a hospital out there. There is no dust. All the laundry’s been done. The table
is set for dinner. Bens little clothes have been ironed for tomorrow. I haven't seen the house
this organized since I went back to......work.
Jason: Oh good. That's very good. You tell a dying man he's a bad house wife.
Maggie: Oh, honey. Don't get upset. Carol just went a little over board trying to do a great job,
and I just...I've hurt your feelings haven't I?
Jason: No no no no, just it's really no big deal. If Carol does a better job than I do, then we
should be grateful cos she's a big help. Right?
Maggie: Right.
Jason: And just to be clear, we are saying she does do a better job?
Maggie: Oh Jason.
Jason: No that's what we're saying, that’s what I hear when you say..
Maggie: Honey.
Jason: That's what I'm hearing.
Maggie: I really didn't mean that.
Teacher 2: As Robin passes out your tests from yesterday, I must say I was so shocked. No
one got below a C. I'm seeking professional help.
Mike: An A. I got an A? Robin I'm a . An A?
Robin: I rechecked your paper.
Mike: Ah yeah, but Miss Charter's going to find out. I mean she'll know.
Robin: She never even sees the papers. You're safe with me. You look kind of cute with your
mouth hanging open like that.
Mike: Yes! This means I can go on the ski trip. Look Robin, I really owe you in a major way.
Robin: Well you're welcome in a major way.
Mike: Look, if there is anything that I can do for you Robin, you got it. Ok?
Robin: Mike. The ski trip.
Mike: Yeah, what about it?
Robin: I'd love to be your date on the ski trip.
Mike: What ski trip?
Robin: THE ski trip.
Mike: Ah ha ha. No Robin, Robin. See, none of us guys are taking dates on the ski trip
because there are going to be so many coyotes up there. Yeah, those those hills are just
crawling with coyotes (howls)
Robin: Mike, the only reason that you are able to go is that I changed your grade.
Mike: Yeah and I am very thank full for that.
Robin: Are you?
Mike: Oh!
Robin: You're even cuter with that dumb look on your face.
Boner: So a girl is forcing you to spend the weekend with her?
Mike: Yes.
Boner: And this is a bad thing?
Mike: Yes.
Eddie: Ok Mikey, look at it this way. Let’s say you was a teachers aid and you were helping⁷ out
a cute chick with a phony grade. What would you expect in return? You see?
Mike: No no. Totally different situation.
Eddie: How?
Mike: Ok, if I treat a girl how she's been treating me, it would be obvious that, well, that the
girl would feel as rotten as I do. It's no different. Oh no. I'm maturing.
Eddie and Boner: No!
Eddie: Right, the facts here are; if you don't take Robin with you on the ski trip, she's going to
change your grade back, and you can't go.
Mike: Now what do I do?
Boner: I wish I had problems like this.
Eddie: You know I have never had a second date with a chick in my life. Girls never like me
once they get to know me.
Boner: If no girls know me, I'd probably get to be the most popular dude in school.
Mike: Hey carol, I need to ask you something.
Carol: Take your shoes off.
Mike: Why?
Carol: I just waxed the floor.
Mike: Ok Carol look. I need some advice ok?
Carol: From mo?
Mike: Ok. Nice job. Ok now Carol. Let’s say you were really desperate and you trapped this
guy into going out with you.
Carol: Lets not.
Mike: No no. Lets say you trapped him, because you liked him. Now what could he do to make
you not like him?
Carol: You're serious?
Mike: Yeah.
Carol: Ok. Well first, any guy who could be trapped into a date, is a weak kneed winky. Now I
am talking major winky.
Mike: Forget it. Forget it.
Ben: Ok, I cleaned my room and ahhhhhhhh! (Falls on the floor)
Mike: Very nice job.
Jason: Place doesn't look so great.
Mike: Hey dad.
Jason: Look! Dust! She calls this clean. Ah.
Mike: Dad I think it's the fever talking.
Jason: Oh yeah. It's me it's me. Everything else is just fine. Wait a minute; I know something
that's not fine. What happened on your English test? Hu?
Mike: Alright, I got an A.
Jason: Let me see that test. A! Wow!
Mike: Yeah, I didn't even cheat on it.
