绝望的主妇第一季第二集中英对照剧本,学习笔记

2021年2月13日发(作者：阵雨)

Season 1, Episode 2: Ah, But Underneath

-

GABRIELLE: if Mary Alice was having some sort of crisis, we’d have known.

some sort of:

某种

crisis:

危机

如果

Mary Alice

有什么不对劲，我们应该会知道的。

She lives 50 feet away, for God’s sakes.

for God’s sakes:

【天晓得】看在上帝的面上

天晓得，她住的离我们不过

50

英尺。

-

SUSAN: Gabby, the woman killed herself. Something must’ve been going on.

go on:

发生

Ga bby

，她结束了自己的生命，肯定有事情发生。

-

GABRIELLE: Every time I’m around that man, he tries to grab my ass!

around:

在

……

周围

try to:

设法

grab:

抓握

ass:

屁股

我每次遇见他，他都想摸我的屁股。

-CARLOS: I made over $$200,000 doing business with him last year. If he wants to grab your ass, you

let him.

business

：

生意

do business with:

与某人做生意

去年我和他做了超过

20

万美元的生意。如果 他想摸你就让他摸吧

-

JOHN: Why aren’t you happy?

你为什么不开心？

-GABRIELLE: Turns out I wanted all the wrong things.

turn out:

证明是

结果证明我所要的东西都没用。

-

GABRIELLE: What’s that?

这是什么？

-

BREE: It’s a letter, addressed to Mary Alice.

一封写给

Mary Alice

的信。

address:

写信给

-SUSAN: Oh Mary Alice, what did you do?

哦，

Mary Alice

，你究竟干了什么？

-MARY ALICE: An odd thing happens when we die. Our senses vanish.

odd:

奇怪

sense:

感觉

vanish:

消失

我们死去以后就会有奇怪的事情发生，我们没有感觉。

Taste, touch, smell and sound become a distant memory.

distant:

遥远的

memory:

记忆

味觉、触觉、嗅觉和听觉成为遥远的回忆。

But our sight, ah, our sight expands. And we can

suddenly see the world we’ve left behind so clearly.

sight:

视野

expand:

扩展

suddenly:

突然

leave behind:

丢在后面

但是我们的视觉，啊，我们的视野开阔了。我们能把被我们扔在身后的这个世界看清楚。

Of course, most of what’s visible to the dead can also be seen by the living, if they only take the time

to look.

visible:

能看见的

the living:

活人，活着的人们，生者

take the time to:

花时间去做

当然，死人能看见的世界活人也能看清楚，他们只是不愿意花 时间去看而已。

Like my friend Gabrielle. I should’ve seen how unhappy she was. But I didn’t.

unhappy:

不高兴

就 像我的朋友

Gabrielle

。我过去应该看出来她有多么不 开心，但是我没有。

I only saw her clothes from Paris;

我只看见了她的法国时装，

And her platinum jewellery;

她的白金首饰，

platinum:

白金

jewellery:

珠宝

And her brand new diamond watch.

和她崭新的钻石手表。

brand:

崭新的

diamond:

钻石的

-

MARY ALICE: Had I looked closer, I’d’ve seen that Gabrielle was a drowning woman,

desperately in

search of a life raft.

drowning:

溺水，溺死

desperately:

绝望地

in search of:

寻找

raft:

木筏

如果我看得更仔细，我就会看出

Ga brielle

是个快溺毙的女人，绝望的在寻找生命的木筏

Luckily for her, she found one.

幸运的是，她找到了。

Of course, Gabrielle only saw her young gardener as a way to infuse her life with a little excitement.

gardener:

园丁

infuse with:

注入

excitement:

兴奋，激动

当然，

Gabrielle

只是找到了她年轻的园丁给她的生活中注入新鲜血液，

But now, she was about to discover just how exciting her life could get.

be about to:

将要，正打算

discover:

发现

get:

变得

但是现在她想尝试一下究竟她的生活可以有多精彩。

-GABRIELLE: Damn it! Come on.

该死

!

damn:

该死的

come on:

拜托

-JOHN: Whoa!

哇！

whoa:

惊叹声

-

GABRIELLE: Come on, come on, hurry! Let’s go, let’s go!

come on:

快点

hurry:

赶快

快点，快点，快点！赶紧！快走！

-

JOHN: Where’re the rest of my clothes?

我还有衣服呢？

rest:

剩余

-

GABRIELLE: I’ll find them, just get out!

我会找到的，赶快出去。

get out:

出去

-JOHN: Where?

去哪？

-GABRIELLE: Out the window.

窗户外面。

-JOHN: What?

什么？

-GABRIELLE: Go, go!

快走，快走！

-

GABRIELLE: Hi honey, you’re home early!

你好，亲爱的，你回来得真早。

-CARLOS: My meeting got cancelled.

我的会议取消了。

You just took a shower this morning.

你今天早上不是已经洗过澡了吗？

shower

：洗澡

-GABRIELLE: I, uh, I just finished a workout.

