Friends 1 《老友記》1（精講之九）
[ 2006-11-17 09:58 ]
影片對白 Very difficult to appreciate
a Thanksgiving dinner once you've seen it in reverse.
考考你 一展身手
2. chip in 湊份子
We all chipped in.
我們每個(gè)人都湊了份子錢。
Just like classmates across the country, they all chipped in to buy a
classmate a birthday gift.
和全國一樣，他們湊錢給同班同學(xué)買了一份生日禮物。
3. in reverse 顛倒、逆轉(zhuǎn)
這里Chandler的意思是感恩節(jié)給他的感覺和通常人們認(rèn)為的歡樂氣氛相反。
It's very difficult to appreciate a Thanksgiving dinner once you've seen it
in reverse.
一旦經(jīng)歷過那樣不愉快的感恩節(jié)晚餐，你是很難會喜歡它的。
Could Iraq be Vietnam in reverse?
伊拉克有可能成為第二個(gè)越南嗎？
4. get out 胡說、去你的
記住，在這里可不是“滾蛋”的意思。
- You're the best in the business.
- Get out.
- 你是這行里最優(yōu)秀的。
- 少來了。
5. lay back 放松
You know when to spritz, when to lay back.
你知道什么時(shí)候需要動，什么時(shí)候需要靜。
Just lay back and enjoy the ride.
只管放松享受這一程吧（指騎馬）。
文化面面觀
Thanksgiving 感恩節(jié)
對感恩節(jié)這個(gè)節(jié)日大家應(yīng)該都不陌生。現(xiàn)在讓我們一起來追溯一下感恩節(jié)的歷史和習(xí)俗吧！
The History and Origin of Thanksgiving
Day
Almost every culture in the world has held celebrations of thanks for a
plentiful harvest. The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of
thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies almost four hundred
years ago.
 In 1620, a boat filled with more than one hundred
people sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World. This
religious group had begun to question the beliefs of the Church of England and
they wanted to separate from it. The Pilgrims settled in what is now the state
of Massachusetts. Their first winter in the New World was difficult. They had
arrived too late to grow many crops, and without fresh food, half the colony
died from disease. The following spring the Iroquois Indians taught them how to
grow corn (maize), a new food for the colonists. They showed them other crops to
grow in the unfamiliar soil and how to hunt and fish.
In the autumn of
1621, bountiful crops of corn, barley, beans and pumpkins were harvested. The
colonists had much to be thankful for, so a feast was planned. They invited the
local Indian chief and 90 Indians. The Indians brought deer to roast with the
turkeys and other wild game offered by the colonists. The colonists had learned
how to cook cranberries and different kinds of corn and squash dishes from the
Indians. To this first Thanksgiving, the Indians had even brought popcorn.
In following years, many of the original colonists celebrated the autumn
harvest with a feast of thanks. After the United States became an independent
country, Congress recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole
nation to celebrate. George Washington suggested the date November 26 as
Thanksgiving Day. Then in 1863, at the end of a long and bloody civil war,
Abraham Lincoln asked all Americans to set aside the last Thursday in November
as a day of thanksgiving.
(http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjhol/a/thanksday.htm)
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