Today, our topic would be about the scene of the famous drama Friends. O.k. Let’s get to the point.

今天，我們要談的是老友記第一季中非常有趣的一段對話。

首先，我們來情景重現：

Rachel：C'mon Daddy, listen to me! It's like, it's like, all of my life, everyone has always told me, 'You're a shoe! You're a shoe, you're a shoe, you're a shoe!'. And today I just stopped and I said, 'What if I don't wanna be a shoe? What if I wanna be a- a purse, y'know? Or a- or a hat! No, I don’t want you to buy me a hat, I'm saying I am a ha- It's a metaphor, Daddy!

Ross: You can see where he'd have trouble.

o.k.這段話是Rachel 逃婚后和他老爸在電話上解釋時的一段話，她把自己的人生比喻成鞋子， Rachel喜歡購物嘛，所以把服飾比喻成人的理想，別人告訴rachel要成為一只鞋，rachel自己想做個"purse" ，錢包。shoe是指要成雙配對的生活，因為shoes是2只一起的，一只shoe永遠需要另外一只， 而purse和hat就是獨立的，自己可以生存的，不需要配對。

這里，以鞋喻人生,職業、前途或者某一類人。老爸老媽希望Rachel成為像鞋一樣的這一類人，Rachel自己卻另有想法。只不過Rachel想不到用什么比喻，所以用自己最喜歡的服飾作比喻。這里用詞巧妙，意味深長，特別是加上Ross 的那一句臺詞“You can see where he'd have trouble.”讓人忍俊不禁。

Apparently, we can tell that Rach's dad made fun of Rach's metaphor by saying "buy her a hat", and pretended that he didn't know what Rach was talking about. But what's even worse is that Rach didn't get her dad's little trick either.

很明顯可以看出Rachel的爸爸聽出了她的比喻，故意逗Rachel，但是Rachel根本沒有聽出他爸爸的意思。

So she yelled at the phone that " I don’t want you to buy me a hat ". Once she realized how rude and unladily ，her eyes met with Ross's, which made Ross rather embarrassing.

所以Rachel沖著電話對他爸爸發起了脾氣It's a metaphor,Daddy!正好此時對上了Ross的眼神，Ross 出于尷尬，故意調侃了一句You can see where he'd have trouble.瞧，這就是你無法和你老爸溝通的地方。緩解了尷尬。

這段場景雖然很短，但是包含了很多的語言智慧，如果不了解美國的一些交流文化，很難理解其中的含義，大家以后看美劇的時候，可以嘗試研究它的文字藝術，也是一件非常有趣的事情哦！好了，今天我們的節目就到這里，感謝大家的收聽，I’m Julie，see you next time！

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