绯闻女孩学习笔记.docx

1、绯闻女孩学习笔记绯闻女孩第二季第11集1.Chuck: Archibald, I havent seen you around here lately.Nate: Why do you care?Chuck: Oh, I dont. If youre not with the Humphreys anymore, obviously things are looking up, which is too bad. I kind of liked watching you slum it. I thought it would teach you who your real friends we

2、re. Things are looking up: 情况在好转，越来越乐观slum: 名词是贫民窟的意思，这里做动词用，过着贫民的生活2.Dan: So what are you doing for your holiday?Vanessa: I decided to pass on joining my family at the Washoe reservation, where theyre helping to stage a protest. And my plan is to hole myself up in my studio, rent Berlin Alexanderpl

3、atz and eat a frozen Annies organic turkey dinner.pass on: 相当于skip, 不做什么事情了，不要什么东西了。比如说“甜点我就不要了”，就可以说Ill pass on dessert.hole up: 想象一下动物冬眠(hibernate)时候躲在洞里的那个样子，与世隔绝，不接电话，不回短信。这个单词有点“宅在家里”的意思。3.Captain: My life in Dominica is.well, its good. We moved some money offshore before I left, enough to get

4、a house on the ocean. Weathers always perfect. People are nice.Nate: Im so happy youre living it up in the Caribbean while were squatting with no heat in New York.Nates Mom: Hear your father out, Natelive it up: 纵情欢乐，过奢华的生活squat: 蹲做着，缩成一团Hear your father out: 仔细挺好了，注意加了介词out语气强了很多。4.Lily: I didnt kn

5、ow she was there until today. I called Serena. She didnt even know. Eric must have been sneaking her in at night.sneak: 偷偷带进来，sneak out是偷偷溜出去的意思，出现频率很高的一个词组5.Rufus: If I want to see her, youre not gonna change my mind.Lily: Im not trying to. Its just that I havent seen jenny yet, let me talk to her,

6、 see where her head is at.see where her head is at: 听听她的想法，看看她脑子里都在想些什么6.Blair: A woman needs to be with a man who thinks of only her. Anything else is a nonstarter. Tell him how you feel.nonstarter: An idea, proposal, or candidate with no chance of being accepted or successful.这句话有点像中文说的“只有才是真的，除此之

7、外，其他都是空的，其他都是废话”7.Chuck: My plans for the evening got held up at customs.Eric: Your dad just insinuated that Jonathan might be dating someone else. How and why would he know that?hold up: 阻拦，耽搁了，这里是说因为感恩节的传统，我的计划就无法进行了。这个词组比较常用的一个句子是Sorry I was late, I was held up at the meeting.（不好意思，我因为开会被耽搁了，所以迟到

8、了）insinuated: 含沙射影，暗示。这里Bart超强，连Eric的男朋友Jonathan劈腿的事情都查出来了。8. Serena: Chuck, I want you word that you will not mention anything about the girl I used to be. I just got Aaron to myself, and if the one thing I have to do to keep it that way is hide my recent history for a while, then thats what Im gon

9、na do.get someone/something to myself: 专属，独享。这里对应的是Aaron对Serena说自己现在是one woman man(我现在就你一个女朋友)，另外还可以说date exclusively，这些词组都表示一对一的意思。to myself这个词组在这集里还出现过一次，就是Blair打电话给Serena,Im so glad to have the house to myself.(我很高兴家里就我一个人了)。keep it that way: 保持这样的状态9.Serena: Well, you know, hes- hes probably jus

10、t jealous. Aaron: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he was talking a lot about Thanksgiving last year when you two were together, so.Serena: Yeah. Well, I guess hes just not as over me as I thought he was. Hes no over me: 他还没有忘记我，注意这种分手后的释怀，忘记，不用forget，用over.10.Blair: Dont you dare answer that blackberry, Dorota.

11、Dorota: But its your mother, and its ThanksgivingBlair: And we have nothing to be thankful for. This is the worst Thanksgiving of all time, and if we have to wander the upper east side like outcasts in a Jane Austen novel, so be it.Dorota: Maybe we can go feed ducks at boat pond like when you were l

12、ittle.Blair: Fine. Im not a monster. I wont deny the ducks their dinner. But if you look like you enjoy even one second of it, were leaving.我很喜欢这一段，所以全部摘录下来了。大家注意一下I wont deny the ducks their dinner.里deny的用法，“我不是恶魔，我不会不给他们吃饭的。”注意这段(22:10)里Dorota的给Eleanor设定的手机铃声是 Im a slave for you, 很搞笑的。我也弄了一段这样的铃声，

13、大家可以去这里下载：11.Serena: Oh. Uh, mom, have you shown Aaron your beautiful art collection?Aaron: Oh, yeah. Um, was that a Jessica Craig-Martin I saw over there? Lily: Why, yes, it is, Aaron. Good eye.Good eye: 好眼力12.Oh, I missed you, too. I call dibs on mashed potatoes.dibs: A claim expressing priority o

14、ver an object. 对有优先权，类似中文的“你们不要跟我抢，我有优先权”。可以说I got dibs on that last piece of pizza, 也可以用在人的身上，I got dibs on that girl over there.CULTURE NOTES1.Serena: Aaron is coming to meet my family before thanksgiving dinner. Blair: And how do you plan to introduce him? Mom, you DVR Big Love, this is Aaron, an

15、d hes just like Bill Paxton, only younger and with scruff. Im serious. The Serena I know would never want to share a guy she really liked with anyone else.DVR: Digital Video RecorderBig Love是HBO的一部电视剧,剧中男主角Bill Paxton是讲述的是摩门教徒(Mormon)，他和他年龄不同的三个妻子以及一大帮孩子们生活在一起。这里是讽刺Aaron那种“我虽然跟你谈恋爱，但是我们还是保持各自交往其他人的自由”的思想。scruff:胡渣2.Blair: Im so glad to have the house to myself. Cyrus took my mother to Jean-Georges for dinner. God knows why. Wheres Warren Jeffs?Serena: Hes, um, making dinner for us, which would be completely romantic and amazing.J