絕望主婦第一季1集劇本（中英文）

1、絕望主婦第一季 第一集 Written by Marc Cherry Directed by Charles McDougall - NARRATOR: My name is Mary Alice Young. 我是 Mary Alice Young。 When you read this morning's paper, you may come across an article about the unusual

2、 day I had last week. come across: 偶然遇到 article: 文章 unusual: 不平常的 當你瀏覽今天的晨報,可能會讀到一篇文章關于上個星期我所渡過的不平常的一天。 Normally, there's never anything newsworthy about my life. normally：通常 newsworthy: 有新聞價值的 通常,我的生活里是沒有什么有新聞報

3、道價值的。 That all changed last Thursday. change: 改變 但是上個星期四一切都改變了。 Of course everything seemed as normal at first. of course: 當然 seem: 好像，仿佛 normal: 平常 as normal: 照常 at first: 最初，開始時 當然,起初,一切看起來都很平常。 I made my breakf

4、ast for my family. make: 做 breakfast: 早飯 我給一家人做好早餐。 - MARY ALICE: Here we are. Waffles. Waffles: 華夫餅干 華夫餅來了。 - NARRATOR: I performed my chores. perform: 完成 chore: (家庭或農(nóng)莊的)雜務，雜活 我做好了做家務。 - NARRATOR: I completed my

5、 projects. complete: 完成 project: 設計【這里指美化家居】 完成我的手工作品。 --NARRATOR: I ran my errands. ran: 有步驟地進行 errand: 差使,差事 run errand: 跑腿 完成我的使命。 - NARRATOR: In truth, I spent the day as I spend every other day quietly polishing

6、 the routine of my life until it gleamed with perfection. in truth: 事實上，實際上 spend: 度過 every other day: 每隔一天[兩天] polish: 使完美 routine: 日常工作，日常事務 gleam: (使)閃爍, (使)閃亮 perfection: 完美 事實上, 和平時沒什么不同——一切都和往常一樣,直到一件不尋常的事情的發(fā)生。

7、 - NARRATOR: That's why it was so astonishing astonishing: 令人震驚的 這就是為什么一切令人震驚, when I decided to go to my hallway closet to retrieve a revolver that had never been used. laid: lay 的過去分詞，使躺下，放置 rest: 使休息 lay to re

8、st: 安葬 星期一人們把我安葬了。 After the funeral, all the residents of Wisteria Lane came to pay their respects. funeral: 葬禮 resident: 居民 pay: 給予 respects: 敬意 葬禮之后,所有住在 wisteria lane 人都來表示他們對我的懷念和尊敬， And as people do in this si

9、tuation, they brought food. as: 如同，像 in this situation: 在這種情況下 bring: 帶來 就像人們在這種情況下通常會做的,他們送來點吃的。 - NARRATOR: Lynette Scavo brought fried chicken. fried chicken: 炸雞 Lynette Scavo 帶了炸雞。 Lynette had a great family recipe

10、 for fried chicken. recipe: 食譜 Lynette 有一個大家庭,大家都喜歡炸雞。 - NARRATOR: Of course, she didn?t cook much as she was moving up the corporate ladder. move: 移動 up: 向上 corporate: 社團的 ladder: 梯子 corporate ladder: 公司的官階 move up th

11、e corporate ladder: 升官；升遷 當然,當她還是個職業(yè)女性的時候,她很少做飯。 She didn?t have the time. 她沒有時間。 - NARRATOR: But when her doctor announced Lynette was pregnant, her husband Tom had an idea. announce: 正式宣布 pregnant: 懷孕的 但是當她的醫(yī)生告訴她懷孕了

12、的時候, 他的丈夫 Tom 想了個辦法。 Why not quit your job? Kids do much better with stay-at-home mums; it was so much less stressful. quit: 辭職 stay-at-home : 駐家的：不工作，呆在家里的 stressful: 緊張的 為什么不辭職呢?媽媽待在家里帶出來的孩子會比較好,而且這樣壓力也比較小。 - NARRA

13、TOR: But this was not the case. case: 情形，實情 但是事實并非如此。 - NARRATOR: In fact, Lynette?s life had become so hectic she was now forced to get her chicken from a fast food restaurant. hectic: [俗] 興奮的, 緊張忙碌的 be forced to: 被迫做

14、restaurant: 餐館 事實上,Lynette 的生活變得如此興奮，她不得不去快餐店買一只炸雞。 Lynette would have appreciated the irony of it if she stopped to think about it, appreciate: 欣賞 irony: 反諷 stop to: 停下來要做 think about: 考慮 Lynette 如果仔細想想,可能會明白這是反話, b