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Jon: I want you to know, you"re the most important thing inmylife.
Garfield: Let me sleep, please.
Jon: Before I met you, my life had no meaning. Iwasincomplete.
Garfield: Oh, you still are, really.
Jon: I guess what I"m trying to say is...will you marry me?
Garfield: Eh? Marriage? Well, this is kind of sudden. There maybesome legal issues here. Look, I like you, but not as a spouse.Maybeas a servant, we could stay together, make it work.
Jon: So what do you say... Liz?
Garfield: Wait a second. Liz? Liz?
Jon: Garfield.
Garfield: Liz is a girl. No, worse. She"s a girl vet.
Jon: Turkey"s ready.
Garfield: Well, I think Jon has touched bottom now. Hmm, wegottaput an end to this torture. Time for a new DJ. Somebody takemytemperature.
Jon: Garfield!
Garfield: Whoa! Man, you have changed.
Jon: I can"t have you messing this up for me, okay?
Garfield: Oh, I get it. It"s her. She doesn"t like ourmusic.Whatever happened to Jon? My metal-head guy. My dude. Youwere somuch cooler when you wore a mullet.
Jon: Now stay here.
Garfield: So much cooler. I suppose she likes this haircut.
Jon: Coming!
Garfield: Tell me she likes it the way it is now.
Jon: Hey, Liz.
Liz: Jon, I have incredible news. Guess who"s going to bespeakingat this year"s fund-raiser for the royal AnimalConservancy.
Jon: Siegfried and Roy?
Liz: Oh, come on.
Jon: Just Siegfried?
Liz: Jane Goodall dropped out at the last minute becauseshe"snursing a sick chimp and they asked me. I mean, it"s gonna beatthis really cool castle on a huge estate.
Jon: Well, Liz, that-that"s...
Liz: I am flying to London tomorrow morning. Can youbelieveit?
Jon: What?
Liz: I mean, I have to pack, and...Oh, are these rose petalsandcandles?
Jon: Yeah, well, Liz, I have, have some... some importantnewsof-of-of my own. Uh...
Garfield: Hey, me, too. Excuse me, do you believe in love atfirstsight? I was hoping you"d say yes. You have made me so very,verycat-happy.
Jon: Uh...
Liz: Well, come on. What"s the news?
Jon: The news is, I, uh...I finally house-trained Odie.
Liz: Really?
Jon: Yeah.
Liz: That would explain the rose petals. I have to pack. I"msosorry about dinner. But you know what? I will send your regardstothe queen. Okay, congratulations on Odie.
Jon: Oh, oh, yeah. And, hey, you, too. They"re lucky tohaveyou.
Liz: Bye.
Garfield: Oh, I thought she"d never leave.
Jon: Garfield, you ate the whole turkey?
Garfield: Well, yeah.
Jon: What are you doing with this? Oh, never mind. She"salreadyoff to...
Garfield: Well, come on, cheer up. I saved you the wishbone.
Jon: There"s nothing I can do.
Garfield: Sure there is. Return the ring and get yourmoneyback.
Jon: Wait a minute. I"ll go to London.
Garfield: Oh, you poor sap.
Jon: She"ll love it. She"ll be surprised.
Garfield: Please don"t do this.
Jon: She"ll be thrilled.
Garfield: Tell me you"re not gonna do this.
Jon: She"ll say yes.
Garfield: Please, don"t.
Jon: I gotta go pack.
Garfield: You moron. This is a huge mistake, Jon. One ofyourbiggest. Don"t roam. Stay home. Odie and I are not justcomingalong for the ride, pal. This is actually anintervention.
Jon: Okay, guys. Here we are.
Garfield: Oh, quick flight. We must have been in the jetstream.England is no great shakes, huh? I mean, the buildings herelooklike, uh, the kennel back home. That is the kennel backhome.
妙語佳句，活學活用1. what do you say?
可不是「你說什麼」的意思，而是相當於「How about it」，這可是個很常用的表達，很多場合都可以用到。
例如：I"llgiveyou 500 dollars for that horse. what do you say?
2. Touch bottom
"Reach the lowest point 打倒最壞的程度"，例如：During the recessiontheeconomists kept saying that we hadn"t touched bottom yet.
3. put an end to
「停止，結束，終結」的意思，例如：The advent of sound in motion pictures put anendto many a silent star"s career.
4. Medal-head guy
這裡的意思是「喜愛重金屬音樂的人」。
5. Jane Goodall
國際知名的動物行為學家，她創辦了珍·古道爾研究會，以及根與芽項目，號召全球的年輕人一同關注環境問題。多年來的重要研究工作讓她獲得了動物權益研究所授予的艾爾伯特·史威策獎、大不列顛百科全書授予的傳播造福人類知識傑出工作者獎、被聯合國任命為聯合國和平信使。
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Eh? Marriage? Well, this is kind of sudden. There maybesome legal issues here. Look, I like you, but not as aspouse.Maybe as a servant, we could stay together, make itwork.
思想火花你為什麼愛加菲 考考你 一展身手6. Drop out
Withdraw from participation in a group such as a school, club,orgame; also, withdraw from society owing to disillusionment.例如：
He couldn"t afford the mrship dues and had to drop out.
