访谈录 2009-08-12&08-15 《美国派》主演与大猩猩对

Before you did this, I read that you had so many different jobs and one job in particular is as hilarious¹ as story, you worked at the L.A Zoo. Under force, I guess people would have to say you're gonna do something different, then you ended it up.

Well, yeah! I actually filmed "American pie "and I made like eight thousand dollars which is awesome² at that time. Then I was paid them to be in the movie but I bought this Thunderbird, um, which is a total piece of crap and it didn’t work any more. And then, so then after I filmed the movie. I went to get a job at a law firm. That wasn't a lawyer. But It was like, you know, cleaning toilets and fixing things and then my friend said, hey, I get you a job, um, you know, feeding the animals at the zoo.

I’m like, I love this venture, I love animals. This is awesome. So I get the job, and then I am, this like, lady came out. She gave me some ridiculous outfit³. This is like two months before American Pie came out. This is the first day. I actually, first day, work was when we had, um, Rolling Stone did an interview about all the kids of American Pie. And so I’m thinking, OK, it is cool, you know, I’m doing Rolling Stone interview and feed animals. She goes, OK, this is your food card, you're gonna be the chill guy. And I was like, chill guy? I thought I was gonna feed the animals. She is like, no ,you are feeding the people. And I was. So it was so crappy cuz it is like. OK, so this guy,the first guy came up like, I want nachos with cheese. I want pretzel and I want pretzel with salt. I was like, dude, just give me ten bucks⁴ and I’ll give you whatever you want.

So in the next day, I was getting pretty angry about the whole thing. And I just like, you know, we haven’t seen any animals, and said to Regale⁵, I got to Regale, this was chill dude. I gotta walk around for a while to see some animals. So I walk around and I see this Gorilla⁶. Well, and I walked by the gorilla and then I got hit in the back of head with something. And I looked down, it was a pine cone⁷. And I thought, no way, the gorilla's throwing something at me. So I looked back and the gorilla had another pine cone. It was like, flipping⁸ up and catching⁹ it like this. And I am like, no way, and he shot it at me. And I was like, and then for that point, um. This is a true story. I looked at him and we had this moment for that two minutes where I looked at gorilla and gorilla looked at me. And I felt like he was saying, I can’t get out of this cage but you can get out of this cage. And I was like, you’re the right gorilla I quit. And I quit that day and then I got final destination, my second movie next day, true story, and if I hadn’t quit, I wouldn’t get that movie. And I wonder what the gorilla are doing right now.
 

1 hilarious   

adj.充满笑声的，欢闹的；[反]depressed

参考例句：

• The party got quite hilarious after they brought more wine.在他们又拿来更多的酒之后，派对变得更加热闹起来。
• We stop laughing because the show was so hilarious.我们笑个不停，因为那个节目太搞笑了。

2 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

3 outfit   

n.（为特殊用途的）全套装备，全套服装

参考例句：

• Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
• His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。

4 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 regale   

v.取悦，款待

参考例句：

• He was constantly regaled with tales of woe.别人老是给他讲些倒霉事儿来逗他开心。
• He loved to regale his friends with tales about the many memorable characters he had known as a newspaperman.他喜欢讲些他当记者时认识的许多名人的故事给朋友们消遣。

6 gorilla   

n.大猩猩，暴徒，打手

参考例句：

• I was awed by the huge gorilla.那只大猩猩使我惊惧。
• A gorilla is just a speechless animal.猩猩只不过是一种不会说话的动物。

7 cone   

n.圆锥体，圆锥形东西，球果

参考例句：

• Saw-dust piled up in a great cone.锯屑堆积如山。
• The police have sectioned off part of the road with traffic cone.警察用锥形路标把部分路面分隔开来。

8 flipping   

讨厌之极的

参考例句：

• I hate this flipping hotel! 我讨厌这个该死的旅馆！
• Don't go flipping your lid. 别发火。

9 catching   

adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住

参考例句：

• There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
• Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。