Bree: "Mother Hodge, your food will get cold!"

婆婆，你的饭菜都要凉了。

Gloria: "Why, please, is there a lock on the liquor cabinet?"

请问，为什么酒柜上锁了？

Bree: "Because your doctor says people taking your medication shouldn't drink. A warning you've chosen to ignore if the lipstick on the vodka bottle is any indication."

因为你的医生说，你服用那种药，不能喝酒。但显然你对这一警告充耳不闻。因为伏特加酒瓶上留下了你的口红印。

Gloria: "Poached fish again? I don't want this. I want what you're all having."

又是水煮鱼，我不想吃这个。我要吃跟你们一样的菜。

Bree: "Well, your doctor has you on a low fat, low sodium diet. Eight meals this week, eight times I've told you the same thing. So, who'd like to say grace?"

医生说你的饮食要低脂要清淡，本周吃了八顿饭，同样的话我说了八遍。谁想来致祈祷辞。

Gloria: "Allow me. Dear Lord, I thank you for this bland, indifferently prepared meal, and beseech you to ignite some spark of compassion in my coldhearted daughter-in-law, that she might show some shred of mercy to me, her wretched captive. Amen."

我来吧。亲爱的主，感谢您赐予我这么清淡，漫不经心准备的晚餐，恳求你点燃我那铁石心肠的儿媳妇心中慈悲的火苗吧。也许她会对我表达一些怜悯之心。我就是她可怜的俘虏。阿门。

Orson: "Mother, may I remind you, you asked to come here?"

妈妈，请容我提醒你一句，是你要求来这里住的。

Gloria: "I didn't know I'd be trading one jail for another. At least at the home you could bribe the orderlies to smuggle things in, but here, nothing gets past the commandant."

来之前我又不知道，是刚出狼窝又入虎穴。至少在养老院我还能买通看护人偷带一些东西进来。但在这儿，“总司令”什么事都不允许。

Bree: "I have done everything I can to make you happy and comfortable. What do you want from us?"

我已经竭尽全力想让你感到快乐和舒适了。你还想要我们做什么？

Gloria: "I want my freedom. I want out of this perky little gulag and into a house I can call my own. And you're going to buy it for me."

我要自由。我想离开这个专制的集中营住到一个自己可以做主的地方。你得给我买个房子。

Orson: "I can't afford to buy you a house."

我负担不起。

Gloria: "You can't afford not to."

不买的后果你才负担不起。

Orson: "I know a house won't be easy to swing, but how many more of these Edward Albee dinners do you want to sit through?"

我知道买房子这事不好办，但你还受得了几次爱德华.阿尔比式晚餐的祈祷。

Bree: "What did she mean by, you can't afford not to? Was she threatening you with something?"

她说“不买的后果你才负担不起”是什么意思？她是在拿什么事要挟你吗？

Orson: "Yes, she's threatening to make us miserable till we cave. Look, at least see if Edie has any cheap listings. We'll be happier, my mother will be happier..."

是的，她是在要挟要把我们折磨致死。至少先看看伊迪手中有没有便宜的房源吧。我们会更开心，妈妈也会更开心。

Bree: "Yeah, and she'll take terrible care of herself and be dead in a year."

她根本不会照顾自己，不出一年就会死掉。

Orson: "You just stole my next argument."

你抢了我的台词。

出处：头条号 @泠子英语