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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】
2009-01-08
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
2009-01-11
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!
2009-01-17
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
2009-01-26
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？
2009-02-08
Letter: Dear my girlfriend Pigita…You complete me. Please do not ever break my heart. You are the wind beneath my wings.
complete: 使完整 break my heart: 使人心碎 beneath: 在…之下 wing: 翅膀
Rat: Dude, if you really want to touch her, emphasize some of the words…Just write them bigger or something. Makes her think you really, really mean it.
dude: 伙计 emphasize: 强调 really: 真正地 mean: 想要
Pig: Whick ones?
Rat: I do not know…Just pick a word in each sentence or something.
pick: 挑选 sentence: 句子
Rat: Did you hear about these prisoners who busted out of federal prison? I guess one of them is still on the lam.
prisoner: 囚犯 bust out of:【逃出】 federal: 联邦的 prison:监狱 lam: 逃亡
Pig: Wow, that is hard to picture.
picture: 想象
Rat: What is hard to picture?
Prisoner: Move, you @#*$*@#, move.
【这里猪把lam理解为了lamb: 羔羊】
2009-02-11
Goat: This sure is a terrific history book…It is called ‘the great influenza’ by John Barry.
terrific: 极好的 history: 历史 influenza: 流行性感冒
Pig: Oh, boy… Does it mention my grandma?
mention: 提到
Goat: Did she die?
die: 去世
Pig: No. But she had a great influenza on my life.
【猪吧influenza理解成了influence: 影响力】
Goat: It was a plague, pig.
plague: 瘟疫
Pig: Please do not insult my grandma.
insult: 侮辱
2009-02-13
Pig: Dear Pigita, I have problems. I have insecurities. Please date me anyways.
problem: 问题 insecurity: 不安全 date: 约会 anyway: 不管怎样
Rat: You dumb pig…Girls is attracted to confidence.
dumb: 愚蠢的 attract: 吸引 confidence: 自信
Pig: I thought that was bad… I thought that meant you had a big head.
have a big head: 骄傲自大
Rat: That is arrogance…Confidence is something less. Show her you have it.
arrogance: 自大
Pig: I have a medium-sized head.
medium-sized: 中等的
【因为big head有自大的意思，老鼠让猪少一点，猪就改成了medium-sized】
2009-02-26
Pig: Whoa. Look at that cute chick.
cute: 可爱的 chick:小鸡，马子【后文山羊以为猪说的是马子，其实猪说的是小鸡】
Goat: You know, pig, that is a really sexist term…I know rat uses it, but it does not mean you have to.
sexist: 性别歧视者 term: 术语
Pig: What should I say?
Goat: I do not know…If you really feel compelled to comment, just say, ‘that woman is very attractive’.
compel: 强迫 comment: 评论 attractive: 有吸引力的
Pig: That woman is very attractive.
Goat: Never mind.
Never mind: 算了
2009-02-28
Rat: Woo hoo!
Pig: What?
Rat: I just scoured the ‘Gunness book of world record’s and noticed there is no record holder in the category of ‘most consecutive times slapping your rotund friend in the face’!
scour: 搜索 Gunness book of world record:【吉尼斯世界纪录大全】 notice: 注意
record holder: 纪录保持者 category: 类别 consecutive: 连续的 slap: 拍击
rotund: 圆胖的
Pig: Woo hoo!
Pig: I’m having second thoughts.
second thoughts: 重新考虑
2009-03-05
Dat: Hey, mom…Dad wants to know if you have seen his ‘super stealthy ninja’ costume…He and the other crocs are sneaking up on some zebra’s house tonight.
super stealthy ninja: 【超级秘密忍者】 costume: 服装 croc: 鳄鱼 sneak: 潜行
Mom: I washed it with the load of whites I did today.
load: 装载 white: 白色破布
Dat: The whites? Don’t you sometimes put bleach on those?
bleach: 漂白剂
Mom: Yeah, so?
Crocodile: Go home, Larry.
2009-03-16
Rat: Check out this comic…It is called ‘Garfield minus Garfield.’ The guy takes a normal ‘Garfield’ strip but deletes ‘Garfield’. So you are left with just Jon talking to himself…It is great.
comic: 连环图画 Garfield minus Garfield:【加菲猫减加菲猫】 normal: 正常的
strip: 条状【连环画】 delete: 删除
Pig: Ohh, gee…I think I prefer normal ‘Garfield’.
prefer: 较喜欢
Rat: Will you excuse me for a moment?
