Friends 1 《老友記》1（精講之四）
[ 2006-09-25 16:13 ]
影片對白 Saturday night, the big night, date night,
Saturday night, Sat-ur-day night!
思想火花 單身時代
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.
我一聽哪個漂亮姑娘跟人搞對象就上火。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。電影中的
You'll never make it on your own.意思是“你永遠都不可能獨立生活”。
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，對她來說被你甩顯然是件好事”。
6. You don't say.
意思是“不會這樣吧！不至于吧！真的嗎？（表示心里同意對方所說的話，但是嘴上不服。）”例如：-The biology professor is too
harsh on us. - You don't say. -生物學教授對我們太狠了。-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“-那是因為我穿了一件突出胸部的衣服。-不會吧。”
 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候的就已經學到的一種數秒的方法，因為讀Mississippi這個單詞剛好大約需要一秒鐘時間。雨天的時候孩子們看到閃電，父母和老師便讓他們用這種方法開始數秒，等雷聲響起的時候孩子們就可以根據數到的秒數來計算閃電發生的地方距離自己有多遠了（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？這是因為Mississippi這個詞是小孩學習拼寫時最開始遇到的比較復雜的單詞之一。人們用的多了，便成為一個沿用下來的說法。當然，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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