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

今天，我们要谈的是老友记第一季中非常有趣的一段对话。

首先，我们来情景重现：

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.这段话是Rachel 逃婚后和他老爸在电话上解释时的一段话，她把自己的人生比喻成鞋子， Rachel喜欢购物嘛，所以把服饰比喻成人的理想，别人告诉rachel要成为一只鞋，rachel自己想做个"purse" ，钱包。shoe是指要成双配对的生活，因为shoes是2只一起的，一只shoe永远需要另外一只， 而purse和hat就是独立的，自己可以生存的，不需要配对。

这里，以鞋喻人生,职业、前途或者某一类人。老爸老妈希望Rachel成为像鞋一样的这一类人，Rachel自己却另有想法。只不过Rachel想不到用什么比喻，所以用自己最喜欢的服饰作比喻。这里用词巧妙，意味深长，特别是加上Ross 的那一句台词“You can see where he'd have trouble.”让人忍俊不禁。

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.

很明显可以看出Rachel的爸爸听出了她的比喻，故意逗Rachel，但是Rachel根本没有听出他爸爸的意思。

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冲着电话对他爸爸发起了脾气It's a metaphor,Daddy!正好此时对上了Ross的眼神，Ross 出于尴尬，故意调侃了一句You can see where he'd have trouble.瞧，这就是你无法和你老爸沟通的地方。缓解了尴尬。

这段场景虽然很短，但是包含了很多的语言智慧，如果不了解美国的一些交流文化，很难理解其中的含义，大家以后看美剧的时候，可以尝试研究它的文字艺术，也是一件非常有趣的事情哦！好了，今天我们的节目就到这里，感谢大家的收听，I’m Julie，see you next time！

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