Pig: Sure.
Man: No, I will not delete pig from the strip.
2009-03-17
Rat: What are you doing pig?
Rat: Duuude, why do you say that @*@# aloud? It is like you are some kind of pansy!
aloud: 大声地 pansy: 三色紫罗兰
Man: Put pig back in the strip.
Rat: And destroy a work of art? No thank you.
destroy: 破坏 art: 艺术
Pig: I am too young to Diiiiiiiiiee!
2009-03-20
Rat: What are you doing, pig?
Pig: Trying to figure out why everyone thinks this is so risky.
figure out: 弄明白 risky: 危险的
Rat: Why what is so risky?
Pig: Pushing the envelope.
push: 挤 envelope: 信封 push the envelope: 超越极限【此处猪不知道有这个意思】
Pig: Now I see why.
2009-03-29
Rat: Check it out, pig. I have learned to blow smoke shapes with my Hookah pipe…This one is sheep…
check it out: 来看看 blow: 吹 shape: 形状
Pig: Wow!
Rat: And the one is a fluffy kitten…
fluffy: 毛绒绒的 kitten: 小猫
Pig: Oh, boy!! A kitty!!
Rat: And this one’s puffy blowfish..
puffy: 肥满的 blowfish: 河豚
Pig: Gosh!
Pig: Hey there, guard duck.. Rat is blowing smoke shapes… Want to give it a try?
guard: 守卫者
Duck: Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey.
Rat: Perspective’s way, way off.
perspective: 透视 way off: 错的厉害
2009-03-23
Goat: Look at this story from New Zealand…A man got arrested for assaulting another man with a hedgehog. Can you imagine venting your anger by throwing a hedgehog at someone? Is not that ridiculous?
arrest: 逮捕 assault: 攻击 hedgehog: 刺猬 imagine:想象 vent: 发泄 anger: 忿怒
ridiculous: 可笑的
Rat: Did you eat my last ‘ding dong’?
ding dong : 【a popular Hostess cupcake.---urbandictionary】
2009-04-01
Pig: Hey, Rat, it’s me, Pig…Where are you?
rat: 鼠 pig: 猪
I’m at the Hilton downtown…The society of angry misanthropes is holding its annual ‘people haters’ convention.
downtown: 市中心 society: 社会团体，协会，社团 misanthrope: 不愿与人来往者 hold: 举行，召开annual: 每年的 haters ：怀恨在心者 convention: 大会
Rat: What’s that?
It’s the largest gathering of people who hate associating with other people anywhere in north America.
largest ：（large的最高级）最大的 gathering: 集会 hate: 憎恨
associate with: 和……交往 associate: (与别人)交往，结交(伙伴、同伙、朋友等
Oh, yeah? How’s it going?
How’s it going：怎么样
Great. No one’s left their hotel room.
great:好极了 Left：leave离开 hotel:旅馆
Pig: That’s an odd organization.
odd: 古怪的 organization: 组织
2009-04-05
Principal: Thanks for agreeing to come in here today, Mr…Uh…Larry…As I’m sure you’ve surmised, I wanted to talk to you about your son, Junior…
agreeing ：agree同意 as:因为 surmise: 猜测
Larry: Whuh he do bad?
Whuh: what
Principal: Oh, nothing ,Sir…It’s just that I was talking to him about his home study habits and he said that sometimes when he is reading, you’ll come in and say…‘books is for idiots.’
habit: 习惯 sometimes :有时 reading：read阅读 idiot: 白痴
Larry: Bah. Me no say nutteeng.
Bah ：呸 nutteeng: nothing
Principal: Well, sir. I’m sure you’d agree reading is an important part of life…where would we be without it? I mean, no offense, sir…But you do know how to read, don’t you?
important part ：重要部分 mean ：意思 no offense: 请勿见怪,别介意 offense: 攻击
Larry: Oh, peese…of course me know, meester……Prancer and vixen. On donner! On bleetzen!
peese: please me: I meester: mister 先生 prancer: 腾跃前进的人 vixen: 泼妇，刁妇
donner: 雷声 bleetzen: blitzen闪动
Principal: Ohhhh lord…
lord: 主,天啊
2009-04-08
Larry: Son…Me has some news…Mudder geet keednapped.
me: I geet: get keednap: kidnap绑架,诱拐,拐骗
Jonior: Kidnapped?Oh,my gawd! What do we do? What do we do?!!
gawd: <俚>上帝
Larry: Son…son…peese…calm down. Dad have step-by-step plan…
peese: please calm down: 平静下来 step-by-step: 按部就班的 plan：计划
Jonior: Okay…okay…What do we do first?
