Eztalk美语【54】Trust me. 相信我。

原文
英文解释
中文解释

Brooke: And you didn’t think to leave them my cell phone?
Jack: I didn’t think there would be a problem.
Brooke: It’s the holidays! Everybody knows how hard it is to get tickets!
Jack: I’m sorry. We’re still going. I got reservations for all of us on the 31st. It will be OK. Trust me.
Brooke: Trust you! You can’t even handle simple plane reservations!
Jack: [Click!] Brooke!

cell phone (n.)  
行动电话。cell为cellular「蜂巢式的」之略

handle (v.)  
处理,掌握
A: How do you handle problems with your girlfriend?
你和女朋友出问题时都怎么处理?
B: We usually just talk them out.
我们通常都会把话说清楚。

布鲁克:你没想到把我的大哥大号码留给他们吗?
杰 克:我没想到会有问题啊。
布鲁克:那时候可是假日!大家都知道机票有多难买!
杰 克:我很抱歉。我们还是会去。我在三十一号帮大家都订了票。没问题的,相信我。
布鲁克:相信你!你连个简单的订机票都搞不定!
杰 克:(喀喇!)布鲁克!

Eztalk美语【53】Don’t you dare tell me 我不许你跟我说

原文
英文解释
中文解释

On the phone

Jack: Brooke, I have bad news.
Brooke: What!
Jack: I called the airlines to reconfirm the reservations today.
Brooke: Don’t you dare tell me that…
Jack: I’m sorry. I didn’t reconfirm in time and they gave away half of the seats.
Brooke: Well, they should have called you!
Jack: They said that they did. I’ve been so busy…

airline (n.)  
航空公司。air line是「航线」

在电话上

杰 克:布鲁克,我有坏消息。
布鲁克:什么?
杰 克:我今天打过电话去航空公司重新确认机票订位。
布鲁克:我不许你跟我说……
杰 克:对不起。我没有及时打去重新确认机位,他们把一半的机票都卖走了。
布鲁克:那他们也该打个电话给你啊!
杰 克:他们说他们有打。我最近都在忙…

Eztalk美语【52】Guest Book 来宾簿

原文
英文解释
中文解释

Brooke: Any other ideas?
Shan: We can also put a guest book on the website for people to sign and write comments.
Brooke: And we were going to make a collage for each of us using our baby pictures…
Shan: Yeah, that will be the best part. Jack hasn’t seen yours yet, right?
Brooke: No. He has no idea what a fat little pig I was!

guest book (n.)  
来宾簿。网站上常设有此一空间,以让访客留言,增进交流

collage (n.)  
用报纸、照片、布或是剪纸等素材拼贴而成的艺术

布鲁克:还有其它的想法吗?
阿 珊:我们也可以放个来宾簿让人签名还有写意见。
布鲁克:而且我们还打算把大家小时候的照片拼贴在一起……
阿 珊:没错,这会是最棒的一部份。杰克还没看过你的,对吧?
布鲁克:对。他完全不知道我以前胖得像只小猪!