Jack: Get on in there and untangle 'em Chilean sheep out of ours, I guess.
Jack: Oh, where is it? Shit! God, half the goddamn paint brands havewore off!
Ennis: We gotta try. The least we can do is get the count right for Aguirre.
Jack: Fuck Aguirre!
Ennis: Oh, yeah, fuck Aguirre. What if we need to work for him again? You think of that? We gotta stick this out, Jack.
Ennis: You'll run them sheep off again if you don't quiet down.
Ennis: What are you doing?
Jack: Aguirre came by again. Says my uncle didn't die after all. Says bring 'em down.
Ennis: Bring 'em down, why? It's the middle of August.
Jack: Says there's a storm comin', movin' in from the Pacific. Worse than this one.
Ennis: That snow barely stuck an hour. Huh? Besides, that son of a bitch, he's cuttin' us out a whole month's pay. It ain't right.
Jack: Well, I can spare you a loan, bud, if you're short on cash. Give it to you when we get to Signal.
Ennis: I don't need your money, huh? You know, I ain't in the poorhouse. Shit!
Jack: All right.
妙語(yǔ)佳句，活學(xué)活用
1. paint brand
這里指羊身上刷的油漆標(biāo)志，以標(biāo)明羊群是屬于誰(shuí)的。
2. wear off
這個(gè)片語(yǔ)的意思是“diminish gradually, lose effectiveness 逐漸消失”，比如：We'll wait till the drug wears off. 我們會(huì)等到藥效消失。“Half the goddamn paint brands have wore off”意思就是“一半羊身上的標(biāo)記都磨沒(méi)了。”
3. stick out
這個(gè)片語(yǔ)的意思是“continue doing something, endure something忍著/堅(jiān)持做某事”，比如：I know you don't like it but you have to stick out the job for another month. 我知道你不喜歡，但你還得忍受這份工作一個(gè)月。
4. quiet down
“平息下來(lái)，安靜下來(lái)”的意思，比如：If you knock on your wall appealingly, they will quiet down and discuss the matter softly among themselves for a moment--then, like the mice, they fall to persecuting you again, and as vigorously as before. 如果你哀求地敲敲墻壁，他們會(huì)安靜下來(lái)，輕聲細(xì)語(yǔ)地討論，可是過(guò)不了一會(huì)兒，他們就像老鼠一樣，又開(kāi)始迫害你了，和先前一樣吵鬧。
5. he's cuttin' us out a whole month's pay
這里的cut 意思是“削減”，可以用來(lái)削減“錢財(cái)，人員，時(shí)間”等等，比如：You ought to cut the cooking time in half. 你得把做飯的時(shí)間削減一半。
