Pearls Before Swine 2009 珍珠猪 | 爱酷英语|iCoolEN

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2009-01-02

Rat: The buttocks hated the holidays, for holidays meant family. And there was nothing worse than a family of buttocksesses.

buttock: (半边)臀部 hate: 厌恶 holiday: 假期 mean: 意谓 worse: 更坏

buttocksesses: 【老鼠以为是这样拼写的】

Zebra: I am sorry, rat…I do not mean to be a critic…But there is no such thing as a “family of buttocksesses”.

critic: 批评家

Butti:【这个也是拼写错误】

2009-01-03

Rat: Despondent, the buttocks wept.

despondent: 丧气的 wept: weep的过去式，哭泣

Sheep: How nice… you are still writing a novel with a “buttocks” for a protagonist…Gee, why do not you write a really ambiguous ending where your despondent buttocks drives his car off a cliff? Did he do it intentionally? Did he secretly want to die? Gosh, who knows? It is masterpiece. They all have ambiguous endings…We can debate it for years.

novel: 小说 protagonist: 主角 gee: 哎呀 ambiguous: 模棱两可 cliff: 悬崖

intentionally: 故意的 secretly: 秘密地 masterpiece: 杰作 debate: 辩论

Rat: No true literary genius has ever escaped the contempt of his peers…I do not expect my situation to be different…Now run along.

literary: 文学的 genius: 天才 escape: 避开 contempt: 轻视 peer: 同龄人

expect: 期待 situation: 处境 different: 不同的

Rat: Mocking the warning of the certified Midas brake specialist, the buttocks drove to the mountains.

mock: 轻视 warning: 警告 certified: 具有证明文件的 brake: 刹车 specialist: 专家

drive: 驾驶 mountain: 山

2009-01-04

Duck: Maura… you came back.

came back: come的过去式，回来

Duck: I do not know what to say…I loved you…But you left me. I should hate you.

left: leave的过去式，离开

Duck: I do hate you. I hate you. I will never forgive you…Never…Do you understand‘never’?

forgive: 原谅 never: 再也不会 understand: 理解

Duck: Go away! Get! Go! Go go go go get go!

Go away: 走开

Duck: All is forgiven.

2009-01-05

Pig: Hello?

Pigita: Hi, pig…It is me, Pigita…Are you taking me to dinner tonight or not?

dinner: 晚餐

Pig: I would love to, Pigita, but with all the extra money I have been spending on gas, I do not have enough cash to buy us both a big dinner.

extra: 额外的 spend on: 在…方面花费 gas: 煤气 enough: 足够的

Pigita: Fine, you big loser cheapskate, we can go Dutch.

loser: 笨蛋 cheapskate: 小气鬼 go Dutch: 各自付账

Pig: How does this help?

2009-01-06

Pig’s goals for next summer

goal: 目标

Pig: Cool off with fabulous vacation at seaside resort in Cancun. Body surf in Caribbean. Snorkel off Cozumel reef. Drink maitais by hotel pool.

cool off：平静起来 fabulous: 极好的 vacation: 假期 seaside: 海边

resort: 度假胜地 surf: 冲浪 Caribbean: 加勒比海 snorkel: 用通气管潜航

reef: 暗礁 maitai: 迈代鸡尾酒 pool: 池

Rat: Dude. Those vacations cost like five grand. You might want to be a little more realistic.

dude: 纨绔子弟 grand: 一千美元 realistic: 现实的

Pig: Sit in backyard and hope sprinkler hits me.

backyard: 后院 sprinkler: 洒水车 hit: 【洒到】

2009-01-07

Cow: What are you doing rat?

Rat: I am Frank Lloyd rat, master architect and this is a scale model of my latest masterpiece, an office building made of nothing but rotating cheese.

master: 主要的 architect: 建筑师 scale: 比例尺 model: 模型 masterpiece: 杰作

made of: 由…制成 nothing but: 只有 rotating: 旋转的 cheese: 乳酪

Pig: This could really be hard to build.

build: 建立

2009-01-08

Gee: So why have you chosen to become an architect, Frank Lloyd rat?

choose: 选择 become: 变成

Rat: I shall explain through the use of this graphic held aloft by my assistant…You see, this is I, the architect…I soar to the heavens alongside my noble edifices.

