Learn English with TV: Friends - Monica's Christmas Presents · FluentU English
通过Friends中Monica的圣诞礼物情节学习实用英语表达和词汇。适合练习日常对话和理解地道表达。
Dear losers, do you really think I'd hide presents under the couch?
亲爱的“失败者们”:你们真的以为我会把礼物藏在沙发底下吗?
He is Chandler.
他是钱德勒。
I knew they'd break you.
我就知道他们会把你逼垮的。
In English, if you break someone, then that means you destroy their morale,
用英语来说,如果你“击垮了某人”,那就意味着你摧毁了他们的士气(即他们的信心和积极性)。
resistance or spirit.
反抗精神或斗志。
So in this friend's clip, Rachel and Phoebe are trying to find some Christmas presents and they end up breaking Chandler and destroying his resistance.
在这段视频中,瑞秋和菲比正在寻找圣诞礼物,结果不小心弄坏了钱德勒的东西,还破坏了他的“抵抗力”(这里可能是指他的某种心理防线或防御机制)。
In this video, you'll see how they
在这个视频中,你会看到他们是如何做的。
do this and you'll also learn some common English expressions so that you can understand native speakers and speak like them too.
通过这样做,你还可以学习一些常见的英语表达方式,从而能够理解以英语为母语的人的讲话,并且也能像他们一样用英语表达自己的想法。
Let's start by watching the clip with subtitles.
我们先来看一下带有字幕的视频片段吧。
Okay, if you look in the kitchen, I will look in the back closet.
好的,如果你去厨房看看,我就去后面的储藏室看看。
I can save you time, ladies.
女士们,我可以帮你们节省时间。
I'm right here.
我就在这里。
Yeah, Chandler, why don't you take a walk?
是的,钱德勒,你为什么不出去散散步呢?
This doesn't concern you.
这与你无关。
We are looking for our Christmas presents for Monica.
我们正在为莫妮卡挑选圣诞礼物。
What?
什么?
That's terrible.
那太糟糕了。
No, no, we do it every year.
不,不,我们每年都这样做。
Oh, well, that makes it not terrible.
哦,好吧,这样情况就不那么糟糕了。
No, yeah, we never find them.
不,其实我们从来都找不到它们。
She's always best at us at Wiley.
她在威利(Wiley)公司的工作表现一直非常出色。
Minks.
水貂。
Don't worry, we're just going to search here for an hour and then we're going to go over to Joey's and search, okay?
别担心,我们就在这里搜索一个小时,然后去乔伊家继续搜索,好吗?
No, not okay.
不,这不行。
You can't look for Monica's presence.
你无法主动去感知莫妮卡的存在(即她是否在场)。
Oh, no, we have to.
哦,不,我们必须这么做。
No, you don't have to and you can't because I live here too.
不,你不必这么做,而且你也没办法这么做——因为我也住在这里。
Well, then you should look with us.
那么,你应该和我们一起看看吧。
Why?
为什么呢?
Now to break down key vocabulary and expressions.
现在我们来解析一下其中的关键词汇和表达。
Okay, if you look in the kitchen, I will look in the back closet.
好的,如果你去厨房看看,我就去后面的储藏室看看。
One of the meanings of look in is to search.
look in” 的其中一个含义是“搜索”。
Here we're using a preposition in because Rachel is looking in an enclosed space or inside something.
在这里,我们使用了介词 “in”;因为瑞秋正在一个封闭的空间里或某物的内部观察事物。
For example, hey, where's my umbrella?
例如,嘿,我的伞在哪里?
Look in the car.
看看车里的情况。
Where's my phone?
我的手机在哪里?
Look under the sofa.
看看沙发下面。
Where's my watch?
我的手表在哪里?
Look at your arm.
看看你的手臂。
Notice that if we change the preposition to act as in look at the meaning completely changes.
请注意,如果我们改变介词的使用方式,句子的含义就会完全改变。例如,将介词从“look at”(看……)改为其他用法,结果就会大不相同。