Larry: Deebate pros and cons.
debate: 讨论 pros: 赞成地 cons: 反对地
Jonior: She’s my mother. I’d miss her.
miss: 想念
Larry: Hey! Dat our first con.
Dat: That’s con: 反对地
2009-04-09
Larry: Okay, son, you ees be happy to know me contact proper autoritees to rescue keednapped mom…Dey on way now.
ees: is contact: 联系 proper: 适合的 authoritees: authorities官方 rescue: 营救 keednapped: kidnapped: 【被绑架的】 dey: they
Jonior: Oh, thank god!...Who’d you contact?! A S.W.A.T. team?? The F.B.I.??...The C.I.A??
S.W.A.T: Special Weapons and Tactics Team 特种武器和战术小组(警察部队)
F.B.I: Federal Bureau of Investigation (美国)联邦调查局
C.I.A: Central Intelligence Agency (美国)中央情报局
2009-04-12
A child in distress. And a kidnapped mother. And a dead superhero. And one hero very much alive. Intent on avenging his friend, saving a mother and jamming each and every door in the vile Zebra’s home. And another tragedy.
distress: 忧虑 kidnap: 绑架 superhero: 超级英雄 alive: 活着的 intent on: 决心要实行 avenging: avenge 替(受害者)报仇 saving :拯救 jam: 压碎 vile: 恶劣的 tragedy: 悲剧
2009-04-15
Story update: And so to defeat the vile Zebra, our lone hero, Paper Jam Boy, forges a new alliance with dark stranger, the waterfowler.
update: 更新 so to: 【为了】 defeat: 击败 vile: 恶劣的 lone: 孤单的 forge: 打制
alliance: 同盟者 stranger：陌生人
…In whom he places his complete trust.
place: 把(信赖、希望等)寄托于 trust: 信任
…And from whom he learns a valuable lesson……Never trust a duck.
valuable: 有价值的 learn:学习 duck: 鸭子
Rescuer: And so when we ees get een Zeeba house, me will clear all paper jam from Zeeba copier, like this, while you is-
ees: is een: in Zeeba: Zeebra’s me: I clear: 清除 paper jam: 塞纸 copier: 复印机
Duck: Oh, I’m sorry. It says’add toner’,not ‘kill loner’.
add: 添加 toner: 墨粉 kill ：杀 loner: 孤独的人
2009-04-16
Zebra: Hey,Larry…I’ve decided to bring back your wife. Sorry for kidnapping her…I’m throwing in a bucket of chicken so there’ll be no hard feelings.
decide: 决定 bring back: 归还 wife ：妻子 kidnap: 绑架 throw in: 额外奉送 bucket: 桶 chicken：鸡 hard feelings：反感
Larry: Ohhh, me so mad at you!!
me: I am mad at: 对…恼火
Zebra: You are? You never seemed to care.
care: 介意
Larry: You bet me care! You no eenclude mash potatoes.
bet: 敢说 me: I don’t eenclude: include包括
mash potatoes: mashed potatoes土豆泥 mashed: 捣烂的 potato: 马铃薯
Mudder: I’ll mash your potatoes!
mash: 捣碎
Larry: Me go eenside now. Protect my potatoes.
me: I eenside: inside里面 protect: 保护
2009-04-21
Rat: Hey, pig…What would you think if you and I were buried together one day? We could split the cost of the gravesite and all.
bury: 埋葬 split: 分担 cost: 花费 gravesite: 坟地
Pig: Oh my goodness. I’d be honored.
my goodness: 我的天啊 honor: 尊敬
Rat: Oh.Good. Because I already had it built.
because：因为 built: 建造
Pig: Can we put my name somewhere?