explain: 解释 graphic: 图表的 hold: 拿着 aloft: 在上 assistant: 助理 soar: 翱翔 heaven: 天堂 alongside: 在…旁边 noble: 宏伟的 edifice: 大厦

Gee: Who are those guys pulling you down?

pull down: 下拉

Pig: We call them ‘clients’.

client: 顾客

Rat: Unhand my wings, ye petty little bean counters.

udnhand: 将…放掉 wing: 翅膀 petty: 小气的 bean counter: 极善于计算的人

2009-01-09

Man: Okay, guys. It seems like with oil, food and all the other world’s commodities, newspaper ink is now in short supply.

oil: 油 commodity: 日用品 in short supply: 缺乏的

Rat: So?

Man: So that means cutbacks. Like today, no panel lines.

cutback: 减少 panel line: 【生产线】 panel: 专门问题小组

Pig: That is not so bad. Can we do anything else?

else: 别的

Rat: Next time keep your fat mouth shut.

shut: 闭上

Pig: Look! My ideal body weight!

ideal: 理想的 weight: 体重

2009-01-10

Rat: Why are you sitting in a bucket?

bucket: 水桶

Pig: Because the world is ending and I want to survive.

the world is ending: 【世界末日到了】 survive: 生存

Rat: What will sitting in a bucket do?

Pig: Whenever you see picture of a tragedy, none of the victim are ever sitting in a bucket.

whenever: 每当 tragedy: 悲剧 victim: 受害者

Rat: So?

Pig: So guys who sit in buckets must do fine.

do fine: 干得很好

Pig: Perhaps I chose a bad bucket.

perhaps: 可能 chose: choose的过去式，选择

2009-01-11

Duck: Good morning, sir. I want to give you my helmet, sir…I am giving up the army life.

helmet: 头盔 give up: 放弃 army: 军队

Pig: Why?

Duck: Maura, sir…She is back in my life…We are gonna travel the world…I am a changed duck, sir.

Gonna: (=going to) travel: 旅行 changed: <change的过去分词>【善变的】

Pig: Oh, I ll guard duck…you even shaved.

guard: 看守 shave: 修面

Duck: Permission to hug you goodbye, sir?

permission: 同意 hug: 拥抱

Duck: Oh, and one more thing, sir…I left you a little note on the kitchen counter. I want you to read it when I am gone.

note: 备忘录 kitchen: 厨房 counter: 柜台

Pig: Oh no, I will guard duck. I can not take a goodbye note…Is it a goodbye note?

Duck: It is a list of where I buried the mines, sir.

a list of: 清单 bury: 埋葬 mines: 地雷

Pig: Oh.

Duck: You want to keep on this side of the begonias, sir.

keep: 保持 begonia: 秋海棠

2009-01-12

Pig: What are you doing rat?

Rat: I am carrying around a window. I call it step one of my grand plan to isolate myself from a world I do not like.

carry: 携带 step: 步骤 grand: 重大的 plan: 计划 isolate: 孤立

Pig: But how can you do that? The world is filled with so many interesting people…People who would like to meet you…People who would like to talk to you…

be filled with: 充满 interesting: 有趣的

Rat: I call this step two!

2009-01-13

Cow: I am really worried about the size of our national debt and all of our government spending.

worry about: 担心 national debt: 国债 government spending: 政府支出

Rat: You know, every time someone discusses these issues, they always like to conveniently ignore the elephant in the room.

discuss: 讨论 issue: 争论点 conveniently: 方便的 ignore: 忽视 elephant: 大象

Cow: You mean social security?

social security: 社会保障 security: 保证金

Rat: I mean the elephant in the room.

Elephant: I like to discuss issues, too.
Rat: Crush him, Tiny.

crush: 压碎 Tiny: 山岭巨人 tiny: 微小的

Cow: Check please.

check: 检查【结帐】

2009-01-14

Rat: What are you doing, pig?

Pig: I have to give a speech next week, so I am practicing it in front of the mirror to build up my confidence.

speech: 演讲 practice: 练习 mirror: 镜子 build up: 逐步建立 confidence: 信心

Pig: Why bother? You stink.

bother: 烦扰 stink: 招人讨厌

Pig: It is not helping.

2009-01-15

Pig: The county librarians are at the door. The say you have an overdue book.

county: 郡 librarian: 图书管理员 overdue: 过期的

Rat: Tell them I will give it to them when I am good and ready.

ready:　准备好的

Pig: They would like it now.

