EP14 - 美劇推薦系列 - 摩登家庭

大家這週好嗎？又到了週六聊英文的時候了！今天要聊《摩登家庭Modern Family
(2009-2020)》，這是一部11季的情境喜劇，故事設定在洛杉磯，是一個現代大家庭的故事，影集採用類紀錄片
(documentary)
的方式，除了像是旁觀者一同經歷這個大家庭成員間的悲歡離合，最特別的還有穿插的訪問橋段，觀眾可以更了解角色行為背後的動機，在第一集首播後收穫了大量正面評價，甚至取得了高達1261萬觀眾的收視佳績。
dialogue 1 Phil: Okay, everybody. Cake time! Alex: Thank God. I
really have to study. Claire: Oh, sweetheart, can't you just take a
minute to enjoy it? It's your birthday. You put too much pressure
on yourself. Cameron: I remember my sweet 16. I wanted a theme
party. "Moonstruck" had just come out, but I hadn't, so… Alex: No
stories, no time. S.A.T.s. Jay: Here we go, everybody. Alex: Wait,
wait. We all know why we're here. Gloria: Ay, honey, you missed
one. Alex: I know! I know I missed one! I'm not an idiot! There!
Happy?! Haley: Whoa. You're being a little… Alex: Obstreperous?!
Recalcitrant?! Truculent?! Haley: I was gonna say "cray-cray."
Alex: I really need to focus! There is a 16-year-old science
prodigy studying cancer research at Johns Hopkins! 16! What am I
doing?! I'm eating cake! 必備單字： obstreperous (adj.) 吵鬧而不服管束的
recalcitrant (adj.) 不服從管束的 truculent (adj.)好鬥挑釁的 prodigy (n.) 神童
dialogue 2 Claire: Hey, Nina, how's Sanjay? Nina: Oh, great.
Thanks. He's just dealing with the S.A.T.s and the A.C.T.s and that
merit scholarship application everyone's so stressed about. Claire:
What -- what application? Teacher: Let's begin by talking about the
A.P. Physics test, which, as you know, takes place on… Parents: May
21st. Claire: With Luke and Haley, I'm on top of everything because
they aren't. But Alex is so self-sufficient, I just sort of put it
in cruise control. Teacher: I realize our juniors are busy with
S.A.T.s, so as a rule, I only give two hours of homework a night.
Claire: Two hours? Teacher: Our students are highly advanced. It's
nothing they can't handle. Claire: You know, I'm -- I'm sure they
can.It's just that if they have two hours in this class and they
have an hour for A.P. Bio and an hour and a half for, um, advanced
lit and -- hang on one second. Let me just do this on the board,
'cause then it's -- um, we got 2 and 1 and 1.5 and then another,
uh, hour and a half for A.P. History --gives us… Nina: It's 6.
Claire: Yes! Nina, I was getting there. Thank you! Thank you so
much! If I could just have a second to think without all the
tippy-tappy typing. 6. 必備單字： S.A.T Scholastic Assessment Test (n.)
學術能力測驗 A.C.T American College Testing (n.) 美國大學測驗 scholarship (n.)
獎學金 A.P. Advanced Placement (n.) 進階先修課程 cruise control (n.) 定速巡航
advanced (adj.) 高等的 literature (lit) (n.) 文學 dialogue 3 Claire: Oh.
Oh, hey, honey. How did it go? Alex: Good. And I made another
session for next week. How was the open house? Claire: Wow. So
intense. I had no idea the kind of pressure you're under. Honey, I
was just you for two hours. I could barely hold it together. I
don't know how you don't have a meltdown every day. 必備單字： session
(n.) 導師會議 open house (phr.) 學校開放參觀日 intense (adj.) 緊張激烈的 meltdown
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