這場戲：看錄影互相交底
第 12 章 · 共 14 章 · 4'52"
裡基放起自己拍的錄影，簡看著螢幕上的自己直說彆扭，裡基一句 Can't believe you don't know how beautiful you are（真不敢相信你竟不知道自己多美）聽得人心裡一軟。兩人接著互訴家醜，簡恨父親偏心，一句 put him out of his misery（讓他解脫）半是玩笑半是狠話，學來放狠話正好。
❝ 獨白 · 12 句 裡奇的住院自白
一件比一件狠的事，用最平的語氣講出來，平靜本身最嚇人。
想讓父親死，用 put him out of his misery（讓他解脫）
put him out of his misery 讓他解脫It'll cost you 那得花錢saving it up for 為……攢錢
裡基把自己拍的錄影放給簡看，簡盯著螢幕裡的自己直說彆扭，裡基卻認真地說 Can't believe you don't know how beautiful you are，意思是真不敢相信你竟不知道自己多美。兩人索性互相交底：裡基講起被父親送進軍校、又被關進醫院兩年的舊事，只說一句 He's not a bad man（不算壞人）替父親開脫；簡則恨父親偏心，半開玩笑地接上一句 put him out of his misery（讓他解脫），甚至答應花錢僱裡基動手。想安慰人、想用英語輕描淡寫地放狠話，這一場裡都有現成的說法。
A1–C2 是歐標等級。點一個等級後，比它高的卡片會變淡，播放到那裡不會自動暫停。
“Can't believe you don't know how beautiful you are.”
真不敢相信，你竟然不知道自己有多美。
把最直白的讚美藏進一個否定句，越輕描淡寫越動人。
you don't know how X you are
對在意外表、不自信的朋友說，語氣要輕；別對剛認識的人用，容易越界。
Can't believe you don't see how good you are. ／ I can't believe you don't know how great you look.
口語
Can't believe 連讀，重音落在 beautiful 上。
Can't believe you don't know how talented you are. 真不敢相信，你竟然不知道自己有多有才。
“But it'd be nice if I was anywhere near as important to him as she is.”
可要是我對他能有她一半重要，就好了。
用 anywhere near as 把嫉妒壓成一句低到塵埃的願望。
be anywhere near as X as Y
對親近的人說自己的失落時用，語氣放低；正式場合不要用來抱怨父母。
I wish I were anywhere near as important ／ it'd be nice if I mattered half as much
中性
it'd be nice 弱讀連成 /ɪdbi/，near as 一氣呵成。
It'd be nice if I was anywhere near as valued as the new hire. 要是我能有那個新人一半受重視就好了。
“Someone really should just put him out of his misery.”
真該有人乾脆讓他解脫算了。
把殺意包裝成憐憫，這句黑色幽默越體貼越嚇人。
put someone out of his misery
熟人之間黑色玩笑能用；對剛經歷喪親的人千萬別用，會被當真。
just put him out of his misery ／ end his suffering already
口語
put him out of 連讀，misery 重音在首音節。
Someone should just put this printer out of its misery. 真該有人讓這臺印表機解脫算了。
“I guess I'm not a very nice girl, then, am I?”
那看來我不是什麼好女孩，對吧？
用反問接住對方的道德指責，再原樣還回去，收尾極冷。
not a very X, then, am I?
被對方上綱上線時用來自嘲反擊；對長輩或上司別用，太沖。
I guess that makes me the bad guy, then ／ So I'm not a nice girl, am I?
口語
then 後稍停，am I 用升調反問。
I guess I'm not a very patient driver, then, am I? 那看來我不是個很有耐心的司機，對吧？
He totally freaked and decided to send me to military school. I told you his thing about structure and discipline, right? Well, of course, I got kicked out. Dad and I had this huge fight. He hit me. And the next day at school, some kid made a crack about my haircut. And I just snapped. I wanted to kill him. I would've killed him... ...if they hadn't pulled me off. That's when my dad put me in the hospital. They drugged me up and left me in there for two years.
他徹底瘋了，決定把我送進軍校。 我跟你說過他那套規矩和紀律吧？ 結果當然是被開除了。 我跟爸大吵了一架。 他打我。 第二天在學校，有個人拿我髮型開玩笑。 我就崩了。 我想殺了他。 要不是他們把我拉開…… ……我就真殺了他了。 就是那時候我爸把我送進了醫院。 他們給我灌藥，把我扔在那兒兩年。
下一章 · 13so busted被逮個正著這場戲：得來速抓包妻子字面是「真不敢相信你竟不知道自己多美」，用來夸人美得很自然、自己卻沒意識到，語氣真誠，不像搭訕。
put him out of his misery，字面是「讓他擺脫痛苦」，原本多指安樂死或讓病人解脫，這裡簡是拿它說狠話，半開玩笑地想讓父親消失。
裡基替把自己關進醫院的父親開脫，只說「不算壞人」，不辯解、不抱怨，越輕描淡寫越顯出無奈，比大罵一場更讓人心裡發涼。
裡基講自己在軍校被「趕出去」，get kicked out 就是被學校或組織趕走、開除，比 be expelled 更口語，日常說被踢出群、被公司趕走也能用。
表面像閒聊，其實句句試探。簡說恨父親、想僱人殺他，半真半假；裡基接一句「那得花錢」，用玩笑接住狠話，誰都沒把話挑明。