2009-01-16

Crocodile: Whuh you watching Larry?

Whuh: 【what】 watch: 看

Larry: Some kind nature show, but me no unnerstann.

nature: 自然 unnerstann: 【understand】理解

Crocodile: Whuh you no unnerstann?

Larry: Dese beeg beast guys fight for territory, but no one bother eet striped guys running round.

dese:【these】 beeg:【big】 beast: 畜牲 territory: 领土 bother: 烦扰

striped: 有斑纹的

Child crocodile: It is called football, dad. And you can not eat the referees.

referee: 裁判员

Crocodile: What point of dat?

point: 要点

Larry: Laaaame.

lame: 烂

2009-01-17

Rat: Some people think the key to happiness is to live every day like it is your last day on earth.

key: 关键的 happiness: 幸福 last: 最后的 earth: 地球

Pig: That is the key?

Rat: That is what they say.

Pig: Okay. Hang on,

hang on: 稍等

Pig: Ma?... It is me. Bad news. I am dying. Goodbye.
bad: 坏的 die: 死

Phone: Dying?! Oh Gaawd!!

Pig: So far, not a lot of happiness.

so far: 到目前为止

2009-01-18

Danny donkey went to a “save the planet” rally.

Donkey: 驴 save: 救援 planet: 行星 rally: 集会

People gave long speeches, They denounced lies and greed and war. They said we had to save the plant.

speech: 演讲 denounce: 谴责 lies: 谎言 greed: 贪婪

Everyone cheered. Everyone agreed we had to save the planet.

cheer: 欢呼 agree: 同意

Donny donkey grabbed the microphone.

grab: 抢去 microphone: 麦克风

“Why?” he asked.

“Why if the world is filled with lies and greed and war should we save it?”

be filled with: 充满

The people stood in awe.

awe: 敬畏

“We shouldn’t!” yelled someone.

yell: 大叫

And with that, the crowd roared. And the “Save the planet” rally became the “Destroy the planet” rally.

crowd: 群众 roar: 大声说出 destroy: 破坏

Sheep: This is your ‘celebrate earth day’ book?

celebrate: 庆祝

Rat: Hey…Those people are celebrating.

Pig: I am gonna go cut down a tree right now!

gonna: (=going to) cut down: 砍倒 right now: 立刻

2009-01-19

Pig: Why are all the crocs dressed up?

crocs: 鳄鱼 dress up: 打扮得漂漂亮亮

Zebra: It is some superhero thing. The idiots are calling themselves ‘the fantastic four.’

superhero: 超级英雄 idiot: 白痴 fantastic: 极好的 the fantastic four：神奇四侠

Pig: There is only three of them.

Zebra: Math is not part of their fantasticalness.

math: 数学 fantasticalness: <fantastical的名词>【幻想】

2009-01-20

Crocodile: Okay, if we ees be superhero, we ess need super special skills. You know, like ability lift earth, breathe fire, freeze oceans, catch bullets.

special skills: 特别技能 ability: 能力 lift: 举起 breathe: 呼吸 freeze: 冻结

catch: 抓住 bullet:子弹

Other Crocodile: Me is clear paper jams.

clear: 清除障碍 paper jam: 卡纸

Crocodile: Dat pretty special.

pretty: 相当地

2009-01-21

Crocodiles: Okay, so now we know Bob is paper jam boy… His super ability is clear paper jams.

super: 超级的

Other Crocodiles: But what Fred super skill?

skill: 技能

Crocodiles: Me not know. How you plan save earth, Fred?

Fred: How? Me tell you how. What if after Bob clear paper jam, dey ees blow everywhere, but Bob needed dem stay togedder in nice neat, original order?

blow: 吹 stay together: 呆在一起 neat: 整洁的 original: 最初的 order: 顺序

And thus was born Stapler Head.

thus: 因此 stapler: 订书机

2009-01-22

Crocodiles: Whuh matter you Frank?

Other Crocodiles: Juss tink something world really need.

Child Crocodiles: Everyone now got super skill ‘cept me.

