【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语775期

Eep: I was watching. Iwas fine.

Dad:What were you doing up there, Eep? 

Eep: I don't know. 

Dad:What were you looking for?

Eep: Nothing.

Dad:Well then, why did you go up there? 

Eep: I don't know!

Dad: Why don't you know?Stop looking for things!Fear keeps us alive, Eep. Never not be afraid. 

Eep:What's the point of all this? 

Dad: What was that?

Eep: I mean, why are we here?What are we doing this for?

Dad:No one said survival¹ is fun.

Eep: Nothing is fun. 

Dad:Would you come down here? 

Mom: Grug? 

Dad: Eep?

Mom: Off! 

Dad: Yes. Okay... 

Mom: Off! 

Dad:I just don't see why she needs her own ledge². That's all. That's what this is about

Mom:She's working through some things and needs some space.

Dad:What things? How long is this going to take?Really? She already doesn't listen to me. Hey! 

Mom: See? She's listening. 

Dad:If she wants to survive³, she has to follow our rules.

Mom:How about a story? Eep loves those.

1 survival   

n.留住生命，生存，残存，幸存者

参考例句：

• The doctor told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.医生告诉我的妻子，说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
• The old man was a survival of a past age.这位老人是上一代的遗老。

2 ledge   

n.壁架，架状突出物；岩架，岩礁

参考例句：

• They paid out the line to lower him to the ledge.他们放出绳子使他降到那块岩石的突出部分。
• Suddenly he struck his toe on a rocky ledge and fell.突然他的脚趾绊在一块突出的岩石上，摔倒了。

3 survive   

vt.幸免于；从…中生还；vi.幸存

参考例句：

• I didn't know whether I could survive.我不知道我能否幸存下来。
• I cannot survive without you.没有你我不能幸存。