Jason: "Punctuation⁸, the colon⁹ is where food digests when you eat it."
Mike: Ah, it was graded on a curve.
Jason: Yeah, apparently¹⁰.
Jason: Well, I guess that means you're going to be able to go on that ski trip after all.
Mike: Yeah, I guess so.
Jason: You don't sound too thrilled about it.
Mike: Dad, can I ask your advice about something?
Jason: Why?
Mike: Well, you're my dad. You like that kind of stuff.
Jason: Oh yeah.
Mike: Now, if somebody does you a favor, out of the blue, and it’s a really great favor but you
Didn’t ask them to, and now they want you to pay them back, what do you do?
Jason: Well, for starters you should refuse the favor.
Mike: Are you kidding?
Jason: Well then you've got to pay them back.
Mike: That was not the answer I was hoping for.
Jason: Does this have anything to do with the ski trip you're going on?
Maggie: You're going? Mike you passed?
Jason: Passed? He got an A.
Maggie: An A! Wow! Mike. Let me see that test. "A coma¹¹ is a deep sleep you fall into after you
get hit on the head."
Jason: It's graded on the curve.
Maggie: Oh. Well Mike, I think it's wonderful.
Jason: Yep yep yep. It's wonderful. Everything's wonderful. Everything's running very
smoothly¹² around here lately.
Carol: Now what are you two doing up? Now come on. Back up stairs. I'll bring you dinner up
in a little while.
Jason: What are we having?
Carol: Coq o vin.
Jason: I made that once.
Carol: Yeah, but don't worry. I found a new recipe.
Jason: Well I’m going to go see if any of my patients have called. With my luck, they're
probably all cured.
Maggie: Your dad is still in shock. Mike got an A on a test.
Carol: An A. let me see that test.
Maggie: Not now. Carol honey, listen. You are doing a terrific job at taking care of things while
we are sick.
Carol: Well thanks.
Maggie: I have just one request.
Carol: Sure.
Maggie: Stop it!
Carol: What?
Maggie: You see your father is feeling like you are doing a better job of running the house that
he does.
Carol: I am.
Maggie: I know.
Carol: All I wanted to do was help.
Maggie: And that’s what your dad wanted too. But see, by giving him what he wanted, you've
upset him.
Carol: By giving him what he wanted I’ve upset him!
Maggie: Sure honey. You'll find out that most people hate it when they get what they want.
Mike: Wait wait wait a minute. Is this true?
Maggie: Sure. There is even a Chinese curse which says, may you get what you wish for.
Mike: Ah this is perfect. Now mum, next time I have a problem, I'm coming to you first.
Jason: Oh, I'm going back to bed.
Mike: Mum, I've got to go make a phone call.
(Slips on floor)
Mike: Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
Maggie: Oh you waxed the floor.
Mike: Hello Boner? Oh Mr. Stabone. It's Mike. Yo to you too sir. Ah, is Richard there? Hello
Boner. I need some help. Well I'm going to ask Robin out tonight. Now I need you to tell em
step by step exactly what you do on a first date so I can completely gross this girl out. No
offence.
Robin: Mike, what are you doing?
Mike: Who needs the distraction¹³ of a movie?
Robin: Not me. Ow!
Mike: Oh, I'm sorry.
Robin: That's ok.
Mike: Look Robin, let’s not kid each other. Alright? Now you have needs and I have needs.
Now why should we both be needy¹⁴ on a night like this?
Robin: Mike!
Mike: Girl, you'll be a woman soon. Here, now, tonight.
Robin: Oh Mike! Yes.
Mike: Ah, look wouldn't a nice big tub of something be good right now?
Robin: Popcorn¹⁵?
Mike: Yeah, great idea.
Boner: Where did he go?
Eddie: I can't tell. My binocs are all fogged up.
Boner: Mike!
Mike: Guys, what are you doing here?
Eddie: Catching¹⁶ a movie. Which is more than I can say for you.
Mike: Guys. I don't know what I’m going to do. Now I’ve tried every sleazy movie you gave
me on the phone and they're working.
Boner: Don't give me that. Those lines never work.
Eddie: Have you tried "girl, you'll be a woman soon. Here, now, tonight."?
Mike: Yeah, I tried it and she loved it.
Eddie: I got my face slapped for that.
Mike: I got my face kissed for it.
