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.
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6 t" c: i& |& x0 f. ^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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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:
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( \, p: V' s+ p! v$ r5 t* _- k"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
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: ]( O8 m' y- o, MI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?

1 b& g- k! p1 L; mAnd the second one was:
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, }; F) m/ X; @2 y: T"What's the 2nd Amendment?"

5 m1 Z; ?+ G) y: |( l6 eI was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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6 b( ~3 ~  \9 C% X5 S"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?
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4 P% N; T/ u7 h8 y3 W2 n7 nI 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!

+ ^# F$ _- A- L2 ~* M1 y8 UI 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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" K7 S$ w" }& g$ UNow 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.
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9 t3 G- \( [, G( P( [1 hThank you very much!

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0 B4 p0 H7 j2 G4 \Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:

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9 T& j+ X. s2 }% R2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
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  C7 N  X% P; T% O"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.

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".

) z  l9 ~. k( WRoe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.

1 J& u2 u# c( v. {; ^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:
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）.

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？
50%的婚姻最终走向永恒？

Tara2009

6# cyz0116
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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？
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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.