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Kids' dads: Hi, June. Hey, June. Hi, June. Hey, June.

June: Need more cupcakes, Sarah. All the dads are staying for the party. What's up with that?

Sarah: I have no idea.

June: Every Halloween it's the same thing. But I guess it's great how involved they are in their kids' world. Isn't it?

Sarah: Yeah.

June: Yeah.

Sarah: Why don't you and Eric come over tonight? I'll rent a hopelessly romantic movie. We can all hold hands together and cry.

Leo: Sounds fun, but we can't. It's our anniversary, and we always spend it just the two of us.

Sarah: Oh. Sweet.

Leo: Seven years ago tonight, we met at my parents' house. They were trying to fix Eric up with my sister. Oops.

Bob: Sorry we're late. Austin drives so slow.

Sarah: Listen, I hope my family wasn't too embarrassing last night.

Bob: Oh, no. Not at all. They do seem a little bit involved in your life.

Sarah: Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Bob: Austin's mom's from a large family. That's a whole lot of people that don't speak to me any more.

Sarah: Thimbleful of juice?

Bob: Sure. But just one. To good teachers.

Sarah: To good dads.

Bob: To good teachers who are also very beautiful.

Sarah: To good dads who are dangerously cute and charming.

Bob: There you go. There's an attraction here, Sarah. You can't deny it.

Sarah: I'm not. I'm trying to ignore it.

Bob: Why?

Sarah: Well, for one, Austin is my student. Two, we're in the puppet closet.

Bob: Couldn't we go out sometime in the real world?

Sarah: I'm not so good in the real world.

Bob: I was looking at the handbook, under "dating, parents and teachers." Nothing. There's nothing there.

Teacher: Sarah. We need the emergency pants. It's an emergency.

Sarah: Emergency pants. Come on, sweetie.

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Ron: Hey, babe, my name is Ron. Mid-40s, handsome, totally toned, 5'7", 161 pounds, give or take a piece of pizza. No, I'm not kidding. I'm totally toned. Call me, you won't be sorry.

Lennie: Hi, Sarah, it's Lennie. I had a wonderful time, and I'm...(start crying) I'll call back.

Jake: Hi, Sarah? It's Jake Anderson, the idiot from the dog park. Actually, that was all a test to see how you respond to crazy people, and you passed. So maybe we could see each other again. What do you say? You want to give me another chance?

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Jake: You know, I had a couple of icebreakers. I even had a few stories for you, anecdotes, but I forgot them all. I think it might be that dress.

Sarah: My sister Carol made me buy it.

Jake: I love Carol.

Sarah: Well, this is a very charming place.

Jake: Yeah.

Sarah: Good food?

Jake: No, not particularly. But I like the ambiance. I come here because I know the owners, the Parseghians, that couple over there. See? They're waving.

Sarah: They want us to join them.

Jake: Oh, well. A few years ago, in a moment of blazing clarity, I forswore ethnic folk dancing, so... They'll come over and say hello and maybe...

Mr. Parseghian: How are you?

Jake: Hi! How are you?

Sarah: Hello.

Jake: Nice, right? Sarah, Mr. And Mrs. Parseghian.

Sarah: Hello.

Mr. Parseghian: Welcome, Sarah. (speaking in Armenian to his wife) Why can’t you wear a dress like that?

Mrs. Parseghian: (speaking in Armenian) If you looked like him, I would wear a dress like that.

Jake: See you later. We'll drink.

Mrs. Parseghian: Absolutely.

Jake: Okay.

Sarah: You speak Armenian.

Jake: A little bit.

Sarah: Well, what did you say?

Jake: I asked him, "where is the youth hostel?" It's all I remember. Kind of a joke we have.

Sarah: What is it that you do, exactly? God, no wonder I live alone.

Jake: I build boats. You know, these handcrafted wooden sculls...rowing. The racing ones.

Sarah: Yeah. Really?

Jake: Yeah. Yep.

Sarah: Does anyone buy those?

Jake: Nope. Not yet. Everybody wants all these high-tech...fiberglass, you know, no turbulence. Where's the fun in that ride? I don't know. But they'll come around.

Sarah: Well, don't count on me. I get seasick. In the bathtub.

Jake: Really?

Sarah: Yeah.

Jake: You know what? Can we just skip all the small talk?

Sarah: What?

Jake: Can we skip the small talk? Just skip it? You know, like, who are you? Who am I? What are we doing here together tonight? I have this theory that when you first meet somebody, that's the time when you have to be totally honest, because you have nothing to lose. Five, 10 years down the road, gets a lot harder. You can't say one day, "Happy anniversary, this is the real me." It doesn't work that way. This is it. We'll never see each other as clearly and as nakedly as we do in this moment. Right now. This instant. I'm really scaring you right now, aren't I?

Sarah: Just a little bit. Yeah. But, you know, on the one hand, you're very charming and interesting and you have a lot of energy. You know, on the other hand, a little bit scary.

