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The Big Bang Theory,《生活大爆炸》

A:Let's go out tonight. I have to go out tonight...

甲:让我们今夜狂欢吧，今夜我一定要狂欢…

B:What the hell is that?

乙:那是什么鬼叫声？

A:I don't know, but if cats could sing...They'd hate it, too.

甲:我不知道，但是如果猫能唱歌…它们也会恨这歌声。

B:You want to prowl, be my night owl...Hey, guys! Hi! Where you going?

乙:你伺机徘徊与我共度良宵…嘿，伙计们！嗨！你们要去哪？

A:What? We just had to mail some letters and...throw away some chicken.

甲:什么？我们只是去寄几封信，然后…把一些鸡肉扔了。

B:You'll never guess what just happened.

乙:你们肯定猜不到刚才发生了什么。

A:Oh, I give up.

甲:哦，我弃权。

B:I don't guess.As a scientist, I reach conclusions based on observation and experimentation…Although as I'm saying this, it occurs to me you may have been employing a rhetorical

乙:

A:device rendering my response moot.

甲:我不猜，作为一名科学家，我只通过观察与实验得出结论…虽然我这么说，我却觉得你可能一直都用的是设问句，而且不想听到这种答案。

B:What was that?

乙:什么意思？

A:Believe it or not, personal growth. What happened?

甲:信不信由你，那是自我成长。发生什么事了？

生活口语

Come on, sing along with me.

来吧，跟我一起唱。

I'm tone-deaf and can't keep a beat.

我五音不全而且跟不上节拍。

重点讲解:

I can't carry a tune and keep up with the beat.

I'm tone-deaf and can't keep a beat.

很多人不敢唱歌，认为自己唱歌不在调上，英文中形容某人“五音不全且 跟不上节拍”，可以说I can't carry a tune and keep up with the beat, keep up with 有“跟上”的意思，口语中表达“五音不全”有个简单的说法，即tone-deaf, deaf是“聋的”，tone-deaf很形象地表达了“五音不全”。