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！

　　Danielle是Chandler的新约会对象。第一次约会后Chandler感觉很好，但他却不愿意立即打电话给Danielle以表示他对她的好感，后来在老友们的“逼迫”下，他才给Danielle留了言，可她一直没回电，弄得Chandler心神不宁。最后没想到Danielle到咖啡馆来找Chandler了：

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　　Danielle: Chandler?

　　Chandler: Danielle! Hi! Uh- everybody, this is Danielle, Danielle, everybody.

　　All: Hi. Hi.

　　Chandler: What are you doing here?

　　Danielle: Well, I've been calling you, but it turns out I had your number wrong. And when I finally got the right one from Information, there was no answer. So I thought I'd just come down here, and make sure you were okay.

　　Chandler: ...I'm, I'm okay.

　　Danielle: Listen uh, maybe we could get together later?

　　Chandler: That sounds good. I'll call you- or you call me, whatever...

　　Danielle: You got it.

　　Chandler: Okay.

　　Danielle: G'bye, everybody.

　　All: Bye.

　　Phoebe: Whoo-hoo!

　　Monica: Yeah, there you go!

　　Ross: Second date!

　　Chandler: ...I don’t know.

　　Rachel: You don't know?!

　　Chandler: Well, she seems very nice and everything, but that whole thing about her coming all the way down here, just to see if I was okay? I mean,... how needy is that?

　　【世博视角】

　　Danielle可不像Chandler那样喜欢玩欲擒故纵的游戏，第一次约会后她就一直在打Chandler的电话，可结果发现她把号码给搞错了(Well, I've been calling you, but it turns out I had your number wrong.)。turn out这个词组在这里表示“…证明为,”它经常以这样的句型出现it turns out (that)...比如:It turns out that I was right all along.当Danielle终于得到正确的号码再打给Chandler时，却没人接电话(And when I finally got the right one from Information, there was no answer.)注意这句话中的Information首字母大写，特指美国的电话查号台，就相当于我们这里的114。

　　在说明了来由之后，Danielle试探性地问道：“Listen uh, maybe we could get together later?”还是Danielle采取了主动想再次约会Chandler，但由于他们才约会了一次，彼此都还不是很熟悉，再加上Danielle还不能确定Chandler是否愿意再同自己约会，所以她在问句中用了maybe和could这两个词，使句子听上去比较委婉。Danielle这样一问可正中Chanlder的下怀，可他还是“矜持”地回答说：“听上去不错，我再打电话给你吧，或者你打给我，怎么样都行(That sounds good. I'll call you- or you call me, whatever...)。”whatever用在口语里面可以表示任何一种选择都可以，你并不介意，又比如说：What can I offer you? Coffee, tea, lemonade? Oh, I don’t care. Whatever.再看一下Danielle的回答，她说：“You got it.”又是一个很口语化的表达法，它在这里的意思就是“听你的”，当我们表示同意按别人的要求或是想法去做某事时，除了最平常的Okay外，也可以说You got it.

　　Danielle走后，老友们都为Chandler感到高兴，Monica欢呼道：“Yeah, there you go!”there you go这个表达法在不同的上下文中有不同的意思，它既可以用来褒贬某人的行为，也可以表示接受某件不如意的事情。在刚才那一句中，Monica所说的there you go是用来增强Chandler的信心的，又比如：There you go! I told you it was easy.另外, there you go有时也可以说成there you are。

　　按说Chandler的目的达到了，他应该觉得很兴奋才对，可此时他却提不起劲来，理由是：Well, she seems very nice and everything, but that whole thing about her coming all the way down here, just to see if I was okay? I mean,... how needy is that?可能很多人都没想到need还有形容词形式needy，它除了用来形容那些生活贫困、缺衣少食的人之外，还可以形容某人在精神方面很需要关爱，例如：Sally was very insecure and needy.先前Chandler可是一直坐立不安地在等Danielle的电话，一副“needy”样，可现在他反而嫌Danielle太needy了。看来“女人太主动，男人就不珍惜”这句话还真没说错呢！

　　*本篇所讲到的地道表达法：

　　it turns out (that)

　　whatever

　　you got it.

　　there you go

　　needy

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