美國(guó)婚禮風(fēng)俗（上）
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本片段劇情：Jane弄丟了記錄自己參加婚禮的筆記本，卻不料這個(gè)記事本落入了Kevin的手中。Kevin找到老板，想以Jane的經(jīng)歷為素材，寫(xiě)一篇有關(guān)婚禮的報(bào)道。經(jīng)過(guò)一番唇槍舌劍之后，老板終于答應(yīng)了他的請(qǐng)求。但這篇報(bào)道會(huì)給Jane帶來(lái)怎樣的經(jīng)歷呢？“職業(yè)伴娘”的經(jīng)歷曝光對(duì)她是喜還是憂呢？
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Jane: Good morning, Gina.
Gina: Hi.
Jane: You haven't seen my Filofax anywhere, have you?
Gina: No.
Jane: No. Okay. I'll go look for it. Did you get those catalog pages in for George?
Gina: No.
Jane: Okay. No worries. I'll get them from production.
Casey: Attagirl. Show her who's boss.
Jane: I'm not her boss.
Casey: You're the boss's assistant. Same diff. What's the good of your job if you can't abuse the power?
Jane: Casey, go to Accounting.
Casey: Now you're bossy.
Jane: Where the hell did I put that thing?
Kevin: That is a great idea for the front page of the section.
Maureen: Oh, come on, Doyle. How many times have I heard this from you?
Kevin: I'm telling you, Maureen: It's a great idea.
Maureen: Really? As great as your last great idea, an expose on price-fixing at wedding bakeries?
Kevin: Yes! Yes! They're ripping people off. Flour costs pennies per ounce. That's an 800% markup. It's outrageous.
Maureen: Yes, it is. Also, no one cares.
Kevin: What about the piece I wanted to do on the exploitation of workers in lace factories? That is a killer piece.
Maureen: Oh, right. That's what people really wanna read about in the Style section. Kevin, this section practically pays for the entire paper: Our advertisers want fun, upbeat, colorful human-interest stories... opposite their products.
Kevin: So that's what we're about now? Making money?
Maureen: Get out.
Kevin: All right. Listen. That was not right. I get it. But this one is. Look, this woman has been in seven weddings-
Maureen: So?
Kevin: This year. She was in two on Saturday alone. But it won't just be about her. It'll be an incisive look at how the wedding industry has transformed something: That should be an important rite of passage into nothing more than a corporate revenue stream. In a fun, upbeat, you know, cheerful way. Look, Maureen, I am dying back there in Commitments. If I have to write another sentence about baby's breath, I'm gonna shoot myself. This is a real story. This is what I wanna do.
Maureen: I need you covering weddings. That's what you're good at. And that's what I need you to do.
Kevin: If you don't start giving me feature stories, I'm gonna have to quit.
Maureen: All right. One chance. If I don't like it, you go back to Commitments for the rest of your life with a big smile on that ridiculously handsome face of yours.
Kevin: Deal.
妙語(yǔ)佳句，活學(xué)活用
1. Filofax: 備忘記事本。Filofax是一種商標(biāo)的名稱(chēng)，指一種輕便的活頁(yè)文件夾，用來(lái)裝日記本、文件、信用卡等，80年代雅皮士族經(jīng)常備帶。
2. Attagirl: 好啊，好棒，an informal expression of encouragement or admiration to a woman or girl（表達(dá)對(duì)女性的贊嘆，非正式用語(yǔ)）。
如果贊嘆的對(duì)象是一位男性，我們可以用attaboy來(lái)表達(dá)。
3. Same diff: 一回事。Same diff是一種 oxymoron（矛盾修辭法），用來(lái)形容something as being the same as something else（兩件事其實(shí)是一回事），常在說(shuō)錯(cuò)話時(shí)用來(lái)做借口。
例如："You said jackflap, not flapjack" "Same-diff"）“你剛才說(shuō)的是jackflap，而不是flapjack。”“那不是一回事嘛?！?/p>
4. bossy: 專(zhuān)橫的，盛氣凌人的。
例如：No, she is stingy, narrow-minded and bossy.（不，她小氣，心胸狹窄，又拔扈。）
5. front page: 頭版。
例如：The news got a front-page splash.（該消息在頭版醒目地登出），而排front page的版面，我們就可以說(shuō)：to make up the front page。
6. price-fixing: 限定價(jià)格，指一種價(jià)格壟斷行為。Maureen在這里是說(shuō)，Kevin上次報(bào)道了婚禮蛋糕店“開(kāi)天殺價(jià)”的行為。
7. rip off: 宰客，敲詐。
The used car advertisement is a big rip-off.（這個(gè)二手汽車(chē)廣告是個(gè)大騙局），我們從不刊登這樣的廣告to rip off the customers（宰客）。
8. rite of passage: （標(biāo)志人生重要階段的）通過(guò)儀式，重大事件，a ceremony or an event that marks an important stage in sb's life. 比如出生、成人、結(jié)婚等等，所以有時(shí)也用復(fù)數(shù)rites of passages。
9. die back: 枯死，枝葉枯萎。Kevin在這里的意思是說(shuō)，“我寫(xiě)《承諾》專(zhuān)欄寫(xiě)到悶”。
10.baby's breath: 水香花菜，滿天星，這里泛指婚禮上的花束。
11:deal: 一言為定。這個(gè)詞現(xiàn)在常單獨(dú)使用，用來(lái)表示答應(yīng)對(duì)方提出的條件。
美國(guó)婚禮風(fēng)俗（上）
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