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黄西在David Letterman Show上的台词[英文]

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发表于 2009-5-5 20:01 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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Hi everybody. So... I'm Irish. I read a report recently that a man reaches his sexual peak at age 18 but I didn't know this... until I was twenty five. So the world will never know what a stud I was. No one took a bite out of this peach when it was ripe.
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I'm not good at sports, but I love parallel parking... because unlike sports, when you are parallel parking, the worse you are, the more people that are rooting for you.
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# c* N3 e1 Z% L; M, l6 WI'm an immigrant and I used to drive an old car with a lot of bumper stickers that are impossible to peel off. And one of them said, "if you don't speak English, go home!" I didn't notice it for two years.
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I worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:3 _: N% c8 M3 L4 o% I9 @

0 E! U7 I) t' {/ G3 D, S) S"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"6 ~# I0 `( p' k: g( w  m9 m% l

; v/ t5 m; \% D+ {/ wI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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& T2 S# S; Z% m# `And the second one was:1 d2 L6 F) Z* E. H
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?% B- }# T' ], N- B6 I" I
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?
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I have a family now, but I used to be scared of marriage. I was like wow... 50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever!1 s! n1 u0 f: I9 z+ U- w

5 C$ ]# {' C3 ]8 vI just had my first child last year. I was really amazed at it. I was in the delivery room, holding up my son, thinking to myself, "Wow... He was just born... And he's already a U.S citizen."
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' d+ Y  Q3 @. }* \3 J6 g, QSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"9 G& Q5 H4 b  b5 \. e6 f; a

2 |% N5 t9 w3 Z' v, H( C/ XNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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& H' e1 Z8 {. LThis sign is basically a threat. It just says that I have a screaming baby and a nagging wife and that I am not afraid of dying anymore.
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, c4 O6 W6 r  S8 u, g# Z5 X8 OThank you very much!
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# s& p. U3 l2 e- N) h* EImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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$ r3 `: `- o8 @6 c* @: E1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.7 V1 ?; j% n3 {- ^

7 M4 U2 \( w8 v2 TJoe Wong used this case in a form of a question: What is Roe vs. Wade? To which he cleverly delivered the punchline "Two ways of coming to the United States".) R* g; ?" j5 P' o; Z

$ k# `4 g! A/ N( C' h. QRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.
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" \/ Q+ Q$ ]2 m0 o9 tThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water".
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发表于 2009-5-5 21:39 | 显示全部楼层
the first passage is funny. I did not fully comprehend the humor until I looked for the exact meaning of stud, which means:
# w/ P" \) R1 @; j. Xa young man, esp one who is thought to be very active sexually and is regarded as a good sexual partner 小伙子(尤指性慾旺盛堪为性伴侣的).
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发表于 2009-5-5 22:28 | 显示全部楼层
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SHARING. IT IS REALLY USEFUL. JOE WANG IS A FUNNY GUY AND HAS ACHIEVED AMAZING ACHIEVEMNET.
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发表于 2009-5-6 06:55 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队 追求完美
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发表于 2009-5-6 08:35 | 显示全部楼层
this guy is really cool.
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发表于 2009-5-6 09:12 | 显示全部楼层
50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever。
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50%的婚姻最终走向永恒?
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发表于 2009-5-6 09:56 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
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不离婚,白头到老
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发表于 2009-5-6 10:33 | 显示全部楼层
50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever。& j7 A2 v$ w6 c% k$ u/ a( {3 |  `
怎么理解?
; h  T$ n2 ?5 e/ H50%的婚姻最终走向永恒?
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我觉得JOE的意思可能是不离婚的比例这么高,(因为他害怕婚姻)可能他离不了婚吧。
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发表于 2009-5-6 11:37 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
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我觉得他的意思是离婚率太高了。
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发表于 2009-5-7 19:59 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
同意朝阳的意见。原来没有认真看,觉着就是离婚率太高了。但是这样就没有什么幽默了,好玩的对方可能是为了迎合一些不爱结婚的美国人。从一而终对一些年轻人是来讲,不一定是梦想,却有可能是噩梦
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发表于 2009-5-8 12:12 | 显示全部楼层
表情僵硬。看第一遍没觉的,越看越觉的离专业演员差好大一截。
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发表于 2009-5-8 21:06 | 显示全部楼层
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