[BRYCE]Seventh grade brought changes, all right. But the biggest one didn't happen atschool. It happened at home. My grandfather came to live with us.

[BRYCE]初一時發(fā)生了很多變化，但最大的變化并不是發(fā)生在學(xué)校，而是出現(xiàn)在家中，外公搬來與我們同住。

[BRYCE]Mom said he stared like that because he missed Grandma. That was not somethingGrandpa would ever talk about with me. As a matter of fact, he never talked about much ofanything with me. That is, until Juli appeared in the local newspaper.

 [BRYCE]媽媽說他總這樣呆望是因?yàn)樗寄钔馄?，外公可不會對我說這些。事實(shí)上，他很少跟我說話，直到有天朱莉的名字登上了當(dāng)?shù)貓蠹垺?/span>

[筆記] 1. talkabout sth. with sb 和某人談?wù)撃呈?/span>

2. as a matter of fact 事實(shí)上

CHET:Oh, Bryce. May I speak with you?

CHET:布萊斯，能和你聊聊嗎?

BRYCE:What?

BRYCE:怎么了?

CHET:Have a seat, son. Tell me about your friend Juli Baker.

CHET:坐吧，孩子。跟我說說你的朋友朱莉·貝克吧。

BRYCE:Juli. She's not exactly my friend.

BRYCE:其實(shí)朱莉算不上是我朋友。

CHET:Oh. Why's that?

CHET:是嗎，為什么呢?

BRYCE:Why do you wanna know?

BRYCE:你為什么想知道?

[BRYCE]Now, Juli Baker did not wind up in The MayfieldTimes for being an eighth-grade Einstein. No, she got front-pagecoverage because she refusedto climb out of a sycamore tree. JuliBaker and that stupid sycamore tree. She always thought it was God's gift toour little corner of the universe. 

[BRYCE]上初二的朱莉·貝克登上《梅菲爾德時報》可不是因?yàn)槭裁刺觳懦删?。相反，她上了報紙頭條是因?yàn)樗豢吓老乱豢梦嗤?。朱莉·貝克和那棵傻乎乎的梧桐樹。她總是以為那棵樹是上帝對我們這個小地方的恩賜。

筆記] 1. wind up最終淪落到; 最終落得;（以…）告終;

2. Einstein ['a?n?sta?n] 愛因斯坦

3. front-page adj. (報紙文章或圖片) 頭版的;

4. coverage [?k?v?r?d?] n. 新聞報道

5. refuse to do sth. 拒絕做某事

6. sycamore [?s?k?m??r] n. 美國梧桐；西克莫無花果樹

7. universe [?ju?n?v??rs] n. 宇宙; 天地萬物; 萬象

JULI:Hey, Bryce. Wanna come climb the tree with me and my brothers?

JULI:嘿，布萊斯，來跟我和我哥哥一起爬樹吧？

 BRYCE:No, thanks.

BRYCE:不了，謝謝。

JULI:Bryce. Come up here. It's fun. You can seeeverything.

JULI:布萊斯，快上來，很好玩的。你可以看到一切。 

BRYCE:I can't. My dad needs me to help him fix… a thing.

BRYCE:我來不來，我爸爸讓我?guī)退バ蕖迻|西。

[筆記] 1. come up上來，up 表示向上

2. fix 修理，處理問題 e.g. fix a problem 解決問題

[BRYCE]That's all I needed. Climb up a tree with Juli Baker. I'd be dragged right back into the second grade. Bryce andJuli sitting in a tree. Why don't you just make me eat limabeans for the rest of my life.

[BRYCE]我只需要找個借口。和朱莉·貝克一起爬樹，那還不得把我打回小學(xué)二年級去。布萊斯和朱莉高高坐樹上。你還不如讓我一輩子吃素算了。

[筆記] 1. drag v.(使勁而吃力地) 拖，拉，拽，扯; 生拉硬拽

2. lima beans [?la?m? bi?nz] n. 利馬豆（一種菜豆）

JULI:It's three blocks away. Two blocks. One block away.

