【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E02 - 21

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V – Valentine Wannop

E – Edith Duchemin

 

E: I thought of you because you're mixed in with the kind of woman who...

V: What is it? What can I do?

E: How do you get rid of a baby?

V: Mr Duchemin... Hasn't he...?

E: Duchemin's been in the asylum¹ for months and I'm caught... by that jumped-up son of an Edinburgh fishwife who didn't know his business better than to...

V: You mean Mr Macmaster? I never dreamt.

E: What did you think we were doing, comparing our beautiful souls?

V: Well, yes! That is what I thought. And... poetry! Oh, Edith, he’s your prince, your chevalier!

E: That guttersnipe, shooting² off like a tomcat in heat.

V: Don't, Edith!

E: I know when it was.

V: I suppose you must. When what was?

E: Valentine, you do know how babies are made, don't you?

V: Of course I do! But do-do you mean... You mean you can... You can do it without making a baby?

E: Oh, go home, you goose!

1 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

2 shooting   

n.射击，发射；猎场，狩猎场

参考例句：

• The soldiers began shooting away at the enemy positions.战士们开始朝敌人的阵地不断地射击。
• I was in the act of shooting him when I suddenly recognized him.我正要向他开枪时，突然认出了他。