Rachel: What the hell is that?!! (to Monica) What the hell is that? Is that you? Monica: Boy, you are really not a morning person. Rachel: You back off!!! Get up! Get up! Get up! God damn it! Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up!! What is that noise? Chandler: You! Joey: It’s the chick! She’s…going through some changes. Monica: What kind of changes? Chandler: Well the vet seems to think that’s she’s becoming a rooster.
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看来早起对于Rachel来说真是桩痛苦的事情，所以Monica看到她被吵醒的反应后说：Boy, you are really not a morning person. Boy一词在这里并不是“男孩”的意思，而是做为语气词使用,可以表示兴奋、失望、恼怒等情感，如：Oh boy—what a surprise!
再来看一下back off这个词组，看上去很简单，从字面上理解就是往后退的意思，其实它还是有多种含义的。在对话中，Rachel对Monica说“back off”除了让她站住往后退以外，还有让莫妮卡别再烦她的意思，也就是说back off的另一层含义就是让某人别再说三道四，以干扰别人做事，又比如：Back off, Marc! Let me run my own life! 除此之外，back off还可以用来表示退出或停止做某件已经计划好了的事情，如：Jerry backed off when he realized how much work was involved.
Emily: You are mad! Ross: No! No! I’m not! It’s-it’s-it’s perfect! I mean it’s better than you just-just moving here, ‘cause it’s us together forever, and that’s-that’s what I want. Emily: We’ve only known each other for six weeks! Ross: Yeah, I know, so what? I mean, who’s-who’s to say? Does that mean we-we can’t do it? Look, huh, I was with Carol for four years before we got married and I wound up divorced from a pregnant lesbian. I mean, this, this makes sense for us. Come on! I mean, on our first date we ended up spending the whole weekend in Vermont! I mean, last night I got my ear pierced! Me! This feels right. Doesn’t it? Emily: My parents are going to be really mad. Ross: Is that—are you saying yes? Is that yes? Emily: Yes.
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当Ross提出结婚这个想法时，Emily说他疯了，因为Emily与Ross才相识了六个星期。Ross觉得相识的时间并不是个问题，他和前妻Carol在结婚之前可是相处了四年，最后Carol都已怀上了Ross的孩子，可他们还是以离婚告终，因为Carol是个同性恋(Look, huh, I was with Carol for four years before we got married and I wound up divorced from a pregnant lesbian.)。结婚可是两个人的事，所以Ross说：I mean, this, this makes sense for us. make sense 是个常用的词组，sense作为名词的解释之一就是“意义”，因此 make sense就表示“理解”，“…有意义”，比如：Read this and tell me if it makes sense. 这个词组还常常以这样的形式出现，it makes sense (for somebody) to do something，如：It makes sense to save money while you can.
Ross又接着说服Emily说他们的第一次约会感觉就很好，结果两人跑到佛蒙特州共渡周末去了(Come on! I mean, on our first date we ended up spending the whole weekend in Vermont!)。end up 和先前出现的wind (wound) up 意思差不多，都表示说事情最终以什么样的一种方式收场，只是end up的结果往往出人意料，而wind up 的结果则往往不如人意，例如：
You know you’re going to wind up in court over this. He came round for a coffee and we ended up in bed together.
最后Ross说一向循规蹈矩的他居然会为了Emily去穿耳洞（got my ear pierced!），这足以说明他们之间所存在的感觉。Ross的一番话真的是打动了Emily，她终于说了Yes。
Chandler: Doug!! Doug: Hmm. Chandler: I’m a little bit uncomfortable with the way that you express yourself. Doug: Oh, is it the swearing? I mean is it the constant swearing? Because I gotta tell ya, if it is, you can just… kiss my ass! Chandler: No, no. It-it’s not about the swearing, it’s more about ah, the way, that you ah, occasionally, concentrate, your enthusiasm on my buttocks. Doug: Oh? Chandler: Oh, and don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the sentiment. It’s just that I, I have a rather, sensitive posterior, and ah, besides, it’s making all the other guys jealous. Doug: Well, say no more. Y’know it takes guts to bring this up. Bing! You’re okay. Chandler: Okay.
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当Chandler向Doug提出说他的某种表达方式另自己觉得有点不舒服时（I’m a little bit uncomfortable with the way that you express yourself.），Doug还以为Chandler指的是他的粗口（swearing）呢。动词swear除了表示“咒骂”以外，还有一个最常用的解释“发誓”。一般来说,如果要表示“咒骂某人”，swear后面会跟上介词at, 如：He turned round and swore at me. 如果要表示“发誓做某事”，swear后面可以跟that从句，或者不定式，也就是swear to do sth，例如：
Lisa swore never to return home. It was a mistake — she swears that she didn’t mean to do it.
Doug对于自己的粗口一点儿也不在意，所以他对Chanlder说：“I mean is it the constant swearing? Because I gotta tell ya, if it is, you can just… kiss my ass! ”kiss my ass (亲我的屁股)， 不用解释大家就知道这是一句用来侮辱对方的话。不过也会有这样一些人为了达到目的而不惜去亲别人的屁股，如：Ted will kiss anybody’s ass if he thinks it’ll get him promoted.
同样是说“屁股”，喜欢说粗口的Doug用的是ass这个词，而Chandler用的却是buttock, 他吞吞吐吐地对Doug说：“No, no. It-it’s not about the swearing, it’s more about ah, the way, that you ah, occasionally, concentrate, your enthusiasm on my buttock.（不，不，这和粗口无关，我说的是你，哦，偶尔对我的屁股特别关照。）” buttock属于蛮正式的一个词，一般在生活中老美总是说butt, 而Chandler之所以在这里用buttock这个词倒不是因为他有多文明，而是面对上司说ass 多少有些不敬。
Doug显然没想到Chandler说的是“拍屁股”一事，Chandler马上又解释说不是自己不领情，而是自己对于那个部位比较敏感，况且Doug老是这么“赞赏”自己使得别的同事很是妒忌（Oh, and don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the sentiment. It’s just that I, I have a rather, sensitive posterior, and ah, besides, it’s making all the other guys jealous.）这回Chandler连buttock都不说了，而是更加婉转地来了个专业用语posterior “后部的”来指自己的“屁股”。另外，句中的don’t get me wrong 也是个经常出现的表达法，一旦你觉得自己所说的话可能会被别人误解或使别人不快时，就可以说上一句don’t get me wrong, 然后再解释一下，如：Don’t get me wrong, I love my family, I just don’t want to be with them all the time.
向上司提意见是需要一点勇气和胆量的，更何况Chandler提的还是那样的意见，所以Doug对于Chandler说：“Well, say no more. Y’know it takes guts to bring this up. Bing! You’re okay.” 在中文里，我们是用“胆”来表示勇气等等，而英文中用的却是guts“肠子”来表示相同的意思，又比如：No one had the guts to tell Paul what a mistake he was making.
*本篇所讲到的表达法:
kiss my ass/kiss somebody’s ass don’t get me wrong take / have guts to do sth