【跟着美剧练发音】老友记49

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[Scene: Chandler's new window office, he is showing Phoebe around.]

Chandler: Well?

Phoebe: (excited) Wow! It's huge! So much bigger than the cubicle¹. Oh, this is a cube.

Chandler: Look at this! 

Phoebe: Oh! You have a window!

Chandler: Yes indeedy! With a beautiful view of...

Phoebe: Oh look! That guy's peeing!

Chandler: OK, that's enough of the view. Check this out, look at this. Sit down, sit down.

Phoebe: OK.

Chandler: This is great! Helen, could you come in here for a moment? 

Chandler: Thank you Helen, that'll be all.

Chandler: Last time I do that, I promise.

 

[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Monica is on the phone. Rachel walks in and overhears the conversation.]

Monica: Wendy, we had a deal! Yeah, you promised! Wendy! Wendy! Wendy!

Rachel: Who was that?

Monica: Wendy bailed². I have no waitress.

Rachel: Oh... that's too bad. Bye bye. 

Monica: Ten dollars an hour.

Rachel: No.

Monica: Twelve dollars an hour.

Rachel: Mon. I wish I could, but I've made plans to walk around.

Monica: You know, Rachel, when you ran out of your wedding, I was there for you. I put a roof over your head, and if that means nothing to you...  twenty dollars an hour.

Rachel: Done.

1 cubicle   

n.大房间中隔出的小室

参考例句：

• She studies in a cubicle in the school library.她在学校图书馆的小自习室里学习。
• A technical sergeant hunches in a cubicle.一位技术军士在一间小屋里弯腰坐着。

2 bailed   

保释，帮助脱离困境( bail的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Fortunately the pilot bailed out before the plane crashed. 飞机坠毁之前，驾驶员幸运地跳伞了。
• Some water had been shipped and the cook bailed it out. 船里进了些水，厨师把水舀了出去。