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The story so far
Everything you need before watchingThe Barbie party is at full volume: tonight is perfect, tomorrow is perfect, even Wednesday is perfect. Then Stereotypical Barbie asks, out of nowhere, whether anyone ever thinks about dying. The floor freezes. She patches it with a pun — she is just dying to dance — then later refuses Ken a sleepover because the Dreamhouse is hers and every night is girls' night. Watch a plastic utopia flinch, and listen to a joke try to put death back in its box.
Chapters
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Language points
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Review right after watchingdying to
迫不及待想做某事
not thinking about death anymore
绝口说自己不再去想
rager
超级热闹的派对
stay over
在别人家过夜
girls' night
女生之夜、闺蜜局
check me out
瞧我这招、看我的
so do i
我也一样
slumber party
睡衣派对、过夜局
Golden lines
A great line in its own right — why and how to use it“You guys ever think about dying?”
你们有没有想过死?
派对口号正唱到永远,一句口语把乌托邦戳穿。
ever think about + 禁忌话题?
气氛太满、你突然把大家都不敢说的事问出口时。
Does anyone else think about dying? / Has this ever crossed your mind?
informal
ever 轻轻上扬,dying 放慢再落下。
“I’m just dying to dance.”
我只是想跳舞想死了。
dying to 本义是迫不及待,这里同时把「死」这个字圆回去。
I’m just dying to + 动词原形.
急着想做某事,或要把刚才的尴尬话圆回来时。
I can't wait to dance. / I'm so ready to dance.
informal
just 带过,dying 加重再滑出。
“Good night, Barbies! I’m definitely not thinking about death anymore.”
晚安,芭比们!我绝对不再想死亡的事了。
越说「绝对不想」,越证明她还在想,反讽自己打圆场。
definitely not + -ing anymore
你想让别人(也让自己)相信某件事已经翻篇时。
I'm not thinking about that anymore. / That's behind me now.
literary
not 和 death 重击,anymore 轻收。
Monologue
One character carrying the scene — shadow the whole passageIt is the best day ever. And so is yesterday, and so is tomorrow, and so is the day after tomorrow and even Wednesdays and every day from now until forever.
这真是有史以来最棒的一天。 昨天也是,明天也是, 后天也是,连星期三也是 从现在到永远的每一天都是。
