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Maybe we should just go to the hotel.

也许我们该回酒店

What? And miss the concert?

什么？ 错过这场演出？

We're not actually at the concert.

我们并不算在现场

Yeah, I don't think so.

是啊，这样感觉不好

We're close.

我们离得很近

Stu Wolff's only a few yards away from us.

斯图?沃尔夫离我们 只有咫尺之遥

And then he'll be at the after-party with us.

而且聚会的时候 他会和我们在一起

Your belief system amazes me.

你的信仰系统真令我感到奇怪

Ella, where are you going?

埃拉，你去哪儿？

Don't leave me!

别离开我！

Come back! Ella!

回来！埃拉！

Ella, what are you doing?

埃拉，你在做什么？

I'm going back to the hotel.

我要回酒店

So you're just gonna give up?

我们就这样放弃吗？

What if everyone gave up, Ella?

如果每个人都放弃那会怎么样，埃拉？

There'd be no America, no electricity, no TiVo.

那这个世界上就不会有美国， 不会有电

We'd all have to watch our shows at their scheduled times.

不会有TiVo公司， 那样我们必须在指定的时间看节目

We'd never get to see the work of Renée Zellweger

我们永远也不欣赏看到 芮尼?齐维格

or Christina Aguilera.

和克里斯蒂娜?阿吉莱拉的演出

If everyone gave up,

如果每个人都放弃

we'd all be sitting in mud huts in Europe eating weeds.

我们现在就还在欧洲的茅草小屋里 吃着杂草

I didn't say stop progress.

我不是说不要进步

I just said, "Go back to the hotel.

" 我只是说“我要回酒店”

Don't you want to see the look on Carla's face

难道你不想看到

when we show up at that party?

卡拉见到我们出现在聚会上 时的表情吗？

Yeah, I do.

是啊，我想

Great! Then let's go to Soho.

太好了 那我们现在就去苏活区

Where in Soho?

去苏活哪儿？

We don't even know where Stu lives.

我们连斯图住在哪儿都不知道

重点讲解

重点单词：

1、amaze

vt. 使吃惊

He amazed us by his knowledge of Colorado history.

他对于科罗拉多州历史的了解让我们吃惊。

2、schedule

vt. 安排，计划；编制目录；将……列入计划表

n. 时间表；计划表；一览表

He has been forced to adjust his schedule.

他已被迫调整了日程安排。

3、progress

n. 进步，发展；前进

vi. 前进，进步；进行

The medical community continues to make progress in the fight against cancer.

医学界继续在抗癌斗争中取得进步。

重点短语：

1、show up

露面；露出；揭露

You may have some strange disease that may not show up for 10 or 15 years.

你可能患上某种10年或15年内都显露不出什么症状来的怪病。

2、give up

放弃；交出

The Coast Guard had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.

海岸警卫队已放弃了两名潜水员生还的全部希望。

考考你（翻译）：

1、“河畔”餐厅承诺提供永远给人惊奇的多种食品。

2、一切都是按计划进行的。

3、据报道，总统对第一天会谈的进展很满意。

答案下期公布：

上期答案：

1、Flying terrifies him.

2、I gagged him with a towel.

3、No American should have to drive out of town to breathe clean air.