Rat: Oh, yeah. I spraypainted it here.
spraypaint: 喷漆
2009-04-22
Rat: I have a solution to our economic crisis! Let’s take every banker and politician that got us into this and pull them from their cushy mansions and tar and feather them.
solution: 解决办法 economic: 经济的 crisis: 危机 banker: 银行家 politician: 政治家 pull:拉 cushy: 轻松而容易赚钱的 mansion: 大厦 tar and feather them: 把浑身涂上柏油并粘上羽毛(严厉惩罚)
21世纪大英汉词典》
Goat: You can’t do that. It’s barbaric and inhumane.
barbaric: 粗野的 inhumane: 无人情味的
Mmmphmpphmmphh
Rat: Pipe down. Big bird.
pipe down: 安静下来 pipe: 尖声叫嚷
Goat: We really should have these conversations beforehand.
really ：真的 should ：应该 conversation: 会话,谈话 beforehand: 预先,事先
2009-04-24
A: What the heck is going on here?
the heck: 究竟
Duck: I’m burning all your romantic cards. Sir…The ‘thinking of you’ cards, ‘happy anniversary’ cards…Love’s not real, sir. And the world needs to know it.
burn: 烧毁 romantic: 浪漫的 anniversary: 周年纪念(日) world：世界
A: Listen, pal. Just because you may not believe in the existence of love does not give you the right of burn all of our cards.
listen ：听着 pal: 朋友 believe ：相信 existence: 存在 right: 权利
Duck: Whoa whoa whoa, sir.I did not burn all of your cards. I didn’t even touch those.
whoa: 惊叹声, 停止 even ：甚至 touch: 触及
A: You left the condolence cards.
condolence: 哀悼
Duck: Now death…That’s real.
death: 死亡 real：真实的
2009-04-26
Larry: Hail to cheef!!
hail: 向...欢呼 cheef: chief首领
Zebra: What are you doing?
Larry: Crocs geet pressydent of United State to take side of crocs. Now he geev speech.
Order bad tings for you sad zeeba face!
geet: get pressydent: president 总统 geev: give speech：演讲 tings: things
Zebra: I find it hard to believe you even know who the president is.
hard：难的
Larry: Beeg important man. Whole country like. Geevs gud speeches.From some place called Eelinaise.
beeg: big whole: 整个的 gud: good
Zebra: Alright,fine…so you know current events. It hardly means you could get him to-
alright: 好吧 current: 现在的,最近的 event: 大事 hardly:几乎不
Larry: Four scored and seven year ago!!!
scored: score划线
Zebra: Ohhhhh,lord.
lord: 主,天啊
Jonior: Hey. Shut mouf. leesten to pressydent leencoln-log.
shut: 闭起 mouf: mouth嘴 leesten: listen pressydent：president
Larry: Blah blah blah Okay-where part me aboleesh Zeebery？
me: I aboleesh: abolish废止,革除 Zeebery: Zebra
2009-04-27
Goat: What’s this with all these companies asking the government for bailouts? First, the insurance companies. Then the banks. Then the auto companies.
company: 公司 government: 政府 bailout: (尤指政府对陷于财政困难的企业，特别是大公司的)紧急救济insurance: 保险 auto: 汽车
Rat: Do they get any money?
Goat: Yeah.Most of the time…makes you wonder what sleazeball industry will be pleading poverty next.
wonder: 想知道 sleazeball: [俚语]卑鄙小人 industry: 产业 plead: 辩护 poverty: 贫穷,贫困
Rat: I’m a poor,poor comic strip character.
poor: 穷人可怜的 comic: 喜剧的 strip: 连环漫画 character: 人物
2009-04-28
Zebra: Is it true you’re petitioning congress to bail out comic strip characters?
petition: 祈求 congress: 国会 bail out: 保释出(某人) bail: 保释
Rat: Yes. We’re an American institution and with newspapers struggling, our future is threatened.
institution: 机构 struggle:斗争 threaten: 构成威胁
Zebra: Yeah.But how are you gonna get them to give you money?
gonna: <美> 将要(=going to) money：钱
Rat: It’s all about having the right witnesses presented the right way saying the right things.
all about ：到处 witness: 目击者 present: 提出
Baby: I can’t even afford pants.
afford: 买得起，花得起 pants: 裤子
2009-05-02
Pig: I have big plans for my life.
plan: 计划
Zebra: Like what?
