影片对白

Schuyler Fox: Your father's getting married again.

Joe: Really?

Schuyler Fox: Yep.

Joe: Congratulations!

Nelson Fox: Thank you.

Joe: Why?

Nelson Fox: Who knows?

Joe: Love?

Nelson Fox: Possible.

Schuyler Fox: I think you're a damn fool!

Nelson Fox: Pop, Matthew is four years old, okay? It'd be nice if he knew his parents were married.

Joe: Listen, I have a sad announcement to make. City Books on 23rd Street. It's going under.

Nelson Fox: Another independent bites the dust.

Schuyler Fox: On to the next!

Joe: Going to buy out their inventory of architecture and New York history for the new store.

Nelson Fox: How much, son, how much are you paying?

Joe: Whatever it costs, it won't be as much as that exquisitely uncomfortable mohair episode there which is now all over my suit.

Nelson Fox: Here you go.

Joe: Thanks. We're also going have a section dedicated just to writers who’ve lived on the West Side.

Schuyler Fox: As a shot to the neighborhood.

Nelson Fox: Perfect. Keep those West Side liberal nuts, pseudo-intellectual--

Joe: Readers, Dad. They're called readers.

Nelson Fox: Don't do that, son, don’t romanticize them. It'll keep them fromjumping down your throat.

Schuyler Fox: What's the competition?

Joe: One mystery store, Sleuth, at 78th and Amsterdam and a children's bookstore, Shop Around The Corner. It's been there forever.

Schuyler Fox: Cecilia's store.

Joe: Who's that?

Schuyler Fox: Cecilia Kelly.

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. Pop

这里的pop 是 papa 的另一种叫法，感觉上相当于我们说的“老爸”。

2. Go under

我们常用上坡、下坡来代表事业的成功和失败，从 go under 的字面上来看，我们也可以猜到这个片语的意思是“suffer defeat or destruction; fail失败”，例如：We feared the business would go under after the founder died. 我们曾担心创始人去世后公司会经营失败。

3. Independent

这里的 independent 是指“自营的（企业），不依*也不加入某个大的或主要的集团或体系”。

4. Bite the dust

这个片语的意思是“suffer defeat or death 遭遇失败/死亡”，可能是取“死了埋在土里就会 bite the dust”的意思吧，我们来看个例子：The 1990 election saw both of our senators bite the dust. 90年的大选，我们的两位参议员都失败了。

5. Buy out

Buy out 的意思是“to purchase the entire stock, business rights, or interests of 买尽，买下全部”，例如： A rival store owner offered to buy out my grandfather, but he refused. 一家竞争店铺的老板提出要买我祖父的全部资产，我祖父拒绝了。

6. Jump down someone's throat

这个片语的意思是“Strongly criticize, reprimand or disagree with someone 强烈地谴责某人，和某人意见严重不同”，例如：Just because I admitted to being there, you needn't jump down my throat. 我不过承认去过哪儿，你用不着这样苛责我。

Good. Thank you.