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本期影视片花选在第四季第四集。

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While you were on your personal call, I finished the trends column.

在你打私人电话的时候 我把时尚专栏改好了

You cut the whole intro? You know what? I don't miss it.

你把整段导语都删了 知道吗 我也这么想

Good idea.

好主意

Great idea.

是绝妙的主意

What?

怎么了

Nothing.

没什么

It's just... it's bad enough I have to watch you get promoted above me

只是觉得郁闷 眼睁睁地看着你踩着我往上爬

without having any knowledge of fashion,

可你对时尚一窍不通

but now I have to have your ineptitude rubbed in my face.

可是我必须忍受笨戳戳的你还在我眼前晃来晃去

You know what, Marc?

你知道吗 Marc

I'm not gonna keep having this argument with you.

我不想和你再这么吵下去

I know I'm not perfect

我知道我不是最好的

but Daniel and Wilhelmina picked me for a reason.

但是 Daniel和Wilhelmina挑选我是有理由的

Yeah, Daniel's name is on the building

是啊 这栋楼都是Daniel的

and you two are lovahs.

你们俩又是死党

You know, I have half a mind to march into Daniel's office right now

你要知道我恨不得现在就冲进丹尼尔的办公室

and put this issue to rest once and for all.

把这件事一次性说明白了

I would love to see the look on your face

我想看看你脸上的表情

when Daniel says they gave me the job because they thought I would be a better editor than you.

当Daniel说他们给我这份工作是因为我比你更适合于做一个编辑

Okay. I would love to hear him say those words.

行啊 我也想听他亲口说

Fine.

好啊

Fine. Fine.

走啊 走

No, you're both so qualified.

你们两个都能胜任

It was just give us the truth.

说实话就行

Your vote trumped Wilhelmina's, right?

你投票比Wilhelmina更有分量 对吧

Because you're a Meade.

因为你是米德家的

Or was it simply that I had more potential as an editor?

还是因为我更有当编辑的潜力

It was a very, uh, hard decision for us to make.

这对我们是个很难做的决定

Why are you sparing their feelings, Daniel?

你干吗这么在意他们的感受

We tossed a coin.

我们抛了个硬币是投币决定的

And you got your job, Betty, because you were tails.

Betty你得到这个工作 因为你是背面
语汇世界

第一、重点词汇

1. trend

双语释义：a general direction in which a situation is changing or developing

时尚；趋势；趋向

词性：及物动词

典型例句：My rich mother is always following the latest trends in fashion

我那有钱的妈妈总是追求最新的流行款式。

The trend of prices is still upwards.

物价仍有上涨趋势。

2. column

双语释义：part of a newspaper regularly dealing with a particular subject or written by the same journalist

（报纸的）专栏（文章）

词性：可数名词

典型例句：Do you pay any attention to the correspondence columns of “The Times” ?

你关注过《泰晤士报》上的通讯专栏吗？

I always read her column in the local paper.

我经常在当地报纸上看她的专栏文章。

相关短语：the fashion/motoring/financial column 时装﹑汽车﹑财经等专栏

3. ineptitude

双语释义：lack of skill

无能，不称职

词性：不可数名词

典型例句：They joked about his ineptitude.

他们取笑他的笨拙。

He finally got the sack after a year of ineptitude.

他一年来工作不称职，最后还是在年尾被解雇了。

4. rub

双语释义：(cause sth to) press against (a surface) with a to-and-fro sliding movement

（用某物）擦, 磨, 揉, 搓（另一物）

词性：及物动词

过去式和过去分词：rubbed rubbed

语法用法：~ (sth) (with sth)

典型例句：If you keep rubbing, the paint will come off.

你再多擦擦颜色就能掉了。

He rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

他抚摩着下巴陷入沉思。

5. trump

双语释义：to beat sth that sb says or does by saying or doing sth even better

战胜，胜过

典型例句：They were trumped by another firm that made a lower bid.

其它：

1. vote：n. 选票

2. toss：vt. 投掷

3. tail：n.后部

第二、重点短语

1. on one’s personal call：打私人电话

讲解：on one’s call就是指“打电话”，在call前面加上personal就是打私人电话的意思。其变异短语有：make a personal call，make a personal call to sb.

例句：He has been being on his personal call to my parents at work.

他在上班时间一直给他的父母打私人电话。

Staff is not allowed to be on his personal call during office hours .

