离我远一点

SCENE② A  吉娜在艾文的隔间附近遇到他

【离我远一点】

 

Zina:           Hi, Elvin. How are the new programmers I got for you?

吉娜：  嗨，艾文。我帮你找来的新程序设计师如何？

 

Elvin:  Stay away from me.

艾文：         离我远一点。

 

Zina:  Are you still mad about your nose? How is it?

吉娜：         还在气你鼻子的事啊？鼻子还好吧？

 

Elvin:           I'm serious, Zina. ¹⁾ Back off. I have a bottle of pepper^{1 2)} spray² in my pocket.

艾文：         我是认真的，吉娜。给我退后。我的口袋里有胡椒喷雾器。

 

Zina:  That won't be necessary, Elvin. Look, I want to ³⁾ apologize for your nose. I'm sorry.

吉娜：         没这个必要吧，艾文。听我说，我要为鼻子的事跟你致歉。对不起。

 

Elvin:  Why are you being so nice to me? Don't think for a second that I trust you.

艾文：         你干嘛对我好？你别以为我会相信你。

 

语言详解

 

A: I apologize for calling you this early in the morning.

   我很抱歉这么一大早就打电话给你。

 

B: This had better be an emergency.

   这最好是很要紧的事。

 

【mad about 为……生气】

 

mad about 有两个主要意义，一个是上面对话中所表现出的“生气”，另一个是“沉迷、热衷于”。例如：

 

I guess they're mad about the performance of their baseball players.

我猜他们是为了他们的棒球员表现而气愤不已。

Rose is quite mad about Andy.

萝丝相当着迷于安迪。

 

A: Did you say Jack³ wasn't mad about our spending more than 100 dollars of his money?

     你是说杰克没有为了我们花掉他一百多块钱而生气吗？

B: Right. Because Jack is mad about you. Aren't you aware of that?

     对的，因为杰克爱慕你。你没有感觉到吗？

 

换句话说，“mad about+人”是“着迷、爱慕某人”“mad with+人”才是“生某人的气”。例如：

 

She has been mad with me for a week.

她气我已经气一个星期了。

 

1) back off  退后

2) spray  (n.) 喷雾器

3) apologize (v.) 道歉

1 pepper   

n.胡椒(粉)；辣椒(粉)

参考例句：

• He put some pepper in the bowl.他放了一些胡椒粉在碗里。
• This pepper is really hot.这辣椒真够劲儿。

2 spray   

v.喷，(使)溅散；n.浪花，飞沫；喷雾

参考例句：

• The liquid came out of the bottle in a spray.液体从瓶子里呈雾状喷出。
• We were wet with the sea spray.我们被海水的浪花溅湿。

3 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。