Denial: Joe and I had a lot of time to prepare for this moment, some of her requests, for instance that I should bring Claudia Schiffer as my date to the funeral. I was confident she expected me to ignore. But others she was pretty damn clear about, when she first mentioned what's about to happen. I said: "Over my dead body". And she said: "No Daniel, over mine!" And as usual, my darling girl and Sam's darling mum was right, so she's going to say her final farewell to you not through me but, inevitably¹, ever so coolly, through the immortal² genius of the Bay City Rollers.

妙词佳句，活学活用

1. Prepare for this moment

为这个时刻做准备。也许在我们的一生当中，曾经或将要经历很多个不同的时刻，开心的，痛苦的，没有任何感情的！而我们也曾为那些激动人心的时刻做过刻骨铭心的准备。That is to say, we gotta prepare for that moment!

2. Claudia Schiffer

左图就是世界著名的supermodel 克劳迪娅。出身于德国的上层社会，位于现今世界名模收入排行榜的前几位。

3. be pretty damn clear about sth.

“对某样东西或某件事情非常确信”。其实这句话Daniel 本可以说 pretty clear about... 但是他偏偏要在中间加一个damn，很多人听到这儿的时候，总会想这是一个不好的词，但是为什么会用在这里。其实当老外讲到这个词的时候不一定就是“TMD”的意思，更多的时候是为了强调，比如：“我是相当的确信。I'm pretty damn sure about that!”

4. over my dead body
这是一个特别常用的俚语，指的是“不可能”的意思！比如：一人问：“我能在一天内学好英文吗？”就可以答：“Over my dead body”。

5. Say her final farewell to you

Farewell这个词是在日常生活中很少用的，我们常说的是goodbye。farewell相对更正式，更庄重一些。Say her final farewell to you 指的就是“向你们道别”。打个比方，由于工作关系，某人被调到很远的地方去，在临行之前一定要和朋友们道别一下，to say her / his farewell to her / his good friends。