Friends英语赏析【92】take you time 慢慢来

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MONICA: Joey, take your time with that. That's my last batch.
JOEY: No more jam?!
RACHEL: Well, what happened to your jam plan?
MONICA: I figured out I need to charge seventeen bucks a jar just to break even. So, I've got a new plan now.

莫妮卡：乔伊, 你悠着点吃，那可是我做的最后一批了。
乔伊：再也没有果酱了？
瑞秋：你的那个果酱计划怎么了？
莫妮卡：我盘算了一下发现每罐我得收17块才能保本，所以我现在又有了一个新计划。

【世博视角】

Take one’s time 就是我们平时常说的“慢慢来”，或是“悠着点”的意思，通常take one’s time后面总是跟上动名词的，也就是take one’s time doing sth, 比方说我去裁缝那里改一件衣服，我会对他说：You can take your time altering that dress; I don't need it right away. (你慢慢改那个衣服好了，我不急着要的)。不过有时候take one’s time也可以用来表示说某人做事太慢了，太“笃悠悠”了，如：You're taking your time with the lab tests. We need the results now.

对话中还有一个词组 break even 也值得我们来学习一下，它经常在商业用语中出现，意思是“不赔不赚”或“收支平衡”，例如：
We're hoping that we'll at least break even, and perhaps make a small profit.
After paying for our travel costs, we barely broke even.

另外break even 还可以合写成一个词，通常与point连用，也就是 (the) breakeven point，表示“盈亏平衡点”，比如：The firm should reach breakeven point after one year.