影片對白Who wants fair? Y'know, I just want things back. Y'know, the way they were.
思想火花誠信制度在西方社會
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4. break up
意思是“(與某人)分手”。例如:Break up peacefully if you're ready to end a relationship.如果你決定要結束一段感情,安靜的分手吧。電影中的I've decided to break up with Alan.意思是“我已經決定和艾倫分手”。
5. let one's guard down
意思是“放松警惕,撤消防線”。例如:Once I completely let my guard down with someone and let him get close to me I scared myself a little.有一次我對一個人完全放松了防備,讓他靠近我,但我還是有點害怕。電影中的You know... you let your guard down, you start to really care about someone... 意思是“你知道……你撤消了防線,開始真正關心某個人……”
6. come up
意思是“接近,靠近”。例如:With the final exam coming up in a week, I don't really have time to flirt with. 還有一周就期末考試,我真的沒時間瞎混了。電影中的I mean, with the holidays coming up, I wanted him to meet my family. 意思是“我的意思是,節(jié)日快到了,我還想帶他去我家呢”。
文化面面觀
Passive/second hand smoking! 被動吸煙(吸二手煙)
Only 15% of smoke from a cigarette is inhaled by the smoker. The other 85% goes directly into the air and is known as second hand smoke. Second hand smoke is a combination of: mainstream smoke, which is the smoke inhaled and then breathed out and sidestream smoke, which is the smoke coming from the cigarette between puffs.
Sidestream smoke has more tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide and other chemicals that cause cancer than the smoke inhaled through the cigarette itself! All second-hand smoke contains cancer-causing chemicals! Passive smoking is the breathing in of the second-hand smoke produced by other people's cigarettes.
In the short-term, exposure to passive smoke leads to immediate problems such as irritation of the nose, eyes or throat, coughs, nausea, dizziness and headaches. Every year in the U.K 17,000 children under five years of age are admitted to hospitals because of illnesses related to passive smoking. The risk of cot death is greatly increased in children who have been exposed to smoke either during pregnancy, or at home if one or both parents smoke.
In the long term, consequences are much more serious --- passive smoking contributes to the development of lung cancer, heart disease and stroke. And, as they grow older children are almost 3 times more likely to start smoking if their parents do.
Everyone at times is a passive smoker, and passive smoking is not just an annoyance, it's a health risk! So the next time one of your friends lights up in front of you, fire off these facts: Secondhand smoke can produce six times the pollution of a busy motorway when in a crowded room, kills about 3,000 nonsmokers each year from lung cancer, causes wheezing, coughing, colds, earaches and asthma attacks, fills the air with many of the same poisons found in the air around toxic waste dumps, and makes clothes and hair stink.
本選段中的Chandler是個煙鬼,正如他的扮演者Matthew Perry一樣。美國的煙民比例和中國不相上下,但是吸煙,尤其是二手煙,對人體健康有很大的危害。在美國,吸煙不再是個人的行為,而是社會公德的問題。美國在很多公共場所都有嚴格的禁止吸煙的規(guī)定,而且被認為是基本文明的組成部分。近期包括福特汽車公司在內的一系列大型企業(yè)都規(guī)定禁止在辦公室吸煙。