我，呃，我刚刚锻炼完身体。

finish:

完成

workout:

健身

-

CARLOS: Mmm. Where’s John?

John

在哪里

?

-GABRIELLE: John?

-CARLOS: Yeah.

That’s his truck out front.

truck:

除草机

是啊，外面有他的除草机。

-MARY ALICE: Gabrielle was panicked.

Gabrielle

惊慌失措。

panicked:

惊慌的

She knew if her husband discovered her secret, she would feel the full force of his wrath.

force:

力量

wrath:

愤怒

她知 道如果他丈夫发现了她的秘密，她将在他的震怒中万劫不复。

-JOHN: Hey Mr. Solis.

你好，

Solis

先生

-CARLOS: Hey, John, did you take care of that ficus yet?

take care of:

处理

ficus:

无花果属

你好，

John,

那棵树弄好了吗？

-

JOHN: I’ll get to it as soon as I’m done here.

我一忙完这个就去照料。

get to:

开始

as soon as:

一

…

就

…

-CARLOS: Alright. We need to talk about the hedges later.

talk about:

谈论

hedge:

篱笆

好吧。我们一会需要聊聊那个篱笆。

-

MARY ALICE: But she was quickly reminded that what Carlos couldn’t see, couldn’t hurt her.

quickly:

快

remind:

想起

hurt:

伤害

但是 她很快来??

Carlos

看不见的地方

……

影响不了她。

-JOHN: Yeah, sure, no problem.

好的，当然没问题。

-MARY ALICE: The peaceful of Wisteria Lane had recently been shattered.

peaceful:

宁静的

:

外观模式

recently:

最近

shattered:

破碎的

最近

Wisteria Lane

看似生活被打破了。

First by my suicide, and then by the discovery of a note among my belongings that

suggested a suspicious reason for my desperate act.

suicide:

自杀

discovery:

发现

belonging:

所有物

note:

纸条

suggest:

暗示

suspicious:

可疑的

desperate:

绝望的

首 先是我的自杀，然后是发现了遗物中的一个纸条暗示了我自杀的一个可能的原因。

My friends gathered to discuss its implications

gather:

聚集

discuss:

讨论

implication:

含义，暗示

我的朋友们聚在一起讨论它暗含的意义。

-SUSAN: I think we should give it to Paul.

我认为我们应该把它交给< /p>

Paul

。

-

GABRIELLE: He’s still mourning, Susan, he’ll probably freak out.

mourning:

悲痛

probably:

可能

freak out:

失去理智，大发脾气；崩溃

Susan

，他仍然沉浸在悲痛中，他很有失去理智。

-

SUSAN: It doesn’t matter, she was his wife. He deserves to have all the facts.

matter:

要紧

deserve:

应得

没有关系，她是他的老婆，他理应知道所有的事实真相。

-BREE: Well, we could do it gently. We could tell him about it over coffee and pastry.

gently:

温柔地

tell about:

把某事告诉某人

pastry:

点心

hand:

递

我们可以做得巧妙一点，我们可以在闲聊的时候告诉他。

-LYNETTE: That would be fun.

那会很有意思。

fun:

乐趣

Paul, we have proof your wife killed herself over some deep dark secret. Another “?”?

proof:

证据

deep:

深的

dark:

暗处的

secret:

秘密

“< /p>

Paul

，我们有证据证明你妻子的自杀是因为一些幕后的秘密。 又一个晴天霹雳？

”

-GABRIELLE: We could always call the police.

我们也许可以报警。

call the police:

报警

-

LYNETTE: Maybe it’s just some sort of sick joke.

some sort of:

某种

sick:

恶心的

joke:

玩笑

sick joke:

一个残酷的玩笑

也许这只是捉弄人的。

-BREE: Well if it was a joke, it was in very poor taste.

poor:

低劣的

;

次等的

taste:

欣赏

如果这是个玩笑，那也太没水平了。

-SUSAN: No, this was serious, I know it was.

不，这应该不是玩笑，我知道的。

serious:

严肃的

We gotta find out what was going on.

gotta(=have got to):

必须

find out:

找出

我们要去找到事实真相。

-L

YNETTE: Let’s say we do. There’s a chance we’re not gonna like what we find.

看看我们该怎么办，有可能真相并不那么令人开心。

-

SUSAN: Well, isn’t it worse to be in the dark, imagining she did all these horrible things?

worse:

更坏的

in the dark:

不为人知；在黑暗中

imagine:

想象

horrible:

恐怖的

但是，那也比藏在地下要好呀？我是说，如果她真的做了这些 恐怖的事情。

-

BREE: It’s the usual question, isn’t it? (SUSAN looks up at BREE.)

usual:

常见的

这是个老掉牙的问题，不是吗？

How much do we really wanna know about our neighbors?

know about:

知道，了解

neighbors:

邻居

我们到底希望多么深入的去了解我们的邻居？

-MARY ALICE: My friends were right to be concerned.

concerned:

关心的

朋友们的话是值得考虑的，

They knew that every family has its secrets.

