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本片段剧情：吉斯是一个热爱跑步、画画但性格十分内向的小男孩，他有四个姐妹，但是他并不喜欢和自己的姐妹相处。拮据的家境使他不得不穿姐姐的旧鞋去参加田径比赛……

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Mother: Want toast?

May Belle: Yes, please!

Mother: Ellie, where's your cereal bowl?

Ellie: I'm not hungry.

Mother: You need to eat.

Ellie: I'm not hungry, Mom.

Mother: You need to eat before school. One more bite.

Ellie: You want some jelly on it?

May Belle: Yes, please.

Ellie: Watch it, Brenda. Don't mess my clothes up. Billy Baker's in my class this year.

Brenda: Oh, did he flunk too?

Ellie: Shut up!

Mother: Hey!

Ellie: You're one to talk.

Mother: Are you excited about your first day in school?

May Belle: Yeah.

Mother: Isn't your sister cute?

Brenda: You! You stink!

May Belle: Very cute.

Brenda: He stinks. He's gotta shower before he eats with us.

Mother: May Belle? Honey, here's your juice.

May Belle: Thanks.

Jess: OK, who hid my sneakers?

Mother: Jess, you could hardly call them sneakers anymore. I threw them out.

Jess: What? Mom!

Mother: I'm sorry, but I will not send any child of mine to school looking like somehobo. There's a perfectly good old pair of Brenda's I put out for you.

Jess: These are girls' ones.

Father: It's the fan belt this time, but I got another.

Mother: Ellie? Honey, here you go.

Father: What's the matter with you?

Jess: There's a big race today.

Father: And?

Jess: My sneakers.

Mother: I got a perfectly good pair for him.

Jess: These are girls' ones. I can't race in these.

Brenda: You couldn't race in your old ones either.

Father: He needs some new sneakers, Mary.

Mother: We don't have anything for extras.

Father: They make them the same. You got your chores done?

Jess: Just about to.

妙语佳句 活学活用

1. Watch it: 当心！

2. mess up: 把……弄糟。例如：They told us not to mess up the room.（他们告诉我们不要把房间弄脏。）

3. flunk: （考试、测验等）失败，不及格。看一下例子：She flunked the physics examination. 她物理考试不及格。又如：He flunked in the final examination.（他期终考试不及格。）

flunk也可以表示“使（某人）不及格；给（某人）打不及格分数”。例如：The professor flunked Hunter.（教授给亨特打了不及格分数。）

4. stink: 发恶臭，发出难闻气味。例如：The butcher's shop stank in hot weather.（肉铺热天散发腥臭味。）

此外，stink还可以表示“惹人讨厌，令人厌恶，坏透”或“水平很低，差劲”的意思。例如：

Your idea stinks. It will only get us into trouble.

你的主意糟透了，只会给我们惹麻烦。

Anyway, you're too slow and your math stinks.

不管怎么说，你太迟钝了，而你的数学又一团糟。

5. sneaker: 帆布胶底运动鞋，旅游鞋。

6. hobo: 流浪汉，游民。hobo还可以作动词用，意思是“流浪着过（日子），过流浪生活。例如：hobo one's way out to San Francisco（一路流浪到旧金山去）。

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