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第三十三篇
这天Rachel正坐在Monica工作的小吃店里吃午饭，边吃边向她抱怨自己的工作。刚巧坐在Rachel旁边的一名男子Mark听到了她们的对话，更巧的是他工作的地方正好有一空缺职位很适合Rachel，于是他要了Rachel的电话号码，说给她安排好面试后就打电话给她。
Rachel: I can’t believe Mark didn’t call. It’s Sunday night, and he didn’t call.
Ross: Bummer.
Rachel: Yeah, right. Look at you, you’re practically giddy.
Ross: No, I’m genuinely sorry the Mark thing didn’t work out. Look, Rach, I want only good things for you.
Monica: Wait a minute, why don’t you just call Mark. I mean, who says you have to sit here and wait for him, you’ve got to make stuff happen.
Ross: But, you, you don’t want to seem too pushy.
Monica: (to Ross) Honey, it’s not pushy, he gave her his home number.
Ross: (to Rachel, as she gets his number) What, he gave you his home number? As in like, to, to his home?
Rachel: Yeah, and you don’t mind if I call, because you only want good things for me.
Ross: That’s right good things, that-that is what I said.
【世博视角】
都已经是星期六晚上了，可那个Mark还没打电话来，Rachel真是急死了，在一旁的Ross 本来就觉得Mark是另有所图，现在他没有打电话过来那可是再好不过了，但他嘴里还是有点假惺惺地说了句bummer, 这是一个俚语，表示一种强烈地失望。譬如周末大家说好一起去郊游，可天公不作美，偏偏下起了雨，这时你就可以说It’s a real bummer. 又比如：It was a real bummer being ill on holiday.
Rachel知道其实Ross心里并不觉得Mark没打电话来是个bummer, 他高兴还来不及呢，所以她说：“噢，是嘛，瞧瞧你，你实际上高兴得快晕了呢。（Yeah, right. Look at you, you’re practically giddy.）giddy这个词和dizzy一样可以用来表示 “头晕目眩”，但dizzy大多表示一种纯生理的反应，而giddy则有可能是其它因素引起的，如：Sheila felt giddy with excitement.
接下来Monica建议Rachel主动打电话去问问Mark情况，她说：“who says you have to sit here and wait for him, you’ve got to make stuff happen.（谁说你必须坐在这儿等他的电话，你得主动出击）。”听到这儿，Ross又急了，好嘛，Monica居然要Rachel自已送上门去，那怎么行，但他又不能明着反对，所以他说：“But, you, you don’t want to seem too pushy.（可你总不能显得那么急促吧）。”pushy这个形容词来源于动词push, 它一般带有贬义色彩，比如：a pushy salesman 就是形容那种没有推销技巧恨不得把东西强卖给别人的销售员。
Monica反驳Ross说这绝对不会显得pushy, 因为Mark给了Rachel他家里的电话（it’s not pushy, he gave her his home number.），显然Mark是欢迎Rachel打电话给他的。最后Rachel还是听了Monica的话主动去给Mark打电话，而RRoss只能哑巴吃黄莲了。
*本篇所讲到的表达法:
bummer
giddy
pushy