unit 37
ANNY:Kinko's.This is Danny.Can I help you?Sure.Yes we do.All night.Bye. NATHAN:My my,we are eager to answer the phone tonight.
Do you think the owner's going to call?
Danny,you can relax,man,becau he's fast asleep.
DANNY:Just rving the customer,Nathan.She had questions.I had answers. NATHAN:I don't suppo this new work ethic extends to the supply room,does it?
We need some things.
DANNY:No,thanks.I'll man the front desk.Answer the phones.
NATHAN:I guess I should be glad you'll do anything.
DANNY:Kinko's.This is Danny.Can I help you?
Hi.No,this is fine.Call me here for tho early morning assignments.
So,where do I go today?Wait,wait,wait.They want me to dress as a what?
What do you mena,a prince?Listen,I'm not an actor.I'm a guy in a tuxedo.
I don't have the costumes to be a prince.
Or a king.Or a clown.Where do I pick them up? Downtown.Nine o'clock.Bye. NATHAN:Tough customer,huh?
CONSTANZA:Richard!Hello.I hope I haven't kept you waiting very long. RICHARD:No,no.We just arrived.Nancy,this is Constanza Fuentes.
Constanza,my wife Nancy.
CONSTANZA:I am so plead to meet you.
CONSTANZ:Listen,let's go upstairs.I'd love to show you around.
asian gamesIs it Nancy Hobart,or did you keep your own name?
NANCY:It's Hobart.I took Richard's name when we got married.
CONSTANZA:Oh,I took my husband's name too.But that was a long time ago. The days,many women don't.
NANCY:At the time,it was more trouble to keep my own name tahn to change it to his.
So we gave mine to our daughter as a middle name.
CONSTANZA:Your daughter is Beth,right?
NANCY:Elizabeth Jane Ellis Hobart.
CONSTANZA:Oh,it's beautiful.It sounds like an author's name,doesn't it? RICHARD:I think it sounds like an attorney's name.
CONSTANZA:And what does Beth think?
anticipateNANCY:She'd like to think it's the name of a great tennis player. CONSTANZA:I'm glad to hear it.
You know the families of candidates are often in the public eye.
Some kids have a hard time with it.
But perhaps that daughter of yours wouldn't mind it so much.
NANCY:We'll e.It's all very new to her the idea of her father as a celebrity. NANCY:A minor celebrity.
CONSTANZA:Oh,no,Nancy.If we are going to have a celebrity,
let's do it in a big way.Let's have a star!
unit 38
BETTY:Hello?Didn't you hear me knock?
NANCY:Hi Mom.I'm sorry.I'm a little preoccupied. BETTY:What's wrong? NANCY:I can't find my keys.I'm always losing them.
BETTY:Do you remember what I did when you were little?
NANCY:What?
BETTY:In the winter,you were always losing your gloves.
And so I would attach them to your sleeves with little clips.
It generally worked,although sometimes you still managed to lo them.
Don't ask me how.
NANCY:I wish I could clip my keys to my sleeves.
BETTY:Maybe you're pregnant. NANCY:Mother.
BETTY:I was always very abnt-minded when I was pregnant.
NANCY:I was not abnt-minded.I constantly craved cheeburgers.
BETTY:That's right.
BETH:Cheeburgers?Hi Grammy.i didn't know you were here today. BETTY:Well,I usually get my hair done on Wednesdays.
But my stylist is on vacation this week,so I decided to visit.
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MARIE:How can you be tired?You just took a nap.
BETTY:Come here,sweetheart.How are you? BETH:Good.
BETTY:Have you decided what you want to do for your birthday?
BETH:We're having a party here,then I'm going out with my friends. BETTY:That sounds terrific.
BETH:Yeah.
BETH:So are you staying for dinner?
NANCY:Why don't you?We're planning to get take-out,if I can ever BETH:Mom,why are your keys in the fruit bowl?
MARIE:Where have you been?
JOE:Right here.Where have you been?
MARIE:Right here.By the entrance to Saks.Where we agreed to meet.
JOE:We said near the entrance to Saks.On the other side.
MARIE:That's not near the entrance.That's near the escalator.
JOE:I was looking for you.
MARIE:Yeah,yeah.You would have walked right by me if I hadn't en you. MARIE:Here.Hold this.I want to check something.
JOE:What am I,a clot?What,you buy everything but the MARIE:Don't start,Joe.See?It fits.
