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本片段劇情：結婚前，艾麗來到諾亞的住處，兩人在諾亞搭建的新屋重逢了。艾麗告訴諾亞自己已經訂婚，諾亞十分傷感。他請求艾麗第二天來找她，他要帶她去一個地方。

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Noah: Hammond? As in Hammond Cotton?

Allie: As in Hammond Cotton.

Noah: Well, your parents must love him.

Allie: He's a really good man, Noah. You'd really like him.

Noah: You love him?

Allie: Yeah, I do. I love him very much.

Noah: Well, that's that. You marry Lon and we can be friends...right?

Allie: Right.

Noah: Are you hungry? Do you want to stay for dinner?

Allie: I have to warn you, I'm a cheap drunk. A couple more of these and you're gonna be carrying me right out of here.

Noah: Well, you go slow then, I don't want to have to take advantage of you.

Allie: You wouldn't dare. I'm a married woman.

Noah: Not yet.

Allie: What? Why are you looking at me like that?

Noah: Just memories. This room.

Allie: This--is this where we--This is the room?

Noah: I'm full.

Allie: Me too.

Noah: "Oh how your fingers drowse me. Your breath falls around me like dew. Your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears. I feel a merge from head to foot. Delicious enough."

Allie: It was real, wasn't it? You and me. Such a long time ago, we were just a couple of kids. But we really loved each other, didn't we? I should go. Goodbye.

Noah: Do you think you could back tomorrow morning? There's some place I'd like to show you. Please.

Allie: Okay.

Noah: Okay.

妙語佳句 活學活用

1. cheap drunk: （美國俚語）不勝酒力的人，一喝就醉的人

2. go slow: 減慢速度，也可以表示怠工

例如：The workers often decided to go slow in those days.（在那時候工人們經常怠工。）

3. take advantage of: 這里指占某人的便宜，常用來指利用，欺騙

He's joining the club in order to take advantage of the others.（他入會是來揩油的。）

4. drowse: 打瞌睡

Oh, no! Looks like they catch me drowse.（喔，糟了。他們好像發覺我在打瞌睡。）

5. lull: 使安靜； 使入睡

lull也可以用來表示哄騙；麻痹；使放松警惕

I had been lulled into thinking the publicity would be a trivial matter.（我錯誤地相信了媒體的報道只是小事一樁。）

6. tympan: 鼓膜，襯墊

7. from head to foot: 全身； 從頭到腳

As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.（我們一走進去他就興奮地轉過身來，把喬丹從頭到腳打量了一番。）

沃爾特·惠特曼

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