Friends [101] The One Where Monica Gets a New Roommate

by zippa, putfan

关于TOW，实际上是是the one with... 或者the one where,或者the one which...的意思。

关于central perk:
关于Central Perk，好像在友坛上已经有过了。我实在记不起来在哪里看过。最近问了个美国的老友fan，据她说只是编剧对纽约“central park”的戏称，同时这是个咖啡店的名字，咖啡提神，perk有变得突然振奋、兴奋之义，所以就成了central perk. 她本人居然也有个小coffeehouse，叫central perk，羡呀！ perk也是percolate的简写，percolate ：water pass slowly through coffee.

Monica: There’s nothing to tell! He’s just some guy I work with! 没有什么好说的嘛，他只是我的同事！
nothing是个最常用的词，口语至宝。例句如下：There’s nothing I can do for you! There’s nothing wrong!

Joey: C’mon, you’re going out with the guy! There’s gotta be something wrong with him!

这句话是Joey挖苦Monica的话，是说这个人（paul）居然和Monica出去约会，一定是有什么毛病的。这句话里going out with someone意思是having a date with someone。还有gotta其实就是have got to的意思，类似的还有gonna=going to；wanna=wanta=want to；

So does he have a hump? A hump and a hairpiece (假发)?

Phoebe: Just, ’cause, I don’t want her to go through what I went through with Carl- oh!

go through：往前走，一直穿过去，或者是通过幸福，或者是经历煎熬。

还有过海关是go through the customs,受苦就是go through the pains,隐喻肉体或者精神的炼狱。

what am I supposed to go through before I can make myself a qualified detective like you? ” (那我究竟需要经历哪些事情，才能真的成为像你这么出色的侦探？)

Monica: Okay, everybody relax. This is not even a date. It’s just two people going out to dinner and- not having sex.

Chandler: Sounds like a date to me.

其实第一集中就已经开始明示或暗示六位老友的性格特征。比如chandler面对女士的笨拙，以及他本人似乎存在的gay倾向。

everybody relax.关于everybody和everyone的区别。据我的外教说，基本上没有区别，但在中等正规或超级正规的场合，一般使用 everyone，因为body还有“尸体”的意思，everybody会给人带来不良影响。除非在特殊场合，比如摇滚舞厅，“everybody rocks！”需要强调身体的时候。

sounds like 听起来像...类似的还有feels like...looks like...很好用的口语要素。

Chandler: Finally, I figure I’d better answer it, and it turns out it’s my mother, which is very-very weird, because- she never calls me!

figure:认为 figure out:领会到，断定，合计着
turn out:结果是..
weird：怪异的, 超自然的, 神秘的, 不可思议的, 超乎事理之外的

Ross: I just feel like someone reached down my throat, grabbed my small intestine, pulled it out of my mouth and tied it around my neck...

lavanew的笔记中写道：这段话是不是很熟悉呀？对，《大话西游》里面一开始孙猴子发狠就是这样子讲的哦，不知道是谁抄袭谁，意思不用我解释了吧，这里Ross用来形容妻子Carol是Lesbian并同他离婚后的心情。

Carol moved her stuff out today.

No, no don't! Stop cleansing my aura（气氛）!
aura：a quality or feeling that seems to surround or come from a person or a place

Ross: No I don't, to hell with her, she left me!
to hell with her: 滚他妈的

Ross: No!! Okay?! Why does everyone keep fixating on that? She didn’t know, how should I know?

fixate：
To make fixed, stable, or stationary. 使固定、稳固或不动

Joey: Alright Ross, look. You're feeling a lot of pain right now. You're angry. You're hurting（你很受伤）. Can I tell you what the answer is?

Joey: Strip joint! C’mon, you’re single! Have some hormones!

strip joint = strip club,a place where the audience is entertained by performers who remove their clothes while dancing to music，joint=place通常指不那么高雅的地方

（Monica: Oh really, so that hysterical phone call I got from a woman at sobbing 3:00 A.M., "I’ll never have grandchildren, I’ll never have grandchildren." was what? A wrong number?）

关于single:比如说，由于zippa长时间单身，寂寞难耐，终于忍不住去向女士搭讪，那么有两种问法：

Are you alone?你一个人（孤单）吗？

Are you single?你结婚了（单身）吗？

这样就可以看出区别了，但是要知道的是问这样的问题是很不礼貌的喔。结果就是不同的两个问题，zippa却得到了同样的答案，当场就被人kick ass了，真是衰呀！

hormone：荷尔蒙

Rachel: Oh God Monica hi! Thank God! I just went to your building and you weren’t there and then this guy with a big hammer said you might be here and you are, you are!

