Friends英语赏析【18】第二次约会

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第十八篇

Danielle是Chandler的新约会对象。第一次约会后Chandler感觉很好，但他却不愿意立即打电话给Danielle以表示他对她的好感，后来在老友们的“逼迫”下，他才给Danielle留了言，可她一直没回电，弄得Chandler心神不宁。最后没想到Danielle到咖啡馆来找Chandler了：

Danielle: Chandler?
Chandler: Danielle! Hi! Uh- everybody, this is Danielle, Danielle, everybody.
All: Hi. Hi.
Chandler: What are you doing here?
Danielle: Well, I've been calling you, but it turns out I had your number wrong. And when I finally got the right one from Information, there was no answer. So I thought I'd just come down here, and make sure you were okay.
Chandler: ...I'm, I'm okay.
Danielle: Listen uh, maybe we could get together later?
Chandler: That sounds good. I'll call you- or you call me, whatever...
Danielle: You got it.
Chandler: Okay.
Danielle: G'bye, everybody.
All: Bye.
Phoebe: Whoo-hoo!
Monica: Yeah, there you go!
Ross: Second date!
Chandler: ...I don’t know.
Rachel: You don't know?!
Chandler: Well, she seems very nice and everything, but that whole thing about her coming all the way down here, just to see if I was okay? I mean,... how needy is that?

【世博视角】

Danielle可不像Chandler那样喜欢玩欲擒故纵的游戏，第一次约会后她就一直在打Chandler的电话，可结果发现她把号码给搞错了(Well, I've been calling you, but it turns out I had your number wrong.)。turn out 这个词组在这里表示“…证明为,”它经常以这样的句型出现 it turns out (that)...比如:It turns out that I was right all along. 当Danielle终于得到正确的号码再打给Chandler时，却没人接电话 (And when I finally got the right one from Information, there was no answer.) 注意这句话中的Information首字母大写，特指美国的电话查号台，就相当于我们这里的114。

在说明了来由之后，Danielle 试探性地问道：“Listen uh, maybe we could get together later?”还是Danielle采取了主动想再次约会Chandler，但由于他们才约会了一次，彼此都还不是很熟悉，再加上Danielle还不能确定Chandler是否愿意再同自己约会，所以她在问句中用了maybe和could这两个词，使句子听上去比较委婉。Danielle这样一问可正中Chanlder的下怀，可他还是“矜持”地回答说：“听上去不错，我再打电话给你吧，或者你打给我，怎么样都行(That sounds good. I'll call you- or you call me, whatever...)。”whatever用在口语里面可以表示任何一种选择都可以，你并不介意，又比如说：What can I offer you? Coffee, tea, lemonade? Oh, I don’t care. Whatever. 再看一下Danielle的回答，她说：“You got it.” 又是一个很口语化的表达法，它在这里的意思就是“听你的”，当我们表示同意按别人的要求或是想法去做某事时，除了最平常的Okay外，也可以说You got it.

Danielle走后，老友们都为Chandler感到高兴，Monica欢呼道：“Yeah, there you go!” there you go 这个表达法在不同的上下文中有不同的意思，它既可以用来褒贬某人的行为，也可以表示接受某件不如意的事情。在刚才那一句中，Monica所说的there you go 是用来增强Chandler的信心的，又比如：There you go! I told you it was easy. 另外, there you go 有时也可以说成there you are 。

按说Chandler的目的达到了，他应该觉得很兴奋才对，可此时他却提不起劲来，理由是：Well, she seems very nice and everything, but that whole thing about her coming all the way down here, just to see if I was okay? I mean,... how needy is that? 可能很多人都没想到need还有形容词形式needy，它除了用来形容那些生活贫困、缺衣少食的人之外，还可以形容某人在精神方面很需要关爱，例如：Sally was very insecure and needy. 先前Chandler可是一直坐立不安地在等Danielle的电话，一副 “needy” 样，可现在他反而嫌Danielle太needy了。看来 “女人太主动，男人就不珍惜” 这句话还真没说错呢！

*本篇所讲到的地道表达法：

it turns out (that)
whatever
you got it.
there you go
needy