歐洲鐵路旅行常識

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本片段劇情：杰西和塞琳娜互相透露了兩人都是單身，還談到了最近的一次分手經歷。兩人擦出了愛情的火花。

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Jesse: We haven't talked about this yet, but are you dating anyone? You got a boyfriend waiting on you back in Paris or anything like that?

Celine: No, not right now.

Jesee: But you did.

Celine: We broke up six months ago.

Jesse: Six months ago? Oh, I'm sorry. I mean, I'm not that sorry. Tell me about it.

Celine: No way. I can't. It's really, really boring.

Jesse: Come on. Tell me about it.

Celine: I was really disappointed. I thought this one would last for a while. He was -very stupid, ugly, bad in bed, alcoholic. You know.

Jesse: A real prize winner.

Celine: I was kind of giving him a favor. But he left me, saying I loved him too much. I was blocking his artistic expression or some shit like that. But anyway, I was traumatized and became--And became totally obsessed with him. So I went to a shrink, and it came up that I had written -this stupid story about this woman trying to kill her boyfriend -and how she'd do it. It's all the details of how to do it and not get caught--

Jesse: She was gonna kill her boyfriend?

Celine: Yeah, she was. It's nothing I would do, but it was just some writing.

Jesse: No, I understand.

Celine: But Anyway, this stupid shrink believed everything I was telling her. It was my first time seeing her. She said she had to call the police.

Jesse: She had to call the police?

Celine: She was totally convinced I was really gonna do it. Even though I had explained it was just some writing. She said, looking into my eyes. The way you said it, -I know you are going to do it. She was totally out of her mind. It was my first and last session.

Jesse: So what happened then?

Celine: I totally got over him. But now, I'm obsessed -that he's gonna die from an accident or 1000 kilometers away. And I'm gonna be the one accused. Why is it you become obsessed with people you don't -really like that much?

Jesse: I don't know.

Celine: So how about you?

Jesse: What?

Celine: Are you with anyone?

Jesse: It's funny how we managed to avoid this subject for so long.

Celine: But now you have to tell me.

Jesse: Well, I kind of see love as this escape for two people who don't know how to be alone. It's funny. People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing. But if you think about it, there's nothing more selfish.

Celine: I know. So who just broke up with you?

Jesse: What?

Celine: You sound like you just were hurt.

Jesse: Do I?

Celine: All right. Big confession. I should've told you this earlier or something. I didn't come to Europe just to hang out and read Hemingway in Paris and shit like that. I saved up my money all spring to fly to Madrid and spend the summer with my girlfriend--

Celine: Your girlfriend?

Jesse: My ex-girlfriend -who has been on this art history program for the last year. Anyway, I got here. We were reunited at long last -and we went out to dinner our first night with six of her friends. Pedro, Antonio, Gonzalo, Maria, Suzy from home. She managed to avoid being alone with me for the first few days and I stuck around just to let it sink in that she wished I hadn't come. So I bought the cheapest flight out, this one leaving out of Vienna. It didn't leave for a couple weeks, so I bought this Eurail pass. You know what's the worst thing about somebody breaking up with you? It's when you remember how little you thought about the people you broke up with, and you realize -that that is how little they're thinking about you. You'd like to think, you're both in pain but really, they're just, Hey, I'm glad you're gone.

Celine: Believe me, I know. You should look at bright colors.

Jesse: What?

Celine: That's what the shrink told me.

妙語佳句 活學活用

1. No way：不可能，想都別想

2. alcoholic: 酗酒者，酒鬼

3. artistic expression：藝術表現，藝術表達

4. traumatize：受精神創傷

5. shrink: 心理醫生

shrink的本意是“收縮”，在美國日常俚語中，它能用來指稱心理健康方面的專家學者，包括了心理學家和精神病醫生。是headshrinker的簡稱。

head-shrinker這個詞最早出現于20世紀五六十年代，當時還只是用于電影電視中，作為一種文藝語言中的小玩笑出現。為什么說心理醫生是“縮頭人” 呢？當人們精神壓力很大，滿腹心事的時候，特別容易覺得自己一個頭有兩個大，腦子都要被煩惱擠爆了的感覺。而通過心理醫生的診療調適，慢慢地心結就解開了，問題也想通了，精神上的壓力也就減小了，感覺好像頭腦又縮回到正常的大小，這就是head-shrinker的由來。

6. get over him： 這里是說“我已經完全忘了他”。

7. hang out: 閑逛

hang out也可以指“伸出”，例如：Don't hang out of the window or you may fall.（不要把身體伸出窗外，否則會掉下去的。）

8. sink in: 完全理解，被了解

It took a long time for the bad news to sink in.（人們花了很長時間才弄明白這個壞消息。）

9. Eurail pass： 歐洲通行票

I backpacked around and toured, mostly. We bought eurail passes and just travelled.（我主要是背著行囊到處徒步旅行、觀光。我們購買了歐洲大陸周游券，反正就是到處旅游就是了。）

10.bright color: 明亮的顏色

歐洲鐵路旅行常識

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