这场戏：看录像互相交底
第 12 章 · 共 14 章 · 4'52"
里基放起自己拍的录像，简看着屏幕上的自己直说别扭，里基一句 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）听得人心里一软。两人接着互诉家丑，简恨父亲偏心，一句 put him out of his misery（让他解脱）半是玩笑半是狠话，学来放狠话正好。
❝ 独白 · 12 句 里奇的住院自白
一件比一件狠的事，用最平的语气讲出来，平静本身最吓人。
想让父亲死，用 put him out of his misery（让他解脱）
put him out of his misery 让他解脱It'll cost you 那得花钱saving it up for 为……攒钱
里基把自己拍的录像放给简看，简盯着屏幕里的自己直说别扭，里基却认真地说 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。两人索性互相交底：里基讲起被父亲送进军校、又被关进医院两年的旧事，只说一句 He's not a bad man（不算坏人）替父亲开脱；简则恨父亲偏心，半开玩笑地接上一句 put him out of his misery（让他解脱），甚至答应花钱雇里基动手。想安慰人、想用英语轻描淡写地放狠话，这一场里都有现成的说法。
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“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。
把最直白的赞美藏进一个否定句，越轻描淡写越动人。
you don't know how X you are
对在意外表、不自信的朋友说，语气要轻；别对刚认识的人用，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.
口语
Can't believe 连读，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.”
可要是我对他能有她一半重要，就好了。
用 anywhere near as 把嫉妒压成一句低到尘埃的愿望。
be anywhere near as X as Y
对亲近的人说自己的失落时用，语气放低；正式场合不要用来抱怨父母。
I wish I were anywhere near as important ／ it'd be nice if I mattered half as much
中性
it'd be nice 弱读连成 /ɪdbi/，near as 一气呵成。
It'd be nice if I was anywhere near as valued as the new hire. 要是我能有那个新人一半受重视就好了。
“Someone really should just put him out of his misery.”
真该有人干脆让他解脱算了。
把杀意包装成怜悯，这句黑色幽默越体贴越吓人。
put someone out of his misery
熟人之间黑色玩笑能用；对刚经历丧亲的人千万别用，会被当真。
just put him out of his misery ／ end his suffering already
口语
put him out of 连读，misery 重音在首音节。
Someone should just put this printer out of its misery. 真该有人让这台打印机解脱算了。
“I guess I'm not a very nice girl, then, am I?”
那看来我不是什么好女孩，对吧？
用反问接住对方的道德指责，再原样还回去，收尾极冷。
not a very X, then, am I?
被对方上纲上线时用来自嘲反击；对长辈或上司别用，太冲。
I guess that makes me the bad guy, then ／ So I'm not a nice girl, am I?
口语
then 后稍停，am I 用升调反问。
I guess I'm not a very patient driver, then, am I? 那看来我不是个很有耐心的司机，对吧？
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.
他彻底疯了，决定把我送进军校。 我跟你说过他那套规矩和纪律吧？ 结果当然是被开除了。 我跟爸大吵了一架。 他打我。 第二天在学校，有个人拿我发型开玩笑。 我就崩了。 我想杀了他。 要不是他们把我拉开…… ……我就真杀了他了。 就是那时候我爸把我送进了医院。 他们给我灌药，把我扔在那儿两年。
下一章 · 13so busted被逮个正着这场戏：得来速抓包妻子字面是「真不敢相信你竟不知道自己多美」，用来夸人美得很自然、自己却没意识到，语气真诚，不像搭讪。
put him out of his misery，字面是「让他摆脱痛苦」，原本多指安乐死或让病人解脱，这里简是拿它说狠话，半开玩笑地想让父亲消失。
里基替把自己关进医院的父亲开脱，只说「不算坏人」，不辩解、不抱怨，越轻描淡写越显出无奈，比大骂一场更让人心里发凉。
里基讲自己在军校被「赶出去」，get kicked out 就是被学校或组织赶走、开除，比 be expelled 更口语，日常说被踢出群、被公司赶走也能用。
表面像闲聊，其实句句试探。简说恨父亲、想雇人杀他，半真半假；里基接一句「那得花钱」，用玩笑接住狠话，谁都没把话挑明。
