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2004-01-01
Rat: looks like there was another mix-up at the comic strip factory.
mix-up:混乱【错误】 comic：连环漫画 strip: 长条 comic strip:连环漫画
script：原稿，手稿 factory：工长
Zebra: oh, no…did the send us the wrong scripts again?
send：传送
Rat: yep…and they messed up big this time.
mess up:将……弄糟
Zebra: which strip’s dialogue did they send us?
dialogue:对话 strip：连环画
Pig: Months of tasteless, boring, reduced-fat meals and this is the thanks I get??？
tasteless:无味的 boring：令人感到烦的 reduced-fat：低热量的
2004-01-02
Editor’ note:
due to a foul-up at the comic strip factory, ”pearls before swine ”received this week’s script for the comic strip “Cathy”. We apologize for any inconvenience and ask that you bear with us.
editor ：编辑due to:由于 foul-up:混乱，紊乱 pearl：珍珠 swine: 猪 receive：收到
apologize：道歉 inconvenience：不方便 bear with：忍受【见解】
Pig: too much pressure! Too many projects! Too little time! No time! No time！
pressure：压力 projects：项目
Rat：oh ,for god’s sake, if your life’s so miserable, why don’t you jump out the window?
sake ：缘故 miserable：痛苦的 jump：跳 window：窗子
Editor：okay…that’s not in the script.
script：剧本
Rat: Yeah, but it should be.
2004-01-03
Zebra：you know, if we got the script for this week’s “cathy”, who got this script for “pearls”?
know：知道
Rat: I assume they just lost it.
assume: 假设
Zebra: that’s good…our dialogue could look a little inappropriate in the wrong hands.
dialogue ：对话 inappropriate：不适宜的
Boy: shut up. You dumb, fat pig.
shut up ：闭嘴 dumb:哑的【笨的】
2004-01-04
2004-01-05
TV：for the vacation of a lifetime, visit Australia…and we’ll throw another shrimp on the Barbie for you.
vacation ：假期 shrimp: 虾【小东西】 Barbie：芭比
Pig: maybe it’s more fun in Australia.
2004-01-06
Rat: I hear that your buddy, Davey dog, got fired from his janitor job.
buddy：伙伴 fired：开除 janitor：门卫
Pig：yeah…he said he had swept a building when he hadn’t.
Swept：（=sweep）打扫 building：建筑物
Rat：and they fired him for that?
Pig ; yeah
Pig: they refuse to let sweeping dogs lie.
lie：躺【栖息处，睡觉的地方】
2004-01-07
Rat：welcome to rat’s first ever “magic picture” experiment…just place your nose against the next panel, stare for a full thirty seconds, and see if you can see the hidden picture.
welcome ：欢迎 magic ：魔法 picture：图片 panel：面板 stare：凝视
hidden：隐藏的
Pig：what’s that?
Rat: there. All dumb people are now marked by a black smudge on their nose.
dumb ：傻的 smudge: 污点，渍痕
2004-01-08
Rat：before you judge a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes.
judge：判断 walk a mile in his shoes：站在他的立场
Pig: you should run a mile in his shoes.
Rat: why should you run?
Pig: you just stole his shoes.
stole：偷
Pig: he hates it when I’m right.
2004-01-09
Rat: people that say “nifty”…people that put those little punctuation mark faces after their sentences… people that…
Pig: what are you writing?
nifty：伶俐的，有技巧的 punctuation:标点 sentence：句子
Rat: a list of all the people I’m gonna shove off a cliff some day.
gonna：<美> 将要(=going to) shove off：离开 shove : 推挤 cliff: 悬崖，峭壁
Pig: nifty.
Rat: what??
2004-01-10
Rat: stop it. Dude…I can’t stand people who put those little punctuation mark faces after their sentences.
dude：纨绔子弟
Pig: wow. You’re really mad.
mad：疯了
Rat: stop it. Dude.
