酒文化：洋酒的分類

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影片對白：

Bree: How's Tom holding up?

Lynette: He's doing great.

Bree: Isn't it noon?

Lynette: Yeah. He's up early today. He just doesn't know what he's doing next.

Bree: Maybe I can help. My publisher is thinking about doing his advertising in-house, and he's been looking for someone.

Lynette: Seriously?

Bree: Yeah.

Lynette: Oh, my god. That would be great. And if he gets the job, you can actually cash the check.

Bree: I tell you what. I will invite Bruce over for dinner, you and Tom can join us, and we'll turn it into a low pressure job interview.

Lynette: Thank you. This will really cheer Tom up.

Bree: Great. I'll call Bruce this afternoon.

Lynette: Could you call him now?

Orson: Hey, Mike. Oh, I'm looking forward to one of your world-famous martinis.

Mike: So was Mrs. Mccluskey. She got here early. Yeah, but don't panic. I sent Edie out for morebooze.

Orson: So you sent the mouse to buy the cheese. Well done.

Bree: Well ,look who's here. Somebody owes me $20.

Gabrielle: How about we let it ride? Double or nothing—mccluskey slugs someone by 5:00.

Susan: Katherine and I told you guys we were taking the high road. Why won't you believe us?

Lynette: Because I vividly remember yesterday, and I wasn't born during it.

Susan: Let me show you something I think might change your mind. So Katherine has a picture that I painted for mike hanging over her mantelpiece.

Lynette: Does she know you painted it?

Susan: Yes, and we talked all about it. She loves it.

Gabrielle: You painted that? You're good.

Susan: What? Where the hell is it?

Lynette: Bye-bye, high road.

Mccluskey: What's with the puss?

Gabrielle: Katherine hung one of mike's paintings over the mantel till she found out Susan painted it. Then she took it down.

Mccluskey: Something tells me this party's about to get good.

Bree: You know, there could be a perfectly innocent explanation.

Mccluskey: Hey, Kathy. What happened to Susan's painting?

Katherine: I am such a klutz. I was dusting yesterday, and, well, it just fell. The glass shattered, and ugh. It took it to the framer. It'll be backin a jiffy. Excuse me.

Bree: See a perfectly innocent...Bald-faced lie.

Susan: It is possible.

Mccluskey: I just drained a pitcher of martinis. I'm not buying it.

Gabrielle: Really, Susan, there's not a woman in the world who doesn't know what "I broke it dusting" means.

Lynette: That's how I got rid of tom's last bottle of "musk, the cologne for men."

Susan: All right, you guys think what you want. I'm gonna choose to believe her.

妙語佳句，活學活用

1.in-house：內部地，由本機構內部產生。影片中失去自營餐館的Tom頗有些一蹶不振，熱心的Bree對Lynette說：“我的出版商在考慮自己做廣告，他一直在找人。”

an in-house newsletter 內部簡報

He runs a large company with an in-house staff of translators. 他有一家擁有自己翻譯隊伍的大公司。

2.booze：酒，烈性酒。Mike對前來造訪的Orson說：“別擔心，我派Edie去再買些酒了。” 下面來學習有關booze的幾個短語。

be on the booze 不停地飲，痛飲

hit the booze [美俚]飲酒

booze up縱酒狂歡

3.take the high road: 高姿態，高尚。Susan的前夫Mike和Katherine同住，Susan在聚會上表現得很輕松：“Katherine和我商量過要和平相處，你們怎么就是不信啊？”

We decided to take the high road and move on.我們決定寬恕彼此，重新開始。

4.puss: 臉，尤指（撅起的）嘴。Mccluskey看到Susan表情欠佳，問道：“怎么回事?”

5.klutz：笨手笨腳的人,笨蛋。Katherine為自己偷偷替換掉Susan的畫尋找借口：“我真是個冒失鬼，昨天我打掃衛生來著，一不小心它就掉下來了。”

She's such a klutz. 她可真是個笨蛋。

6.in a jiffy：馬上。Katherine遮遮掩掩的說：“玻璃碎了就拿去重新裝裱，不用多久就能拿回來。”來看例句：

He conjured up a whole meal in a jiffy. 他一眨眼功夫就變出了一桌飯菜。

I'll be ready in a jiffy. 我一會兒就準備好。

7.bald-faced: 無掩飾的, 赤裸裸的。聽到Katherine如此的解釋，連素來端莊的Bree也忍不住說：“赤裸裸的謊言。”

He is a bald-faced liar. 他是個十足的騙子。

8.a pitcher of：一大杯，一大罐。

酒文化：洋酒的分類

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