影片對白  No, we don't leave. We stand and we kick royal butt. Trust me, if you beasts can bake a two-cheese lasagna, you can beat Dargis.

4. That kind of day

這里的that kind of 可以根據語境理解成 weird, good, bad 等等，在本片斷中自然是 a bad day了。

5. Go to any length

也寫作go to any lengths / go to great lengths，意思是“Take a great deal of trouble for something, go to extremes; to disregard any impediment that could prevent one from accomplishing one's purpose 千方百計，不擇手段，竭盡全力”，例如：He'll go to great lengths to make a perfect chocolate cake.

文化面面觀

Froot Loops and its mascot -- Toucan Sam

A Froot Loops box of the 1960s

Froot Loops is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kellogg's and sold in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Latin America as well as South Africa. The cereal pieces come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963.

Other varieties of the cereal include Froot Loops 1/3 Less Sugar and Marshmallow Froot Loops.

Toucan Sam

The cereal's mascot is Toucan Sam, a blue cartoon toucan with a striped beak. Although his beak originally had two pink stripes, during the 1970s it became a tradition that each stripe on his beak represented one of the flavors of the pieces in the cereal. (red = cherry, yellow = lemon, orange = orange) The additions of new flavors have made this color scheme no longer accurate. There are now, in fact, 7 different flavors of this widely enjoyed cereal.

The colors perhaps represent different flavors present in the cereal, but each color has the same flavor.

Toucan Sam, Froot Loops' mascot

The cartoon character Toucan Sam was originally voiced by Mel Blanc, using an ordinary American accent. The ad agency later decided to switch to the English accent more commonly associated with the character. They then employed Paul Frees to do what is, in effect, an imitation of Ronald Colman. In the most recent cartoon advertisements for Froot Loops, Toucan Sam's voice has been performed by Canadian voice actor Maurice LaMarche.

Biologically speaking, Toucan Sam is a Keel-billed Toucan, also known as Ramphastos sulfuratus.

Since 1994, Toucan Sam has been joined onscreen by three nephews, not unlike Donald Duck's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Taglines（標志性口號）
Follow your nose.....wherever it goes.
Follow my nose...it always knows!

在這個片段里，加菲把Preston比作Froot Loops的mascot Toucan Sam，因為他們都有一張大嘴。

考考你

用今日所學將下面的句子譯成英語。

1．那調皮孩子哪兒去了? 我看, 他到哪兒也做不出好事來。

2．別那樣發火，誰也沒有存心傷害你。

3．他不擇手段，為所欲為。

Garfield 2《加菲貓》2（精講之五）考考你 參考答案

1． 她覺得她的計劃到處碰壁。
She found her plans frustrated at every turn.

2． --保爾贏了。這可太讓人吃驚了。
    --Paul won! That makes a big surprise!
    --我也非常吃驚。
    --That make two of us.

3． 那個混蛋竟然騷擾我女朋友。
That wretch is hitting on my girl. 

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