million

I could eat about a million and a half of these.

我能吃下去無數塊巧克力。

Million 在美國人的日常用語中經常見到，用夸張的語氣表示數量的不勝枚舉。例如本句中，阿甘形容自己可以吃下“一百五十萬塊巧克力”，意即百吃不厭。

1. 阿甘在形容自己是多年來第一批訪問中國的美國人時，是這樣講的：

I was the first American to visit the land of China in like a million years or something like that.
我是幾百萬年來第一批訪問中國的美國人。

2. 當一個美國人在形容自己即將到來的婚禮是多么興師動眾時，他可以這樣表述：

It's like a million people flying in around the world.
似乎有幾百萬人從世界各地飛來參加我們的婚禮。

3. 類似的表達方法還有“thousand”，“hundred”，甚至“twenty”。

1) Our house had been in Mama's family since her grandpa's grandpa's grandpa had come across the ocean about a thousand years ago.
自打一千年前媽媽的爺爺的爺爺的爺爺祖父漂洋過海來到這里，這座房子就屬于媽媽的家族。

2) I've told you a hundred times that today I'll come back late.
我給你講過無數次了，今天我會晚些回來。

tell

There's an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes.

看人們腳上穿的鞋子就能判定很多事情。

指“判斷”、“斷定”、“辨別”，類似的用法如下：

1. Yes, I did have plastic surgery. How can you tell?

是的，我確實做過美容手術，你怎么看出來的？

2．And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began.

在沙漠里的時候，太陽升起來，我看不出天地的分界。

3. Even though it was so dark I could still tell it was you.

盡管很黑，我仍然辨認得出你來。

4. tell (when/how) It’s hard to tell when we can finish the work.

我們什么時候能完成工作還很難說。

5. tell (by/from) You can tell by the way it walks that the cat has been injured.

看那只貓走路的姿勢就知道它受傷了。

remind sb. of/that

make sense

Mama said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.

remind sb. of sth. 或者跟從句，提醒某人某事。如：This story reminds me of my childhood.

這個故事讓我想起了我的童年。

He reminded me how careful I ought to be in doing it.

他提醒我在做這事的時候應如何小心。

make sense: 講得通, 有意義, 言之有理

例句：Sometimes paragraphs need only to be rearranged for the story to make sense.

有時候，只需重新安排段落使故事講得通。