Fast food nation《快餐帝國》臺詞解析5
Amber: Man, this place is great.
Pete: Mmm. Yeah, you are only allowed to come here with me. So, are you on the pill?
Amber: Um, no.
Pete: No? Do you have a boyfriend?
Amber: Not really. I'm kinda in between.
Pete: Mm-hmm. Well, they are circling you like sharks. Right? I'm gonna come back here and find that you got, like a little baby fry cook in the oven.
Amber: Ah. You know what?
Pete: What?
Amber: I remember you taking me to Mickey’s when I was a kid.
Pete: No, did I?
Amber & Pete: Yes.
Pete: I was being lazy. I apologize. Now I hate everything about the place.
Amber: Mom said it was a big deal when the first Mickey’s opened here.
Pete: It was tremendous. It was. I mean, you know - Cody was on the map. The, the first one didn't bother me. It was just the 400th that started to, you know, get under my skin.
Amber: Well, I need the money. I really do.
Pete: Yeah? There's no other jobs here, right? You tried A.S.P.C.A. You tried the park services. You tried day care. Why? Nobody around here needs their kids to be taken care of?
Amber: It was the first job I could find.
Pete: Mm-hmm.
Amber: I mean, a friend of mine worked there. What do you want to hear?
Pete: I'm not criticizing you, all right? I think you are great. I just wanna know your timeline for gettin' outta here.
Amber: I wanna go to college.
Pete: Good.
Amber: I'm thinking Oregon or Montana.
Pete: What ya gonna study?
Amber: I don't know. I wanna- I wanna write. I like photography. But I think I wanna studyscience, aeronautical engineering.
Pete: Aeronautical engineering?
Amber: Yeah. I mean, if I could do anything in the world, I'd be an astronaut.
Pete: All right, well, fucking-A, do it.
Amber: Okay.
Pete: But you need to get outta here to do that.
Amber: Was it hard leaving Cody back when you were a teenager?
Pete: No, not for me. Your mom, though, that was a different story.
Amber: I was on the way. Kinda cuts down on your options.
妙語佳句，活學活用
1. On the pill
On the pill 的意思是“正在服用口服避孕藥”，pill 在口語中有“口服避孕藥”的意思。
2. In between
In between 是指“在中間的狀況”，具體到這個電影片段，Amber 的意思“有比較親密的關系，但還沒發展成戀人”。我們來看個例子：My roommates disagreed and I was caught in between. 我的室友不同意，我被夾在中間進退兩難。
3. Get under someone's skin
這個片語的意思是“Irritate someone，bother煩擾某人，惹火某人”，例如：She really knows how to get under my skin with her nagging.
這個片語還有另外一個意思，是“Obsess someone or affect someone's deep feelings深深地影響某人的感情，打動某人”，例如：Jean's really gotten under his skin; he misses her terribly.
4. A.S.P.C.A.
指的是American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
5. Fucking-A
Fucking-A 的意思是“good，excellent”，有時候也表示“Yes, you are right”(例如 Fucking-A man)。 它通常是表示一種強烈的感情，比如熱情，感興趣或者激動，而沒有太多的實際意義。
6. Cut down on
這個片語的意思是“Reduce, decrease減少”，例如：I want to cut down my caffeine intake.
Amber: Man, this place is great.
Pete: Mmm. Yeah, you are only allowed to come here with me. So, are you on the pill?
Amber: Um, no.
Pete: No? Do you have a boyfriend?
Amber: Not really. I'm kinda in between.
Pete: Mm-hmm. Well, they are circling you like sharks. Right? I'm gonna come back here and find that you got, like a little baby fry cook in the oven.
Amber: Ah. You know what?
Pete: What?
Amber: I remember you taking me to Mickey’s when I was a kid.
Pete: No, did I?
Amber & Pete: Yes.
Pete: I was being lazy. I apologize. Now I hate everything about the place.
Amber: Mom said it was a big deal when the first Mickey’s opened here.
Pete: It was tremendous. It was. I mean, you know - Cody was on the map. The, the first one didn't bother me. It was just the 400th that started to, you know, get under my skin.
Amber: Well, I need the money. I really do.
Pete: Yeah? There's no other jobs here, right? You tried A.S.P.C.A. You tried the park services. You tried day care. Why? Nobody around here needs their kids to be taken care of?
Amber: It was the first job I could find.
Pete: Mm-hmm.
Amber: I mean, a friend of mine worked there. What do you want to hear?
Pete: I'm not criticizing you, all right? I think you are great. I just wanna know your timeline for gettin' outta here.
Amber: I wanna go to college.
Pete: Good.
Amber: I'm thinking Oregon or Montana.
Pete: What ya gonna study?
Amber: I don't know. I wanna- I wanna write. I like photography. But I think I wanna studyscience, aeronautical engineering.
Pete: Aeronautical engineering?
Amber: Yeah. I mean, if I could do anything in the world, I'd be an astronaut.
Pete: All right, well, fucking-A, do it.
Amber: Okay.
Pete: But you need to get outta here to do that.
Amber: Was it hard leaving Cody back when you were a teenager?
Pete: No, not for me. Your mom, though, that was a different story.
Amber: I was on the way. Kinda cuts down on your options.
妙語佳句，活學活用
1. On the pill
On the pill 的意思是“正在服用口服避孕藥”，pill 在口語中有“口服避孕藥”的意思。
2. In between
In between 是指“在中間的狀況”，具體到這個電影片段，Amber 的意思“有比較親密的關系，但還沒發展成戀人”。我們來看個例子：My roommates disagreed and I was caught in between. 我的室友不同意，我被夾在中間進退兩難。
3. Get under someone's skin
這個片語的意思是“Irritate someone，bother煩擾某人，惹火某人”，例如：She really knows how to get under my skin with her nagging.
這個片語還有另外一個意思，是“Obsess someone or affect someone's deep feelings深深地影響某人的感情，打動某人”，例如：Jean's really gotten under his skin; he misses her terribly.
4. A.S.P.C.A.
指的是American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
5. Fucking-A
Fucking-A 的意思是“good，excellent”，有時候也表示“Yes, you are right”(例如 Fucking-A man)。 它通常是表示一種強烈的感情，比如熱情，感興趣或者激動，而沒有太多的實際意義。
6. Cut down on
這個片語的意思是“Reduce, decrease減少”，例如：I want to cut down my caffeine intake.
