Michael: Hey, beautiful, it s so great to hear your voice. I miss you. I ve been calling you for over a month, you know...
Julianne: Well, I ve been on a book tour.
Michael: I figured you were out of town.
Julianne: No, I mean my machine eats all my messages.
Michael: Or you re just averaging 30 days to return a call.
Julianne: It s less when it s you.
Michael: Look, I have to ask you something. Something incredibly important, that if you turn me down, I don t know what I ll d...
Julianne: You know, if I could just tell you one thing first. Well, this is, this is probably going to hand you the biggest laugh of your adult life . I m sure. But I m thinking about you, and I was remembering this unbelievably insane1 night we spent in Tucson, like, I don t know, a thousand years ago? And you probably won t remember this. But...
Michael: Are you kidding? I think about that night all the time.
Julianne: You do?
Michael: But it s not why I called
Julianne: It s not?
Michael: I called because I met someone.
Julianne: Well, that s great. That s great. Because you haven t really seen anybody, have you? Since dingbat Jenny Lee.
Michael: You don t understand. I ve never felt this way about anybody! And she s all wrong for me!
Julianne: There is a good start.
Michael: No, no. I mean she s a junior at the University of Chicago, she s 20. Her name s Kim. Jules. you re gonna love her. She s beautiful. And her dad is this billionaire and he owns the White Sox and some cable2 empire. You know I ve always been uncomfortable around rich people.
Julianne: Sure.
Michael: But they re not like that, they re such wonderful people... really, salt of the earth .
Julianne: So. You ve met her parents.
Michael: Yeah. Jules, we re getting married this Sunday. Hello. Hello.
Julianne: Michael, it s Wednesday night, how can you possibly be getting married on Sunday?
Michael: Actually, it all starts tomorrow. It s one of these four-day-weddings with all the traditional events, and like ten million people flying in from all over the world.
Julianne: Okay. Okay. But are you working this weekend? I mean, is that responsible3?
Michael: Well, the Sox are at home and Sports is letting me do a profile4 on the Big Hurt. You know. Frank5 Thomas... wait. What do you mean irresponsible? Taking off a weekend to get married? Jules. I m scared.
Julianne: Maybe we should talk about this.
Michael: I need you. If you can t come and hold my hand, I ll never get through this. Please come, please.
Julianne: Well.
Michael: Oh, man, I can t wait for you to meet her.
妙词佳句，活学活用
1. be out of town
这个短语如果直译的话，应为“出城”，但是总觉得有些牵强。那么正确的用法如何呢？通常情况下，当我们提到be out of town 的时候指的是“出差”，和be on business 的意思差不多。E.g. Where is your father? Well, he s out of town.
2. My machine eats all my messages.
这是一句讲电话留言机的话。在这句话中用得最好的词就是eat了，意思是“我的留言机把我所有的留言都吞掉了”。现在大家知道“吞”就是eat了吧。设想在取钱的时候，一不小心卡被吞了，这时就可以说 The machine eats my card.
3. Hand you the biggest laugh of your adult life.
hand 在这里是给give 的意思，直译过来就是“给你的成人世界带来最大的欢笑”。我们的日常生活中很少会这么讲中文，给大家一个例子，这样会更好的理解。假设我们想告诉朋友们一件关于自己的非常尴尬的事情，但又怕说出来会被笑话，于是为了做下铺垫，我们会说，“如果我说了你肯定会笑话我的”，而这句话就是 Perhaps it s gonna hand you the biggest laugh of your adult life.
4. dingbat
这是个专门用来形容女孩子的贬义词，指的是女孩子空有外表，但是实际上很傻、很没脑子。
5. salt of the earth
很有用的俚语。盐在古代就被看得很贵重，被认为是尊贵的象征。The salt of the earth出自《新约·马太福音》：耶稣对他的门徒说：“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor6, wherewith shall it be salted? ”这里的意思就是“中坚力量，精英，高尚的人”。
6. Do a profile on somebody
通常情况下，我们所熟知的profile是“侧面”的意思，但是在这里他的意思却是人物的短篇采访，或者短篇人物访谈。而do a profile on sb. 指的就是做某个人的访谈。
