英语PK台 第127期:从ABC开始扔掉字幕看《老友记》(18)

 地点：中央公园咖啡馆

人物：菲比，乔伊，莱斯利，莫妮卡，罗斯

事件：咖啡馆来了一位新歌手，是菲比曾经的搭档莱斯利，但是她后来抛弃了菲比去写广告歌。莱斯利这次来找菲比想和她重归于好，但是遭到了菲比的严词拒绝。

Phoebe: Actually I said she abandoned me to write jingles¹.

Joey: Ah, anything we might of heard of?

Leslie: Ah, yeah, umm. "Home is never far away…"

Monica, Ross, and Joey: "Home is Home Star stew²."

Leslie: Yeah, but, I don't do that anymore. I got kinda sick of it, and then I couldn't come up with anything good, so they fired me.

Phoebe: Hmm, bummer.

Leslie: Well, I y'know, I was just, umm, I was just thinking and just hoping, that umm, maybe you'd want to get back together?

Phoebe: No. But thanks.

Leslie: Aw come on Phoebe, would you just think about it?

Phoebe: Okay. No. But thanks.

Leslie: Okay, ah, see ya Pheebs.

Joey: Wow, that was kinda brutal³.

Phoebe: Well Okay, let this be alesson to all of you, all right. Once you, once you betray me, I become like the ice woman, you know. I'm just very cold, hard, unyielding, y'know, nothing, nothing can penetrate⁴ this icy exterior⁵. Can I have a tissue, please?

1 jingles   

叮当声( jingle的名词复数 )； 节拍十分规则的简单诗歌

参考例句：

• Can I give Del and Mr. Jingles some? 我可以分一点给戴尔和金格先生吗？
• This story jingles bells for many of my clients. 这个故事对我许多客户来说都耳熟能详。

2 stew   

n.炖汤，焖，烦恼；v.炖汤，焖，忧虑

参考例句：

• The stew must be boiled up before serving.炖肉必须煮熟才能上桌。
• There's no need to get in a stew.没有必要烦恼。

3 brutal   

adj.残忍的，野蛮的，不讲理的

参考例句：

• She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
• They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。

4 penetrate   

v.透(渗)入；刺入，刺穿；洞察，了解

参考例句：

• Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.西方观念逐渐传入东方。
• The sunshine could not penetrate where the trees were thickest.阳光不能透入树木最浓密的地方。

5 exterior   

adj.外部的，外在的；表面的

参考例句：

• The seed has a hard exterior covering.这种子外壳很硬。
• We are painting the exterior wall of the house.我们正在给房子的外墙涂漆。