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Ian：It doesn't look like they have chicken tenders here.

Bob: Wait inside. I have to make a call.

Firefly: This is Firefly.

Bob: This is Bob Ho. I need help.

Larry:  Yeah, so I get pretty good grades at this university. I'm top of the class. I don't like to brag¹, but, you know.

Farren: Bob, this is Larry.

Larry: Pleased to meet you, sir.

Bob: Let's get some food.

Farren: He goes to the university.

Ian: He's a poet. Isn't it cool?

Bob: It's rad. It's awesome². It's jiggy for shizzy. It's the bomb. Let's go.

Farren: Hey! How embarrassing.

Ian: You know, most people don't like me when they first meet me. But Larry did.

Bob: I have two words for you, Larry. Thirteen.

Nora: I have to go.

Bob: All right, Nora. Come on. You two stay at the table. No, no, no.I can't go in there.

Nora: Boys are pigs.

Bob: Careful.

Larry: And the lion jumped on me, and I killed him with my bare hands, and I saved the colonel's life.

Farren: You're brave.

Larry: Thanks.

Ian: How about this, Bob? The whole restaurant and the waitress sat Larry here. Isn't it great?

Farren: It's like it's fate or something.

Larry: Really, sir, we're just goofing⁴ around. Hey, Nora. Knock, knock.

Nora: Who's there?

Larry: Irish stew⁵.

Nora: Irish stew who?

Larry: Irish stew in the name of the law.

Farren: Larry was telling me all about the university. It sounds great.

Larry: I'd be glad to give you a tour sometime.

Bob: When pigs fly.

Farren: It's not up to you. You're not my dad.

Bob: No, but I know that your mother hasn't completely lost her mind.

Farren: It's just a tour, Bob. It's not like he's asking me out on a date or anything. Are you?

Larry: No, it's just a friendly offer.

Farren: Even if it was a date, you still couldn't stop me.

Bob: What's your major, Larry?

Larry: English Lit.

Bob: Would you pass the soy sauce?

Larry: That way I get a background in the classics.

Bob: You speak Russian, Larry?

Farren: What's going on?

Larry: This is going to be painful.

Bob: You're right about that. Go, go, go. Maybe you'll write a poem about this. Goodbye, Larry.

Farren: Fine. He's too old for me.

Nora: Bob, I don't want to be a princess anymore. I want to be a cyborg.

妙语佳句 活学活用

1. chicken tender：嫩鸡肉块，在此处指炸鸡店。

2. firefly：萤火虫，在此处是接线特工的代号。

3. rad：非常棒的，精彩的。

4. jiggy：美国俚语，活跃的，激动的。也可以表示“酷毙了”。

5. shizzy：用来形容很酷，例如：Dude, that car's the shizzy.（老兄，这辆车太酷了。）

6. thirteen：十三点，骂人的话，说某人神经病，不正常。

7. goof³ around：随便聊聊，消磨时光。

也可以指把时间浪费在荒谬无聊的事情上。例如：I told him not to goof around.（我叫他不要游手好闲。）

8. Irish stew：土豆洋葱煮肉。

9. when pigs fly：这决不可能。除非太阳从西边出来。也可以说成是Pigs might fly或There's a pig flying by.

据辞源介绍，俚语Pigs might fly或There's a pig flying by源于苏格兰谚语“Pigs fly in the air with their tails forward”（字面意：猪在空中倒着飞；比喻意：绝对不可能发生）。谚语认为：即使发生奇迹，猪飞了起来，但若让猪倒着飞，那肯定百分之一百实现不了。

下次若朋友提出什么荒诞建议，您可以大手一挥朝向窗户，随声惊呼：“Look! There's a pig flying by！”

10. Lit：文学，literature的缩写。例如lit-crit就是指“文学批评”。

11. soy sauce：酱油。

12. cyborg：科幻故事中的电子人，半人半机器的生物。

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