英语PK台 第239期:从ABC开始扔掉字幕看《老友记》(52)

 　　地点：中央公园咖啡馆

　　人物：莫妮卡，钱德勒，罗斯，瑞秋，乔伊，菲比

　　事件：瑞秋和罗斯发完感慨，大家灵光一现，开始设想如果当初选择了不同的生活道路会怎么样。

　　Monica: And what if I was still fat? Well, you wouldn't be dating me, that's for sure.

　　Chandler: Sure I would!

　　All: Oh yeah! Come on! Yeah, right!

　　Chandler: What, you guys really think that I'm that shallow?

　　Ross: No, I just think Monica was that fat.

　　Joey: Hey, imagine if I never got fired off Days Of Our Lives! Oh, hey, there's Carol again!

　　Chandler: What if I had had the guts¹ to quit my job? I'd probably be writing for the New Yorker, getting paid to be funny. But my job's fun too! I mean tomorrow, I—I don't have to wear a tie.

　　Phoebe: What if I had taken that job at Merrill Lynch?

　　Ross: What?

　　Rachel: Merrill Lynch?

　　Phoebe: Yeah, I had a massage² client who worked there and he said I had a knack³ for stocks.

　　Rachel: Well, why didn't you take the job?

　　Phoebe: Because at that time you see, I thought everything that rhymed was true. So I thought, y'know, that if I'd work with stocks, I'd have to live in a box and only eat lox, and have a pet fox.

1 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 massage   

n.按摩，揉；vt.按摩，揉，美化，奉承，篡改数据

参考例句：

• He is really quite skilled in doing massage.他的按摩技术确实不错。
• Massage helps relieve the tension in one's muscles.按摩可使僵硬的肌肉松弛。

3 knack   

n.诀窍，做事情的灵巧的，便利的方法

参考例句：

• He has a knack of teaching arithmetic.他教算术有诀窍。
• Making omelettes isn't difficult,but there's a knack to it.做煎蛋饼并不难，但有窍门。