他们知道每个家庭都有自己的秘密。

And as my son and husband could’ve told them, you need to think carefully before digging them up.

carefully:

小心地

dig up:

发现，揭露出

正如我的儿子和丈夫可能会警戒她们的那样，在你把真相挖掘 出来之前一定要想清楚。

After talking for hours, my friends still hadn’t agreed on what to do with the note.

agree on:

商定〔同意〕某事

talk about:

谈论

讨论了几个小时之后，朋友们仍然没有对如何处治这个纸条达成一致。

So, they decided to talk about it in the mor

ning after a good night’s rest.

decide to:

决定做

… talk about:

谈论

rest:

休息，睡眠

因此她们决定先好好睡一觉，明天早上再讨论。

But no one could fall asleep that night.

但是晚上她们谁也没有睡好，

fall asleep:

入睡

They each kept thinking of my suicide, and how terribly alone I must’ve felt.

think of:

考虑，想

suicide:

自杀

terribly:

非常地

alone:

孤独

每个人都在想我的事情，在想我肯定是觉得非常的孤独。

You see, lonely was something my friend’s understood all too well.

lonely:

孤独的

all too:

实在太

看见了吗，孤独是我的朋友们感受最深的。

-

REX: Its okay, I’m up

。好了，我醒了。

up:

成直立姿势

;

起床

-BREE: Good. I have a question for you.

好，我有个问题。

-REX: Okay.

问吧。

-BREE: Do you remember when you proposed?

你还记得你向我求婚时的情景吗？

propose:

求婚

-

REX: For god’s sake.

看在上帝的份上??

-BREE: We sat on Skyline Drive and drank a bottle of apple wine.

Skyline Drive:

国家公园的地平线公路

a bottle of:

一瓶

wine:

酒

我们驱车沿着海边喝了一瓶苹果香槟

And when we finished it, you turned to me and you said, if you marry me, Bree Mason, I

promise to love you for the rest of my life.

turn to:

转向

promise:

发誓

the rest of:

其余

当我们喝完的时候，你转向我，对我说“

Bree Mason

，如果你嫁给我，我会今生今世永远爱你”。

And even though I was engaged to Ty Grant, and even though my father didn’t like you, I said yes.

even though:

尽管

be engaged to:

订婚

尽管我已经和

Ty Grant

订婚，尽管我爸爸不喜欢你，我还是答应嫁给你。

-REX: That was a long time ago.

那是很久以前的事了。

a long time ago:

很久以前

-BREE

: You’re gonna cancel the meeting with that divorce lawyer, and we’re gonna find ourselves a

marriage counselor.

cancel:

取消

divorce:

离婚

lawyer:

律师

marriage:

婚姻

counselor:

顾问

你要去取消和律师的会面，然后去找一个顾问。

-

REX: Bree, I…

我?

-BREE: You promised.

你承诺过的。

-REX: Alright.

好的。

alright=all right:

好

-

BREE: Good, I’m gonna go make myself some, uh, warm milk.

gonna(=going to):

将要

好，我要去给自己准备一杯热牛奶。

Would you like something to drink?

你想要点什么饮料吗？

-REX: Anything but apple wine.

只要不是苹果香槟就行

-MARY ALICE: Susan awoke that night alone and parched.

awake:

醒来

parch:

使

(

某人

)

< br>极口渴

那天晚上

< p>
Susan

独自醒来，饥渴万分。

And as she gazed out her window, she saw the tall drink of water she needed to quench her thirst.

gaze:

注视

gaze out:

向外注视

drink:

一杯

quench:

解渴

thirst:

口渴

当她朝窗外看的时候，她看到了可以解渴的一大杯水。

-

JULIE: Dear Diary, Mike doesn’t even know I’m alive.

even:

甚至

alive:

活着

“亲爱的

Diary

，

Mike

甚至不知道我还存在着

”

。

-SUSAN: Shut up.

闭嘴

-

JULIE: If you wanna date him, you’re gonna have to ask him out.

date:

约会

ask out:

< p>
请

(

某人

)

外出

如果你想和他约会，就要喊他出来。

-SUSAN: I kee

p hoping he’ll ask me out.

我一直希望他采取主动。

-

JULIE: How’s that going?

结果呢？

-

SUSAN: Shouldn’t you be making brownies for your nerdy friends?

brownies:

巧克力糕饼

nerdy:

讨厌鬼

你怎么还不为你的狐朋狗友们准备巧克力蛋糕？

-

JULIE: I can’t find the measuring cup. Have you seen it?

measuring cup:

量杯

我找不到量杯了，你有看到吗？

-SUSAN: The measuring cup?

量杯？

-JULIE: Yeah.

是啊。

-

SUSAN: Hm. Uh, well it’s gotta be here somewhere. Just keep looking.

gotta(=have got to):

必须

我，哦，原来一直放这的，再找找看。

-

CARLOS: I know you’re awake.

我知道你没睡。

awake:

醒着的

-GABR

IELLE: I know you’re a jerk.

