Focker: Welcome, in-laws!

 

Dina: Oh, Gregor. My goodness.

 

Focker: Dina, Dina Bobina, Banana Fana Fofina. 

 

Dina: I'm so happy to see you. 

 

Focker: Lovely Dina.

 

Dina: You, too, Gregor.

 

Focker: Hello, Jack¹.

 

Jack: Greg. Everything okay, Greg?

 

Focker: Everything's great.

 

Jack: Good.

 

Focker: Unfortunately, renovations on the house, not quite where I'd like them to be. 

 

Jack: Well, those things happen.

 

Focker: They do. I mean, never to me before.

 

Wife: And Sam here has done very, very well with her tae kwon do lessons. She's a... What are you? A yellow belt now?

 

Sam: Yep.

 

Wife: Yellow belt.

 

Dina: Wow, sweetheart. Very impressive.

 

Focker: She's lethal². She is a ninja. 

 

Jack: Proud of her. Now, Henry, you're going to drink your milk, aren't you? You want to hit the same growth spurt³ as your sister.

 

Dina: Jack.

 

Jack: I'm just saying, you know, it's hard to believe that they're three minutes apart.

 

Focker: Henry, do what your grandpa says. Aw, man. For real. Good man. Okay. Who wants some turkey?

 

I do, right here! Right here!

 

Dina: Sweetheart, you didn't have to make a whole turkey just for us.

 

Jack: Why not?

 

Wife: Actually, Greg did it.

 

Dina: Greg.

 

Focker: Well, I remember at last year's Thanksgiving, Jack said he liked roast turkey so much and he couldn't understand why people only had it once a year.

 

Jack: Excellent memory, Greg.

 

Jack: Plus, it's a wonderfully lean meat. Healthy. Good for your heart.

 

Dina: Such a sweetheart.

 

Henry: Grandpa Jack, can I ask you a question?

 

Jack: You surely can.

 

Henry: How come you're afraid of lizards⁵?

 

Jack: Henry, that's a very good question. And I'll tell you why. When I was stationed in the Mekong Delta⁶ during the Vietnam War, a tiny gecko crawled into my ear one night and laid its eggs. And I had to endure the torturous⁷ probing of our unit's medic to remove the lizard⁴ larvae⁸ from my ear canal before they hatched into my brain.

 

Dina: Jack.

 

Sam: Cool.

 

Henry: Yuck.

 

Wife: Yes, thanks for sharing that, Dad.

 

Focker: All right, gobble, gobble, everybody! It's turkey time!

 

Wife: That looks good.

 

Dina: That's a work of art.

 

Focker: Thank you very much.

 

Jack: Looks great, Greg.

 

Focker: Thank you, Jack. And to carve it, I thought we might use the beautiful Irish hunting knife emblazoned with the Byrnes family crest⁹ that Jack so thoughtfully brought back for us from his ancestral homeland. Look at that, kids.

 

Dina: Great.

 

Focker: Look at that. See that crest? That was used by your ancestors long time ago, back in the olden days, to identify their family.

 

Henry: Daddy, can I ask you a question?

 

Focker: Absolutely. He loves history. Just soaks it up.

 

Henry: Can a girl poop from her vagina?

 

Focker: No, she cannot.

 

Dina: They're a little young for genealogy¹⁰.

 

Focker: Yes. Just a little off topic there. Jack. Here you go!

 

Jack: Greg. You're the turkey carver now.

 

Focker: Thank you. I'm honored. All right. Let's carve the roast beast! Let's see. I think I'll start right side. Nice and tender.

 

Dina: So, Greg, how are you liking¹¹ your new job?

 

Focker: Well, I'll tell you, Dina, it's a lot of responsibility on my plate. But that's kind of what I love about it. I mean, the opportunity to manage an entire unit, in a way, it's kind of like...

 

Jack: Why couldn't you just get him a warm-blooded animal?

 

Dina: Pressure.

 

Sam: Mom!

 

Wife: Honey. It's okay, it's okay, honey.

 

Focker: Hello. Hey, Kevin! It's Kevin, everybody. What? Okay.You're in Chicago?

 

 

1. those things happen: 总不能尽如人意

 

2. tae kwon do: 跆拳道

 

3. yellow belt: 黄带，指的是跆拳道的一个等级

 

4. lethal: 危害极大的；破坏性极大的，也可以指有效的

 

例如：They were a lethal partnership¹², scoring 43 goals between them.（他们是一个有效率团队，共43个球得分。）

 

deadly，fata，mortal，lethal这些形容词均表示“致命的”之意。下面我们就来看看区别：

 

deadly: 指能致命或实际已致命的事物，也可指企图致死他人的人。

 

fatal: 正式用词，强调死亡的不可避免性，多用于指伤或疾病等。

 

mortal: 语气强，指导致死亡的直接原因。

 

lethal: 指由于某物本身具有致命的性能。

 

5. ninja: 忍者，受专门训练充当间谍、刺客的日本武士

 

6. lean meat: 瘦肉。肥肉就可以称为fat(meat)

 

7. lizard: 蜥蜴

 

8. gecko: 壁虎

 

9. larvae: 幼虫

 

10. emblazon: （用图案、符号或文字醒目地）装饰

 

例如： Look, our athletes are marching into the arena¹³! They all look full of vigour¹⁴ in sweat-shirts emblazoned with the name of our school.

 

（看，我校的运动员进场来了！他们穿着印有我校校名字样的运动衫，看上去个个精力充沛。）

 

11. genealogy: 家谱，宗谱

 

12. off topic: 题外话，跑题了

 

13. warm-blooded animal:恒温动物，warm-blooded就是指动物“温血的；恒温的”，相对应的则是cold-blooded（冷血的）。

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