老友记台词学习笔记 SE01EP03（二)

 

Monica: I mean, why should I let them meet him? I mean, I bring a guy home, and within five minutes they're all over him. I mean, they're like- coyotes, picking off the weak members of the herd.  

be all over sb. [口]讨好某人.但是这里显然不是这个意思。联系上下文Monica应该说的是“挑毛病”的意思，但是没有看到哪里有这样的解释。

Paula: Listen. As someone who's seen more than her fair share of bad beef, I'll tell you: that is not such a terrible thing. I mean, they're your friends, they're just looking out after you.

as someone who’s seen more than her fair share of bad beef.这句话从语法上不知道该怎样翻译。从网上看到的解释是：作为一个看多了坏牛排的人。

Monica: I know. I just wish that once, I'd bring a guy home that they actually liked.

Paula: Well, you do realise the odds of that happening are a little slimmer if they never get to meet the guy..

odds 可能性，机会。slimmer是slim的比较级，表示非常小。这句话翻译过来就是：“你应该认识到如果你不让他们（你的朋友）见到他（Alan），那么（他们接受他）发生的可能性是非常小的。

[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Chandler is smoking out on the balcony, Phoebe is absent.]

Joey: Let it go, Ross.

let it go。让事情过去吧。

Ross: Yeah, well, you didn't know Chi Chi.

Monica: Do you all promise?

All: Yeah! We promise! We'll be good!

Monica: (shouts to Chandler) Chandler? Do you promise to be good?

(Chandler makes a 'Cross my heart' sign.  It starts to rain and he taps on the window.)

cross my heart 保证，发誓

Joey: You can come in, but your filter-tipped little buddy has to stay outside!

filter-tipped 有过滤嘴的

(Chandler sulkilty picks up a garbage can lid and uses it as an umbrella.)

(Phoebe enters, walks to the couch, sits down, and begins to read a letter without saying hi.)

Ross: Hey, Pheebs.

Phoebe: 'Dear Ms. Buffay. Thank you for calling attention to our error. We have credited your account with five hundred dollars. We're sorry for the inconvenience, and hope you'll accept this- (Searches in her purse) -football phone as our free gift.' Do you believe this?! Now I have a thousand dollars, and a football phone!

call attention to 唤起注意

credit account with将……（钱）存入帐户

Rachel: What bank is this?

(The intercom buzzes.)

Monica: Hey. It's him. (On the intercom) Who is it?

Alan: (on the intercom) It's Alan.

Joey: (shouting to Chandler) Chandler! He's here!

(Chandler comes in, dripping wet.)

dripping wet 湿透的，湿淋淋的。

Monica: (to all) Okay, please be good, please. Just remember how much you all like me.

(She opens the door and Alan enters.)

Monica: Hi. Alan, this is everybody. Everybody, this is Alan.

Alan: Hi.

All: Hi, Alan.

Alan: I've heard schho much about all you guyschh!

(Everyone laughs.)

[Time lapse, Alan is leaving.]

Monica: (to Alan) Thanks. I'll call you tomorrow. (Alan exits, to all) Okay. Okay, let's let the Alan-bashing begin. Who's gonna take the first shot, hmm?

take the first shot 字面意思是“开第一枪”，意译过来应该是“先来（行动）”。

(Silence.)

Monica: C'mon!

Ross: ...I'll go. Let's start with the way he kept picking at- no, I'm sorry, I can't do this, can't do this. We loved him.

pick at 无食欲的吃，吃一点点

All: Loved him! Yeah! He's great!

Monica: Wait a minute! We're talking about someone that I'm going out with?

All: Yeah!

Rachel: And did you notice...? (She spreads her thumb and index finger.)

The Guys: (reluctantly) Yeah.

Joey: Know what was great? The way his smile was kinda crooked.

Phoebe: Yes, yes! Like the man in the shoe!

Ross: ...What shoe?

Phoebe: From the nursery rhyme. 'There was a crooked man, Who had a crooked smile, Who lived in a shoe, For a... while...'

(Dubious pause.)

Ross: ...So I think Alan will become the yardstick against which all future boyfriends will be measured.

yardstick码尺。Ross说“我认为Alan应该成为衡量你将来的男朋友的标准”。

Rachel: What future boyfriends? Nono, I th- I think this could be, y'know, it.

Monica: Really!

Chandler: Oh, yeah. I'd marry him just for his David Hasselhof impression alone. You know I'm gonna be doing that at parties, right? (Does the impression)

David Hasselhof戴维·哈塞霍夫

Ross: You know what I like most about him, though?

All: What?

Ross: The way he makes me feel about myself.

he makes me feel about myself.他让我找回了自我。

All: Yeah...

Commercial Break  

[Scene: Central Perk, Monica is alone as Ross, Rachel, Chandler, and Joey enter dejectedly in softball gear.]

Monica: Hi.. how was the game?

Ross: Well..

All: WE WON!! Thank you! Yes!

Monica: Fantastic! I have one question: How is that possible?

How is that possible?怎么可能呢？

Joey: Alan.

Ross: He was unbelievable. He was like that-that-that Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs is playing all the positions, right, but instead of Bugs it was first base-Alan, second base-Alan, third base-...

Bugs Bunny兔八哥（一个卡通形象）

Rachel: I mean, it-it was like, it was like he made us into a team.

he made us into a team 他把我们组成了一个队伍。

Chandler: Yep, we sure showed those Hassidic jewellers a thing or two about softball..

这一句话我没有找到相应的解释，但是我的理解如下：

Hassidic jewellers应该指的是他们的对手

show sb. a thing or two应该是“向某人露了两手”的意思。

Monica: Can I ask you guys a question? D'you ever think that Alan is maybe.. sometimes..

Ross: What?

Monica: ..I dunno, a little too Alan?

Rachel: Well, no. That's impossible. You can never be too Alan.

我仔细听了几遍，也没有听到You can。

Ross: Yeah, it's his, uh, innate Alan-ness that-that-that we adore.

Chandler: I personally could have a gallon of Alan.

a gallon of alan只是Chandler用来表达对alan喜欢程度的一个表达方式