【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语727期

Ben: Rock candy experiment gone away. It makes a mess, but the kids love it. These are never filled. This your sherbert?

Mona: No.

Ben: It's a funny name, right?? Sherbert, like if you say it a bunch of times. It's sherbert, sherbert, sherbert? I guess it's not really that funny but it's a weird¹ name, Sherbert. So you are the new math teacher? You're Miss Grey?

Mona: Uh-huh.

Ben: I'm Ben. Ben Smith, I teach science.

What were you thinking with that houseplant assignment?

Ben: Oh, the houseplant assignment. Half the class was supposed to talk kindly² to their houseplants, and the other half wasn't. And then we were gonna compare their respective grown rates. Why, what's up??

Rita Williams' mother found her yelling at her bathroom fern, saying things like, "You're a disgrace to the family name." And, "What're you looking at, you skanky piece of bitch!"

Ben: What was the plant's reaction?

Now, don't you get cheeky. Shall we discuss this in my office, Mr.Smith?

Ben: And we have to discuss this in your office. See you around, Miss Grey.

Mona: Lisa Venus.

Lisa: Yes?

Mona: What's that on your head?

Lisa: It's an I.V. Get it? Those are my initials.

Ann: No, they're not. Those aren't your initials.

Lisa: They almost are.

Ann: You're retarded³.

Mona: Ann!

Lisa: I'm ready for "numbers and materials".

Mona: Nums and Materials??

BG: Remember? Every Friday we bring in nums from the world of nature. Or things that just look like nums. Duh, Miss Grey! You never remember anything! How the hell did you ever get to be our teacher?

Mona: Danny, in the corner! Lisa, nums and materials, plz.

Lisa: This is my zero, it's from nature.

Ann: That's not nature, that's plastic!

Lias: Plastic comes from nature. Zero times anything is zero, 127 minus zero equals 127. 10 billion minus zero equals 10 billion.

Mona: Good. Thank you.

Mona: Lisa?

Lisa: Miss Grey!

Mona: Are you waiting for someone?

Lisa: My aunt. She's always late. Wanna touch my I.V? Go ahead! Touch it! 

Mona: Where'd you get it?

Lisa: My mom, she's got really bad cancer and wears a red wig⁴. Guess what kind of cancer she has.

Mona: Uh..Lung?(No!) Colon⁵? Mouth? Throat? Breast? Liver! Pancreas? Blood? Brain? Bone? Skin? What else is there?

Lisa: Eye cancer.

Mona: I'v never heard of that.

Lisa: It's brand-new, my mom's one of the first. She'll die in less than a year.

Mona: Is there anything I can do?

Lisa: I like pirates, I hate Ann DiGanno. Are you sick?

Mona: What do you mean?

Lisa: If you wanna do sth for me, then never get sick, ever!

1 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。

2 kindly   

adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地

参考例句：

• Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
• A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。

3 retarded   

a.智力迟钝的，智力发育迟缓的

参考例句：

• The progression of the disease can be retarded by early surgery. 早期手术可以抑制病情的发展。
• He was so slow that many thought him mentally retarded. 他迟钝得很，许多人以为他智力低下。

4 wig   

n.假发

参考例句：

• The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
• He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。

5 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。