God这是一个宗教意义的词，中文可翻译为神，造物主，上帝，安拉，真主等。但Rachel在剧中的用法是作为一个感叹词。可能大多数人都会在感到 意外，惊恐的时候会喊上一句”My God!” 但是真正虔诚的宗教徒是比较忌讳拿”God, Jesus Christ”等词来表达情绪的，所以非要用来表达一种特定情绪的时候，他们选择说”man, boy, gosh”。类似的还有用shoot代替shit，用Gee, Jeez代替Jesus Christ.与God有关的语气词还有God knows（天晓得），比如说Rachel逃婚了，但她的未婚夫和亲朋好友并不知情，他们在教堂等待着新娘的到来，却迟迟不见Rachel的踪影。终于有 人忍无可忍的问了一句“Where the hell is she?“,这是Barry无奈的耸耸肩”God knows!”另外还有Thank God（谢天谢地），Rachel见到Monica的第一句话就是”Thank God”表示一种因困难已过而格外高兴的心情。

Waitress: Can I get you some coffee?

Monica: (pointing at Rachel) De-caff. (to All) Okay, everybody, this is Rachel, another Lincoln High survivor. (to Rachel) This is everybody, this is Chandler, and Phoebe, and Joey, and- you remember my brother Ross?

De-caff是不含咖啡因的咖啡。

Lincoln High 指Lincoln High School.能活着离开学校当然是surviors了，一老美说，说Rachel是survior，说明他们的成绩很差，勉勉强强才能毕业

Rachel: Oh God... well, it started about a half hour before the wedding. I was in the room where we were keeping all the presents, and I was looking at this gravy boat. This really gorgeous Lamauge gravy boat. When all of a sudden- (to the waitress that brought her coffee)Sweet 'n Low?- I realized that I was more turned on by this gravy boat than by Barry! And then I got really freaked out, and that's when it hit me: how much Barry looks like Mr. Potato Head. Y'know, I mean, I always knew looked familiar, but... Anyway, I just had to get out of there, and I started wondering 'Why am I doing this, and who am I doing this for?'. (to Monica) So anyway I just didn't know where to go, and I know that you and I have kinda drifted apart, but you're the only person I knew who lived here in the city.

Monica: Who wasn't invited to the wedding.

Rachel: Ooh, I was kinda hoping that wouldn't be an issue..

gravy boat ： 中文字典上解释为船行卤肉盘，这里说的boat是一种有手柄的，用来盛gravy（浇在菜上调味用的肉汁）的船形盘。

freak out 很常用，就是吓坏了

Sweet'n Low (trademarked as Sweet'N Low) is a brand of artificial sweetener.

Sweet ’n’ Low=sweet and low；’n=’and，比如说Rock and Roll就会写成Rock ’n’ Roll。

跟老友一起傻笑: Mr. Potato Head:瑞秋和众人谈到了她逃婚的原因，她说这是因为她突然发现她的未婚夫巴里医生长得活像“薯头先生(Mr．Potato Head)”，这是在美国家喻户晓的卡通人物。如果大家看过《玩具 总动员(Toy Story)》，就会在里面发现他和他的夫人“薯头太太(Mrs．Potato Head)”叽叽歪歪，经常批评这、批评那的形象。尽管“薯头先生”很可爱，但卡通毕竟是卡通，如果你在乎未婚夫的容貌，而未婚夫又不幸长得和“薯头先 生”一副嘴脸，你最好还是和瑞秋一样赶紧逃婚。

Hit 在文章中的用法既简单又形象，表示某人的脑子突然被一个事实或想法击中，它就相当于前面的realize。这是一个老美很喜欢用，但中国人不太会用的动 词，通常指开始做某事。例如摇滚乐团的主唱常会看看其他吉他手，键盘手，贝斯手准备好了没有，如果大家都准备好了的话，他就会大喊一声: “Let’s hit it.”=Let’s go. Let’s start.。再如去洗澡，大多数人说take a shower，如果你说hit a shower和老美一样，那种层次立马就不一样。类似的用法还有像睡觉hit the bed,上路说hit the road.去电影院hit the movie theater,去酒吧hit the bar,甚至去学校hit the school，去纽约城hit New York city，主打歌hit song打入排行榜hit the billboard,还可以表示遇见某样东西，如hit the traffic light, hit the stop sign。再介绍两个与之相关的短语:hit on sb. &hit it off. Hit on是当作搭讪来解释。电视剧里常有一个男的跑去跟一个陌生女孩多吗说了两句话，那个女生就说:”Are you hitting on me? ”（你现在是在跟我搭讪吗？）而hit it off表示合得来，比如说He was introduced to a party woman and they seem to hit it off immediately.(给他介绍一位漂亮女子后，他们似乎就一见钟情)。
Monica: Who wasn’t invited to the wedding.