Eddie: Wait, how did you say it?
Mike: Girl, you'll be a woman soon. Here, now, tonight.
Boner: Wow!
Eddie: That's how I say it.
Boner: Well Eddie. Maybe you should consider the possibility that you're scum.
Mike: Guys. Guys! Stop. Ok. Come on. Now I need a line that is guaranteed to offend.
Eddie: Boner, give him your best line.
Boner: You look her in the eye and you say, you got needs, I got needs, why should we both
be needy on a night like this.
Eddie: I already gave him that line.
Mike: Yeah and it worked.
Boner: It never worked for me.
Mike: You guys are no help at all.
Eddie: I'm scum.
Boner:You're scum.
Robin: I thought you were going to get popcorn?
Mike: It wasn't real butter.
Robin: Well I hat that too.
Mike: Look Robin. Do you have any idea why I brought you here tonight?
Robin: I've a pretty good idea.
Mike: No you don't.
Robin: Yes I do.
Mike: No you don't.
Robin: Yes I do.
Mike: Look. Robin, I brought you here tonight so that I could totally gross you out so that you
didn't like me anymore.
Robin: You did?
Mike: Yeah. Well, what does a guy have to do around here to offend you, anyway?
Robin: You just did it.
Mike: Alright. Finally.
Robin: After I put my TA status on the line for you and this is how you treat me?
Mike: Well only after you put my ski trip on the line.
Robin: I was just flirting¹⁷.
Mike: Robin, that was blackmailing¹⁸, not flirting. Flirting I know about.
Robin: You sure do. Like this morning when you offered me your body.
Mike: Robin, I offer every girl my body, alright. Just nobody ever took me up on it.
Robin: What’s wrong with treating you the way that guys have been treating girls since the
beginning of time?
Mike: The beginning of time. Robin, I've only been dating for a year.
Robin: Well don't worry. You can go on your precious ski trip and you won't be stuck with me.
(Crying)
Mike: Come on Robin. Don't cry. What do you mean stuck? I just didn't want to be forced into
doing something. Look, just ‘cause guys are crummy to girls doesn't mean that you have to be
crummy to me. You know, I think it is the guys who ought to change. Not the girls. I know,
pretty frightening concept isn't it?
Eddie: Wow, look at that. She's crying.
Boner: Must have been one of my lines.
Mike: Ah Robin. I just wish that none of this had ever ever happened.
Robin: You're right.
Mike: Well thank you.
Robin: I shouldn't have black mailed you.
Mike: Yeah.
Robin: I was so wrong.
Mike: Yeah.
Robin: I should have never changed your grade.
Mike: Yeah. Uh no.
Robin: And tomorrow I'm going to make it right.
Mike: Ah tomorrow.
Robin: Tomorrow I'm going to change your grade back to a D plus.
Mike: I, you don't have to..
Robin: And thank you Mike. Thanks for helping me see how wrong I was.
TV: Time for the news. It's eleven o clock. Do you know where your children are?
Ben: I don't have any children.
Carol: Ah. You're still up two hours after your bedtime and you've trashed the entire living
room.
Ben: I'll clean it up.
Carol: No, no, stay right where you are. Get comfortable. Perfect. Night Ben. Night dad.
Jason: Night Carol. Ben, you're up two hours past your bed time.
Ben: Well she ..
Jason: And what is this mess here?
Ben: I was set up.
Jason: Ben you take these dishes out to the kitchen and you get straight up to bed right now.
Ben: I'm going, I’m going.
Jason: Look at this. Peanut butter all over the place. Mike are you responsible for any of this
mess?
Mike: Probably.
Jason: Where have you been?
Mike: Out following mums advice. And just between you and me dad, it was the worst advice I
have ever got. Oh and dad. The grade on my English test, after tomorrow it won't be an A. I
will be a D plus.
Jason: Why?
Mike: My teacher is throwing out the grade curve.
Jason: Well Mike, I am very..
Mike: Disappointed in me. Yeah, I know, me too. Well how do you think I feel? I'm missing out
on the ski trip and all that gorgeous...class spirit. I mean dad, all I know is that nothing has
been right since you've been sick.
Jason: Suddenly I'm feeling much better.

