看老友记学英语 像奶牛一样满足

[Time Lapse¹, everyone is now eating.]

-Mrs. Geller: What that Rachel did to her life.... We ran into her parents at the club, they were not playing very well.

Rachel到底怎么了? 我们在俱乐部遇见她父母他们很不开心

-Mr. Geller: I'm not gonna tell you what they spent on that wedding,but forty thousand dollars is a lot of money!

我不想讲他们为婚礼花了些什么，但是4万块不是小数目.

-Mrs. Geller: Well, at least she had the chance to leave a man at the altar.

至少她有机会把一个男人留在教堂里的圣坛.

-Monica: What's that supposed to mean?

什么意思？

-Mrs. Geller: Nothing! It's an expression.

没什么，随口说说而已.

-Monica: No it's not.

不，不是的.

-Mr. Geller: Don't listen to your mother. You're independent, and you always have been!

别听你妈乱讲话.你很独立，而且一直都是.

Even when you were a kid and you were chubby², and you had no friends, you were just fine!

就连你小时候胖嘟嘟，一个朋友也没有的时候，你还是活的好好的.

And you would read alone in your room, and your puzzles.

你会待在你房里看书,玩拼图

[Time Lapse.]

-Mr. Geller: Look, there are people like Ross who need to shoot for the stars, with his museum, and his papers³ getting published.

像Ross 这种人则追求卓越，博物馆，出版论文.

Other people are satisfied⁴ with staying where they are- I'm telling you, these are the people who never get cancer.

其他人则安于现状，告诉你，这样的人不会的癌症的

they are happy with what they have, they are basically⁵ content like cows.

他们对拥有的一切都很开心，就像奶牛.

-Ross: cows? dad?

奶牛？爸爸?

-Mr. Geller: She know how much I love cows.

她知道我有多喜欢奶牛.

[Time Lapse.]

-Mr. Geller: ...And I read about these women trying to have it all, and I thank God 'Our Little Harmonica' doesn't seem to have that problem.

我还知道，这些女人想拥有一切。幸好我们家的小Harmonica似乎没有这种问题.

1 lapse   

n.过失，流逝，失效，抛弃信仰，间隔；vi.堕落，停止，失效，流逝；vt.使失效

参考例句：

• The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.这一事故被看作是一次严重的安全疏忽。
• I had a lapse of memory.我记错了。

2 chubby   

adj.丰满的，圆胖的

参考例句：

• He is stocky though not chubby.他长得敦实，可并不发胖。
• The short and chubby gentleman over there is our new director.那个既矮又胖的绅士是我们的新主任。

3 papers   

n.文件，纸币，论文

参考例句：

• I want to check with my secretary before I sign the papers.在签署这些文件前，我要与我的秘书商议。
• The lawyer read all the papers relating to the case.律师阅读了与该案有关的全部文件。

4 satisfied   

adj.满意的，满足的；清偿过的；确信的，毫无疑问的v.使满意( satisfy的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• She's never satisfied with what she's got. 她对自己的所得从不感到满足。
• He had a self-satisfied smirk on his face. 他脸上挂着得意扬扬的笑容。

5 basically   

adv.基本上，从根本上说

参考例句：

• His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
• Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。