我知道你是个杂碎。

jerk:

粗蠢之人

-

CARLOS: Dinner with Tanaka ran long, I’m sorry.

run:

进行

和< /p>

Tanaka

吃晚饭时间长了点，对不起。

-

GABRIELLE: You know, Carlos, I didn’t marry you so I could have dinner by myself 6 nights a week.

dinner:

晚餐

by myself:

单独

Carlos,

你知道，我嫁给你，并不是为了一周有六天都独自吃晚饭。

You know how bored I was today? I came this close to actually cleaning the house.

bored:

无聊的

actually:

竟然

come close to:

接近，几乎

你知道今天我有多闷？我闷到居然彻彻底底的打扫了一次房子。

-

CARLOS: Don’t be that way. I got you a gift.

别这样，我给你买了份礼物。

gift:

礼物

-

GABRIELLE: Nope. No, no, no, no. you’re not gonna buy your way outta this one.

outta=out of

不行，不行。你别指望这就把我给打发了。

-

CARLOS: It’s a good gift.

很棒的礼物

-GABRIELLE: Is that white gold?

是白金的吗？

white gold:

白金

-CARLOS: Yeah. Put it on. And then make love to me.

put on:

穿上，戴上

make love to:

表示爱情，与

< br>…

做爱

是的，戴上它??然后和我做爱。

-

GABRIELLE: I’m not in the mood. But, we could stay up and talk.

in the mood:

好心情

stay up:

熬夜

我没心情。我们可以不睡觉，聊聊天。

-CARLOS: When a man buys a woman expensive jewellery, there are many things he may want in

return.

expensive:

昂贵的

jewellery:

首饰

in return:

作为回报

当一个男人给女人买了非常昂贵的首饰，他希望得到很多回报，

For future reference, conversation ain’t one of ‘em.

但不是聊天。

future:

未来的

reference:

参考

conversation:

谈话

Hey, that was a joke.

嗨，只是开个玩笑。

-GABRIELLE: Yeah, right.

是，没错。

-

CARLOS: What the hell’s wrong with you?

你到底吃错什么药了？

hell:

训斥

,

咒骂

(

用以加强语气

)

-GABRIELLE: Let go of me.

放开我。

let go of:

放开

-

CARLOS: You’ve been acting like a nightmare for a month. What’s wrong?

act like:

表现得像

nightmare:

噩梦

嗨，这一个月来你简直像个恶魔，怎么回事？

-GABRIELLE: Stop.

住口。

-

CARLOS: I can’t fix it unless you tell me.

fix: [

口

]

惩罚

;

收拾

unless:

除非

如果你不告诉我，我是不会放过你的。

-

GABRIELLE: It’s not exciting anymore, Carlos.

exciting:

令人兴废的

not anymore:

不再

Carlos

，生活不再那么有意思 了。

-CARLOS: So what am I supposed to do?

你想让我怎么做？

be supposed to:

被期望

-

GABRIELLE: I don’t know. Be the way you used to be, surprise me, take my breath away.

used to be:

过去经常

surprise:

使感到意外

take one’s breath away:

使大吃一惊

breath:

呼吸

我不知道，和过去的你一样，给我惊喜，让我出乎意料。

-CARLOS: Okay. Okay.

好吧。

-MIKE: Hey Susan.

你好，

Susan

。

-SUSAN: Mike!

-

MIKE: What’s wrong?

怎么了？

-

SUSAN: I didn’t realize anyone was gonna be out here, I just sorta rolled outta bed.

realize:

意识到

gonna(=going to):

将要

sorta:

有点

roll:

卷

outta: out of

我想可能没人会在这，所以只裹了条毛毯。

-

MIKE: I’m sure you look fine.

你看起来很好。

-SUSAN: Oooh.

哦。

-MIKE: Ooh, Bongo, Bongo! Shh.. Sorry, uh, he scares easy.

shh:

嘘

,

安静一点

scare:

惊吓

哦，

Bongo

，别叫了。对不起，呃，它很容易被吓倒。

-

SUSAN: No, it’s fine, I get it.

没，没关系，知道了，

get it:

理解

-MIKE: I did

n’t mean to disturb you. I’ll see you later.

mean to:

打算，故意

disturb:

打扰

我没想要打扰你，再见。

-SUSAN: D

—

do you wanna have dinner with me?

你想和我一起吃晚饭吗？

-MIKE: Just the two of us?

就我们俩？

-SUSAN: Heh, well, and Julie.

呃，还有

Julie

。

heh: (

表示惊异、质问

)

嗨

!

Uh, it’s a thin

g we do when somebody new moves into the neighborhood, we invite them over for a

home-cooked meal. Sort of a tradition.

neighborhood:

邻里

invite:

邀请

invite

over:

请

(

某人

)

过来

home-cooked

meal:

家常菜

sort

of:

有

几分

tradition:

传统

当有新邻居搬来时，我们会邀请他们来家里吃一顿晚餐，是老 传统。

-MIKE: You said you were a lousy cook.

我记得你说过你厨艺不精。

lousy:

差劲的

cook:

厨师

-SUSAN: Well. I order takeout.