Jake: Okay. Well, here's my story. Here's what you need to know.

Sarah: Okay.

Jake: I'm just divorced, and I had my heart broken badly by a woman that I really loved. You know, but I think your heart grows back bigger. You know? Once you've got the shit beat out of you. And the universe lets your heart expand that way. I think that's the function of all this pain and heartache that we all go through. You know, you gotta go through that to come out to a better place. And that's how I see it anyway. What about you? Why is a dazzling woman like you single? Come on. You can do it. You can just tell me the truth. If you know the truth. Just be honest. What have we got to lose, you know? After the dinner we shake hands, "good night," never see each other again.

Sarah: All right. He stopped loving me. I don't know what I did or what I didn't do. He just stopped. I don't think I've ever said that out loud before.

Jake: See, that was great. We just totally had an honest moment. Now we can sit back and enjoy our food and get to know each other. I'm Jake.

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第一页：片段欣赏
第二页：巧学口语
第三页：小小翻译家
第四页：文化一瞥

1. fix Eric up with my sister: 把我妹妹介绍给艾瑞克。fix somebody up with somebody/something意思是“给某人安排……；帮某人介绍……”。

2. thimbleful of: 一丁点儿。看一下例句：

Breakfasts consist of nothing more than a thimbleful of coffee or chocolate and a morsel of bread.

早餐不过是一丁点儿咖啡或者巧克力饮料再加一小块儿面包。

3. toned: 健美的。例如：You just need a healthy, toned body and a confident attitude. （你需要的只是健康结实的身体和自信的态度。）

4. icebreaker: 缓和拘谨气氛（或打破僵局）的事物（或行为举止）。

Your smile is your icebreaker, it draws people to you because you will look like a happy, stable person.

你的微笑就是你打破僵局的法宝，它让人们想要亲近你，因为你看上去是个稳健开朗的人。

5. anecdote: 轶事，逸事，趣闻。

6. ambiance: （地、人、物特有的）气氛；周围环境；格调。例：This restaurant is expensive, but it's got very nice ambiance.（这家餐厅很贵，但是气氛很好。）

7. forswear: 发誓抛弃；放弃。

8. Armenian: 亚美尼亚语。

9.come around: 改变立场，觉悟过来。例：Most vendors have come around to recognizing that this is the most reasonable approach.（大部分厂商已经觉悟过来，认识到了这是最合理的途径。）

10. dazzling: 惊艳的。

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第三页：小小翻译家
第四页：文化一瞥

1. 你能否给我安排一份全职工作?

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2. 虽然他喜欢冰淇淋，但他每次都只吃一丁点儿。

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3. 她的健美身材并不是天生的。

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4. 它也是会见新客户打开僵局的法宝。

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第一页：片段欣赏
第二页：巧学口语
第三页：小小翻译家
第四页：文化一瞥

“仙女蛋糕”cupcake的起源

Cupcake就是美味可口的“杯子蛋糕”或“口袋蛋糕”。也有用“仙女蛋糕”(fairycake)来称呼这种蛋糕的，因为它们小巧可爱的样子会让人们联想到童话中的小仙女。

关于cupcake的起源，有两个说法，一种说法是19世纪的时候，人们还没有制作蛋糕的模具，就用杯子做蛋糕，比如陶制杯子或小布丁盘一类的，所以就用当时所使用的这些容器来命名蛋糕。另一种说法是做cupcake的配料是用杯子测量的，一杯黄油、两杯砂糖、三杯面粉、四个鸡蛋、一杯牛奶和一茶匙泡打粉。这个配方仍然是现在花样层出的cupcake的母本。Cupcake第一次真正被提到是在1828年Eliza Leslie的食谱书中。

Cupcake可以说是欧美人生活的一部分，充满着家庭的简单、自由和欢乐。它非常容易操作，单个包装、携带方便，在欧美是妈妈们必会做的甜点。主妇从烤箱里端出热腾腾的新鲜蛋糕，小孩子等不及放凉，就一边烫着手一边偷吃了。家庭聚会、拜会朋友，很多主妇都会亲自做几个口袋蛋糕出席。Cupcake既可以是送给朋友的礼物，也可以是给自己的安慰，称呼爱人的昵称，甚至金融危机来袭，还可以笑着自嘲说：至少我还买得起cupcake。

除了简单易做，cupcake的魅力还在于其无穷无尽的创意造型。动物花草、生活器物、动漫人物、电影角色、地标性建筑……一切事物都能成为蛋糕设计的灵感来源。小小的蛋糕能供人尽情挥洒想象力，它也因此得到越来越多时尚人士的青睐。近几年，许多好莱坞明星和社交名媛钟爱这种小巧精致的糕点，名模Heidi Krum在某年送给Victoria Beckham的生日礼物就是365个样式不同的cupcake。