Pig; I’m just kidding.
kidding：开玩笑
2004-01-11
The adventure of angry bob.
adventure：冒险 angry：生气
Angry bob was angry ：“ I need to buy a big house with a big ,wide ,modern porch. I will rock on a rocking chair and be happy.”
modern ：现代化的 porch: 门廊 rock：摇摆
Bob bought the house he wanted and sat on his big, wide front porch in a rocking chair and rocked.
front：前面的
Bob drank a big glass of ice cold lemonade and rocked.
drank ：（=drink）喝 lemonade:柠檬水
Bob watched as his neighbor’s cat, Willy hopped on the porch rail. He patted willy. Willy purred, bob rocked.
neighbor ：邻居 hop 跳跃 rail 横栏 pat：拍 purr 咕噜咕噜叫
Bob watched as little jimmy, the paperboy, rode his green bicycle, towing out the Sunday papers. Bob rocked.
paperboy ：报童 tow out 拖拽出【取出】 tow 拖拽
Rocking, bob achieved the sense of nirvana he had long sought. On my big, wide front porch, in my rocking chair, I’m happy. Happy be repeated to himself, smiling.
achieve：获得 nirvana：涅槃 sought：寻找 repeat：重复
A Sunday paper struck Bob in the face. Bob fell off his chair and died.
strike:打 fall off：掉下
Heads, yelled the paperboy, after the fact, as he stole bob’s rocking chair and rode off.
yelled：呼喊 steal：偷
Always tip your paperboy.
tip:给小费
2004-01-12
Pig: I went to safari bob’s house today.
Rat: is that the neighbor that hunts big game?
neighbor ：邻居 hunt 追捕，搜寻
Pig: I don’t know, but I do know that while I was there, a bunch of animals stopped by and poked their heads through den wall.
a bunch of：很多 animal：动物 stop by：停留 poke：拨开【探出】 den：兽穴
Rat: you dumb pig… those are animals he’s shot.
dumb：傻的
Pig: you’d think they’d learn
learn：学习
2004-01-13
Pig: hi, safari bob… this is my pal, rat…he wanted to see your collection of big game.
pal：朋友 collection：收集
Bob: what’s that in your hand?
Pig: a carrot… I brought it for the moose.
carrot：胡萝卜 moose:驼鹿
Bob: pig…that moose is stuffed.
stuffed: 赛满了的，喂饱了的
Pig: what’s one more carrot?
2004-01-14
Rat: pig is gonna break into safari bob’s house and free the animals.
gonna：<美> 将要(=going to) break into：破坏 animal：动物
Goat: free them? Those are stuffed animal heads.
stuffed animal heads ：动物标本 stuffed：被塞满的
Rat: he thinks they’re living animals who just poked their heads in and got stuck. So he’s gonna try and pull them out of the wall.
poke：拨开【探出】 get stuck：被卡住 stuck：不能动的
Goat: oh,c’mon…you really think he’s that stupid?
c’mon: come on stupid：傻
Pig: …folks, again, if I’m pulling too hard, you have to say something.
folk：狐狸
2004-01-15
Rat: hi, zebra…this is rat…listen, I think pig found your missing cousin, Larry.
cousin：堂兄弟
Zebra: found him? He found Larry? Our Larry?!? Our Larry??
Zebra: oh, how I’ve longed to see him again and embrace him and catch up on all the precious moments we’ve missed in each other’s lives!! How is he??...how is he??
long to :渴望 embrace：拥抱 catch up on：赶做【弥补】
Rat: he’s changed.
change：改变
2004-01-16
Pig: listen, rat…one of us has to break the news to zebra that his cousin Larry’s dead.
Rat: well, I don’t want to do it…he loved this stupid guy.
stupid：傻的 guy.：人
Pig: well, maybe we could do it in a way that’s both easy for us and sensitive to zebra’s needs.
sensitive：敏感的
Rat: okay…I can do that.
2004-01-17
Pig: dear bob Woodward, please tell me the identity of “deep throw”…I’m thinking Dan Marino.
identity:身份
Rat: you dumb pig…that wasn’t this name.
dumb：蠢的
Pig: I’m thinking John Elway.