‘cept: 【except】除了…之外

Child Crocodiles: Hmm… Well, sometime when me go bathroom at night, me is close door but it no stay close becuss house old and floor no level…

bathroom: 浴室

And thus arose doorstopppo.

arise: 出现 doorstoppo:【=doorstopper】门掣

2009-01-23

Crocodiles: Okay, if we ees all be on same super team, we ees all need learn leetle bit ‘bout other guy’s skills. Paper jam boy. How is your clear paper jams?

Other Crocodiles: Ohhhhh…Dat pretty involved. You really want know?

involved: 所包含的（形式复杂的）

Crocodiles: We really want know.

2009-01-24

Pig: Hey, rat…I would like you to meet my friend, Bob…He works in construction.

construction: 建设

Rat: What do you build?

Bob: Houses.

house: 房子

Rat: From the ground up?

ground: 土地

Bob: Ceiling down.

ceiling: 天花板

Pig: Business is really dropping.

drop: 掉下

2009-01-25

Crocodiles: Whuh matter you, woomun?

Whuh:【=what】

Mother Crocodiles: Stupid printer is not working. It is out of ink.

stupid: 愚蠢的 printer: 打印机 out of: 缺乏 ink: 墨水

Crocodiles: Paper jam boy!

Other Crocodiles: It ees me.

Other Crocodiles: Spidey-sense tell me you has paper jam.

spidey:【可能指蜘蛛般的】 sense: 感觉

Mother Crocodiles: No. We have an empty printer cartridge.

empty: 空的 cartridge: 墨水筒

Other Crocodiles: Preenter cartridge? Dat like soooo esspensive… Such reep-off…And me no has power to feex…Oh, no… Me fading fast… Look…like…evil…preenter…

esspensive:【=expensive】昂贵的 reep-off:【rip-off】敲诈 feex:【=fix】修理

fade: 消失 evil: 坏的

此句意为：打印机墨水筒？那个看上去很贵，如此敲诈。我没有办法修好它。欧不，我快要消失了。看上去像非常邪恶的打印机。

Other Crocodiles: …defeet me.

Defeet:【= defeat】击败

Mother Crocodiles: Your superhero is something less than super.

superhero: 超级英雄

Crocodiles: Curse you, evil hoolitt packurd!!!

curse: 诅咒 hoolitt packurd: 【=hewlett packard】惠普公司的意思

2009-01-26

Rat: Where is your little guard duck?

guard: 守卫者

Pig: He left. Maura, the love of his life, finally returned from her winter migration. Now they are flying to Paris together.

migration: 移动 winter migration: 越冬洄游 Paris: 巴黎

Pig: I thought your guard duck did not know how to fly.

Pig: He does not.

Rat: Then how is he s’posed to get all the way to Paris?

s’pose: 【=suppose】料想，应该 all the way: 远道而…

Duck: Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

yet: 还 are we there yet: 我们还没到吗？

2009-01-27

Letter: Dear, pig, well, it is me, your old guard duck. I finally made it to Paris with the girl of my dreams, Maura. It is the happiest I have ever been.

dream: 梦 happiest: 幸福的

Letter: The only complication so far has been the arrival of my farmer associate, Mr. Snuffles, a resourceful cat who somehow followed us to France.

complication: 复杂化 so far: 迄今为止 associate: 伙伴 resourceful: 足智多谋的 follow: 跟随

Letter: While Mr. Snuffles has promised to respect out privacy, I must say that at times he feels a bit like a third wheel.

promise: 允诺 respect: 尊重 privacy: 隐私 a third wheel: 电灯泡

Cat: Meooowww.

2009-01-28

Duck: Oh, Maura…our time together has been everything I could ever hope for. Rub my toes again. Will you please please please?

hope for: 希望 rub: 擦 toe: 脚趾

Duck: What do you mean you did not rub my toes?

mean: 意谓

Cat: Meeeow.

Duck: Perhaps it is time we talked about personal space.

perhaps: 可能 personal space: 个人空间

2009-01-29

Letter: Dear pig, today I informed my farmer associate, Mr.Snuffles, that he needed to give me and Maura our space here in Paris. As such, I have asked him to leave our apartment.

inform: 告诉 associate: 伙伴 apartment.: 公寓

Letter: Being a cat, he did not respond well to my choosing someone else over him. In fact, he seems somewhat unwilling to leave.

respond: 回答 choose: 选择 unwilling: 不愿意的

Duck: Please unchain yourself from our toilet.

unchain: 解除 toilet: 厕所

2009-01-30