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Morning, Oscar.
Morning, Miss Albright.
口语总是很简练，不过有些片子居然就把“Morning”翻译成了“早晨”。

Finding a cab may take a while in this mess. No umbrella?
cab和taxi一样，是出租车，in this mess指因为下雨，大街上泥泞不堪，秩序混乱。所以这一句可以翻译成：这种鬼天气想拦一辆出租车可不容易，你怎么没带伞？

Really think l need one?
Guess not.
这两句都是省略句，前一句省略了Do you，后一句省略了I。
因为Albright总是good luck，所以她一出门天就晴了，所以才有了这一段她和老门童的对话。

Thanks. Have a good one.
Have a good one=have a good time.

First stop,66th and Broadway.
Broadway指城市的主路，也指百老汇。Albright对出租车司机说先去66街区，又补充说是百老汇大街的66街区。

l need to be there in four minutes, please.
她上班路上只需四分钟，我好羡慕啊。

Oh, yeah.That's gonna happen.
That's gonna happen=no problem

Hi. Dana?
[Man On Phone]WNYH.You're caller seven.Can you name our mystery song?
Oops. l did it again. Sorry.
That's right! You win!
Albright想打电话给Dana，错打到了WNYH电台，Can you name our mystery song是节目主持人让Albright说出刚刚播放的歌曲的名字，name在这里不是命名的意思。看来电台的号码和Dana的号码很接近，Albright说她又打错了（I did it again），结果歌曲的名字就是Oops,I did it again（小甜甜布兰妮的歌）。

five greens in a row.
The force is strong this morning,boy.
连续碰到五个绿灯，今早运气太好了，孩子。

Dana, it looks like l'm running a little early.
So l'm gonna make a stop at Balducci's. Muffin?
l am the master of my universe. Positive energy, positive results.
Balducci是一家餐厅的名字，Muffin是松饼。Albright问她的朋友Dana要不要松饼。my universe指我的一切，所以最后一句的意思是：我可以主宰我的一切，努力奋斗就会有好的结果。

以上是倒霉爱神的第一幕，展现的是女主人公——幸运女孩Albright早晨上班的情景。

最近几天CDMA的网速奇慢无比，公司的事情又忙，没有写什么东西。看来一年写365篇日志比较容易，一天写一篇则是很难的。近几天开始跟着“空中英语教室”学英语了，觉得中级课程与我的水平相当，彭蒙惠英语有点难，这个英语课程做得不错，刚好“千万别学英语”的带子听完了，拿这个接上，在公司或家里看课文，路上就听MP3，有兴趣的朋友不妨试一试。

Brown Bag，Brown Bag Meeting，Brown Bag Presentation，Brown Bag Seminar都是什么意思？

Brown Bag指棕色的袋子，欧美人如果自己带午饭，通常会装在棕色的纸袋（有点像牛皮纸）里，所以Brown Bag就成了午饭的代名词。

Brown Bag Meeting,Presentation或Seminar的意思就是大家带着午饭，到某个会议室，一边吃午饭，一边讨论事情，或者听某个人就大家感兴趣的题目进行讲解，会议的内容和形式都很随便。一个大项目通常需要多个团队协调配合，为了让其它的团队了解自己团队的思路或计划，搞个Brown Bag Meeting再合适不过了（Let's have a brown bag meeting…）

这种企业文化真不错，形式自由，不拘束，员工之间可以相互学习和交流，公司又不需要花什么钱（当然，要为员工提供合适的场所，当然这不是什么问题，通常，在欧美公司的办公楼里会遍布大大小小的会议室或开放式的聚会处）。

从今天起，我会经常从China Daily网站上选一些双语新闻做中译英翻译练习，翻译完成后做对比以改正错误。有兴趣一起来吧。今天的文章是“100热门新词入选最新《韦氏大词典》”

原文网址：http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/2006-07/17/content_642117.htm

我的译文：

Mouse potatoes and couch potato come together; google formally becomes a verb; drama queen was noticed finally. these words got their position at last,moved from popular culture to major English language.

One hundred new words like "mouse potato"(people who madly cling to the computer like the couch potato in twenty century ninty),"himbo"(man who only has a handsome appearance but doesn't have connotation),and "drama queen"(which means over emotion) etc,was embodyed by the new edition weishi big dictionary at 2006,it was very salable in USA.The search engine on the Internet google was also selected into the dictionary as a verb at the first time,the meaning is "find the information quickly on the Internet".

In every year,the editors of Weishi big dictionary spend several monthes to hunt new words and phrases in books,magazines,even in the label of food,then they select some words used in science,technology,popular calture and industry field and embody them into the dictionary. The senior promotioner of Weishi big dictionary Arthur•Bikenall said,"the objects our editor hunt are not verbal language,what they hunt are those words be used in written language widely,and there are must be some evidence." Bikenall said,"unfortunately,the slangs which are already be absorbed by the written language will not be so cool."

Some other words selected into the dictionary in this year like "soul patch"(a piece mustache on man's underlip),"unibrow"(left and right eyebrow mixed together),and supersize(large-sized fastfood). New words in technology field include "ringtone"(the bell sound of mobile phone) and "spyware"(the spy ware installed on the computer to monitor the activity of the user); New words in science field include "biodiesel"(biologic diesel oil) and "avian influenza"(birds' flu).

The first American dictionary--The Conciseness English Dictionary by Mr. Noah•Wibers was published at two hundred years ago,the set of new words embodyed at that time are very familiar to people now. The "new words" selected in 1806 include slang,surf,naturally and Americanize.

需要学习的词汇：

韦氏大词典 The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
正式地 officially
得到关注 found the limelight
由…转入… cross over from sth. to sth.
主流的 mainstream
与…极相似的东西 counterpart (The foreign minister is the counterpart of the secretary of state.外交部长与国务秘书身份相当。)
20世纪90年代 1990s
空虑的 vacuous
过分情绪化的 excessively emotional
畅销的 best-selling
首次 for the first time
…领域 the field of
编委会 the team of editors
注视，凝视 pore over
搜罗 track
吸收 assimilate
高级推介人 senior publicist
初次登场 debut
胡须 beard
特别 extra
秘密地 surreptitiously
禽流感 avian influenza
简明英语词典 A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language
一组 a crop of