2004-01-18
The adventure of angry bob
adventure：冒险 angry：生气
Angry bob was angry. He went to the zoo.
angry：生气 zoo：动物园
Bob bought a pretzel and a can of soda pop and sat on a green bench facing the monkey cage. The hungry monkey starred at bob.
pretzel 椒盐脆饼 a can of：一罐 soda pop：汽水 cage：笼子 hungry：饥饿的
stare at：盯着
It is a good day for the zoo. Bob thought, it is sunny and the pretzels are warm and the soda is refreshing.
refreshing：使人清爽的
“I’m happy” , bob exclaimed ,”I thought I needed booze or new house to be happy, but I do not. All it took was a warm pretzel and a refreshing soda and a comfortable bench by the monkey cage.
exclaim 大声叫 booze 豪饮 comfortable：舒适的
A projectile struck bob in the ear, a monkey screeched more projectiles followed. Bob ran….
projectile 发射体，抛射物 strick：打 screech 尖声喊叫
Straight into the path of the zoo’s biannual “parade o’elephants”
straight ：直的 biannual；一年两次的 parade：游行 o’elephants：of elephants
elephant：大象
Bob popped like a grape and died.
pop: 发出爆裂声，突然伸出 grape：葡萄
Don’t taunt the monkeys.
taunt 辱骂，嘲弄
2004-01-19
Pig: the magnetic letters on our refrigerator are forming themselves into words…look.
（the end is near）
magnetic letters ：磁字母 magnetic：有吸引力的，磁铁 refrigerator：冰箱
Rat: gimme a break , moron. You expect me to believe we have the world’s only apocalyptic refrigerator？
（repent）
gimme =give me moron：傻的 expect：指望 apocalyptic 预示灾祸的，启示的
repent 后悔，顿悟
Rat: let’s eat out.
eat out：吃光
2004-01-20
Rat: listen, moron… we do not have an apocalyptic refrigerator… we probably just jostled a couple of the magnetic letters and coincidentally, they spelled out the word “repent”
moron ：傻瓜 jostle 推，挤 coincidental 巧合的
(and in those days small men seek death and shall not findit and small desire to die and death shall flee from them revelation 9:6)
desire ：渴望 revelation 揭露，泄露
Rat; if you need me, I’ll be in church..
church：教堂
2004-01-21
Goat: I hear pig and rat believe their refrigerator is a prophet of doom.
refrigerator ：冰箱 prophet: 提示 doom 命运
Zebra: yeah, and it’s scared them so badly that they’ve apparently decided to make some serious changes in their lives.
scare：人的 apparently：显然的 serious：严肃的
Goat: how serious?
Pig；how do you spell “Leviticus”
leviticus: 利未记
2004-01-22
Goat： I can’t believe rat and pig have joined a monastery …they must not understand what being a monk entails.
monastery 修道院，僧侣 understand：明白 monk 僧侣，修道士 entail 使必须
Zebra: I’m sure theycarefully considered all the ramifications before making such a deep, spiritual commitment.
carefully ：仔细的 consider：考虑 ramification 分支，分叉，衍生物 spiritual 精神的，心灵的 commitment 承诺，献身
Rat：…Dude…for the last time…there is no “pizza and beer” night.
2004-01-23
Brothers, it’s come to my attention that during the nun’s visit yesterday, someone here whistled and yelled, ”hey, ladies.”
attention ：注意 nun ：修女 whistle :吹口哨 yell：叫喊
Without casting aspersions on any one particular brother, I’d just ask that each of you re-examine the depth of your commitment to the monastic life.
cast 投掷，抛【加…于】 aspersion 诽谤，中伤 particular：特别的 commitment：承诺 monastic 僧侣的，修道士的
Rat: leave it to one guy to ruin it for the rest of us.
ruin：毁灭
2004-01-24
Zebra：rat and pig quit the monastery.
quit：停止【离开】 monastery：修道院
Goat: but I thought their apocalyptic refrigerator scared them into leading religious lives.
apocalyptic 预示灾祸的，启示的 refrigerator：冰箱 scare：吓 religious宗教的
Zebra：not anymore…they’ve vowed to never let an appliance dominate their lives again.
