休闲对话：活珠子，你吃过吗？

Mike: That’s unbelievable! I thought only actors ate them in ghost movies.

太让认难以置信了!我以为只有演员在鬼片里面吃那玩意儿!

Veronica: In a movie, they are faking it. But out here people are eating. Don’t tell me you haven’t tried! Believe it or not, you could buy them here in LA.

电影里，那是假的。这儿可是真吃。别告诉我你没有吃过啊!信不信由你，在洛杉矶就可以买到的。

Mike: You must be joking. We Americans are not barbarians!

你在开玩笑吧!我们美国人不是野蛮人!

Veronica: Come on! Eating “eggs with legs” is not savage. Filipinos call them balut. They are very nutritional and very tasty. A lot of Asians like to eat them with salt, pepper…

得了吧!吃活珠子就野蛮了?他们很有营养很美味的好不好。很多亚洲人喜欢蘸盐和辣椒吃。

Mike: But there is life in that egg! How come we people are so cruel to the baby ducks, chickens, or whatever animal inside it is?

可是那个蛋里面有生命的啊!人怎么会对鸭蛋，鸡蛋，什么的蛋的宝宝那么残忍呢?

Veronica: Stop being eccentric, ok? Didn't you just buy some caviar? So why don’t you choose to be a vegetarian?

不要那么怪异好吗?你好像刚刚买了鱼子酱吧。那你干脆吃素好了。

Mike: A vegetarian? That’s a neat idea!

吃素?好主意!

Veronica: Forget about it, Mike! We both know you can’t survive without meat!

当我没说，麦克!我们俩都很清楚，没有肉，你是活不下去的!

Mike: Not this time! I say it when I mean it.

这次不会了。我说到做到。

Veronica: Fine! So can I have your steak?

那好吧。我可以吃你的牛排吗?