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Ian：It doesn't look like they have chicken tenders here.

Bob: Wait inside. I have to make a call.

Firefly: This is Firefly.

Bob: This is Bob Ho. I need help.

Larry:  Yeah, so I get pretty good grades at this university. I'm top of the class. I don't like to brag, but, you know.

Farren: Bob, this is Larry.

Larry: Pleased to meet you, sir.

Bob: Let's get some food.

Farren: He goes to the university.

Ian: He's a poet. Isn't it cool?

Bob: It's rad. It's awesome. It's jiggy for shizzy. It's the bomb. Let's go.

Farren: Hey! How embarrassing.

Ian: You know, most people don't like me when they first meet me. But Larry did.

Bob: I have two words for you, Larry. Thirteen.

Nora: I have to go.

Bob: All right, Nora. Come on. You two stay at the table. No, no, no.I can't go in there.

Nora: Boys are pigs.

Bob: Careful.

Larry: And the lion jumped on me, and I killed him with my bare hands, and I saved the colonel's life.

Farren: You're brave.

Larry: Thanks.

Ian: How about this, Bob? The whole restaurant and the waitress sat Larry here. Isn't it great?

Farren: It's like it's fate or something.

Larry: Really, sir, we're just goofing around. Hey, Nora. Knock, knock.

Nora: Who's there?

Larry: Irish stew.

Nora: Irish stew who?

Larry: Irish stew in the name of the law.

Farren: Larry was telling me all about the university. It sounds great.

Larry: I'd be glad to give you a tour sometime.

Bob: When pigs fly.

Farren: It's not up to you. You're not my dad.

Bob: No, but I know that your mother hasn't completely lost her mind.

Farren: It's just a tour, Bob. It's not like he's asking me out on a date or anything. Are you?

Larry: No, it's just a friendly offer.

Farren: Even if it was a date, you still couldn't stop me.

Bob: What's your major, Larry?

Larry: English Lit.

Bob: Would you pass the soy sauce?

Larry: That way I get a background in the classics.

Bob: You speak Russian, Larry?

Farren: What's going on?

Larry: This is going to be painful.

Bob: You're right about that. Go, go, go. Maybe you'll write a poem about this. Goodbye, Larry.

Farren: Fine. He's too old for me.

Nora: Bob, I don't want to be a princess anymore. I want to be a cyborg.

妙语佳句 活学活用

1. chicken tender：嫩鸡肉块，在此处指炸鸡店。

2. firefly：萤火虫，在此处是接线特工的代号。

3. rad：非常棒的，精彩的。

4. jiggy：美国俚语，活跃的，激动的。也可以表示“酷毙了”。

5. shizzy：用来形容很酷，例如：Dude, that car's the shizzy.（老兄，这辆车太酷了。）

6. thirteen：十三点，骂人的话，说某人神经病，不正常。

7. goof around：随便聊聊，消磨时光。

也可以指把时间浪费在荒谬无聊的事情上。例如：I told him not to goof around.（我叫他不要游手好闲。）

8. Irish stew：土豆洋葱煮肉。

9. when pigs fly：这决不可能。除非太阳从西边出来。也可以说成是Pigs might fly或There's a pig flying by.

据辞源介绍，俚语Pigs might fly或There's a pig flying by源于苏格兰谚语“Pigs fly in the air with their tails forward”（字面意：猪在空中倒着飞；比喻意：绝对不可能发生）。谚语认为：即使发生奇迹，猪飞了起来，但若让猪倒着飞，那肯定百分之一百实现不了。

下次若朋友提出什么荒诞建议，您可以大手一挥朝向窗户，随声惊呼：“Look! There's a pig flying by！”

10. Lit：文学，literature的缩写。例如lit-crit就是指“文学批评”。

11. soy sauce：酱油。

12. cyborg：科幻故事中的电子人，半人半机器的生物。