Up in the Air-17

Wedding’s meaning.

• Can you believe it’s tomorrow? How are you gonna sleep?
• I don’t know.
• Well, do you want some Xanax(安眠药)?
• I don’t think that’s for sleeping.
• Yeah. No, I think I’ll just have a glass of warm milk. That’ll do the trick(取得想要的结果).
• There’s another box inside.
• I’ll grab（取回来） it.
• Jim seems like a good guy.
• He’s going to make(成为) a great husband.
• You know, Julie, I was thinking, you know, with Dad not being here, I was wondering if you had anybody to walk you down the aisle.
• He’s been really supportive(大力支持的).
• He’s been great.
• Well, good. That’s great. I just wanted to make sure that you… I wanted you to be covered(被保护), that’s all. So, I should be there, what?
• Yeah, the guests are arriving around 5:00, and things get going at 5:30, so around then.
• I’m gonna help you with those. Got it.
• None of that was here. This is all new.
• Really? Is that all you got?
• Give me a boost(推我一下).
• Watch… Hang on. I took Geography in here.
• My first fight.
• How did it go?
• It’s kind of hard to tell（难分辨）.
• You can tell by the eyebrows.
• You played basketball?
• I didn’t know you were such a jock(运动员).
• Got my ass kicked(巴结). This is where we used to go to make out.
• What happened?
• Jim’s got cold feet.
• Yeah, that’s how cold feet(临阵逃脱) work.
• Ryan, where are you? We’re having a meltdown（小问题） here.
• It’s Jim. Can you get back here? We need your help.
• Okay. We got to go.（我们得走了）
• I tell people how to avoid commitment（承诺）.
• Ryan, you haven’t been around(露脸) much. Fuck, basically, you don’t exist to us. I know you wanna be there for her. Well, here it is. This is your chance.

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1. It’s hard to get the trick of dancing.（抓住跳舞的诀窍很难）
   俚言我语

1.🤔a barrel of laughs 一桶笑声？or 非常有趣的事；笑料不断的开心果

🌰例句：She is the first to admit she’s not exactly a barrel of laughs.

翻译：她第一个承认自己其实并不爱搞笑。

✔️ 开心果

️如果说某个人是“a barrel of laughs” ，那么就是形容他很搞笑-很喜欢逗周围人开心。这个短语也可以用来形容某事非常有趣，大家想象一个桶里如果充满了源源不断的笑声，那么肯定是快乐源泉啦~

2.make a monkey out of sb. 把猴子从某人身体里弄出来？or 让别人出糗；愚弄某人；把某人当猴耍

🌰例句：Some people make a monkey out of themselves by acting foolish or silly.

翻译：有些人做了一些荒唐可笑的事情，把自己给嘲弄了。

✔️愚弄某人

️monkey在英语中常常有调皮、戏弄的意味，因此与monkey有关的俚语表达大多也有这层意思。在这里我们可以大开脑洞，如果把猴子从某人身体里弄出来，其实就是捉弄某人的意思啦~