1.
What it's
really asking is 'where do you see yourself in three months'? Sitting next to
your girlfriend or
hitting on
a
bridesmaid?
（背后的潛臺詞是“三個月后你的感情生活如何”？是坐在女友身邊，還是要跟伴娘搭訕？）
解析：
（1）
R.S.V.P : used on invitations to ask the invited guests to indicate
whether they will be able to attend
R.S.V.P
來源于法語
''R
é
pondez s'il
vous pla?t.''
，即
''Reply, if
you please.''
接到注有
R.S.V.P.
字樣的邀請函后，能否出席都要盡早答復對方，以便主人安排。
劇中是一張“婚禮請柬”，下面有兩個選項
''I'll be coming alone''
（單獨出席）以及
''I'll be bringing a guest''
（攜帶伴侶），盡早回復，有利于主人安排人數(shù)、預定座位、點菜等等。
（
2
）
hit on somebody: to talk to someone
in order to try to start a sexual relationship
搭訕
備注：
''hit on
somebody''
是美式英語口語的用法。
例：
She's always being hit on at the gym.
（在健身房總有人跟她搭訕。）
Some drunk at the bar was hitting on her.
（酒吧有個醉鬼正跟她搭訕。）
''hit on somebody''
的近義詞組：
①
????
?pick somebody up: to meet and begin a usually
brief sexual relationship with someone
例：
She used to go to bars to pick up men.
（過去，她常去酒吧泡男人。）
She said some guy tried to pick her up at
the bar.
（她說酒吧里有個人想跟她搭訕。）
②
make a pass
at somebody: to do or say something that clearly shows that you want to begin a
romantic or sexual relationship with someone
調(diào)戲
例：
He made a pass at his wife's friend.
（他調(diào)戲他太太的朋友。）
?
2.
Barney: You
don't bring a date to a wedding. That's like bringing a deer carcass on a
hunting trip. Oh Ted, oh Ted, no, no date.
（別帶女伴去參加婚宴，帶女伴去就像扛著一只死鹿去打獵。別帶女伴去！哦泰德，我的好泰德，別，別帶女伴。）
Ted: Deer carcass, really? That's the
metaphor
you're
going with
here?
（你用死鹿來做暗喻？）
Barney: Ted, it's a
simile
.
（泰德，我這是明喻?。?
解析：
（1）
metaphor
和
simile
：
metaphor
：暗喻；
simile
：明喻（比喻時用到
''like''
或
''as''
的，是“明喻”。）
例：
''She's as fierce as a tiger'' is a simile,
but ''She's a tiger when she's angry'' is a metaphor.
（“她像老虎一樣強悍”是明喻，“她生起氣來就是只老虎”是暗喻。）
（2）
go with: to choose or use
例：
After thinking about who to offer the job
to, they decided to go with the more experienced candidate.
（經(jīng)過考慮，他們決定聘用更有經(jīng)驗的那個應聘者。）
?
3.
Ted: If I
don't bring a date, a $200 piece of chicken-
slash
-salmon
will
go uneaten
. ?
（如果我不帶個伴去，那價值
200
美元的雞肉或三文魚就沒人吃了。）
解析：
（1）
slash: the mark ''/''
劇中
''chicken-slash-salmon''
的
"slash"
表示“或者”。
看《老友記》
S01E09
例子：
Chandler:
Are you wearing makeup?
Joey: Yes, I am. As of today, I am
officially Joey Tribbiani, actor
slash
model.
大意：
Chandler:
你化妝了？
Joey:
是啊，從今天開始，我就是演員兼模特：喬伊！
這里的
''actor
slash model''
表示“兼”。
（
2
）這里的
''go'' = become
，做系動詞，后接形容詞。
例：
The tire went flat.
（輪胎癟了。）
French bread goes stale very quickly.
（法式面包容易壞。）
The company went bankrupt.
（公司破產(chǎn)了。）
Everything keeps going wrong.
（不斷出錯。）
如本劇
S01E08
：
Ted: Oh, come on, you know damn well I move
out that room's
going unused
.
（你清楚得很，我搬出去，我那個房間就會空出來。）
（下轉(zhuǎn)
第二部分
）
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