Friends英语赏析【8】人无完人

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第八篇

Chandler 已戒烟多年，可最近又开始吞云吐雾了，老友们对此很不满，而他更是觉得大家对他不公平：

Chandler: Hey, this is so unfair!
Monica: Oh, why is it unfair?
Chandler: So I have a flaw! Big deal! Like Joey's constant knuckle-cracking isn't annoying? And Ross, with his over-pronouncing every single word? And Monica, with that snort when she laughs? I mean, what the hell is that thing? ...I accept all those flaws, why can't you accept me for this?

【世博视角】

说到某人有什么缺点或小毛病，我们大概马上就会想到shortcoming这个词，但在上面的对话中，Chandler却用了flaw这个词来表示相似的意思。Flaw一般是指某件事物有瑕疵，当然用在人身上的话就表示性格方面的某个不足之处，比如： Jealousy is Mary’s major flaw.

Chandler觉得抽烟只是一个小小的缺点而已，没啥大惊小怪的，所以他说： “So I have a flaw! Big deal!” big deal其实并不big, 恰恰相反，它总是表示说你觉得某件事情根本不像别人认为的那么重要，这是个很常用的口语，比如：So you've got a part-time job in the supermarket? Big deal! 另外，我们也可以用it’s no big deal 来表示什么事情并不重要或没什么大问题, 例如：It's no big deal if you can't come - just let us know in time.

接着Chandler开始数落起其它几个老友的flaw, 像Joey没事就喜欢把指关节摁得直响(knuckle-cracking)、 Ross说起话来每个字的发音都那么铿锵有力(with his over-pronouncing every single word)、Monica笑起来会打隔(with that snort when she laughs),然后他说：“what the hell is that thing? ...I accept all those flaws, why can't you accept me for this? (这些又都怎么说呢？我能忍受你们的这些小毛病，为什么你们就不能接受我抽烟呢？) What the hell…也是一种很口语化的表达方式，表示 “很吃惊或很生气地质问”，例：

What the hell does he think he's doing?
Where the hell have you been?

顺便说一下，在比较正式的场合下我们最好是用what on earth…来代替what the hell…。