Pig: Like never dying…I don’t plan to die.
never ：从不 die: 死
Zebra: We have no choice, pig. We did whether we want to or not.
choice: 选择 whether：是否
Pig: That’s gonna affect my other plans.
gonna: <美> 将要(=going to) affect: 影响
2009-05-03
Goat: What the G#☆G happened to my newspaper?! It’s the size of a ‘post-it’.
size: 尺寸 post-it: 报事贴便条纸
magnate: 大亨 rat ：鼠 cut: 缩减 production: 产品 cost: 费用
Goat: But this is ridiculous. I can barely read the words.
ridiculous: 荒谬的,可笑的 barely: 仅仅,勉强
Rat: No need. I fired the reporters.
fire: 开除 reporter: 记者
Goat: But where’s my ‘style’ section?
style: 时尚 section: 部分
Rat: I merged it with the front page which I then merged with the sports page and the business page and the editorial page.
merge: 合并 front page: (报纸的)头版 business ：商业 editorial page：社论专页
Goat: So what’s left?
leave:留下
Rat: Letters to the editor. It’s the only content I can get for free. In fact I think I printed one there…
letters：信 editor: 编辑 content: 内容 free: 免费的 print: 打印
Goat: ‘Your paper stinks.’
stinks: 坏透，糟透
Rat: Readers hate change.
reader:读者 change ：改变
2009-05-05
Goat: Did you see that ‘oceantopia’ aquatic park finally shut down? I heard they had some trouble finding homes for their animals.
aquatic park: 水生动物公园 finally ：最后 shut down: 关闭 trouble: 麻烦,困难
animal:动物
Rat: Yeah. Big surprise，dude. What kind of moron wants to keep a great white shark at his house?
big surprise ：大吃一惊 dude :纨绔子弟 moron: 笨人 great white shark ：大白鲨shark: 鲨鱼 house：房子
Pig: Shhhh.
shh: 嘘, 安静一点
2009-05-06
Goat: Hey, pig. How goes it?
Pig: Not good. I’m keeping a great white shark in my bathtub.
bathtub: 浴缸
Goat: A great white? That’s the world’s deadliest breed of shark…What will rat say?
deadliest: 最致命的 breed: 品种,族类
Pig: I told the shark not to admit he’s a great white…to just pretend he’s something else.
admit: 承认 pretend: 假装 something else：别的东西
2009-05-10
Rat. The newspaper owner
Rat: Okay, staff. Or as I like to call you-tattered remnants-I’m hearing a lot of grumbling about the cuts I’ve made to the paper.
staff: 全体人员 or as:或者 tattered: 破烂的 remnant: 残存者 grumble: 怨言
Rest assured. Your grumbling is due to your grand ignorance as to my grand strategy. so, allow me to explain using this butter sculpture which I will call ‘Mr. Newspaper Man’.
rest assured: 放心 due to: 由于 grand: 重大的 ignorance: 无知 as to: 就...而论
strategy: 策略 allow: 准许 explain: 解释 butter: 黄油 sculpture: 雕塑
You see. Poor Mr. Newspaper Man is sick. He is too fat. He needs to lose weight.
poor ：可怜的 sick: 有病的 fat :肥胖的 lose weight: 减肥
So to make him healthy, I cut off an arm.
cut off: 切断
But it did not work. So I cut off a leg and another arm. But it still did not work.
work: 有效，奏效 cut off：切断 leg ：腿 arm：手臂
So reluctantly. I have decided to remove most of his upper torso. Which I am convinced will work. Giving us a sleeker. Healthier Mr. Newspaper Man that is more attractive to readers and-good news. We’re sleeker than ever.
reluctantly: 不情愿地 remove: 除掉 upper: 上面的 torso: 躯干 convince: 使...相信
sleeker: 磨光器 attractive: 有吸引力的 sleeker: 光洁的
2009-05-17
Rat: What’s the matter with you?
Zebra: I got a letter from my family. A cheetah ate my favorite cousin.Ohhh, god…What a huge loss.
cheetah: 猎豹 favorite: 最喜爱的 cousin: 堂(或表)兄弟(姐妹) loss: 损失
Rat: Oh,gee…You know! If it’s any consolation, I know how you feel.
gee: 惊讶时所发声音 consolation: 安慰
Zebra: You do?
Rat: Yeah.Yesterday I was getting coffee at Starbucks’ and they asked if I needed room for cream, and even though I said yes, they poured the coffee to the top and I had to dump the excess coffee down that little trash hole.
