Walter: The tall one with red hair is your cousin Irene...
Annie: You'll recognize her by the disappointed look on her face.
Walter: Who is married to Harold, whoran off withhis secretary.
Annie: But came back because Irene threatened toput the dog to sleepif he didn't.
Walter: Your brother Dennis is a professor at Johns Hopkins, who's married to Betsy.
Annie: The most competitive woman in the world.
Walter: I don't see how I'm going to remember all this.
Annie: Oh, well, Walter, you will.
Walter: Your uncle Milton lost all of his money...
Annie: and some other peoples'...
Walter: in a pyramid scheme. Don't mention theIRSor the federal business system.
Your mother is Barbara. Your father is Cliff.
Annie: My father has electric trains.
Walter: Really? Am I what they had in mind?
Annie: Oh, Walter they're going to love you!
妙詞佳句
1. run off with sb.
在很多部電影中都聽(tīng)到過(guò)這句話，雖然在日常生活中沒(méi)有用過(guò)，但是大家還是知道的好。它的意思就是“和……私奔”，或者再柔和一點(diǎn)：因?yàn)楦星榈年P(guān)系和另外的一個(gè)人生活在一起了。比如“杰克和他的前女友在一起了”就可以說(shuō)成是 Jack ran off with his ex-girlfriend.
2. put the dog to sleep
這句話的表面意思是“把那只狗給弄睡了”，實(shí)際上可不是這么回事。這里的dog 可不是狗的意思。在美國(guó)俚語(yǔ)中dog可以指丑女人。整句話的意思就是“把那個(gè)女人給干掉”。
我們來(lái)舉個(gè)例子：
如果你還不娶我的話，我就把那女的給殺掉。
If you don't marry me, I'll put the dog to sleep.
3. IRS: Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)是美國(guó)財(cái)政部的一個(gè)機(jī)構(gòu)，職能是執(zhí)行稅收法。Revenues are collected through individual income taxes; corporation taxes; excise, estate, and gift taxes; and social security taxes.
北京新東方學(xué)校優(yōu)秀英語(yǔ)教師，主教聽(tīng)說(shuō)速成，聽(tīng)說(shuō)讀寫(xiě)，電影聽(tīng)說(shuō)強(qiáng)化等課程，有多年的英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)說(shuō)教學(xué)經(jīng)驗(yàn)。陳銳老師主修英文專業(yè)，深刻了解英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)的困難所在；并有豐富的口譯經(jīng)驗(yàn)及體會(huì)。通過(guò)多年的經(jīng)驗(yàn)積累，陳銳老師總結(jié)出一套適合中國(guó)學(xué)生自己的漢英學(xué)習(xí)法，更好的結(jié)合漢語(yǔ)來(lái)攻克英文。
Walter: The tall one with red hair is your cousin Irene...