JULI:還有三個街區(qū)。兩個街區(qū)。還有一個街區(qū)就到了。

BRYCE:Like that's valuable information.

BRYCE:搞得像什么重大消息似的。

GARRETT:I hate it when she does that. I like to think there's at least a chance the bus won't show.

GARRETT:我討厭她這樣一直預(yù)報。本來還能對校車不來了抱一丁點(diǎn)希望。

[筆記] chance n.[C] 可能性

There’s a chance of doing sth. 有做某事的可能性

There’s a chance that/Chances are that 很可能

JULI:I think the tree looks particularly beautiful in this light. Don't you?

JULI:我覺得晨曦中的梧桐樹格外美麗，你覺得呢？

BRYCE:If by "beautiful" you mean "unbelievably ugly", then, yes,I would agree.

BRYCE:如果你所謂的美麗是指奇丑無比，那我絕對贊成。

JULI:You're just visually challenged. I feel sorry foryou.

JULI:你眼神出問題了，真為你惋惜。

[筆記] feel sorryfor sb 同情

         例句：Iguess I feel sorry for him. 我想我該同情他。 

[BRYCE]"Visually challenged"? "Visually challenged"? This from thegirl who lived in a house that was the joke ofthe neighborhood? They had bushes growing over windows and weeds all over theplace. It bugged my dad bigtime. 

[BRYCE]"眼睛出問題了"? "眼睛出問題了"? 這話居然出自一個 自家房子被街坊當(dāng)成笑柄的女孩之口。她家的灌木叢竄得有窗戶那么高，院子里到處雜草叢生。搞得我爸爸很無奈。

[筆記] 1. be nojoke: (非正式)嚴(yán)肅的事；不輕松的事；困難的事

例句: Trying to shop with threechildren in tow is no joke.

get /(be) beyond a joke (非正式)（變成）嚴(yán)肅的事，令人擔(dān)心的事

例句: This rain's getting beyond ajoke. 這場雨越來越讓人擔(dān)心了。

make a joke of 拿…開玩笑，一笑置之

例句: I wish I had your courage,Michael, to make a joke of it like that.

2. bug vt.打擾，煩惱；折磨，使痛苦

bug off【俚語】:停止打擾；走開

例句：You bug off, go working! 你走開！走開！干活去！

3. bigtime adv. 極其；非常

STEVEN:Oh, there he is. The bricklayer who thinks he'sa painter. That truck's not ugly enough in real life? He's gotta make a painting of it?

STEVEN:瞧，他又開始畫了，那個自以為是個畫家的磚瓦匠。還嫌那卡車不夠丑嗎？他居然還要把它畫下來。

LYNETTA:No, he does landscapes. Sells them at the countyfair. People say they're beautiful.

LYNETTA:不，他畫的是風(fēng)景畫 拿到縣集市上去賣。大家都說他的畫很漂亮。

STEVEN:Landscapes? Let me tell you something. The world would have more beauty init...if he'd do a little landscaping on that piece of crap he calls a yard.

STEVEN:風(fēng)景畫？告訴你吧。如果他肯把他那雜亂的院子稍微收拾一下，這個世界將會變得更美麗。

PATSY:I feel bad for his wife. She married a dreamer. Because of that, one of the twoof them will always be unhappy.

PATSY:我真同情他妻子，她嫁了個空想家。因此他們倆總有一人要忍受不幸。

STEVEN:Yeah, fine. But why do we have to be unhappy?

STEVEN:管他呢，可為什么我們也要受氣呢？

[筆記] 1.Bricklayer [?br?kle??r] n. 砌磚工; 瓦工;

         2. make a painting of 畫……

         3. landscape [?l?ndske?p] n. (尤指鄉(xiāng)村的)風(fēng)景，景色; 鄉(xiāng)村風(fēng)景畫; v. 美化…的環(huán)境 

[BRYCE]As annoying as the yard was to my dad...it wasnothing compared to how annoying Juli Baker wasin that tree.

