Dr. Mitchell: Really?
Monica: (as Rachel) Yeah... Yeah, I know it's pretty selfish, but haha, hey, that's me. (Indicating a dish on the table) Why don't you try the hummus?
hummus n.鹰嘴豆芝麻色拉酱
Dr. Rosen: So, Monica, what do you do?
Rachel: (as Monica) Aahh, I'm a... chef at a restaurant uptown.
uptown adv.在住宅区地
Dr. Rosen: Good for you.
Rachel: (as Monica) Yeah it is, mostly because I get to boss people around, which I just love to do.
boss sb around v.指挥某人 使别人团团转
Dr. Rosen: This hummus is great. Dr. Mitchell: God bless the chickpea.
chickpea n.鹰嘴豆
Monica: (as Rachel) (Suddenly laughing) Oh, god, I am so spoiled... That's it!
(The doctors don't know what to make of all this.)
make of v.明白
Rachel: (as Monica) And by the way, have I mentioned that back in high school, I was a cow?
cow n.(雌象雌鲸等大型动物)母兽
Monica: (as Rachel) I used to wet my bed.
Rachel: (as Monica) I use my breasts to get other people's attention. Monica: (as Rachel) (Revealing her anger to point at her best friend) We both do that!
(Rachel lets her anger show too. Hideously embarrassed, the doctors drain their glasses in the vicious pause which follows. The telephone rings, but the girls just glower at each other, silently daring the other to move first. Finally both guys jump up, and Michael wins.)
hideous adj.丑陋的 可怕的/drain vt.喝光/vicious adj. /glower vi.怒目/dare v.向??挑战
Dr. Mitchell: (on the phone) Monica and Rachel's apartment. Err yeh, aayah, yeh, just one second... (handing it to Monica) ..ah, Rachel, it's your dad.
Monica: (as Rachel) Hi, Dad. No, no, it's me. (Getting up to move further away from Rachel) listen, Dad, I can't talk right now, um, but there's something, um... there's something that I've been meaning to tell you... (Monica glares triumphantly across the room, scaring Rachel who also stands up.)
Rachel: Would you excuse me for a second?
Monica: (as Rachel) Remember back in freshman year? (Talking fast before Rachel can catch her) Well, Billy Dreskin and I had sex on your bed. (Completely undone by Monica's verbal destruction, Rachel almost loses her balance as she staggers backwards, eyes agog, gasping for breath, and literally not knowing which way to turn. Finally, she escapes into the bathroom while a resigned Dr. Mitchell looks philosophically at Dr. Rosen who seems about remind him of the good old days at the pagan altar.)
undone adj.烦乱的 扰乱的/verbal destruction n.口头污蔑/agog adv.急切地/gasp for breath v.上气不接下气/literally adv.用于加强语气,简直??/resign v.辞去/resigned adj.认命的/philosophically adv.冷静地/remind sb of使某人回忆起
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[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, the next morning, Ross, Phoebe, Chandler and Monica sit round the coffee table, playing Scrabble. Rachel, still in her dressing gown, is pleading on the phone, her free hand shaking with agitation.]
dressing gown n.睡衣/plead v.辩护 申辩/agitation n.激动 烦乱/Scrabble 这是美国小孩很爱玩的拼字游戏，基本规则是，每人抓取七个字母，第一个玩的人拼成一个单词，摆放在棋盘中央，第二个根据已经摆放出来的字母和自己手中的字母，像玩填字游戏一样继续下去。每个字母都有不同的分数，拼出一个单词就可以得到相应的分数。剧中，猴子马塞尔偷偷吃下了K、M和O这三个字母，所以大家开玩笑说他是否想拼出猴子(Monkey)这个词/ Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works (e.g. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, now in its 4th edition) provide a list of permissible words.
Rachel: (on phone) Daddy... Daddy... Daddy, why would I sleep with Billy Dreskin? His father tried to put you out of business! (Rachel turns to Monica, clasping the receiver to her bosom so Dr.Green can't hear, while mouthing \
put sb out of business使某人倒闭破产/claspe v.扣紧/receiver n.听筒/bosom n.胸部/mouth v.不出声地说
(Monica smiles a sweet apology of regret, until she's distracted by Marcel as he clambers all over her nice furniture.)
clamber vi.攀爬
Monica: Ross, he's got the remote again. Ross: Good. Maybe he can switch it back.
(Marcel changes channel to Bugs Bunny, who is speaking in Spanish.)
Bugs Bunny is an Academy Award-winning animated rabbit/hare(n.野兔) who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions which became Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1944. Today, he is the corporate mascot for Warner Brothers, especially its animated productions.
Ross: Maybe not.
(Meanwhile, Rachel has taken another call, from a nurse she'd hoped never to hear from again.)
Rachel: Hello? (Listens) Um, yeah, uh, (snapping her fingers at Ross who takes the remote from Marcel, then turns off the TV) Okay, hold on a second, let me just check and see if she's here.
snap one's fingers v.打响指
(All animosity forgotten, Rachel holds the receiver out as she limps quickly over to her friend, who stands up in concern.)
animosity n.仇恨 憎恨
Rachel: It's the woman from the hospital admissions office. She says there's a problem with the form. Oh, god, oh god...
Rachel & Monica: Oh god, what do we do, what do we do, what do we do? Monica: I don't know! Why don't you just explain? What do they want? Find out what they want!
Rachel: Okay (desperately hands the receiver over) no, you do it. Monica: (taking the phone) Hello, this is Monica... Yeah? Oh... (Smiles at Rachel to reassure her) Okay, yes, we'll be right, we'll be right down.(Listens) Thank you. (Hangs up)
reassurev.打消疑虑/be right down v.马上就来
Rachel: What?
Monica: We forgot to sign one of the admissions forms.
Rachel: Ohhh... (slumping in relief) Okay, you were right. You were right! This was just not worth it.
slump v.(突然或沉重地)倒下
Monica: Thank you.
Rachel: Okay, let me just change.
change vi.换衣服
Monica: Yes.
(Rachel goes to her room.) Joey: (entering quietly) Hey. Ross & Chandler: Hey! Monica: Hi. Phoebe: Trouble?
Joey: Your sister stood me up the other night.
the other night adv.前两天夜里/stand sb up v.放某人鸽子
Phoebe: Oh, no. Don't you hate it when people aren't there for you? Ross: Well did you try calling her?
Joey: I've been trying for two days. When I called the restaurant, they said she was too busy to talk. I can't believe she's blowin' me off.
blow off <俚>ignore;cancel (the plans)
(Phoebe wants to be angry with Joey, but as she watches him shaking his head in pain and disbelief, she knows that it isn't his fault.) [Scene: Riff's, Phoebe is entering. Ursula returns with two plates of chicken, but she only has time to set one on the table, when...]
