Duplex 双层公寓（精讲之四）

影片对白

Waitress: What can I get you?

Alex: Listen, I got 12 hours to finish this book. I was wondering if I could sit here and write all day.

Waitress: Be my guest.

Alex: Thanks.

Connelly: Nancy. I was going to ring you. I'm afraid there's a bit of problem up here.
Nancy: I have to go on a job interview, so I'II take care of it later.

Connelly: Oh, that's okay. I'II ring the rug man. Good. Knock it in. Knock it in. Good. I don't want to slip and break me neck.

Connelly: No, we wouldn't want that. This is the problem area here. It's loose as a Dublin whore. Oh, go on, knock it in. Yes! Now, just knock it in. Go on, knock. Come on, use some elbow grease.

Nancy: Aah! Okay, I will.

Alex: You threw her down the stairs?

Nancy: No. But I imagined it. And I Liked it. I'm evil. I'm a horrible, horrible person. Thank you.

Alex: Come on, she's practically ruined our lives. It's perfectly natural to have thoughts like that.

Nancy: Really? 

Alex: Yeah. I mean, I've even had a couple.

Connelly: Aaaah!

Nancy: Like what?

Alex: Just, you know, snapping her neck or electrocuting her. You know, just beating her to death, decapitating her, drowning her, bludgeoning her, in a humane way... dicing her up into little, little pieces . But asphyxiating her first, so she didn't feel anything.

Nancy: I'm glad you clarified that. You're evil, too.

Alex: I'm finished. That's what I am. And it was incredible. The last 60 pages just poured out of me.

Nancy: Let's open that really great champagne and celebrate.

妙词佳句，活学活用

1. What can I get you?
看似很简单的句子，不一定大家知道真实的内涵呐!为什么这么说呢！因为在这种情境中，我们一般用的表达方式是：Can I help you? 而真正到了国外之后，我们会惊奇的发现，他们说“What can I get you?”的频率要比“Can I help you?”高很多。

2. Be my guest.
意思是“请便”！很少会有学生会用这个，所以在这里请注意啦！这可不是“做我的客人吧”
打个比方，一个朋友问你能否把自行车借他一用，你就可以回答说：Be my guest!

3. dice someone up into pieces
在讲这个短语之前，我们先来看一下dice 这个词。作为名词来讲，它的意思是色子。在这个短语中，dice是动词词性，是“把……切成丁”的意思，所以dice someone up into pieces这个短语就是“把……剁了”的意思。比如老板经常让员工加班，这让大家极其苦恼，于是每每要加班时就会说：真想把他给剁了-- I really wanna dice my boss up into pieces. 这样就不用再加了！

4. pour out of
经典短语！一旦用出去，老外一定会对你赞不绝口。是什么意思呢？
A：pour something out，意思是“倾诉，尽情地说”。例如：如果不开心的话，就把烦恼都说给我听（You can pour all your worries to me!）。
B：本文中的意思指的是一个人的情感，想法等等如长江之水、绵绵不绝地涌现出来。例如：“没想到，那些尖刻的话竟然从我的嘴里说出来”就可以说：Unexpectedly, all the zingers just poured out of me.

美国文化面面观

Starbucks

The history of Starbucks: in 1970's the first Starbucks opens. The name comes from Herman Melville's Moby dick, a classic American novel on the 19th century whaling industry. The seafaring name seems appropriate for a store that imports the world's finest coffees to the cold, thirsty people of Seattle.
Starbucks grows as the civilization develops. Nowadays Starbucks has already become part of people's life in the USA. People love Starbucks and also consider it as part of their lives. Another thing about Starbucks is that customers can drink there, chat there, and even write novels there, just like what we get from the movie. In their mind, Starbucks is like home full of warmth, harmony, safety and humanity. It is no surprise to see in Starbucks a number of computer users who abandon their laptops while using the restrooms or getting refills.

考考你

1． 要点什么？
2． 把他剁了我都不解气。
3． 在辩论会上，那些辩手总是能说出他们的想法。