那么，我叫外卖。

order:

订购

takeout:

外卖

-MIKE: Oh, you invite them over for a home-cooked meal and you order takeout.

哦，你邀请别人来家里吃饭，然后叫外卖。

-

SUSAN: Yeah, it’s sort of a new tradition. I’m working out the kinks.

work out:

设计出

,

作出

kinks:

操作指南

是的，这，这是一种新的习俗。我突发奇想。

-

MIKE: I’ll tell you what. How ‘bout I cook? And you guys come over to my place.

guy:

人

come over:

过来

这样吧，我来做饭。你们来我家吃饭，怎么样？

-SUSAN: Oh. Great.

好极了。

-MIKE: Friday night at six?

星期五晚上六点？

-

SUSAN: I’ll be there.

我会准时到的。

-MIKE: Alright.

好的，走吧。

-SUSAN: Bye, Bongo.

再见，

Bongo

。

-SUSAN: Julie? Mike Delfino just invited us to dinner Friday night.

Julie! Mike Delfino

刚刚邀请了我们星期五晚上去吃晚饭。

-JULIE: He did? Cool.

是吗？太酷了。

-

SUSAN: But only I’m going.

但我要一个人去。

Because you’re gonna come down with something semi

-serious that requires bed-rest and fluids.

gonna(=going

to):

将要

come

down

with:

染上

(

病

)

semi-:

部分的

require:

需要

bed-rest:

卧床休

息

fluid:

液体【这里指输液】

因为你得了比较严重的病，需要好好休息和打吊针。

-MARY ALICE: Julie was glad Susan was rekindling her love life.

rekindle:

重新激起

Julie

很高兴

Susan

重新开始了她的爱情生活。

Of course, she was unaware of her mother’s recent track record with fire.

unaware of:

没有意识到

recent:

最近

track:

踪迹

record:

记录

当然，她妈妈纵火的劣迹。

-

EDIE: It’s all gone. Everything my ex

-

husband’s worked for all those years. Gone.

ex- husband:

前夫

都过去了??我的前夫这些年的辛苦都白费了。

-

MRS HUBER: Don’t worry about clothing, I already started a collection from people in the

neighbourhood.

worry about:

担心

clothing:

衣服

already:

已经

collection:

搜集

neighbourhood:

邻里

好了，别担心衣服了，我已经开始去邻里搜集一些衣服了。

-

EDIE: What? I don’t wanna wear other people’s old crap.

wanna(=want to):

想要

crap:

垃圾

什么？我可不想穿别人的旧衣服。

-MRS HUBER: Edie, you can be homeless or you can be ungracious.

homeless:

无家可归

ungracious:

没有吸引力的

Edie

，你可以无家可归，也可以穿着寒碜。

You really can’t afford to be both.

如果两样兼备可够你受的。

afford:

负担得起

-

EDIE: That reminds me. My insurance cheque still hasn’t come yet.

remind:

提醒

insurance:

保险

cheque:

支票

yet:

还

这提醒了我，我的保险支票还没到呢。

Can I stay with you for a few more weeks?

我能在这多住几个星期吗？

stay with:

在

…

家里作客

-MRS HUBER: Of course. What kind of Christian would I be if I denied shelter to a friend in need?

Christian:

基督徒

deny:

拒绝

shelter:

庇护所

in need:

有需要的

当然，如果我帮助处在困境中的朋友，还算什么基督徒呢？

Oh look, here’s something we can salvage, your measuring cup.

salvage:

抢修

measuring cup:

量杯

哦，看这个，我们可以变废为宝。

We can just scrape off the burnt part and it’ll look good as new.

scrape off:

刮掉

我们将烧坏的部分刮掉，就会和新的一样了。

-

EDIE: That’s not my

cup. Mine was plastic.

那不是我的杯子，我的是塑料制的。

plastic:

塑料的

-MRS HUBER: Well, how did it get in here?

那它是怎么到这来的？

-

EDIE: I don’t know. Who cares?

我不知道。这有什么大不了的？

care:

在意

Now would you put that down and start looking for jewellery?

put down:

发下

look for:

寻找

jewellery:

首饰

现在你能把那玩意放下，然后开始找珠宝了吗？

-MARY ALICE : Doctor Albert Goldfine was the most accomplished marriage counselor in the city.

accomplished:

精通的

marriage:

婚姻

counselor:

顾问

Albert Goldfine

医生是城里最有经验的婚姻顾问。

He had dealt with problems ranging from substance abuse, to infidelity, to domestic violence.

deal with:

处理过

problem:

问题

range from:

从

…

到

… substance:

物质

abuse:

滥用

infidelity:

不

忠实

domestic:

家庭的

violence:

暴力

他处理过无数的婚姻，从吸毒、到婚外情、到家庭暴力。

Yes, Dr. Goldfine thought he had seen it all. And then, he me

t the Van De Kamp’s.

