这场戏：记者室怒斥造谣
第 8 章 · 共 18 章 · 2'32"
记者室里，莫莉·马洛伊冲进来，找那帮把她写成「厄尔女友」的记者算账。她先一句 You crumbs have been making a fool out of me（把我当傻子耍），再讲 Earl 那晚只是坐着聊天，He never once laid a hand on me（他一根手指头都没碰过我）。想用英语又狠又委屈地怼人，这两句很够用。
❝ 独白 · 4 句 「把某人当傻子耍」的英文：making a fool out of me
making a fool out of me 把某人当傻子耍laid a hand on me 动手碰我on the job 在职、在岗treated me decent 对我客气、善待
死刑执行前夜的法院记者室里，莫莉·马洛伊闯进来，质问记者为什么把她写成厄尔·威廉斯的爱人。她否认自己说过爱他、要嫁给他，只说两人只见过一面：他淋着雨像条病狗，她把他带回温暖的房间，他聊了一整晚，never once laid a hand on me（一根手指头都没碰过我）。记者却笑她，她于是说他们一直 making a fool out of me（把我当傻子耍），最后咒他们 It's a wonder lightning don't come down and strike you all dead（真奇怪，老天怎么没劈死你们）。三句都适合被人造谣、被人嘲笑时反击。
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“Sitting with the angel of death, and you cracking jokes.”
人都坐到死神身边了，你们还有心思开玩笑。
把死刑说成坐在死神身边，再质问玩笑，一句里全是愤怒和悲悯。
Sitting with ..., and you ...
痛斥别人在严肃场合还嬉皮笑脸时用；正式书面语里少用。
A man is about to die, and you two are laughing. ／ You joke while someone waits for death.
literary
angel of death 连读，cracking 重读，句尾压住。
Sitting with a dying man, and you cracking jokes. 人都快不行了，你们还在讲笑话。
“It's a wonder lightning don't come down and strike you all dead.”
老天怎么没打雷把你们全劈死。
不直接骂人，借天雷发咒，愤到极点却又像句老话。
It's a wonder (that) ...
半开玩笑地指责一群人时用；正式场合或对长辈别说。
I'm surprised lightning hasn't struck you yet. ／ How have you not been struck down?
口语
wonder 重读，don't come down 连读，all dead 顿开。
It's a wonder lightning don't strike us for saying that. 我们说出这种话，老天怎么没一道雷劈下来。
“You crumbs have been making a fool out of me long enough.”
你们这帮废物把我当傻子耍，耍得够久了。
一句骂到底，long enough 把忍无可忍说得有分量。
make a fool out of someone
对一再欺骗你的人摊牌时用；工作场合当面说太冲。
You've been playing me for a fool. ／ Stop making a fool of me.
口语
crumbs 咬重，making a fool 连读，long enough 收尾下沉。
Stop making a fool out of me in front of the team. 别在团队面前把我当傻子耍。
“He never once laid a hand on me.”
他从没碰过我一下。
一句否认替死者守住体面，平静的陈述比任何辩解都有力。
He never once ... on me.
替被冤枉的人澄清清白时用；语气要稳，对起哄的人说更有分量。
He never touched me, not once. ／ Not once did he lay a hand on me.
中性
never once 连读重读，laid a hand 连读，me 轻收。
He never once raised his voice at me. 他从没对我大声过一句。
“Because Earl treated me decent, and not like an animal.”
因为厄尔把我当人看，没把我当畜生。
把尊严说得如此朴素，一句解释就道破她被围攻的真正原因。
Because ... treated me decent, and not like an animal.
讲一个人被善待时用；对轻贱别人的人当面说，是很有力的回击。
He treated me like a person, not a thing. ／ He was decent to me when nobody else was.
中性
Because 轻起，decent 重读，not like an animal 放慢压低。
She treated me decent when I had nothing. 我一无所有时，是她好好待我。
I tell you he just sat there talking to me all night. He never once laid a hand on me. And in the morning he went away... ...and I never saw him again till that day of the trial.
我告诉你，他就坐在那儿跟我聊了一整晚。 他一根手指头都没碰过我。 第二天早上他就走了…… ……直到开庭那天我才再见到他。
下一章 · 09double-crossing吃里扒外这场戏：撕掉采访稿告别报业意思是「把某人当傻子耍」，指用谎话或行为让人出丑、显得愚蠢。这里莫莉骂记者为了写报道，把她编造成厄尔的女朋友，耍得她抬不起头。
可以说 He never once laid a hand on me. 固定搭配 lay a hand on someone 就是「动手碰某人、打人」，多用在保证自己没动手的场合，语气比 touch 更重。
这里 it's a wonder 是「真奇怪」，后面说的是不真实或抱怨的假设，口语里常照旧式说法用 don't。莫莉在咒记者，意思是「真奇怪，老天怎么没把你们全劈死」。
说 I'd tear your face open. 这是很重的威胁，多半是吵架时虚张声势。莫莉前面还加一句「要不是怕弄断我的指甲」，把狠话说得像有分寸，其实更吓人。
表面上照常打牌下注，等她一走还拿「你男朋友房间不错，住不了多久」取笑她。他们把她当死刑案的素材，不关心她说的是不是真话，这也是她最后骂他们「不是人」的原因。
简单说 I was his witness. 莫莉只用见过一面就出庭作证，所以被记者嘲笑「多了不起的证人」。证人、见证人都是 witness，不用加人名。
