Ratched: To answer your question about the dorm, Mr. Scanlon. You know very well that if we left the door open, you'd just go right back to bed after breakfast. Am I right?
Taber: So what?
Cheswick: May I have my cigarettes, please, Miss Ratched?
McMurphy: Forget the cigarettes, Cheswick. Cigarettes are not important. Sit down, will you? For Christ's sake! Cigarettes!
Ratched: Remember, Mr. Scanlon, we've discussed many times that time spent in the company of others is very therapeutic. While time spent brooding alone only increases a feeling of separation. You remember that, don't you?
Fredrickson: Do you mean to say it's sick to want tobe off by yourself?
Cheswick: Miss Ratched?
Ratched: Mr. Cheswick, you sit down!
Cheswick: Yes, but I want to know about...
Ratched: Sit down, Mr. Cheswick.
Cheswick: I want to...
McMurphy: Give him a cigarette, will you, Harding?
Harding: My last one.
McMurphy: That's a fucking lie. Why don't you give him a cigarette?
Harding: Look, I'm not running a charity ward, see? Come on!
Cheswick: I don't want his cigarettes. And I don't want his, or his, or his, or his, or his, or his... Or even yours. Do you understand that? I want my cigarettes, Miss Ratched! I want my cigarettes! I want mine, Miss Ratched! What gives you the damn right to keep our cigarettes piled up on your desk and to squeeze out a pack only when you feel like it, huh? Miss Ratched!
Ratched: Mr. Harding!
Harding: Oh, I'm sorry.
Ratched: You surprise me.
Harding: I lost my head. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to... I'm really very sorry. I just forgot. I didn't mean to. I'm really very sorry. Just forgot.
Ratched: It's all right.
Cheswick: Miss Ratched!
Ratched: Yes, Mr. Cheswick?
Cheswick: I asked you a question!
Ratched: I heard your question, Mr. Cheswick and I will answer your question as soon as you've calmed down. OK? Are you calm, Mr. Cheswick?
Cheswick: I'm calm.
Ratched: Good. Now, as you all know, Mr. McMurphy has been running a small gambling casino in our tub room. Now, most of you lost all your cigarettes to Mr. McMurphy, not to mention a tidy sum of money to Mr. McMurphy. And that's why your tub room privileges have been suspended and your cigarettes have been rationed. Mr. Martini?
Martini: How are we gonna win our money back?
Ratched: You're not going to win your money back, Mr. Martini. That's all over. If you had obeyed the rulesin the first place, you wouldn't have lost your money.
妙語佳句,活學(xué)活用
1. be off
意思是“離開”,比如:I'm off to the races; wish me luck. 我去參加比賽了,祝我好運(yùn)吧。它還可以表示“be free from work, school, or some other regular occupation”,比如:The secretary is off today, but perhaps I can find it. 秘書今天不上班,但也許我能找到。
2. squeeze out
意思是“擠出”,這里用來形容護(hù)士長不輕易給病人香煙,我們來看個(gè)例子:Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts. 最近削減預(yù)算,一些人被裁員了。
3. lose one's head
意思是“to become uncontrolled or wildly excited失控或表現(xiàn)得過度興奮”,比如:When he thought he saw an animal in the underbrush, he lost his head and began shooting recklessly. 當(dāng)他認(rèn)為自己看到了草叢中的動(dòng)物時(shí),他就興奮起來,開始不顧一切的亂打槍。