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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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4 Q' E) Q% M" S& _- Q% f" kI'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.% K9 f0 N% Y/ W& U  {

  Q1 ^# T& u5 h; _/ C- }I'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:" x# l; m7 {5 I/ u. o+ I

8 t4 n. T2 K% O5 w8 a4 N7 K"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?8 P; P3 \2 R8 ]4 q
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And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
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; m- {# \  D' K. [I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?- ~( Y" Y2 r) ]

* g& b# r# z$ k" q. M- I"What is Roe vs. Wade?"% l: B7 w: Z) ]+ t0 m7 v

  {$ t! O, M7 z, B; F$ H( a% p; B" gI 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!
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# g  G+ ~0 x% K0 _  cI 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."- c3 u" x& q. ?, Z
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So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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( D6 {5 j* h* [' E" |) t  fNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”& l( a! x5 _- c

9 u1 w# O5 c7 O  q6 ~( Q- [This 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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Thank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:! Q  B: q$ Y; {! i8 v5 S4 z
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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2 D8 Z9 Y. `7 @3 ]2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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/ s$ y  s# q9 [% w' e9 ~"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.
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Joe 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".7 O2 m2 `9 j* u7 j
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Roe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.( t3 g2 _) I8 P: ~: ?" z

2 U* M% @4 `% z& t- V1 rThe 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: - Z* f4 X1 `3 ?$ R: a+ r
a 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。
6 {( k$ M& o) D3 d怎么理解?
! z9 N0 O7 y8 `2 ]- M# `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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6 P# C% k& `' _+ H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。
2 i! g4 B7 z  b怎么理解?9 z4 u* T0 i$ E. N) r7 r+ X/ ?
50%的婚姻最终走向永恒?5 Y/ O" @0 B; Z$ ^( e
cyz0116 发表于 2009-5-6 10:12
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5 f. H5 y; m/ q- G# ]4 Q! V  n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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( b( N3 w5 I  G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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