是的，

Albert Goldfein

医生以为他了解了婚姻百态，直到他遇见了

Van de Kamps

。

-

BREE: Hi, I’m Bree, and this is my husband Rex. And I brought you some homemade pot pourri.

homemade:

自制的

pot pourri:

扑扑莉

你好，我是

Bree

，这是我丈夫

Rex……

我给你带了一些自制的香花。

-REX: The answer is

yes, you’re about to make a fortune off us.

be about to:

将要，正打算

fortune:

财产

make a fortune:

赚大钱

你猜得没错，你又要从我们身上赚大钱了。

-

LYNETTE: Boys, guys, I’m begging you, sit in your seats.

beg:

请求

家伙们，我非常??坐到座位上去。

I’m not gonna tell you again! Buckle up!

我不想再说一遍了，扣上安全带！

buckle up:

扣上安全带

I mean it, so help me, I…Oh .. crap!

我很认真，拜托，我要??，该死

!

该死！

crap:

废话

-OFFICER: License and registration please.

请出示驾照和登记证。

license:

驾照

registration:

登记

Ma’am, you know why I pulled you over?

夫人，你知道我为什么拦你吗？

pull over:

靠向路边

-LYNETTE: I have a theory.

愿闻其详。

theory:

看法

-OFFICER: Your kids are jumping up and down; they should be sitting, wearing a seatbelt.

jump:

跳动

up and down:

上上下下

seatbelt:

安全带

这些小家伙爬上爬下，他们应该坐好，并系上安全带。

-LYNETTE: I yelled at them. They never listen to

me, it’s very frustrating.

yell at:

对

…

吼叫

frustrating:

使人沮丧的，令人泄气的

我让他们别这样，他们根本不听，真没办法。

-

OFFICER: Well, you’re gonna hafta find a way to control them. After all, that’s your job.

hafta<

主美口

>=have to control:

控制

你要想办法制住他们。不过，那是你的工作。

-MARY ALICE: Thoug

h he’d been a policeman for 6 years, officer Hayes had never found

himself in a truly dangerous situation.

policeman:

警察

truly:

真实的

dangerous:

危险的

situation:

处境

尽管 他已经干了六年的警察，

Hayes

发现他这次的处境才真正很 危险。

Then again, he had never before told a woman how to raise her children.

raise:

养育

他以前从没告诉过一个女人，该怎样去管教孩子。

-

LYNETTE: You saying I’m a bad mother?

你是说我是个失败的母亲？

-

OFFICER: Ma’am, you need to get back in your car please.

get back:

回到

夫人，请回到车里。

-

LYNETTE: I have no help, my husband’s always away on business.

on business:

因公

没有人帮我，我丈夫总是在外忙生意。

-

OFFICER: I’m gonna hafta ask you to step back now.

step back:

退后

我必须警告你立刻回到车上。

-LYNETTE: My babysitter joined the witness relocation program.

babysitter:

临时保姆

join:

加入

witness:

证人

relocation:

重新定位

program:

项目

我的管家换工作了，

I haven’t slept through the night in 6 years.

六年来我晚上从没好好睡过觉。

-

OFFICER: Ma’am..?

女士？

-LYNETTE: And for you to stand there, and judge me.

而你却站在这儿，对我评头论足。

judge:

评价

-

OFFICER: Okay. I’m not gonna give you a ticket. I’m just gonna let you off wi

th a warning.

let off:

放掉〔过〕

;

免除

warning:

警告

我不给你开罚单了，只是给你个警告。

-LYNETTE: I accept your apology.

我接受你的道歉。

accept:

接受

apology:

道歉

-OFFICER: Buckle up!

系好安全带！

-JOHN: Mrs. Solis!

Solis

夫人！

-GABRIELLE: Hello Jonathan.

你好，

Jonathan

。

-JOHN: Well, this is my room. Sorry about the mess.

mess:

混乱

嗯，这是我的房间，很抱歉，这一团糟。

-

GABRIELLE: Oh, well, don’t... …worry about it.

啊，没关系。

worry about:

担心

-

JOHN: You just missed my mom. On Friday she coaches my little sister’s soccer team.

coach:

训练

soccer:

英式足球

我妈妈刚刚来过，星期五她要给我妹妹的足球队担任教练。

-GABRIELLE: Oh, yes, I heard that.

哦，是的，我听你说过了。

Uh, John, we need to talk about what happened the other day.

the other day:

前几天

呃 ，

John

，我们要谈谈前几天发生的事。

-

JOHN: Mr. Solis isn’t starting to catch on, is he?

Solis

先生开始怀疑你了，是吗？

catch on:

〈非正〉理解

-

GABRIELLE: No, no, he doesn’t have a clue, God love him.

clue:

线索

不，没有，上帝保佑，他没什么证据。

It’s just, I was thinking, that when you come over to garden, you might actually have to garden.

come over:

过来

garden:

花园

;

从事园艺

actually:

实际上

只是当你去花园时，你应该真的是在干园艺活。

-

JOHN: Great, you’re breaking up with me. In my own bedroom.

break up:

分手

好极了，你想和我分手。在我的卧室里。

-

GABRIELLE: No, no, no, I’m not dumping you.

