【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语721期

 Mom: Now let's have fun! It's Mona's birthday.

Dad: Mona, I want you to go to the hardware store. I want you to pick up a five-pound bag of plant food.

Mom: No no no no, not now. No, we are celebrating.

Dad: Mona, it's a surprise! This arrived on your birthday. It's magnet therapy.

Mona: Magnet??

Dad: Shh~okay~quiet. Keep your voice down. Because I don't want this getting back to the FDA.

Mona: Why??

Dad: Why?? Because they can confiscate¹ it, recede² the shape of health. They can try to get rid of the shape of health.

Mom: Mona, don't upset your father.

 

 

Mona: I said sth about his num for the first time, when I was nine. "Hi, Mr.Jones! I'm glad you feeling better, nine times better than yesterday. Yesterday you were a two."

Mr.Jone: That's a nice thing for a kid to notice. You are a very good noticer.

Mona: Notice?? I'd wake up in the morning and think,"If Mr.Jones wears an even num, my dad will laugh today. If Mr.Jones wears an odd num, the new medication will work. He must know a num that could help!" But if he did, he didn't tell me. He was just one more neighbor that looked away. So I decided³ to egg his car every Halloween with five dozen eggs. "Hi, Mr.Jones."

Mr.Jones: Hi, Mona. So..um..why do you wear those nums around your neck like that?

Mr.Jones: I thought you knew.

Mona: "Knew? Knew what?" I was wearing an invisible sign of my own. It said:"Up yours, hypocrite!"

 

 

Mona: Levan? What's the matter? 

Kids: It's the scurvy⁴!

Mona: Scurvy?? Who told you that? Ann, Ann, what's wrong with you? 

Kids: My tongue was swollen⁵! My tongue!

Mona: Your tongue? Oh God!! Your tongue? Danny, what's wrong with you?

Kids: Malaria⁶!

Mona: Malaria? 911, I need to report an epidemic⁷!

Ben: What about about chicken pox? Rickets⁸? You know, you could do..you could do malaria next week. If you really do a consumption today. What do you think? Fatigue⁹, cough, let me hear a cough! Yeah, get it deeper! Deeper! That's perfect! Band over, like you got gas. Yeah, go get'em! Good stuff, Elmer! It's like heavy gas!

Mona: What's going on??

Ben: We're life acting¹⁰. It helps the kids understand symptoms for our health segment.

Mona: You..are..fired!

Ben: You barely say two words to me and then you fire me?

1 confiscate   

v.没收(私人财产)，把…充公

参考例句：

• The police have the right to confiscate any forbidden objects they find.如发现违禁货物，警方有权查扣。
• Did the teacher confiscate your toy?老师没收你的玩具了吗？

2 recede   

vi.退(去)，渐渐远去；向后倾斜，缩进

参考例句：

• The colleges would recede in importance.大学的重要性会降低。
• He saw that the dirty water had begun to recede.他发现那污浊的水开始往下退了。

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

4 scurvy   

adj.下流的，卑鄙的，无礼的；n.坏血病

参考例句：

• Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.缺乏维生素C最终能道致坏血病。
• That was a scurvy trick to play on an old lady.用那样的花招欺负一个老太太可真卑鄙。

5 swollen   

adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀

参考例句：

• Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
• A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。

6 malaria   

n.疟疾

参考例句：

• He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
• Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。

7 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

8 rickets   

n.软骨病，佝偻病，驼背

参考例句：

• A diet deficient in vitamin D may cause the disease rickets.缺少维生素D的饮食可能导致软骨病。
• It also appears to do more than just protect against rickets.除了防止软骨病，它还有更多的功能。

9 fatigue   

n.疲劳，劳累

参考例句：

• The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.这位老妇人不能忍受长途旅行的疲劳。
• I have got over my weakness and fatigue.我已从虚弱和疲劳中恢复过来了。

10 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。