17.What went on with you two before that kiss?
——go on with
18. -Five years is a long time.
-Yeah. It is. Believe me, it feels longer than five years. Time passes real slow when you're a kid. It's starting to speed up a little, though. Guess I'm getting older, maturing.
——Ben對時間的經典闡釋。
19.More than half of all marriages end in divorce. The younger you are when you get married, the more likely you are to get divorced.
——早婚的警告。
20.-My dad married the first girl he ever dated. They were 18.
-That's different. That was in the '80s. Everyone was coked out and disco dancing. No one really knew what they were doing.
-My parents never did coke. Disco, yeah.
-Regardless, my point is, you should see other girls.
——regardless可作副詞用,等于 in spite of everything。而在這段對話中,也接住了Ben拋出的包袱,完成了幽默。
21.-What's going on?
-All right, look, I'm a straight shooter, so... let me just tell you. You've got competition.
——straight shooter坦白正直的人
22.Slept, as in had sex?
你說睡覺,指的是have sex的意思么?
23.-It's all over school.
-Oh, and that makes it true? What percentage of gossip is true?
——Ben用很精明的辯解質問這個對百分比特別精通的好友。
24.That guy, Ricky, is probably telling people he slept with her hoping it'd get back to me. He's totally jealous of me.
——get back to/at sb 和pay back 差不多,前者是報復某人,而后者有時是報答某人,有時是報復某人,總之是還給某人一些東西。