[BRYCE]就如對門的院子讓我爸心煩一樣，沒有比樹上的朱莉·貝克更煩人的了。

[筆記] 1. compareto 把…比作， 喻為; 與…相比

例句: They cannot compare to eachother. 他們不能相互比較。

2. annoying [??n????] adj. 使惱怒的; 使生氣的; 使煩惱的;

例句: You must have found my attitudeannoying. 你肯定覺得我的態(tài)度討人厭。 

JULI:Three blocks away.

JULI:還有三個街區(qū)。 

[BRYCE]Every morning we had to listen to the sound of her blow-by-blowtraffic report.

[BRYCE]每天早上我們都不得不忍受她極為啰嗦的交通播報。

[筆記] blow-by-blowadj. 極為詳細(xì)的; 詳盡的;

例句：She wanted a blow-by-blow accountof what happened.

她需要一份關(guān)于事情來龍去脈的報告。 

JULI:Two blocks.

JULI:還有兩個街區(qū)。

WOMAN:There you go.

WOMAN:到啦。

GARRETT:Why do they call it The Three Stooges? I mean,there's five of them.

GARRETT:為什么要叫“活寶三人組"呢? 明明有五個人啊。

BRYCE:What?

BRYCE:什么?

GARRETT:Well, yeah, there's Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp and Curly Joe.

GARRETT:有莫伊，拉里，克里，謝普和卷毛喬伊。

BRYCE:Yeah, but they only have three at a time.

BRYCE:對，不過每次出場都只有三個。

GARRETT:Yeah. You know, I hate Curly Joe. I mean, he shouldn't even be a Stooge.

GARRETT:也是。我討厭卷毛喬伊，他根本就算不上是活寶。

[筆記] stooge[stu?d?] n. 受人驅(qū)使的人;(供其他演員作弄打趣的) 丑角；

The Three Stooges 《三個臭皮匠》，美國電影

MAN:Listen, girl, I'm this close to calling thepolice. You are trespassing and obstructing progress on a contracted job. 

MAN:聽著，小姑娘，我可要報警了。你這是擅闖私人領(lǐng)地，妨礙正常施工。

[筆記] 1. beclose to doing 要做某事

2. trespass [?tresp?s] v. 擅自進(jìn)入，非法侵入(他人的土地或建筑物);

例句: They were trespassing on privateproperty. 他們擅自闖入私人房屋。

3. obstruct [?b?str?kt] v. 阻擋; 阻塞; 遮斷; (故意) 妨礙，阻撓，阻礙;

例句: Tractors and container lorrieshave completely obstructed the road.

拖拉機(jī)和集裝箱貨車已經(jīng)將這條路完全堵死了。

GARRETT:What's going on?

GARRETT:怎么了?

MAN:Either you come down or we're gonna cut you down.

MAN:要么你自己下來，要么我們就把你砍下來了。

JULI:Bryce. You guys, come up here with me. They won't cut it down if we're all uphere.

JULI:布萊斯，你們也爬上來。如果我們都在樹上，他們就不敢砍。

GARRETT:Bus, bus, bus.

GARRETT:車來了，車來了。 

[BRYCE]Juli was frantic. They wanted to cut down her tree.I couldn't understand why that mutant tangle of gnarly branchesmeant so much to her.

[BRYCE]朱莉抓狂了，他們想砍掉她的樹。我真不明白她怎么那么在乎那棵長得歪七扭八的樹。

[筆記] 1. frantic[?fr?nt?k] adj. 緊張忙亂的;手忙腳亂的; (由于恐懼或擔(dān)心) 無法控制感情的，發(fā)狂似的;

例句: A bird had been locked in and was by nowquite frantic.