drift apart: 关系疏远了

wouldn't be an issue：不会有问题

Monica: Joey, stop hitting on (挑逗) her! It's her wedding day!

hit on 挑逗 = make a pass at = make a move on

Monica: Oh God, is it 6:30? Buzz him in!

buzz:
To signal with a buzzer. 蜂鸣：用蜂鸣器向…发出信号
To make a telephone call to. 打电话给…
buzz:嗡嗡声，门铃的声音。buzz him in就是形象地让他进来。

Chandler: Ooh, this is a Dear Diary moment.
西方人写日记一开头总爱写Dear Diary,……
Dear Diary moment也许是讲这个时刻不同寻常，有重要意义，值得写进日记的意思吧
这是一个值得纪念的日子/时刻”的意思。
Chandler: I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name. Paul, was it?

Ross: A wandering?

我猜是ross取笑妹妹的话，说他见到Paul，神魂颠倒，happy的有点恍惚了，不知道该干什么。

wandering:漫游,徘徊,神情恍惚

Phoebe: Oh, I wish I could, but I don’t want to.

超级句型.I wish I could, But....我希望我可以,但是...

Ross: So Rachel, what're you, uh... what're you up to tonight?
What're you up to? = What are you going to do?


Rachel: Well, I was kinda supposed to be headed for Aruba on my honeymoon, so nothing!
be headed for = go to

Ross: (squatting and reading the instructions) I'm supposed to attach a brackety (支架的) thing to the side things, using a bunch of these little worm guys. I have no brackety thing, I see no whim guys whatsoever and- I cannot feel my legs.

Joey: Done with the bookcase!
be done with sth. 把...做完了

Joey: You got screwed.
screw = cheat

Rachel: Hi, machine cut me off again... anyway
电话断线了

Joey: There's Rocky Road, and Cookie Dough, and Bing! Cherry Vanilla.

Joey: You got married, you were, like, what, eight?
你不是八岁的孩子

Chandler: Stay out of my freezer!

Paul: Ever since she walked out on me, I, uh...

Monica: What?..... What, you wanna spell it out with noodles?
spell out 讲清楚

Monica: I know being spit on is probably not what you need right now. Um... how long?
spit on sb. 向...吐口水

Joey: Listen, while you're on a roll, if you feel like you gotta make like a Western omelet or something...

on a roll Informal

Undergoing or experiencing sustained, even increasing good fortune or success: "The stock market's on a roll" Karen Pennar.

Chandler: All right, kids, I gotta get to work. If I don't input those numbers,... it doesn't make much of a difference...

Chandler: 'Look, Gippetto, I'm a real live boy.'

Rachel: Oh, look, wish me luck!

Frannie: Are you kidding? I take credit for Paul. Y'know before me, there was no snap in his turtle for two years.
I take credit for Paul. 我给Paul打保票
snap:
The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
turtle:

n. an uncircumcised penis; the head of the penis enclosed in the prepuce The turtle came out of its shell while I was playing with it.

Joey: (sitting on the arm of the couch)Of course it was a line! 当然是个骗局了呀！friends的用词真的很讲究，JOEY是个演员，他说的话也带上了职业特征。line还有“台词”的意思。

Rachel: Are you kidding? I'm trained for nothing! I was laughed out of twelve interviews today.

Chandler: And yet you're surprisingly upbeat.
upbeat: 乐观的

Chandler: Oh, how well you know me...

Phoebe: You're welcome. I remember when I first came to this city. I was fourteen. My mom had just killed herself and my step-dad was back in prison, and I got here, and I didn't know anybody. And I ended up living with this al'bino guy who was, like, cleaning windshields outside port authority, and then he killed himself, and then I found aromatherapy. So believe me, I know exactly how you feel.
Phoebe的经历

Monica: Well, that's it (To Ross) You gonna crash on the couch?

Ross: No. No, I gotta go home sometime.

crash.
Slang a. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night. b. To go to sleep.

Ross: Okay. (They split it.) You know you probably didn't know this, but back in high school, I had a, um, major crush on you.
had a crush on: 对...有好感

Ross: You did! Oh.... I always figured you just thought I was Monica's geeky older brother.
geeky：
adj.〈俚〉令人讨厌的
geek：
An odd or ridiculous person.
畸形人，怪人：一个奇怪或不可思议的人