7. House-train
養貓貓狗狗是不是常為它們的排洩衛生問題發愁呢？其實貓貓狗狗都是很聰明的，你完全可以教會它們在固定的地方大小便，這種教會貓貓狗狗不隨地大小便的行為就叫house-train。例如：You"dbetterhouse-train your pet cat.
8. No great shakes
在口語中意思是"of no particular ability; unimportant; common"，例如：Asoperacompanies go, this one is no great shakes.
文化面面觀 一隻貓的傳奇--GarfieldGarfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis, featuring thecatGarfield, the pet dog Odie, and their socially inept ownerJonArbuckle. As of 2006, it is syndicated in roughly 2,570newspapersand journals and it currently holds the Guinness WorldRecord forbeing the world"s most widely syndicated comic strip.Thepopularity of the strip has led to an animated cartoonshow,several animated television specials and twofeature-lengthlive-action films, as well as a large amount ofGarfield-relatedmerchandise.
Garfield debuted on June 19, 1978, which fans (as well asthecharacters) consider Garfield"s birthday. The strip pokes funatpet owners and their relationship with their pets, oftenportrayingthe pet as the true master of the home. Garfield alsostruggleswith human problems, such as diets, loathing of Mondays,apathy,boredom, and so on. Garfield is able to understand anythingthatJon or other humans say. He supposedly cannot talk back, butoftenJon seems to be able to tell what he is saying just from his
expression or gestures which are much like those of ahuman.However, Garfield is able to talk in "thinking" to Odie andtheother animals. Odie understands what Garfield says to him, butingeneral cannot communicate back to Garfield except bybarkingbecause he is the only character that doesn"t seem to haveanynormal way of communicating. Although, Odie did have twothoughtbubbles with words in the strip. In an earlier strip, Odieis shownpoking his previous owner (Lyman) and it is written in histhoughtbubble "I"m hungry." In a second strip, Odie is on the fencein thealley with Garfield and it is written in his thought bubble"O solemio." Most of the other animals (Arlene, Nermal, mice, andtheother dogs) are capable of a two-way conversation withGarfield.Garfield, apparently, is able to type, and he has writtenmessagesthat Jon has read and understood (typically letters toSantaClaus); however, this happens very rarely. He is alsoapparentlyable to tell time (although this, as well, has often beenthesubject of controversy because he repeatedly states thanhecan"t).
Learning from the indifference his previous comic stripcreationGnorm Gnat met with, Jim Davis has made a conscious efforttoinclude all readers in Garfield; keeping the jokes broad andthehumor general and applicable to everyone. As a result thestriptypically avoids the social or political commentary present insomeof Garfield"s contemporaries, such as Boondocks,Doonesbury,Dilbert, and Cathy. Although a couple of strips in 1978addressedinflation and, arguably, organized labor, as well as Jonfrequentlysmoking a pipe or subscribing to a "bachelor magazine,"theseelements were ultimately pruned from the product with theintent ofmaintaining a more universal appeal.
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Eh? Marriage? Well, this is kind of sudden. There maybesome legal issues here. Look, I like you, but not as aspouse.Maybe as a servant, we could stay together, make itwork.
文化面面觀 一隻貓的傳奇--GarfieldThe comic strip was turned into a cartoon special fortelevisionin 1982 called Here Comes Garfield. Actor Lorenzo Music,previouslyknown as the voice of Carlton the doorman on the showRhoda, washired to portray the voice of Garfield. Soul singer LouRawlsprovided musical accompaniment. Twelve television specialsweremade (through 1991) as well as a television series, GarfieldandFriends, which ran from 1988 to 1995.
For his work on the strip, creator Jim Davis received theNationalCartoonist Society Humor Strip Award for 1981 and 1985, andtheirReuben Award for 1989.
A live-action movie version of the comic strip, Garfield:TheMovie had its debut in the United States on June 11, 2004. Thefilmemployed a computer-animated Garfield and live-actionOdie.Garfield"s second live-action feature film, Garfield: A Tailof TwoKitties, was released on June 16, 2006.
思想火花 你為什麼愛加菲1978年6月19日出生的加菲貓，自問世以來，共售出1300萬本書，在全世界擁有2600萬名讀者。加菲貓因它"愛說風涼話、貪睡午覺、牛飲咖啡、大嚼千層面、見蜘蛛就扁、見郵差就窮追猛打"等"惡習"顯得卓爾不群。與前輩《貓和老鼠》中的湯姆相比，雖然加菲貓在搞笑方面也盡職盡責，但"航空母艦般的身型、稱王稱霸的作風"使它無論如何也無法被定性成"偶像"。然而，恰恰是更為"人性化"的特質使它一舉成名。正如加菲貓的"父親"漫畫家吉姆·戴維斯這樣評價自己的"孩子"："大家愛加菲貓是因為它說出來的話與做出來的事人們也想說，也想做，卻辦不到。"用吉姆的話來說就是：加菲是一個披著貓皮的人。
考考你將下面的句子譯成英語。
1． 她決定從大學退學幾年。
2． 等到他被迫向朋友乞討時, 他覺得自己的境況已糟到無以復加的地步了。
Prison Break 1《越獄》1（精講之六）考考你 參考答案1． 規矩點，別把我惹毛了！
Behave, don"t piss me off!
2． 這輛二手車就像新的一樣。
The used car is as good as new.
3． 在這個監獄裡，他可是個舉足輕重的人物。
In this prison he is a heavy hitter.
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