一只鳥被關(guān)進(jìn)了籠子，到現(xiàn)在它都十分狂躁。

2. mutant [?mju?t?nt] adj. 因基因變異而不同的; 變異的; n. 突變型; 突變體; 突變異體怪物; 異形;

3. a tangle of（亂糟糟的）一團(tuán)

4. gnarly [?nɑ?rli] adj. 極好的; 不太好（語境/語氣不同，意思截然相反）

5. meant: mean的過去分詞和過去式

JULI:Bryce, please.

JULI:布萊斯，求你了。 

[BRYCE]I felt bad for her.

[BRYCE]我很同情她。

MAN:Leave her.

MAN:別管她。

[BRYCE]But I wasn't about to cut school over it. 

[BRYCE]但我不想因此逃課。

[筆記] cut school oversth 因……曠課

GARRETT:Come on, bro. 

GARRETT:快來，哥們兒。

CHET:Why isn't she your friend, Bryce?

CHET:為什么不她不是你的朋友呢，布萊斯?

BRYCE:You'd have to know Juli.

BRYCE:你得先了解朱莉。

CHET:Well, I'd like to.

CHET:我正想了解。

BRYCE:Why?

BRYCE:為什么?

CHET:That girl has an iron backbone. Why don't you invite her over sometime?

CHET:這姑娘挺有骨氣的。干嘛不請她過來玩呢？

BRYCE:An iron backbone? She's just stubborn and she's pushy beyond belief.

BRYCE:有骨氣? 她就是很倔吧，固執(zhí)得要命。

CHET:Is that so?

CHET:是這樣嗎?

BRYCE:And she's been stalking me since the secondgrade.

BRYCE:她從二年級起就一直纏著我。

CHET:Well, a girl like that doesn't live next door to everyone.

CHET:并非人人都能和這樣的女孩做鄰居。

BRYCE:Lucky them.

BRYCE:那他們很幸運(yùn)。

CHET:Read this. Without prejudice.

CHET:看看這個。放下成見。

[筆記] 1. backbone[?b?kbo?n] n. 脊梁骨; 脊柱; 支柱; 骨干; 基礎(chǔ); 毅力; 骨氣;

例句：Thesmall businesspeople of Britain are the economic backbone of the nation.

英國的小商人是國家經(jīng)濟(jì)的支柱。

2. iron [?a??rn] 堅強(qiáng)的; 強(qiáng)硬堅定的;

3. invitesb. over請（某人）過來;

4. stubborn[?st?b?rn] adj. 固執(zhí)的;倔強(qiáng)的; 難以去除(或?qū)Ω?的;

5. pushy [?p??i] adj. 執(zhí)意強(qiáng)求的;死纏硬磨的;

6. beyondbelief 難以置信;

7. stalk[st??k] n. (葉) 柄; (花) 梗; v.偷偷接近; (非法) 跟蹤，盯梢;

[BRYCE]Like I needed to know anything more about Juli Baker. Juli wasn't at the busstop the next morning. Or the morning after that. She was at school, but you'dnever know it.

[BRYCE]好像我還不夠了解朱莉·貝克似的。第二天早上朱莉沒去等校車。第三天也不見她出現(xiàn)。她來上學(xué)了，可不知道她怎么來學(xué)校的。 

GARRETT:Little Joe? He's got so much makeup on…

GARRETT:小喬? 他化了很重的妝。

Bryce:He doesn't age.

Bryce:他又不老。

[筆記] age v. 變老; 使顯老

[BRYCE] I told myself I should be glad about it. I mean, isn'tthat what I'd always wanted? But still, I felt bad for her. I was gonna tellher I was sorry, but then I thought, hey, no…that's the last thing I needed: Juli Baker thinking I missed her. 

[BRYCE]我對自己說應(yīng)該感到高興才對。這不正是我想要的嗎? 但我還是很為她難過。

我想去跟她道歉，可轉(zhuǎn)念一想，不行。我絕不能讓朱莉·貝克以為我想她了。