這場戲：讓小丑椅又用恐龍送客
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維奧萊特讓醫生坐亡子塞巴斯蒂安那把「宮廷小丑椅」，忽然說 Say something funny. Make me stop wanting to cry（說點好笑的，讓我別再想哭），又冷冷提起凱瑟琳 that day she lost her mind（那天她就瘋了）。送客時她用恐龍打比方：the killers inherited the earth（殺戮者繼承了大地）。想學陰冷又優雅的上流英語，看這一分鐘。
「不再想哭」英語怎麼說？stop wanting to cry
Sebastian's seat 某人的專座A rare one 稀罕的物件stop wanting to cry 不再想哭Time for 該做某事了
❝ 獨白 · 6 句 「繼承大地、成為世界的主宰」英語是 inherit the earth
took Catherine with him 帶某人一起去lost her mind 精神崩潰、發瘋find my way out 自己找到出去的路inherited the earth 繼承了大地、成為主宰
故事發生在維奧萊特的花園：庫克羅維茨醫生準備告辭，她卻讓他坐亡子塞巴斯蒂安那把「宮廷小丑椅」，說 It's a court jester's chair（這是一把宮廷小丑的椅子），然後半是玩笑半是命令：Say something funny. Make me stop wanting to cry（說點好笑的，讓我別再想哭）。她隨口趕走霍莉一家，又平靜地說起去年夏天：塞巴斯蒂安 died of a heart attack（心臟病發作），凱瑟琳 that day she lost her mind（那天她就瘋了）。送到花園門口，她指著古樹講起恐龍——食草的太溫和，滅絕了；the killers inherited the earth（殺戮者繼承了大地）。想學陰冷、優雅又帶威脅的上流英語，這些臺詞很過癮。
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。
“They were just too gentle for their size.”
它們只是配不上自己的體型，太溫和了。
把滅絕解釋成溫柔者的宿命，一句就替整場戲立了隱喻。
too X for Y
感嘆某人某物與環境不相稱時用；安慰被淘汰的人時別說，太傷人。
They were simply too soft for the world they lived in. ／ They were too gentle to survive.
literary
too gentle for 連讀，their size 重音在後，句尾放平。
He was too honest for that kind of office. 他太老實了，幹不了那種辦公室的活。
“Say something funny. Make me stop wanting to cry.”
說點好笑的。讓我別再想哭。
求人逗笑，卻把「想哭」直接說出口，撒嬌和崩潰只隔一句。
Make me stop wanting to ...
半開玩笑地求人分散自己注意力時用；對不熟的人說會讓人不知所措。
Tell me something funny; I don't want to cry. ／ Say something to cheer me up.
口語
Say something 連讀，wanting to 弱讀成 wantin' to，句尾收輕。
Make me stop wanting to cry before the meeting. 開會前讓我別再想哭了。
“But then they always do, don't they?”
可它們向來如此，不是嗎？
用一個反問給恐龍的故事蓋棺：殺戮者從來都贏，今天也一樣。
... always do, don't they?
總結某種總在重演的規律時用；爭論中這樣收尾會顯得不容反駁。
But that's how it always goes, isn't it? ／ They always win in the end, don't they?
中性
always do 連讀，don't they 輕快上揚，帶點自問自答。
The loud ones get heard first, don't they? 嗓門大的總是先被聽見，不是嗎？
“He wasn't a family or a money snob, but he was a snob.”
他看不上家世，也不在乎錢，可他是個勢利眼。
先用兩個否定卸下勢利的常見罪名，再一句反轉坐實，漂亮的自嘲。
He wasn't a ___ snob, but he was a snob.
形容一個人挑剔又講究、想開個精準的玩笑時用；當著被說的人要確保他不介意。
He didn't care about money or family — but he was a snob about taste. ／ Not a snob about class, just about beauty.
中性
wasn't a 連讀，money snob 稍快，but he WAS a snob 重讀對比。
He isn't a wine snob, but he is a snob about coffee. 他不是紅酒勢利眼，但在咖啡上特別講究。
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs fed on leaves of those trees. They were vegetarians. That's why they became extinct. They were just too gentle for their size. Then the carnivores, the ones that eat flesh... ...the killers inherited the earth. But then they always do, don't they?
幾百萬年前，恐龍吃那些樹上的葉子。 它們是食草的。所以它們滅絕了。 它們只是配不上自己的體型，太溫和了。 後來是食肉動物，那些吃肉的…… ……殺戮者繼承了大地。 可它們向來如此，不是嗎？
下一章 · 09bossed and bullied被人呼來喝去這場戲：隔離病房裡的試探對話字面是「繼承大地」，出自《聖經》裡「溫柔的人必承受地土」，引申為「成為世界的主宰」。這裡卻說繼承大地的是殺戮者，充滿反諷。
lost her mind。lose one's mind 就是「發瘋、精神失常」。臺詞說凱瑟琳 the day she lost her mind，就是「那天她就瘋了」。
指「勢利眼、愛講究的人」。維奧萊特說塞巴斯蒂安不是門第或錢財上的 snob，卻在美和風度上是個 snob，也就是對品味挑剔到勢利。
be charmed by。charm 是「使著迷」，be charmed by someone 就是「被某人迷住」。臺詞說他也會 be charmed by you，等於「他也會喜歡你」。
carnivores 是「食肉動物」，vegetarians 是「食草、吃素的」。維奧萊特用這兩類恐龍做對比：溫和吃草的滅絕了，兇猛的食肉者活了下來。
