摩登家庭第三季 第79期:肯尼斯的创业史

 Ah! So many memories in this place. Yeah. Do you guys still have, like, every cereal¹? 这里充满了我的回忆啊。你们依然，每次吃麦片的时候都那个吗？

We have a lot. 必须的。

Yeah! Of course you do. Of course you do. You only have the greatest dad in the world. 当然！当然！那是肯定的啦。你们有世上最了不起的老爸。

So what have you been up to? I haven't seen you since you went off to college. 你近些年在忙些什么啊？你上大学后我就没见过你了。

Oh, you know, actually, that didn't work out so well. I bounced around for a while. Ended up washing dishes in New Mexico. 事实上，我是被大学上了。我四处混了一段时间。最后在新墨西哥州洗起了盘子。

So without the benefit of a college degree, I guess your options were kind of limited, huh? 看来没有大学文凭，可以选择的职业很有限啊？

Ease up. It's a holiday. 别谈学习。今天过节呢。

Yeah, it was--it was tough. Oh, no. no, thank you. Thank you, though, sweetie. You're so sweet. - Oh. Okay. 是啊，是很艰难。不，不，谢谢。-谢谢你，甜心。你真好。-好吧。

It was tough for a while...But then a roommate and I started our own business. 一开始挺艰难的，后来我跟我室友自己创业了。

Oh, was that also in the dish or cleaning industry? 也是餐饮业或清洁行业的吗？

No. No, no, no. It was actually a small investment company. Well, small at first. 不。不。其实是个小投资公司。最初规模很小。

You know, we rode the tech wave for a while, then expanded into video games, amusement parks, sports arenas². 当了一阵科技的弄潮儿，然后扩张到电子游戏游乐场，运动场什么的。

Anything that seemed awesome³, really. I'm actually in town to buy a blimp. -Holy crow. 什么牛逼就投资什么。我此次回乡是来买小飞艇的。-苍天大地啊。

So if you--if you'd gone to college, you would have done all that just four years later, or--or never. 所以如果当初你上了大学，可能要4年之后才会做那些事，或者根本不会。

Alex really needs to be picked up, Sweetie. Why don't you go get her? 得有人去接艾丽克斯了，甜心。你去接下她吧？

I wanna hear more of what he has to say about. 我还想听听他的创业史呢。

We're leaving. 快走吧。

Kenneth, I am so proud of you. You really made it. 肯尼斯，我太为你骄傲了。你真的很成功。

Well, I did get one pretty lucky break. Early on, I met a very special guy who taught me that what I thought and said had value. 确实，我运气好。早些年，我认识了个贵人，他让我意识到我的所思所言都是有价值的。

Oh, you mean like--Shh. Luke. Let the man talk. 你是说...卢克。听他说。

He encouraged me to always find the fun and follow this thing. -Your lung? 他鼓励我干什么都得找到乐趣，并且永远跟着这里走。-你的肺吗？

No, my heart. To this day, at every crossroad, I ask myself one question, What would Phil Dunphy do? 不，我的心。直到今天，每做一个决定前我都会问自己，菲尔·邓菲会怎么做？

Record scratch! 至理名言啊！

Oh, that's me buzzin'. Oh, it's Paris. She's my assistant in Tokyo. 来电话了。是帕丽斯打来的。她是我在东京的助理。

You'd think they'd know how to demo 4-d gaming graphics⁴ without my help. 他们没我连个4D游戏图都展示不了。

They don't. Hey, Luke, what instrument does Yo-Yo Ma play? 完全搞不定。嘿，卢克，马友友拉什么乐器来着（马友友是着名大提琴演奏家）？

Um...cello⁵? "琴"讲？

He's me...and he's spectacular⁶. 他就是翻版的我，但却是豪华升级版的。

 

1 cereal   

n.谷类，五谷，禾谷

参考例句：

• I have hot cereal every day for breakfast.我每天早餐吃热麦片粥。
• Soybeans are handled differently from cereal grains.大豆的加工处理与谷类的加工处理不同。

2 arenas   

表演场地( arena的名词复数 )； 竞技场； 活动或斗争的场所或场面； 圆形运动场

参考例句：

• Demolition derbies are large-scale automobile rodeos that take place in big arenas. 撞车比赛指的是在很大的竞技场上举行的大型汽车驾驶技术表演。
• Are there areas of privacy in the most public of arenas? 在绝大部分公开的场合中存在需要保护隐私的领域吗？

3 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.

4 graphics   

n.制图法，制图学；图形显示

参考例句：

• You've leveraged your graphics experience into the video area.你们把图形设计业务的经验运用到录像业务中去。
• Improved graphics took computer games into a new era.经改进的制图技术将电脑游戏带进了一个新时代。

5 cello   

n.大提琴

参考例句：

• The cello is a member of the violin family.大提琴是提琴家族的一员。
• She plays a melodious cello.她拉着一手悦耳的大提琴。

6 spectacular   

adj.引人注目的，出色的，与众不同的

参考例句：

• This is a spectacular film.这是一部场面壮观的电影。
• This is the most spectacular financial crash of the decade.这是10年里最引人注目的金融破产事件。