Friends,中文译名为《六人行》或《老友记》是美国正在热播的一个sitcom (即situation comedy)也就是我们所说的情景喜剧。它之所以这么受欢迎，是因为其内容轻松，语言幽默，每每令人捧腹不已。对于英语学习者来说，我们更能从中学到不少地道的口语。现在就请大家和我一起感受其中的乐趣吧！

　　上回说到Monica不肯把她的约会对象介绍给大伙，但在同事的劝导之下，加上大伙再三保证守规矩(be good), Monica终于把那个叫Alan的人带来了。

　　送走Alan之后：

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　　Monica: Okay. Okay, let's let the Alan-bashing begin. Who's gonna take the first shot, hmm?

　　Monica: C'mon!

　　Ross: ...I'll go. Let's start with the way he kept picking at- no, I'm sorry, I can't do this, can't do this. We loved him.

　　All: Loved him! Yeah! He's great!

　　Monica: Wait a minute! We're talking about someone that I'm going out with?

　　All: Yeah!

　　Rachel: And did you notice...? (She spreads her thumb and index finger.)

　　The Guys: Yeah.

　　Joey: Know what was great? The way his smile was kinda crooked.

　　Phoebe: Yes, yes! Like the man in the shoe!

　　Ross: ...What shoe?

　　Phoebe: From the nursery rhyme. 'There was a crooked man, Who had a crooked smile, Who lived in a shoe, For a... while...'

　　Ross: ...So I think Alan will become the yardstick against which all future boyfriends will be measured.

　　Rachel: What future boyfriends? Nono, I th- I think this could be, y'know, it.

　　Monica: Really!

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　　Alan一走，Monica心想那群“土狼”肯定要本性大暴露了，于是就先声夺人地说:“好，‘Alan批判会’现在开始，谁第一个来？(Okay, let's let the Alan-bashing begin. Who's gonna take the first shot, hmm)?”

　　这里要说一下bash这个词，它看上去似乎很简单，但用法却比较复杂，一词多义，既可作动词,也可作名词，非正式地表示“猛击、(用语言)攻击”等意思。它的动名词形式bashing可以和其它单词一起组成新名词，用来表示“对…不满”，如：government-bashing, gay-bashing , etc. Monica就用它很巧妙地创造出了“Alan-bashing”

　　这个词，颇有些语带双关，因为bash还可以解释为party,例如：He had a big bash for his 18th birthday.

　　这次的情况还真与以往不同，“土狼”们你看我，我看你，居然没一个先“下手(take the first shot)”, Monica才不信他们会这么好呢，又催了一句：“Come on. (说呀！)，这时她的哥哥Ross终于发声音了，刚开始他还煞有介事地挑起刺来，最后他终于忍不住说出Monica最想听的一句话来:“We loved him (我们很喜欢他)。”

　　Joey觉得Alan最棒的地方就是他笑起来坏坏的(Know what was great? The way his smile was kinda crooked.) Phoebe也连声说是，然后也不知是她的那根神经搭错了，Alan的坏笑让她想起了一首莫名其妙的安睡曲(nursery rhyme),还哼唱给大家听，大伙都被她搞得一楞一楞的，她自己也觉得有些不对劲儿……

　　Ross接着夸奖Alan，说他将成为衡量Monica所有未来男友的一个标准(So I think Alan will become the yardstick against which all future boyfriends will be measured.) yardstick本身是一种丈量工具，即“码尺”，其引申之意也就是“衡量…的标准或尺度”,后面跟介词of或against,比如：Is profit the only yardstick of success?

　　“什么未来男友，我想这事可能就成啦！”Rachel握住Monica的手激动地说道。Rachel的意思是指Alan可能就是Monica的真命天子，她知道大伙都明白她想要说什么，所以就简单说成I think this could be, y'know, it.

　　这次Monica真是激动啊!

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