我猜我只是有点紧张

SCENE① B  ?吉娜与玛莉同坐在飞往洛城的班机上

【我猜我只是有点紧张】

 

Mary:          I guess I'm just a little nervous. I'm giving everything I have to InfoKing, and...

玛莉：         我猜我只是有点紧张。 我把所有都给了“资讯王”，而且......

 

Zina:  ...and what if it doesn't ¹⁾ work out, right?

吉娜：        ......而且要是行不通怎么办，对不对？

 

Mary:          ²⁾ Exactly.

玛莉：         完全正确。

 

Zina:  You need to ³⁾ quit thinking like a loser. InfoKing is going to ⁴⁾ kick butt¹. You know how I know?

吉娜：         你别那么没志气了。“资讯王”会所向披靡的。你知道我怎么知道吗？

 

Mary:  How?

玛莉：         怎么知道？

 

Zina:  Because I won't let it fail.

吉娜：         因为我不会让它失败。

 

Mary:  But what about tomorrow? What if Stars.com decides to go with WebTracker, and not us?

玛莉：         可是明天呢？要是Stars.com决定跟“网路搜寻家”走，而非我们？

 

 

语言详解

 

A: You're saying that you didn't steal the loaf of bread?

   你是说那条面包不是你偷的？

 

B: That's exactly right. I'm an honest man.

   完全正确。我是个诚实的人。

 

【quit thinking 停止……想法】

 

quit跟stop一样，后面跟着-ing 表示 “停止某种动作”，后面跟着不定词时意思是 “停下来做某项动作”，例如：quit smoking²“戒烟”，stop to smoke“停下来抽烟”。

 

A:  We have been running for an hour. Let's stop to take a rest.

     我们已经跑了一个钟头了。让我们停下来休息。

B:  But be sure you don't smoke.

     但是你可不能抽烟。

A:  I promised you to quit smoking, I honor³ my word.

     我答应过你要戒烟。我遵守诺言。

 

1) work out  行得通

2) exactly (adv.) 的确，正是

3) quit  (v.) 停止

4) kick butt (俚) 踢屁股，意即“大胜，击溃”

1 butt   

n.笑柄；烟蒂；枪托；臀部；v.用头撞或顶

参考例句：

• The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
• He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。

2 smoking   

n.吸烟，抽烟；冒烟

参考例句：

• He was wise to give up smoking.他戒烟是明智的。
• He has decided to cut out smoking and drinking.他已决心戒烟、戒酒。

3 honor   

n.光荣；敬意；荣幸；vt.给…以荣誉；尊敬

参考例句：

• I take your visit as a great honor.您的来访是我莫大的光荣。
• It is a great honor to receive that prize.能拿到那个奖是无上的光荣。