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.

4 }9 W2 T9 y! Y& R1 WI'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.

7 P  V/ ~6 g3 P; l  O* Z6 uI'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 f2 h) q$ C# v4 F! QI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:

% a- [3 B! D. [9 ]"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?

And the second one was:
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"What's the 2nd Amendment?"

I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?

"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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6 c( \4 m- X& G. g% v& J' h7 c7 Y; gI was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?

2 w  a8 r( o$ K7 y. KI 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!

2 E  X* A  x: _# ?I 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."

# d$ v1 V3 Y: fSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"

* ?0 w* x' {& N' T+ J) CNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”

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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+ ^" F- M, ~7 ?5 e- ]Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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7 P/ {! f# ]+ [& m. A7 J1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.

1 d; n' G/ `" c' l$ J2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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8 W7 O9 N) W6 X5 c+ D"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".
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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.
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7 ?4 T; {) x( n' D# w4 T5 k7 P* X" FThe 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:
& L3 p& j. h2 d2 O$ Ha 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。
8 {- O1 _, |  w怎么理解？
50%的婚姻最终走向永恒？

Tara2009

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不离婚，白头到老

朝阳

50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever。
怎么理解？
1 A$ A) Q4 ^$ L, N# Y: ^50%的婚姻最终走向永恒？
cyz0116 发表于 2009-5-6 10:12

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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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.