Starbuck: 星巴克 cream ：奶油 pour: 倒 dump down: 沉重地落下 excess: 过量的 trash: 垃圾 hole：洞
Zebra: That’s not quite the same.
quite: 很,十分
Rat: Well, yeah. You’re a lot more weepy than I was.
weepy: 催人泪下的
2009-05-21
Goat: Hey. Pig. What are you doing？
Pig: Reading my journal. I make an entry in it every day. Here, read a page.
journal: 日记 entry: 记录
Today I went to a party at my neighbors’ house. They were kind. They were funny. They were interesting. So I burned their house to the ground.
party ：聚会 neighbor: 邻居 kind ：有好的 funny ：有趣的 interesting ：有趣的burn: 使燃烧 to the ground：彻底的
Pig: Please don’t write in my journal.
2009-05-23
Goat: What do you got there. rat?
Rat: A poodle in a handbag. All the rich people are doing it. They’re the accessory for the upper class…Isn’t that right, L’il Fluffles?
poodle: 狮子狗 handbag: 手提包 rich ：：富裕 accessory: 装饰品 upper calss: 上流社会
Pondle: Kill the bourgeoisie!
bourgeoisie: 中产阶级
Rat: Please stop shouting Marxist slogans.
marxist: 马克思主义的 slogan: 标语,口号
2009-05-25
Larry: Hey,son…want play wii?
wii: while
Junior: Can’t. I have to write a report on the book of ‘mice and men’…We have to compare and contrast the characters.
write ：写 report: 报告 compare: 比较 contrast: 对比 character: 人物
Larry: Oh,peese.Dat like so easy.
peese: please dat: that easy：容易的
Junior: How do you figure?
figure: 认为
Larry: Mice is small. Men wear pants.
small：小的 wear ：穿着 pants: 裤子
Junior: Thanks, dad.
Larry: Okay…now you play wii?
2009-05-26
Rat: Behold! I am the sultan of schadenfreude! And this is my stupendous salt shaker of schadenfreude!
behold: 看 sultan: 君主 schadenfreude: 幸灾乐祸 stupendous: 惊人的
salt shaker: （餐桌上的）盐瓶 shaker: 摇动器
Pig: What is schadenfreude?
Rat: Wishing ill on others’ endeavors.
wishing ：希望 ill: 坏的 endeavor: 努力
Pig: Oh.That’s not good. I want a world where we’re all together and we help each other and hold hands and dance and sing in one grand glorious gathering!
all together ：一起 hold: 握住 grand: 豪华的,宏伟的 glorious: 辉煌的 gathering: 集会
2009-05-27
Pig: What are you doing, Goat?
Goat: I thought I’d try my hand at writing maybe get a novel published.
try my hand: 尝试 novel: 小说 publish: 出版
Pig: Oh, boy, goat…I wish you all success in the world!
success: 成功
Pig: Ignore the sultan of schadenfreude.
ignore: 忽视 sultan: 君主 schadenfreude: 幸灾乐祸
2009-05-28
Pig: Bye, rat. I’m off on my big date with Pigita.
off: 离开 date: 约会
Rat: Why are you wearing a marching band hat?
marching band: 奏进行曲作操练表演的乐队
Pig: I thought it looked good.
Rat: You dumb Pig. Marching band hats are only for marching band guys when they’re playing their instruments.
dumb: 愚蠢的 playing ：演奏 instrument: 乐器
Pig: Oh.What should I do?
Rat: What do you think you should do?
2009-06-01
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Goat: Thanks for inviting me for breakfast, Pig…got any salt and pepper for the eggs?
inviting ：invite邀请 salt ：盐 peeper: 胡椒
Pig: Yeah, here’s some salt, but I’m out of pepper, here, try this instead…
out of：缺乏
Goat: Pepper spray is not pepper, Pig.
pepper spray: 胡椒喷雾
Rat: Aaaugh my eyes!!
Pig: And it seemed like such a convenient little spray.
convenient: 方便的
2009-06-05
A: Can I help you, sir?
Pig: Yes, I’d like a free wifey.
free: 免费的 wifey: 妻子
A: I’m sorry?
