英语PK台 第214期:从ABC开始扔掉字幕看《老友记》(43)

 地点：钱德勒的公寓

人物：罗斯，乔伊，钱德勒，瑞秋，莫妮卡

事件：瑞秋决定放弃自己买的那只可怕的猫。

Rachel: I give up you guys, I don't know what I'm going to do with this thing!

Ross: Baking it didn't help, huh?

Monica: So, why don't you just take it back to where you got it?

Rachel: I tried! They won't take her back.

Chandler: Maybe that's because she's a minion¹ of the anti-Christ.

Monica: Rach, why won't they take it back?

Rachel: Well, they said would but they would only give me store credit². I mean, what am I going to do? Get a thousand regular cats?

Monica: Look, if you want you can keep it at our place until you find out what to do with it.

Rachel: No Mon, that's not thepoint. I'm out a thousand dollars, I'm all scratched up, and I'm stuck with this stupid cat that looks like a hand!

Monica: Oh my God, the cat's made my eyes water! Don't–don't throw it to me! My vision's been compromised³! Oh God! Okay. Okay. It's Okay. Man, that was close.

Chandler: Yeah, you almost overreacted to something.

1 minion   

n.宠仆；宠爱之人

参考例句：

• At worst some egregious minion had conducted a childish private enterprise.这最多也不过是一批低能的小人物自己干的无聊把戏而已。
• She delegated the job to one of her minions.她把这份工作委派给她的一个手下。

2 credit   

n.信用，荣誉，贷款，学分；v.归功于，赞颂，信任

参考例句：

• I credit him with a certain amount of sense.我认为他有一定的见识。
• He got the credit,and we did the dirty work.他得荣誉，我们做不讨好的工作。

3 compromised   

[医]妥协，让步的，缺乏抵抗力的，缺乏免疫力的，妥协的

参考例句：

• They compromised by going to the cinema. 他们采取折中的办法去看电影。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The government has compromised with its critics over monetary policies. 政府已经就货币政策向批评人士作出让步。 来自辞典例句