《丑女贝蒂》精讲 96丹尼尔的重归还给贝蒂公道

Mee-gan: When you first showed up, I didn't think I would like you.

第一次见你的时候 我没觉得我会喜欢你

Betty: Yeah, I could kinda tell.

我大概能猜到

Mee-gan: I just thought you'd gotten the job as a courtesy¹

我以为你得到这份工作是特殊照顾

because you were Daniel's assistant, not because you were talented.

因为你是丹尼尔的助理 而不是因为你有才华

Betty: Oh. Wow. Okay.

噢 好吧

Mee-gan: Look, I take the title, editor, pretty seriously

瞧 我对待编辑这份工作很认真

but I can see you do too.

但是我看得出来你也是

Betty: Hmm. Thanks, Megan.

谢谢 米根

Amanda: Hey, skinny bitches... and Betty.

嗨 小腰精们 还有贝蒂

Emergency meeting in the conference² room,

在会议室召开紧急会议

Fire in the hole, chop-chop, chop-chop ! All departments.

动作麻利 快快快 赶快 所有部门

Betty: Wait. Amanda, what?

等一下 阿曼达 什么事

Amanda: Daniel's back.

丹尼尔回来了

Daniel: Hello, everybody.Thank you so much for cutting your lunches short.

大家好 谢谢你们提前结束午餐时间

I appreciate all the hard work you’ve been doing while I've been gone,

我很感激你们在我不在的时候也一直努力工作

but I'm back now, and unfortunately,

现在我回来了不幸的是

there are some things going on that I just don't like.

你们一些做事的方法我不喜欢

First of all, the feature piece on insect jewelry—

首先 昆虫珠宝的专题

It was a pitch³ started from Betty.

最先是贝蒂的主意

It was taken away from her and given to Megan.

但是却被交给了米根

I know you're new here, Matt, but that's not the way we do things.

我知道你是刚来的 马特 但是我们不是这样做事情

So effective immediately, the story goes back to Betty.

所以专题还给贝蒂做 即刻生效

Sorry, Megan.

抱歉 米根

You have to come up with some ideas of your own.

你必须自己想一个新点子

Matt, it's probably a good idea if you did a little legwork,

马特 也许你应该先调查清楚

figure out the do and don't of being a managing editor.

弄明白作为总编辑 什么该做什么不该

Look forward to reading your piece, Betty.

我很期待看到你的文章 贝蒂

I'm sure it's gonna be great.

我相信会很棒的

1 courtesy   

n.谦恭有礼，礼貌的举止，好意，恩惠

参考例句：

• She called on us merely for the sake of courtesy.她来访只是为了礼貌。
• After a few words of courtesy,they got down to business.双方客气了一番，就开始谈正事。

2 conference   

n.（正式的）会议；讨论

参考例句：

• We're having a conference and we'd like you to sit in.我们将举行一次会议，希望你来旁听。
• The conference will come to a close this afternoon.今天下午会议闭幕。

3 pitch   

n.球场；声音的高低度；沥青；程度；v.投掷

参考例句：

• The pitch is too small to play football on.球场太小了，无法踢足球。
• People just pitch their rubbish over the wall.人们径直把垃圾扔过墙去。