黄西在David Letterman Show上的台词[英文]

十年移民路_

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.

2 L8 L* b& X  z- |3 e. |4 O7 F; lI'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.

& Y. J3 B  W  E8 Y. `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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4 Q) Y  K* o1 T& I# d( T7 d# PI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:

"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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' z4 M" [# y* }  lI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?

7 ~2 k7 x+ D  Z" z1 X$ jAnd the second one was:

"What's the 2nd Amendment?"

+ h+ h7 d  R/ r7 m7 B: tI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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1 W6 e* a: R( E$ \, k! \, @"What is Roe vs. Wade?"

I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?

  u& M" N! A* h0 |3 e3 q+ hI 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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* X- ?3 [) [  \& E# X( w4 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."

So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"

Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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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.

Thank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.

9 d# N% n5 h; d0 Z2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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! [/ e* L% f/ M. Y( h. g; {8 p4 V"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".

: \9 i3 |8 U6 Q( [8 Y! lRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.

The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water".

billzhao

the first passage is funny. I did not fully comprehend the humor until I looked for the exact meaning of stud, which means:
  |" @  ]: `0 [4 s5 ja 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）.

cyz0116

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SHARING. IT IS REALLY USEFUL. JOE WANG IS A FUNNY GUY AND HAS ACHIEVED AMAZING ACHIEVEMNET.

billzhao

朝阳

this guy is really cool.

cyz0116

50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever。
怎么理解？
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Tara2009

6# cyz0116


不离婚，白头到老

朝阳

50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever。
& A5 `7 s5 A0 z7 D怎么理解？
6 I9 h# p7 H) @4 _50%的婚姻最终走向永恒？
cyz0116 发表于 2009-5-6 10:12

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$ B0 A" x' z: _" }4 h/ ?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。

Tara2009

8# 朝阳
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5 ]! ?! u4 H3 P* U+ _  o我觉得他的意思是离婚率太高了。

billzhao

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

Tara2009

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。

陕西闺女

东瞅瞅,西侃侃.