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Wilhelmina:Betty's neighbor stole the book. This must be my lucky day.

Betty的邻居偷了样刊。今天肯定是我的幸运日。

Amanda:Vampira told me to let you know they're still waiting for your notes from the book.

Vampira让我告诉你，他们还在等你对那本书提出自己的看法。

Daniel:Uh, uh, just tell them I'm—— I'm still going over it. I, uh, I ran out of post-its, okay?

呃，呃，告诉他们我——我还在整理。我，呃，我的便条用完了，好么？

Yeah. Oh, and, uh, call Betty again. Find out where the hell she—

哦，再给Betty打个电话。问问她究竟——

Okay! I'm not seeing the book in your hands. Why is that?

太好了！怎么没见你拿书？怎么回事？

Betty:Because Gina Gambarro has it.

因为被Gina Gambarro拿走了。

Daniel:Gambarro? Gambarro. Is that a-a new designer?

Gambarro？Gambarro。是那个新来的设计师？

Betty:No, it's an old slut. She broke into my house, and she took it, and now she's holding it in ransom—

不，是个老婊子，她闯进了我家偷走了书，现在她以此勒索——

Daniel:What? W-w-wait. You told me you had the book. You said you were looking at it.

什么？等——等等。你说书在你手上的，你说你正在看。

Betty:Yeah, I lied...or I twisted the truth to try to buy some time and fix it.

是啊，我撒谎了…或者说我是歪曲事实，省情度势想争取点时间来解决它。

Daniel:Betty, you don't lie to me, ever. We're on the same team.

Betty，你怎么可以对我撒谎。我们是一条船上的。

I mean, we cannot afford to have those unretouched Natalie proofs out there in any way, shape or form, and I-I cannot tell you how royally it screwed with her and this entire magazine could be.

无论如何，不能让Natalie的原始照片样张以任何形式流传出去，否则不管对她还是对整个杂志后果都不堪设想。

Betty:Because there are pictures of what she actually looks like?

就因为里面有张她真实样貌的照片？

Daniel:Exactly. How much does this Gina want?

没错。Gina想要多少钱？

Betty:$4,000.00 .Daniel, I-I will pay you back with interest, or you can take it out of my check for the next five years. I'm so sorry.

4000美元。Daniel，我会连本带利一起还你，或者在我未来五年的工资里扣。我真的很抱歉。

Daniel:Okay, stop, uh... we're gonna deal with this later.

好了，别说了…这个我们稍候再说。

Get my checkbook out of my top drawer and meet me downstairs. We're going to Queens.

从最上面的抽屉里拿支票本给我，我在楼下等你。咱们到皇后区去。

Betty:Daniel, they're all waiting for you.

Daniel，他们都在等你。

Daniel: Oh, right.

哦，对。

重点讲解

单词：

1. post-its: 便利贴

2. designer: 设计师

3. slut: 婊子

4. ransom: 赎金

5. fix: 修补

6. proof: 校样

7. shape: 状况

8. form: 形式

7. royally: 庄严地【严重地】

10. interest: 利息

11. check: 支票

12. checkbook: 支票本

13. drawer: 抽屉

14. downstairs: 楼下

短语归纳：

1. run out of: 用完了

2. afford to: 能承担

3. notes from the book：这本书的批注

4. go over：仔细检查，查看

5. find out：发现

6. the hell：究竟

7. buy some time：赢得一些时间

8. on the same team：同在一条船上

9. have something out：把某物或某事流传出去，泄露出去

10. pictures of what sb actually looks like：某人真实相貌的照片

11. pay sb back：还钱给某人

12. pay you back with interest：连本带利还钱给某人

13. take sth out of sth：从......扣除.......

14. get sth out of somewhere：从......拿出.......

15. wait for：等待

重点短语精学：

run out of

释义1：用完, 耗尽

Eg . We've run out of petrol. What a bore!我们的汽油用完了. 真麻烦！

Eg . What if/Say you were to run out of money? What would you do?假设你的钱用完了呢？你将怎么办呢？

释义2：从 ... 跑出

Eg . The students run out of the classroom.学生们从教室里跑出来。

Eg . Domestic animals run out of their stalls.家畜从圈中奔出。

go over

释义1：仔细检查，察看

Eg . Please go over it and see if everything is in order.请再过目一下，看看是否都符合规定。

Eg . Please go over the draft of the contract.

请再看一下草案吧。

释义2：复习，重做

Eg . Before doing your exercises, you should go over the text.做作业前，你应该将课文复习一遍。
Eg . At first we'll learn new words and expressions and then go over the text.首先我们将学习生词和词组，然后看一遍课文。

find out：发现

pay sb back

释义1：还钱给某人

Eg . I'll pay back the money to you lent me next week.下星期我把你借给我的钱还给你。

Eg . Pay back the $5,000 I loaned you by today.我借给你的5,000元，今天还我吧。

释义2：报复某人

Eg . One day I' ll pay back that boy who broke my bike !总有一天我得对弄坏我自行车的那个男孩报复一下！

Eg . I will pay him back in his own coin.我要以其人之道还其人之身。

afford to：付得起；能承担

Eg . I can't afford to spend any more on food.

用在食物上的钱，再多一点儿我也花不起了。

Eg . We can't afford to send our children to college.

我们不能负担得起送我们的孩子上大学。