不，不是，我并没有想抛弃你，

dump:

抛弃

Lately, you’ve been the only thing keeping me

going.

lately:

近来，最近

这些天来只有你才能让我开心。

It’s just, we can’t do it at my house anymore.

not …anymore:

不再

只是我们不能再在我家里做爱了。

-JOHN: Oh, so then, where do you wanna do it?

那你想在哪做？

-GABRIELLE: Well, uh, what time does your mom get back from soccer practice?

get back:

回家

practice:

练习

你妈妈从足球比赛回来还有多久？

-JOHN: Mrs. Solis.

Solis

夫人。

-

GABRIELLE: You better hurry, we don’t have a lot of time.

hurry:

快点

a lot:

大量

最好快点，我们没那么多时间。

-

BREE: And so, there’s just the four of us. My oldest son Andrew is 16, Danielle is 15, and…

这就是我们一家四口，大儿子

Andrew 16

岁，

Danielle 15

岁。

-

DR GOLDFINE: I don’t need to see pictures.

Bree

，我不需要看这些照片。

Bree, you’ve spent most of the hour engaging in small talk.

engage in:

忙于

small talk:

闲扯

你大部分时间都在说些鸡毛蒜皮的小事。

-BREE: Oh, have I?

哦，是吗？

-DR GOLDFINE: Yes. Rex has been very vocal about his issues.

vocal:

声音的

issue:

问题

是的，

Rex

对他的问题畅所欲言。

Don’t you want to discuss your feelings about your marriage?

你难道不想谈谈你对婚姻的感受吗？

-

BREE: Um, Doc…mm…

医生，呃，

um: (

表示迟疑

)

嗯

-REX: This is the thing you need to know about Bree.

你必须了解

Bree……

know about:

知道，了解

She doesn’t like to talk about her feelings.

她不愿意谈论她的感情。

To be honest, it’s hard to know if she has any.

老实说，很难知道她是否还有感情。

to be honest:

实在地

Does she feel anger, rage, ecstasy? Who knows?

She’s always… pleasant.

anger:

生气

rage:

大怒

ecstasy:

狂喜

pleasant:

舒适的

她 有过生气，勃然大怒或者欣喜若狂吗？谁知道？她总是显得很开心。

And I can’t tell you how annoying that is.

我无法描述这会让人多么恼火，

annoying:

恼人的

Whatever she feels is so far below the surface that.. that none can see…

whatever:

不管什么

so far:

迄今为止

below the surface:

深入，实际上

不管她感觉如何，都隐藏在心里，没有人能知道。

she uses all those domestic things..

我感到她一直在用这些??

domestic:

家庭的

-DR GOLDFINE: Bree? Bree.

-BREE: What? I-

I’m sorry.

什么？呃，很抱歉。

-DR GOLDFINE: Would you like to respond to what Rex just said?

respond to:

响应

你愿 意谈谈刚刚

Rex

所说的吗？

-

BREE: Oh, I…

呃，我?

-DR

GOLDFINE:

Is

there

some

truth

there?

Do

you

use

housework

as

a

way

to

disengage

emotionally?

truth:

事实

housework:

家务

disengage:

释放

emotionally:

感情上

他说的是真的吗？你用家务活去掩盖你的感情？

-BREE: Of course not.

当然不是。

-JOHN: This is great. I got tons of homework tonight.

ton:

吨

homework:

家庭作业

啊，这太棒了。今天晚上我要大干一场了。

It’s so much easier to concentrate after sex.

做爱之后干什么都容易集中精力。

concentrate:

集中精力

-

GABRIELLE: I’m glad I could help. Education is

very important.

important:

重要

很高兴我能帮上忙。教育很重要。

-JOHN: Oh, I got something for you.

哦，有样东西要给你。

I was gonna give it to you the next time I mowed your lawn, but since you’re here…

mow:

割草

lawn:

草坪

我本来打算下次去除草的时候给你，不过既然你来了。

-

GABRIELLE: Oh, it’s a rose.

噢，是朵玫瑰

-

JOHN: It’s not just any rose. Look at all the petals.

petal:

花瓣

这不是普通的玫瑰，看看所有这些花瓣，

There’s no flaws, it’s perfect.

都没有瑕疵，它很完美。

flaw:

瑕疵

perfect:

完美

-GABRIELLE: Oh, John.

-JOHN: Just like you.

就像你一样。

-MARY ALICE: The truth hit her like a thunderbolt.

事实像雷电一样击中了她。

hit:

击

thunderbolt:

雷电

-JOHN: I spent days looking for this one. Finally found it.

look for:

寻找

finally:

终于

我花了好多天去找最完美的一朵。终于找到了。

-MARY ALICE: For John, this was no longer a meaningless little affair.

no longer:

不再

meaningless:

无意义的

affair:

绯闻

对

John

来说，这不再是轻描淡写的风流韵事。

Gabrielle could now clearly see he was falling in love with her.

fall in love with:

爱上

…

Gabrielle

明显的看出来，他已经爱上了她。

-

GABRIELLE: It’s just beautiful. I, uh, I gotta go.

