荧屏情景

第22周 在银行

荧屏情景：

星期四 贷款 片段选自《好好先生》 Yes Man 27:24--28:18

Woman: Excuse me. I'd like to apply for a small-business loan.
女：打扰，我想申请小额贷款。
Carl: And what's your business?
卡尔：请问你是做什么生意？
Woman: I bake cakes in the shape of different celebrities' faces.
女：我专门烘焙名人脸形蛋糕。
Carl: Oh, wow, Mickey Rourke.
卡尔：哦，哇喔，米基洛克！
Woman: No. It's Bono.
女：不对，这是波诺·鲍诺。
Carl: Oh. Yeah, right. Let's hope it doesn't taste like Mickey Rourke.
卡尔：对哦。希望吃起来不像米基洛克。
Woman: So, what do you think?
女：你觉得怎样？
Carl: I think yes.
卡尔：我觉得没问题。
Norman: Inta-maresting. Cakes, huh?
诺曼：有点儿意思，蛋糕？
Carl: Yeah. I just kind of went with my gut on it, Norm.
卡尔：是的，我完全是凭直觉，诺。
Norman: You called me Norm.
诺曼：你叫我诺。
Carl: Yeah.
卡尔：是啊。
Norman: Could that, like, be my nickname?
诺曼：能不能当我的小名？
Carl: Yeah. I guess.
卡尔：我想没问题吧。
Norman: Oh, nice. I like your style. Car that could be yours.
诺曼：哦，太好了，我喜欢你的幽默感。你的小名就是小卡。
Carl: Yeah. Carl's pretty short already, but.
卡尔：好，虽然卡尔已经算是小名。
Norman: But it's the kind of dazzle we need around here.
诺曼：我认为在这大家都需要一个小名。

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. excuse me
对不起，劳驾，打扰一下（用于礼貌地引起注意，尤其是要提问时） ；
eg. Excuse me, but are you Mr Honig?
请问，您是霍尼格先生吗？
eg. Excuse me, I'm thinking of buying a red carpet.
打扰一下，我想买条红色的地毯。
2. apply for
申请；请求；
eg. Where two or more entities jointly apply for a patent, no patent fee may be reduced or postponed.
两个或者两个以上的单位共同申请专利的，不予减缓专利费用。
eg. Don't apply for that job: you're in danger of overreaching yourself.
不要申请那份工作，以免有不自量力之嫌。
3. in the shape of
（精确说明所指）以…的形式，也就是；
eg. The pool was in the shape of a heart.
游泳池呈心形。
eg. hat industry needed now was a little hope in the shape of an interest-rate cut.
工业目前只希望可以削减利率。
4. kind of
稍微；有几分；有点儿；
eg. It was kind of sad, really.
有点儿让人难过，真的。
eg. It kind of gives us an idea of what's happening.
这让我们大概了解了正在发生的事情。