1 palling   

v.（因过多或过久而）生厌，感到乏味，厌烦( pall的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• It's good to see the two boys palling up so well. 看见这两个男孩这么要好真是惬意。 来自互联网

2 flunking   

v.( flunk的现在分词 )；（使）（考试、某学科的成绩等）不及格；评定（某人）不及格；（因不及格而） 退学

参考例句：

• Is there some school of the ear I'm flunking out off right now? 我是不是被什么听力学校淘汰了？ 来自电影对白
• Twelve freshman footballers were flunking classes and had to leave. 当时有12名高中一年级的美式足球（即橄榄球）队员没有通过考试而不得不离开。 来自互联网

3 timing   

n.时间安排，时间选择

参考例句：

• The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
• The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。

4 flunked   

v.( flunk的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）（考试、某学科的成绩等）不及格；评定（某人）不及格；（因不及格而） 退学

参考例句：

• I flunked math in second grade. 我二年级时数学不及格。
• He flunked out (of college) last year. 他去年（从大学）退学了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 robin   

n.知更鸟，红襟鸟

参考例句：

• The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
• We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。

6 dangling   

悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 )； 摆动不定； 用某事物诱惑…； 吊胃口

参考例句：

• The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果，那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。
• The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上，摇晃着他们的双腿。

7 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。

8 punctuation   

n.标点符号，标点法

参考例句：

• My son's punctuation is terrible.我儿子的标点符号很糟糕。
• A piece of writing without any punctuation is difficult to understand.一篇没有任何标点符号的文章是很难懂的。

9 colon   

n.冒号，结肠，直肠

参考例句：

• Here,too,the colon must be followed by a dash.这里也是一样，应当在冒号后加破折号。
• The colon is the locus of a large concentration of bacteria.结肠是大浓度的细菌所在地。

10 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

11 coma   

n.昏迷，昏迷状态

参考例句：

• The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
• She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。

12 smoothly   

adv.平滑地，顺利地，流利地，流畅地

参考例句：

• The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作，所以工作进展顺利。
• Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。

13 distraction   

n.精神涣散，精神不集中，消遣，娱乐

参考例句：

• Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注，不能有丝毫分神。
• Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。

14 needy   

adj.贫穷的，贫困的，生活艰苦的

参考例句：

• Although he was poor,he was quite generous to his needy friends.他虽穷，但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨。
• They awarded scholarships to needy students.他们给贫苦学生颁发奖学金。

15 popcorn   

n.爆米花

参考例句：

• I like to eat popcorn when I am watching TV play at home.当我在家观看电视剧时，喜欢吃爆米花。
• He still stood behind his cash register stuffing his mouth with popcorn.他仍站在收银机后，嘴里塞满了爆米花。

16 catching   

adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住

参考例句：

• There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
• Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。

17 flirting   

v.调情，打情骂俏( flirt的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Don't take her too seriously; she's only flirting with you. 别把她太当真，她只不过是在和你调情罢了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• 'she's always flirting with that new fellow Tseng!" “她还同新来厂里那个姓曾的吊膀子！ 来自子夜部分

18 blackmailing   

胁迫，尤指以透露他人不体面行为相威胁以勒索钱财( blackmail的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The policemen kept blackmailing him, because they had sth. on him. 那些警察之所以经常去敲他的竹杠是因为抓住把柄了。
• Democratic paper "nailed" an aggravated case of blackmailing to me. 民主党最主要的报纸把一桩极为严重的讹诈案件“栽”在我的头上。