[Day-13]老友记S1-08-The-One-With-Nana-Dies-Twice

Shelley: Hey gorgeous, how's it going?

• gorgeous n.帅哥
  
  

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Chandler: Dehydrated Japanese noodles under fluorescent lights... does it get better than this?

• dehydrate vt.脱水
• fluorescent adj.荧光的
• fluorescent light

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Shelley: Well yeah! ...Oh God. I just... I thought... Good, Shelley.Okay.I'm just gonna go flush myself down the toilet now...(backs out of the room) Okay, goodbye...

• flush v.冲洗
• toilet n.马桶

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Chandler: Huh. Did ... any of the rest of you guys think that when you first met me?
Joey: Not me.
Ross: Nono, me neither. Although, uh, y'know, back in college, Susan Sallidor did.

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Chandler: What is it?!
Monica: Okay, I don't know, you just have a quality.

• quality n.气质 特性

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Chandler: Oh, oh, a quality, good, because I was worried you guys were gonna be vague about this.

• vague adj.(想法等)不明确的 含糊的[eg: I'm quite vague about what happened]

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Rachel: Monica, your dad just beeped in, but can you make it quick? Talking to Rome. (Showing off to Phoebe and Chandler) I'm talking to Rome.

• beep in v.打来 插入
• show off v.炫耀

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Aunt Lillian: The doctor says it's a matter of hours.

• a matter of adv.大约 大概

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(Monica strides over to Ross, who is making coffee, and talks to him aside.)

• stride over to v.大踏步走去
• aside adv.在旁边

Ross: Okay, relax, relax. We are gonna be here for a while, it looks like, and we still have boyfriends and your career to cover.

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Phoebe: Yeah, you have homosexual hair.

• homosexual n.adj.同性恋的

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Phoebe: Hm, I mean maybe no one ever really goes. Ever since my mom died, every now and then, I get the feeling that she's like right here, y'know? (She circles her hand around her right shoulder. Chandler, sitting on her right, draws back nervously) Oh! And Debbie, my best friend from junior high - got struck by lightning on a miniature golf course.

• every now and then 常常，时不时[eg:She comes to visit us every now and then]
• draw back v.退却 缩回
• vibe n.感应 共鸣 气氛
• junior high n. 高中

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Ross: I thought it was gonna be a closed casket.

• casket n.<美>棺材

Mr. Geller: I was just thinking. When my time comes-

Mr. Geller: I wanna be buried at sea, it looks like fun.

• buried at sea: 海葬

Mr. Geller: C'mon, you'll make a day of it! You'll get a boat, pack a lunch...

• make a day of it v.把整天的时间用于某事上[eg:When I go to the beach with my girlfriend, we take a picnic lunch and make a day of it]

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Mr. Geller: Everyone thinks they know me. Everyone says 'Jack Geller, so predictable'. Maybe after I'm gone, they'll say 'Buried at sea! Huh!'.

• predictable adj.可预言的<贬>墨守陈规的

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Chandler: Well, yeah... He's no Brian in Payroll.

• payroll n.薪水处

Chandler: No! Uh, I don't know! The point is, if you were gonna set me up with someone, I'd like to think you'd set me up with someone like him.

• the point is <口>重点是
• set A up with B 给A和B牵红线

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Shelley: Well, I think Brian's a little out of your league.

• out of one’s league 在某人能力之外

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Ross: I have shown you every dress we have. Unless you want your mother to spend eternity in a lemon yellow pant-suit, go with the burgundy.

• eternity n.来世 不朽
• pant-suit n.长裤与衣相配成套的便服
• burgundy adj.紫红色(红葡萄酒的颜色)

Aunt Lillian: You know, whatever we pick, she would've told us it's the wrong one.
Mrs. Geller: You're right. We'll go with the burgundy.

• go with v.选择

Ross: And where she's going everyone else'll be dressier?

• dressy adj.衣着考究的 时髦的

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Aunt Lillian: Could we see something in a slimmer heel?

• slim adj.细长的
• heel n.跟部

Ross: (forages around) Okay, I have nothing in an evening shoe in the burgundy. I can show you something in a silver that may work.

• forage v. 搜寻

Monica: Mom already called this morning to remind me not to wear my hair up. Did you know my ears are not my best feature?

• remind sb not to do 提醒某人别做某事
• feature n.面貌的一部分(眼 口 鼻等)特征

Phoebe: (entering) Hi, sorry I'm late, I couldn't find my bearings.

• bearing n.方向 方向感[eg: The sailors lost their bearings last night]

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Rachel: Oh, you-you mean your earrings?

• earring n.耳环

Chandler: Well, don't we look nice all dressed up? It's stuff like that, isn't it?

• dress up v.盛装打扮

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Monica: It was a really beautiful service.

• service n.仪式 礼拜式

Joey: No, it's the pre-game. I'm gonna watch it at the reception.

• pre-game n.赛前
• reception n.接待会

Phoebe: God, what a great day. ...What?
Weather-wise!

• weather-wise adv.就天气来说

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Phoebe: Okay, don't worry, I'm just checking to see if the muscle's in spasm...huh.

• spasm n.痉挛

Rachel: (humouring him) Oh, well you know who love the most?

• humour v.唬弄

Joey: (hides the TV, but he still has an earphone) Just a, uh... hearing disability.

• hearing disability n.听力障碍
  
  

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Mrs. Geller: Do you know what it's like to grow up with someone who is critical of every single thing you say?

• be critical of 对……不满

Mrs. Geller: I'm telling you, it's a wonder your mother turned out to be the positive, life-affirming person that she is.

• wonder n.奇迹
• life-affirming adj.具有坚定生活观的

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Monica: That is a wonder. So tell me something, Mom. If you had to do it all over again, I mean, if she was here right now, would you tell her?

• all over again adv.重新 再一遍

Monica: How she drove you crazy, picking on every little detail, like your hair... for example.

• pick on v.总是挑剔

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Mrs. Geller: I'm not sure I know what you're getting at.

• get at v.含沙影射地攻击

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“stuff”这是口语中常见的词，往往用来指某未特殊标明的材料或者是东西家庭或个人用品的总称，形容人时候指说不出来的具体的言谈或行动，比如Don't give me that stuff about being tired.

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Mrs. Geller: ...No. I think some things are better left unsaid. I think it's nicer when people just get along.

• get along v.融洽相处

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Mrs. Geller: (reaches out to fiddle with Monica's hair again, and realises) Those earrings look really lovely on you.

• reach out v.伸出
• fiddle v.无目的地拨弄 [eg:Don't fiddle with my new car]
  
  

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Mr. Geller: Now I'm depressed! ...(To everyone) Even more than I was.

• depressed adj.沮丧的 消沉的 [eg:She was depressed to learn of her illness]

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