Friends 1 《老友記》1（精講之四）
[ 2006-09-25 16:13 ]
影片對(duì)白 Saturday night, the big night, date night,
Saturday night, Sat-ur-day night!
思想火花 單身時(shí)代
考考你 一展身手
3. burn someone up
意思是“使某人大怒”。例如：The news that some beautiful girl dates someone burns me up.
我一聽哪個(gè)漂亮姑娘跟人搞對(duì)象就上火。電影中的 That guy, he burns me up. 意思是“那家伙，他真讓我來氣”。
4. make it
意思是“成功”。例如：I made it. My book sold a million copies. 我做到了。我的書賣了一百萬冊(cè)。電影中的
You'll never make it on your own.意思是“你永遠(yuǎn)都不可能獨(dú)立生活”。
5. agree with
意思是“適合，適宜”。例如：The climate here doesn't agree with me. 這里的氣候不適合我。電影中的 Wow,
being dumped by you obviously agrees with her. 意思是“哇，對(duì)她來說被你甩顯然是件好事”。
6. You don't say.
意思是“不會(huì)這樣吧！不至于吧！真的嗎？（表示心里同意對(duì)方所說的話，但是嘴上不服。）”例如：-The biology professor is too
harsh on us. - You don't say. -生物學(xué)教授對(duì)我們太狠了。-不是吧。電影中的-That's because I'm wearing
a dress that accents my boobs. -You don't say.意思是“-那是因?yàn)槲掖┝艘患怀鲂夭康囊路?不會(huì)吧。”
 文化面面觀
1. The Mississippi River
密西西比河
The Mississippi River is one of the world's major river systems in size,
habitat diversity, and biological productivity. It is the longest and largest
river in North America, flowing 3,705 kilometers from its source at Lake Itasca
in the Minnesota North Woods, through the mid-continental United States, the
Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain, and its subtropical Louisiana Delta. "Mississippi"
is an Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indian word meaning great river or gathering of
waters---an appropriate name because the river basin, or watershed, extends from
the Allegheny Mountains in the eastern United States to the Rocky Mountains,
including all or parts of 31 states and 2 Canadian provinces. The river basin
measures 4.76 million square kilometers, covering about 40% of the United States
and about one-eighth of North America. Of the world's rivers, the Mississippi
ranks third in length, second in watershed area, and fifth in average discharge.
2. One Mississippi, two
Mississippi, three Mississippi.
這是美國人在童年時(shí)候的就已經(jīng)學(xué)到的一種數(shù)秒的方法，因?yàn)樽xMississippi這個(gè)單詞剛好大約需要一秒鐘時(shí)間。雨天的時(shí)候孩子們看到閃電，父母和老師便讓他們用這種方法開始數(shù)秒，等雷聲響起的時(shí)候孩子們就可以根據(jù)數(shù)到的秒數(shù)來計(jì)算閃電發(fā)生的地方距離自己有多遠(yuǎn)了（聲音的速度大約是每秒0.2英里）。為什么不用其他的單詞而一定要用Mississippi呢？這是因?yàn)镸ississippi這個(gè)詞是小孩學(xué)習(xí)拼寫時(shí)最開始遇到的比較復(fù)雜的單詞之一。人們用的多了，便成為一個(gè)沿用下來的說法。當(dāng)然，還有其他類似的說法，例如，one
steam boat, two steam boat, three steam boat，也可以說 Mississippi One, Mississippi
two, Mississippi three。
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