It's very nice with your eyes.Are you satisfied?
MARIE:So what did you do?
JOE:I went up to the ah,had a blood pressure test.
MARIE:Blood pressure?You think you have high blood pressure?
JOE:Well,I've been wondering about it.Besides,the test was free.
MARIE:Why do you think you have high blood pressure?
JOE:Marie.
MARIE:How long have you thought this?
Why do you never tell me the things?
yishuiJOE:Marie.
MARIE:You didn't tell me about bi-focals.
You don't tell me about your blood pressure.
If you wore a hat,I wouldn't know you were bald.
JOE:Let's go.I'm exhausted.
MARIE:How can you be tired?You just took a nap.
unit 39
NANCY:And she doesn't want any rugs.
Yvonne,Klara may be our strangest client ever.
YVONNE:She's not so bad.
NANCY:You must be joking.
YVONNE:Hey.She knows what she wants and she can pay for it.What's the problem? NANCY:She doesn't know what she wants.She can't have known.
She's been through a dozen designers.
YVONNE:Nan,she's not that hard to read.
We may not like what we read.But she is the boss.
builderNANCY:That's another thing.We're freelance.We're suppod to be our own boss. YVONNE:Freelance just means everyone is your boss.
But I'm still glad I left my old job.
I'd rather have a crazy rich lady tell me what to do,
than an office full of state attorneys,thank you.
NANCY:Richard was not a bad boss.
YVONNE:No.But some of the others could have been prison guards.
Anyway,who would you rather look at:a State Hou lawyer,or Antonio? NANCY:Plea.Antonio is very strange.
YVONNE:Nan.It's an iteresting project.She's paying us for our time.
We'll do a good job.
NANCY:I guarantee she will change her mind about what she wants.
activities是什么意思 YVONNE:She might.
NANCY:She will.
HANNAH:Danny,this is a wonderful meal.Plea come and live with me. MICHAEL:Do you think he does this all the time?
dyp是啥Lisa,you e how we live.Ask Hannah if she wants to sink to our level.
LISA:This is unusually civilized.
DANNY:It's not often I make my sauce.
TONY:I want to know if this is your mother's sauce.
DANNY:The basic recipe is the same,
but I put in a few things my mother would not approve of.
I broke a couple of the rules.
HANNAH:Your mother has rules about spaghetti sauce?
TONY AND DANNY:Of cour!
LISA:My mother's rules are about clothes.
MICHAEL:Like what?
LISA:Like skirt length.No minis.
TONY:Bummer. DANNY:Bummer.
LISA:In high school she'd always ask me if I intended to leave the hou that way. HANNAH:She must have been surprid the first time you came home from college. LISA:Oh yes.
DANNY:My parents sure were.My dad has one rule:be practical.
大量的英文And I had changed my major from business to theater arts.Oh well.
TONY:Besides Danny,you're using that theatrical stuff in your job now.
DANNY:Oh yeah,ha ha,it's always a show down at the copy place.
HANNAH:How's your film coming,Michael?Are you breaking any rules? MICHAEL:I don't think so.My advisor asked me who my major influence has been.
violateI told him it changes every week.I haven't even found the rules yet.
TONY:Well,you'll know what to do when you find them.
ALL:Break'em!
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JOE:Richard,if your dinners are like this every night,
I'm going to be a very jealous man.
RICHARD:Oh,absolutely.Five cours.Candlelight.
NANCY:It is so easy to plea Richard.
YVONNE:Sorry guys.I've been here.I've en the Chine food cartons.
NANCY:I told you he was easy to plea.Any food will make Richard happy. MARIE:You're lucky,Nancy.I cook,and half the time he's too tired to eat.
JOE:We eat too late.
MARIE:You don't get home until 8 o'clock.
DOUGLAS:So you guys have been putting in a lot of hours?
RICHARD:Who isn't?
YVONNE:Really.Well,I bought a lottery ticket.
NANCY:Uh-oh.What happened to my practical partner?
YVONNE:What do you all want when I win?
Douglas,honey,you and I are taking a crui.
JOE:Is it too much to ask for a new sailboat?
YVONNE:You got it,Joe.
RICHARD:I'll have one,too.
DOUGLAS:No,no Richard.Yvonne should make a big contribution to your campaign. RICHARD:No,no,no,We have not yet decided that.