Pig: I am too, sir. I’m lonely and I need a woman. And if I can get a wife for free, all the better.
lonely: 孤独的 all the better: 更好
A: I think you’re misreading the sign, sir.
misreading: 误解 sign: 标牌
Pig: Oh, great…does she cost money?
cost:花费
2009-06-07
A: Two fried eggs.
fried eggs: 煎蛋
Pig: Thank you.
Goat: I’d like to be seated somewhere else.
seated：坐着的 somewhere else：别的地方
Rat: The fat pig started it.
Pig: Hey, I don’t poke you in the fried egg eyes.
poke: 戳
2009-06-09
Goat: Where’s rat today?
Pig: He got a job as a book editor. He picks which submissions get published and which don’t. And they’re letting him work from home.
editor: 编辑 submission: 提交物 publish: 出版
Goat: That’s great, but isn’t that a lot of reading for him? Or does he shortcut it by just reading the first few chapters of each submission?
great ：好极了 shortcut: 【走捷径】 chapter: 章节 each：每个
Pig: yeah,I think he shortcuts it.
Dear Sir,
Your opening word, “the,” was less than compelling. Better luck next time.
less than ：少于 compelling: 强求【原来要求的】Better luck next time：祝你下一次好运
2009-06-10
Dear contributor, Thank you for your very interesting and nicely bound manuscript, which I have recently reviewed. I believe your work will make a valuable contribution to the publishing world.
contributor: 投稿者 interesting ：有趣的 nicely：恰好的 bound: 装订的 manuscript: 原稿 recently ：最近 review: 评审 valuable ：有价值的contribution: 贡献
By ‘valuable,’ I mean that I think we can re-use the brads.
re-use: 重新使用 brads:曲头订
Rat: I’d like to be encouraging.
encouraging: 鼓舞人心的
2009-06-11
Dear Sir, Thank you for your manuscript, which I recently reviewed.
Had I been familiar with the literary merit of your work, I probably would not have reviewed it while my dog was on my lap.
be familiar with: 熟悉 literary merit ：文学的价值 probably ：大概 lap: 膝盖
I say this because at one point during my review, my dog took one look at your prose and died.
at one point: 一度 during ：在…期间 prose: 散文
Rat: I like to make them feel as bad as possible.
as possible: 尽可能
2009-06-13
Pig: Look at that old woman in her car. She drives so slow. If anything, you’d think old people would drive fast.
drive:驾驶 slow ：慢的 if anything: 如果有什么的话
Rat: Why fast?
Pig: They have less time left.
Rat: I wish you had less time left.
Pig: The clock is ticking lady!!
ticking: 滴答声 lady: 女士
2009-06-22
Pig: Hey, goat, do you know the story of the pied piper?
pied piper: 吹笛手
Goat: The guy who saved the people of his town from rats by playing a tune and luring the rats out of town?
guy: 家伙 saved：拯救 town：城镇 playing: 演奏 tune: 歌曲 luring: 引诱
Pig: Are you sure it’s not the story of a rat who saves his neighborhood by playing a tune and leading out the neighbors he thinks are stupid?
story ：故事 neighborhood: 邻居 lead out: 带…出去 stupid: 愚蠢的
Goat: Yeah. Why?
A: Get off my lawn, rat.
get off: 离开 lawn: 草坪
Rat: Focus on the music, neighbor bob.
focus on: 集中
2009-06-24
Rat: Pig, it’s me. Pied piper-rat…listen…I started playing some schlocky pop hits from the 70’s and I got some people to follow me out of town, but now I need to know what to do with them…
schlocky: 劣质的 hit: 偶然发现 out of town：不在城里
Pig: Well, gee, here in the pied piper story, he leads the rats into a river, and they drown.
gee: 惊讶时所发声音 drown: 淹死
Rat: Bad news, Barry Manilow-lovers…
Barry Manilow: 白瑞•曼尼罗 lovers: 情侣
2009-06-25
Zebra: What are you doing, pig?
Pig: I’ve started studying rocks. This is my collection.
rock: 岩石 collection: 收藏品
Zebra: Hey, that’s great! Now if I remember correctly, there are three kinds of rock, right? Igneous、sedimentary and metamorphic? So what do you call that one in your hands?
remember:记得 correctly ：正确地 igneous: 火成岩 sedimentary: 沉淀岩 metamorphic: 变质岩
Pig: The bumpy one.
bumpy: 凹凸不平的
词汇解析：Lotus.Lynn 校对：Ivy.Vivi
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