vow 誓约，发誓 appliance 器具，器械 dominate 支配，控制
Pig：…I can’t feel my butt..
butt 屁股
2004-01-25
Dear Mr. Rat,
I am in receipt of the next three chapters of your saga of Angry Bob, which you submitted to us for possible publication.
receipt: 收据【收到】 chapter：章 saga：传说，事迹，故事 submit to 投稿 publication：出版
I am in receipt of the next three chapters of your saga of Angry Bob. 我来确认接受你的关于愤怒的鲍勃的下面三章的故事。
Please be advised that we here at the New Yorker have grown weary of publishing the mundane, lifeless prose of hacks such as John Updike, Joan Didion and Norman Mailer.
advise：建议 weary厌倦的，厌烦的 mundane 现世的，世俗的 lifeless：没有趣味的
prose 散文的 hack 劈，砍，出租马车【受雇于人的作家，三流文人】
Why just this morning we thought to ourselves, ”what we really need is something written by someone with a third-grade education discussing the perils of monkeys tossing their own excrement at zoo patrons.”
third-grade ：三流 education：教育 peril 危险，冒险 toss 投掷 excrement 排泄物，粪便 patron 赞助人，保护人
Imagine our surprise when we opened your submission today and eyed your inspired work..
Imagine：想象 surprise：惊喜 submission 投稿 inspired 有创见的，有灵感的
How reassuring it is to know that the future of western literature lies squarely in monkey.
reassuring 安心的，可靠的 literature：文学 squarely 直接了当的，不含糊的
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
The challenge now is to remain humble.
challenge ：挑战 remain ：依然 humble 谦逊的
2004-01-26
Man: Would you care for a complimentary drink?
complimentary 问候的，称赞的【免费的】
Pig: Oh, you bet…I’m tired of being insulted all the time.
you bet：你说 bet：打赌 insult 侮辱
Man: What’s that got to do with anything?
Pig: I could really use a compliment even if it’s only from a drink.
Man: You’re an idiot
idiot 白痴
Pig: See what I mean?
2004-01-27
Behold, gentlemen…the glorious face of god.
behold：看 gentlemen：先生们 glorious 光荣的，辉煌的
I dunno, Floyd…it frightens me.
dunno：<口>(我)不知道 frighten：吓到
Do not blashpheme, Theodore…you are in the awesome presence of the almighty…let us embrace the warm, bright light…his love will protect us.
blashpheme 诽谤，亵渎 awesome 引起敬畏的，可怕的 presence 出席，在场 almighty 万能的，全能的 embrace：拥抱 protect：保
That bug zapper’s a godsend.
bug ：装置窃听器 zapper 遥控器 godsend 天赐之物
2004-01-28
pig: ”…most of the intelligent species egg the monkeys”…gee, I would never egg a monkey.
intelligent 聪明的，智能的 species：物种
Goat: that’s “egg” the monkeys it means, “for example”
Pig：for example, you should egg the monkeys?
Goat：it’s just “for example.”
Pig; I still wouldn’t do it.
2004-01-29
Rat：pig’s dating someone who works for an internet service provider.
service：服务 provider：提供者
Zebra：does he like her？
Rat: yeah, but he says there are a few problems.
problem：问题
Zebra: like what?
Pig: another pop-up A.D?？
pop-up 弹出式 A.D：（=advertisemen）广告
2004-01-30
Goat: so pig’s on a date with a girl whose face intermittently becomes an internet pop-up ad?
intermittent 间歇的，断断续续的
Rat: yeah…they went to dinner.
dinner：晚餐
Goat: but isn’t he embarrassed to be seen with her?
embarrassed 难为情的
Rat：what’s there to be embarrassed about?
Pig: check,please.
check：核对
Is Viagra for you?
Viagra：伟哥
2004-01-31
Man: Well, hello, pig…I didn’t know you ate at this restaurant. It’s nice to see you.
restaurant：饭店
Pig：Hi, father bill… this is my date, Polly.
Nude girls are waiting for you now
nude: 裸体的
Pig: …So what’s new?
词汇解析：花房初夏 校对：Torrin
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