在上班时间，工作人员不准打私人电话。

2. get promoted：得到晋升

讲解：在美语中很常见这样的结构：get+动词的过去分词，意思就是和这个过去分词的原形的意思相同，get promoted意思就是promote。类似结构的短语还有：get killed ( =be killed )，get divorced ( =divorce )等。

例句：He failed to get promoted for lack of resolution.

他因缺乏果断力而未能得到提升。

She wised me about how to get promoted.

她教我一套如何争取提升的办法。

3. have knowledge of：对......有了解，知道，懂得

讲解：在knowledge前可以加一些修饰词语，表示了解，知道的程度深，例如：have very little knowledge of（一窍不通），have a thorough knowledge of（完全知道），have detailed knowledge of（详细了解）等。

例句：In the west of England, more than six in 10 have knowledge of another language.

而在英国西部，则有60%以上的人懂得一门外语。

I have very little knowledge of mathematics.

我对数学几乎一无所知。

A person may have thorough knowledge of his subject,and yet unable to get it over to an audience.

一个人或许对他的专业了解得很彻底,可他却不能对别人解释清楚。

4. in one’s face：在某人眼前，公众地

例句：When I asked him for longer time to pay back the loan, the boss just laughed in my face.

当我要求缓期归还贷款时，老板当即轻蔑地拒绝了我。

Whoever disagrees, please speak out right in my face.

谁要是不同意，就请当面谈出来。

5. for a reason：由于......的原因

讲解：这个短语可以独立做状语，也可以在reason的后面接定语或者同为与从句，for a reason that...

例句：The student quit school for a reason that only he knew.

那个学生退学了，原因只有他自己知道。

Everything happens for a reason.

凡事皆事出有因。

6. have an argument：进行争论，进行争吵

讲解：表示与某人进行争论，发生争执，用介词with，再进一步说为某事和某人争吵即用这个结构：have an argument with sb about sth。

例句：They are have an argument about whose turn tt be.

他们正在争论这回该轮到谁了。

Whenever they have an argument, Mary has the worst of it.

只要他们一辩论，玛丽总是惨败。

7. march into：直接冲入

讲解：这个短语表示进入的意思有“迅猛”的意味。

例句：Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state.

Hawkwood带领士兵进入某个城邦。

8. once and for all：彻底地，一劳永逸地，永远地

例句：See if you can handle this young trouble-maker once and for all.

看看你能不能把那个小捣乱分子一劳永逸的打发走。

He was going to expose their triviality once and for all.

他将彻底暴露他们的浅薄无能。

I intend to set the matter at rest once and for all.

我打算把这件事彻底搞清楚。

9. right now：立刻，马上，现在，就在此刻

例句：I am doing nothing right now.

我现在没做什么事情。

I cannot give you our quotation right now.

现在我不能给你我们的报价。

10. make a decision：做出决定

例句：We'll kick some ideas around and make a decision tomorrow.

我们先酝酿一下，明天再作决定。

I don't want to put pressure on you to make a decision, but we haven't much time left.

我并不想催你做决定，只是我们剩下的时间已经不多了。

We must be practical and work out the cost before we make a decision.

我们应该实事求是地先把费用算出来，然后再做决定。

11. would love to：乐意，愿意，想要

例句：This baby would love to have you sing her to sleep.

这个孩子就喜欢你用催眠曲把她送入梦乡。

I would love to show you some of the things we are doing here.

我很高兴能为你展示我们正在进行的事业。

其它：

1. cut the intro：删掉简介

2. the look on one’s face：脸上的表情

牛人口语

情景：如果你对某物或某人不喜欢，可以这么说：

I don’t miss something ( or somebody ).

源于台词：You cut the whole intro? You know what? I don't miss it.

情景：如果你想表示某个建筑物或某物是属于某人的，你可以这么说：

One’s name is on something.

源于台词：Daniel's name is on the building...

情景：别人曲解了你的意思，误解了你，你想澄清，可以这么说：
I want to put this issue to rest.

源于台词：...and put this issue to rest once and for all.

情景：当别人说的话很让你气愤，你非常冲动要去做某事，可以这么说：

I have a half mind to do something.

源于台词：I have half a mind to march into Daniel's office right now...

情景：你需要你面对的人说事情，可以这么说：

It gives me the truth.

源于台词： It was just give us the truth.