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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.  K8 M* ?& D! I4 Y$ C; L6 A
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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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* T4 C0 M' _; u' t8 C& k( iI'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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$ e1 K+ F0 k5 D9 C- {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:
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6 U2 [7 Z( X8 |' `# L$ X1 u"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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% U' n- k: f' Y8 Z7 E* ~I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?3 Y- X' s3 _# g# N
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And the second one was:
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, G/ d* H( ]8 A7 _I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?, T% R2 {# Y( a# ^, h* T# D

% `2 O3 Q# ]3 }; K! N3 ]"What is Roe vs. Wade?"& r( X5 ?, c9 z" G3 D
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?/ U7 @) @: z3 K5 K) f' `5 P1 F6 j
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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!, U6 Q% i: E$ a$ {

1 r( r3 E0 ^/ U6 c: l0 m) gI 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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) U" r/ _" t) e$ m$ ^6 eSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"
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Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”- ~1 @5 N6 Q! F5 Z( N) L4 G3 f
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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.
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+ h' e* _/ l! k8 {5 Q! W0 X) ^Thank you very much!) _7 c' T5 n8 o5 A# u

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: C' s% ]4 j: g: D1 JImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
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& x8 J$ y: e! B* V9 Z/ T2. 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.& S8 T. [4 E( r* w5 I$ k" k
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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".1 E" c& r6 o* z% ~* U5 q

9 B4 L& l  D1 O/ @! X: HRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.1 L. X7 J3 {0 `  ~/ e* e: W: R
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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:
- }. }$ C' n( z3 p  y/ R' ma 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。! @! ]- O" ]; \/ B0 H; V
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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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  s' d  Q) `8 {$ w7 z2 P9 [/ J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。
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50%的婚姻最终走向永恒?0 V+ p6 E3 n7 ^! x  F
cyz0116 发表于 2009-5-6 10:12

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3 \+ d6 {- u- c: k* Z( Y" x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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