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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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- n; s- m/ g: [+ U& @' h: m% nI'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.  K" ~7 Q# m: K4 p& E1 _4 a
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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.- m+ w1 b" L$ K* |+ B! o

" C  I% M: k" k4 i  a+ E+ ]! UI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:" l" J4 L; |% N' K/ f6 ^; c5 I3 J

6 U+ ~; _3 E1 U! x* a"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"* d; Y3 J5 N% Q5 l
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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- G; U* A4 d- V$ K& PAnd the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"4 U$ E5 `* y+ R0 F. S: ?8 B
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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"What is Roe vs. Wade?"  m4 Q3 {- ^( a! w( C' X# _
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?; R2 ?6 c0 z9 Z8 B8 ~+ i
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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!: I- \" ?, D1 h$ h# I, ~

! v  T+ z( m$ I8 E6 S9 i, [2 bI 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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) B+ i8 ^* G# v' a6 e7 LSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"1 `" l" O+ P! I) k$ s+ o5 b1 f( t6 t

* v. s8 E, m% T% Y3 LNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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+ R7 j8 z& o# S* W% h7 q6 S; NThis 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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! J% m- |. o( d  P1 gThank you very much!5 t) J) e  X- ?7 Y- X! Z5 U4 L
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:6 R: T" f" W+ l, C5 m  V
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1. 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." e: ], A4 K& ?; N
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"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.6 f0 s" a- \( ~) O8 i2 D

1 H* l- ]8 d2 D5 k+ ^6 T) OJoe 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".
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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.8 Z: i* L9 _0 U# r9 f9 F" ?

6 E$ l3 J0 n+ w" z1 Q# Y4 H) @The 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: + ^6 r$ {( [/ A. y" K8 A
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。
( U4 u0 N0 Q# Y8 R/ S3 t9 ?怎么理解?8 J5 ^( u+ _% Q7 F/ R3 X
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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" Q, Y) a4 z5 s6 c9 @- ~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。1 x3 a% C" g" t9 y" {
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50%的婚姻最终走向永恒?) z9 K) x7 {9 D/ T5 M; c  p0 n
cyz0116 发表于 2009-5-6 10:12
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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
东瞅瞅,西侃侃.
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