美國婚禮風俗（上）

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本片段劇情：Jane弄丟了記錄自己參加婚禮的筆記本，卻不料這個記事本落入了Kevin的手中。Kevin找到老板，想以Jane的經(jīng)歷為素材，寫一篇有關(guān)婚禮的報道。經(jīng)過一番唇槍舌劍之后，老板終于答應了他的請求。但這篇報道會給Jane帶來怎樣的經(jīng)歷呢？“職業(yè)伴娘”的經(jīng)歷曝光對她是喜還是憂呢？

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Jane: Good morning, Gina.

Gina: Hi.

Jane: You haven't seen my Filofax anywhere, have you?

Gina: No.

Jane: No. Okay. I'll go look for it. Did you get those catalog pages in for George?

Gina: No.

Jane: Okay. No worries. I'll get them from production.

Casey: Attagirl. Show her who's boss.

Jane: I'm not her boss.

Casey: You're the boss's assistant. Same diff. What's the good of your job if you can't abuse the power?

Jane: Casey, go to Accounting.

Casey: Now you're bossy.

Jane: Where the hell did I put that thing?

Kevin: That is a great idea for the front page of the section.

Maureen: Oh, come on, Doyle. How many times have I heard this from you?

Kevin: I'm telling you, Maureen: It's a great idea.

Maureen: Really? As great as your last great idea, an expose on price-fixing at wedding bakeries?

Kevin: Yes! Yes! They're ripping people off. Flour costs pennies per ounce. That's an 800% markup. It's outrageous.

Maureen: Yes, it is. Also, no one cares.

Kevin: What about the piece I wanted to do on the exploitation of workers in lace factories? That is a killer piece.

Maureen: Oh, right. That's what people really wanna read about in the Style section. Kevin, this section practically pays for the entire paper: Our advertisers want fun, upbeat, colorful human-interest stories... opposite their products.

Kevin: So that's what we're about now? Making money?

Maureen: Get out.

Kevin: All right. Listen. That was not right. I get it. But this one is. Look, this woman has been in seven weddings-

Maureen: So?

Kevin: This year. She was in two on Saturday alone. But it won't just be about her. It'll be an incisive look at how the wedding industry has transformed something: That should be an important rite of passage into nothing more than a corporate revenue stream. In a fun, upbeat, you know, cheerful way. Look, Maureen, I am dying back there in Commitments. If I have to write another sentence about baby's breath, I'm gonna shoot myself. This is a real story. This is what I wanna do.

Maureen: I need you covering weddings. That's what you're good at. And that's what I need you to do.

Kevin: If you don't start giving me feature stories, I'm gonna have to quit.

Maureen: All right. One chance. If I don't like it, you go back to Commitments for the rest of your life with a big smile on that ridiculously handsome face of yours.

Kevin: Deal.

妙語佳句，活學活用

1. Filofax: 備忘記事本。Filofax是一種商標的名稱，指一種輕便的活頁文件夾，用來裝日記本、文件、信用卡等，80年代雅皮士族經(jīng)常備帶。

2. Attagirl: 好啊，好棒，an informal expression of encouragement or admiration to a woman or girl（表達對女性的贊嘆，非正式用語）。

如果贊嘆的對象是一位男性，我們可以用attaboy來表達。

3. Same diff: 一回事。Same diff是一種 oxymoron（矛盾修辭法），用來形容something as being the same as something else（兩件事其實是一回事），常在說錯話時用來做借口。

例如："You said jackflap, not flapjack" "Same-diff"）“你剛才說的是jackflap，而不是flapjack。”“那不是一回事嘛。”

4. bossy: 專橫的，盛氣凌人的。

例如：No, she is stingy, narrow-minded and bossy.（不，她小氣，心胸狹窄，又拔扈。）

5. front page: 頭版。

例如：The news got a front-page splash.（該消息在頭版醒目地登出），而排front page的版面，我們就可以說：to make up the front page。

6. price-fixing: 限定價格，指一種價格壟斷行為。Maureen在這里是說，Kevin上次報道了婚禮蛋糕店“開天殺價”的行為。

7. rip off: 宰客，敲詐。

The used car advertisement is a big rip-off.（這個二手汽車廣告是個大騙局），我們從不刊登這樣的廣告to rip off the customers（宰客）。

8. rite of passage: （標志人生重要階段的）通過儀式，重大事件，a ceremony or an event that marks an important stage in sb's life. 比如出生、成人、結(jié)婚等等，所以有時也用復數(shù)rites of passages。

9. die back: 枯死，枝葉枯萎。Kevin在這里的意思是說，“我寫《承諾》專欄寫到悶”。

10.baby's breath: 水香花菜，滿天星，這里泛指婚禮上的花束。

11:deal: 一言為定。這個詞現(xiàn)在常單獨使用，用來表示答應對方提出的條件。

美國婚禮風俗（上）

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