Chapter 10 of 15 · 3'48"
Meeting the Parents 见家长坦白IMDb ↗
当见家长变成一部连续剧
Husbands and Wives · 1992
Learning settings
The story so far
Everything you need before watchingRain walks Gabe into her parents' apartment. Her mother gushes that they are tremendous fans and wish he still wrote those funny, sad stories. Her father offers a drink. Gabe, already joking about a sedative, asks about the wreck downstairs. Rain starts from the beginning: her father's partner, a friend's dad, then her analyst, all falling in love with her. She claims she cleaned up her act with younger Carl. Then her parents invite Gabe — and his wife — to Rain's birthday.
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Review right after watchingmid-life crisis set
中年危机那一伙人
what the hell
到底在搞什么
clean up one's act
收心、改过自新
come to one's senses
醒过神来、回过味
to say the least
至少可以这么说
let alone
更不用说
be taken with someone
被某人吸引
come on with someone
对某人示好撩拨
Golden lines
A great line in its own right — why and how to use it“And what the hell am I doing with the mid-life crisis set?”
可我跟这帮中年危机男混在一起到底图什么?
当着老师骂中年危机圈,自嘲里带刺,把年龄差恋情一刀切开。
What the hell am I doing...
觉得自己混错圈子、选错人时用,带点骂自己的火气。
What am I even doing here? / Why am I with these people?
informal
hell 加重,set 连着甩出去。
“But, in the end, I just felt like I was some kind of symbol of lost youth or unfulfilled dreams.”
可到头来,我只觉得自己成了某种青春不再、或梦想落空的象征。
把情人关系收成一句心理分析,既自怜又锋利,像在给盖布上课。
I felt like some kind of...
觉得自己被当成符号、不是真人时用。
I felt like a trophy. / They treated me as a symbol.
literary
in the end 落下,lost youth 放慢。
“My God. You've got material for your first novel, and the sequel and, and an opera by Puccini here.”
我的天。你这材料够写处女作、续集,再加一部普契尼歌剧了。
盖布用小说和歌剧打趣,把她的情史抬得很高,又捧又躲。
You've got material for...
听完离谱故事后打趣,说够写进小说或拍成戏。
That's a whole novel. / You could make a movie out of this.
informal
novel、sequel、opera 三拍加重。
Monologue
One character carrying the scene — shadow the whole passageUm, and this... my father's business partner... He'd come by the house fairly often, right? And one day he told me that he was in love with me, right? And I was very flattered, to say the least. He was, he was real bright and single. And we started having this affair. Naturally, we told nobody. So now I have this friend Jane. And her parents, they were divorced. And her father Jerry developed this mad crush over me, right? Um, and before long, I was seeing both these men. And instead ofbeing happy, I was, I was just miserable. And I couldn'tget my feelings straight. And so I went to an analyst. And... I tried for a few months to work things out. And then, one day, my analyst said that... that he was gonna stop treating me because he felt it wasn't the thing to do since he was falling in love with me. I was taken with him. I mean, you can imagine. He's, he's quite brilliant. And I started seeing him. And I did. I broke off from the other two. But something inside me told me that he couldn't be a very stable person, I mean, let alone a good analyst. So, I never really let things get too far with him. Um, then one night I met Carl, and he was very sweet and he really came on with me. And I came to my senses, and I said to myself, "What am I doing with these older men, "you know? So I, I cleaned up my act. And I've been dating Carl. But, as you can see, Richard is so unstable. He really took it badly.
嗯,然后这个……我父亲的生意合伙人…… 他常来家里坐,对吧? 有一天他跟我说他爱上我了,对吧? 我当时受宠若惊,至少可以这么说。 他,他特别聪明,又单身。 然后我们就开始偷情了。 当然,谁也没告诉。 然后我有个朋友叫简。 她父母离婚了。 她爸爸杰里对我迷得不行,对吧? 嗯,没过多久,这两个男的我都在来往。 可我不但没开心,我,我只觉得痛苦。 我根本理不清自己的感情。 于是我去看了心理分析师。 然后……我试了几个月,想把事情理顺。 后来有一天,我的分析师说…… 说他要停止给我治疗,因为他觉得自己爱上我了,再治就不合适。 我也被他吸引了。 我是说,你能想象。他,他相当出色。 然后我开始跟他约会。 我真这么做了。另外两个我都断了。 可我心里有个声音说,他这人肯定不太稳,更别提当个好分析师了。 所以,我从没让这段走得太远。 嗯,后来有天晚上我遇见卡尔,他特别甜,而且一个劲儿地追我。 然后我醒过神来,对自己说:“我跟这些老男人在一起干什么,”你知道吗? 所以我,我收心了。 然后我一直在跟卡尔约会。 可是,你也看见了,理查德太不稳了。 他反应特别激烈。
Takeaways
What you walk away with- Use cleaned up my act for a reset
- Hear to say the least as understatement
- Catch let alone raising the bar
- Hear mid-life crisis set as a jab
People also search
Questions, then the linesWhat does cleaned up my act mean?
It means she straightened up: no more older men, she started dating Carl.
How do you use to say the least?
Add it after a mild verdict to hint the truth is worse.
What does let alone mean here?
It raises the bar: not even stable, still less a good analyst.
Does I was taken with him mean love?
It means she was drawn to him, a softer way to say attraction.
Who is the mid-life crisis set?
Older restless men. Rain says it to Gabe, who belongs there too.