它很美，我??

我得走了

gotta(=have got to):

必须

-JOHN: Bye..

再见。

-

SUSAN: Hey you. What’re we having?

嗨，你好。你抱的是什么？

-MIKE: I talked to Julie, thanks, and she suggested rib-eye steaks.

talk to:

跟

…

说话

rib:

肋骨

steak:

牛排

呃，我问过

Julie

非常感谢，她建议做肋排，

She said it’s your favourite.

她说那是你最喜欢吃的。

favorite:

最喜欢的

-SUSAN: Oh yeah, I love my steak.

哦，是的，我喜欢吃排骨。

-EDIE: Hi Mike. Susan.

你好

, Mike

，

< br>Susan

。

-SUSAN: Edie.

-

MIKE: Hey, I’m sorry about your house. How you holding up?

hold up:

举起，拿起

嗨，对你房子的事我很遗憾，你拿的什么？

-EDIE: Alright, I guess.

好吧，我猜猜

alright=all right:

好

Oh, is somebody having a party?

有人要开个派对吗？

-

MIKE: No, Susan’s just throwing me one of her traditional welcome

-to-the-neighborhood dinners.

traditional:

传统的

不，

Susan

邀请我参加她的传统的欢迎新邻居的晚餐，

Only I’m cooking. And having it at my house.

由我来做饭。在我家。

-

EDIE: Traditional. Hm. I didn’t get one.

哈哈，传统的，嗯？我怎么没有被邀请过？

-

SUSAN: Oh, it’s sort of a new tradition.

哦，是新的传统。

sort of:

有几分

-

MIKE: Well it won’t be anything fancy, just a little home cooking.

fancy:

精美的，花样的

哦，不会有什么太新奇的，只是在家做些吃的。

-EDIE: Mmm, that sounds so good.

听起来不错。

-MARY ALICE: Susan suddenly had an awful feeling in the pit of her stomach.

suddenly:

突然

awful:

不舒服的

pit:

坑

stomach:

胃

Susan

突然觉得胃里非常不舒服。

-

EDIE: I’ve been having nothing but fast food lately.

lately:

最近

最近我除了快餐还没吃过别的。

-MARY ALICE: As if she was watching an accident in slow motion.

accident:

事故

slow motion:

慢镜头

好像她正在看一次事故的慢镜头。

She knew it would happen, but was powerless to stop it.

powerless:

对某事无能为力的

她知道会发生什么事，却无能为力。

-SUSAN: Edie, would you like to join us for dinner?

Edie

，你愿意参加我们的晚餐吗？

-

EDIE: Oh that’s so sweet. No, I don’t wanna intrude. Three’s a crowd.

intrude:

闯入

crowd:

一伙

哦，太好了。不过我不想打扰。三个人不太好。

-

MIKE: No, it’s not like that. I mean, Susan’s bringing Julie.

不是那样的。我是说，

Susan

会带

Julie

来。

-

SUSAN: It’s not like

that. The more the merrier.

是的，不是那样的，人越多越开心。

merrier:

欢乐的

-

EDIE: Well, this’ll be fun.

那就太好了。

-

MIKE: Alright. Tomorrow night. We’ll eat at six.

好吧。明天晚上，六点开始。

-EDIE: Great. Oh, and Susan.

好极了。对了，

Susan

。

-SUSAN: Yeah.

什么事？

-

EDIE: This’ll make up

for the dinner that you never threw me.

make up for:

弥补，补偿

throw: [

俚

]

开办

,

举行

这可以弥补你欠我的那顿晚饭了

-SUSAN: Right.

是的，呵。

-EDIE: Ta!

ta:

〈英

·

非正〉谢谢

谢谢

-

MIKE: I haven’t, ah, told her we were having steak.

steak:

牛排

我是不是该告诉她我们要吃肋排？

She’s not like a vegetaria

n, is she?

她应该不会是个素食主义者，是吗？

vegetarian:

素食主义者

-

SUSAN: Oh, no, no. No, Edie’s definitely a carnivore.

definitely:

确定地

carnivore:

肉食动物

哦，不会，不会。不，

Edi

绝对是个肉食动物。

-

LYNE TTE: Here’s, uh, here’s what I pulled for Edie.

pull:

深表同情

,

鼓励

(for)

< br>这里是，嗯??这是我为

Edie

准备的。

I should warn you, most of the clothes in there aren’t that stylish.

warn:

警告

stylish:

时髦的

我要告诉你，大部分衣服都不是那么过时。

-

MRS HUBER: Oh don’t worry about it, Edie’s a beggar now, which means she can’t be a chooser.

worry about:

担心

beggar:

乞丐

chooser:

选择者

哦 ，没关系。

Edie

现在是个小乞丐，就是说她不能挑三拣四的 。

Of course we don’t have to add salt to the wound.

add:

加

wound:

伤处

当然我们也没必要，雪上加霜。