绯闻女孩第二季第17集“猎爱的人”原创学习笔记

EPISODE OVERVIEW

Blair comes up with a devious plan to take down her new teacher,Rachel. Chuck has no recollection of what happened to him when he wakesup in a hotel. Nate and Vanessa try to help Chuck fill in the missingpieces of his night. Meanwhile Dan and Serena try to keep theirrelantionship together as Rufus and Lily grow even closer.

WORDS & EXPRESSIONS 

1.
Gossip Girl: While upper east siders are hitting the snooze button, Blair Waldorf had a rude awakening when the rooster crowed at dawn this morning.

snooze button: 小睡按钮（闹钟响后按这个按钮，你可以再睡一会儿，然后过几分钟后闹铃会再响一次）
rude awakening: 幻想破灭后的突然醒悟，惊醒，也是电影的名字。
crow: 啼叫，报晓

2.
Harold: I wish you'd let me speak to the school. It sounds like this teacher's been after you from the start.
Blair: Thank you. But I wanted to handle this on my own.
Harold: That speaks volumes of the mature young lady you've become.
Blair: I wish everyone could see me through your eyes.
Harold: You keep your chin up. I'll see you after school.

speak volume: to make a situation very clear without the use of words, 充分证明
I wish everyone could see me through your eyes: 我希望别人都能像你那么看我
keep your chin up: 不要气馁, chin是下巴的意思

3.
Isabel: To be honest, Blair, none of us are that into 5:00 a.m. Trash duty. I think we're gonna sit this one out.

sit out: to refrain from taking part in: sit out a dance.跟中文的“坐视不理”是不是有点像？

4.
Nelly: Please, I-I need to check the dow.
Blair: Hey! Nelly Yuki, get a grip!

dow: 指的就是Dow Jones Index,道琼斯指数
get a grip: another way of saying "take it easy" or "stop being so paranoid already!"

5.
Dan: If Blair did this to Rachel, this... I mean, she's gone way too far.

she's gone way too far: 她太过分了，她太过火了，另外一个词组cross the line也有类似的意思，表示越界了，过分了。

6.
Nate: All right, listen, maybe you should get some rest. It could help jog your memory.

jog your memory: to cause you to remember something

7.
Agent: Well, I could never do anything unprofessional. But sometimes I do leave a file unattended when I go to get a drink. There's some bottled water in the fridge. Are you thirsty?
Chuck: Parched.

unattended: not being attended to, looked after, or watched. 注意“我会把文件落下”可以用unattended这样比较简洁的表达方式。
parch: to become very dry

8.
Vanessa: So you ratted on Blair? You Templeton.
Dan: A "Charlotte's Web"-sult?That's very cute. And, no, technically, I did not rat on Blair. I justtold Rachel to put the squeeze on the weakest of her kilted cronies.
Vanessa: And what does Serena think of you getting her best friend expelled?
Dan: The moment Blair involves me in her schemes, the "boyfriend of the b.f.f." clause is officially null and void.

rat on: 告密，rat有叛徒的意思
Templeton: A character (a rat) in the classic children's novel Charlotte's Web.
A "Charlotte's Web"-sult: 这里玩的是文字游戏，把assault拆了开来。
put the squeeze on: to put pressure on someone or something
crony: 亲信
null and void: 无效

9.
Gossip Girl: Spotted... lonely boy going from teacher's pet to personal non grata in the pitter-patter of a heart beat.

personal non grata: 解释为“不受欢迎的人”，来自拉丁语personae non gratae.
pitter-patter: 下雨的声音

10.
Queller: Miss Waldorf, this meeting is closed to students.
Blair: I’m sorry for the interruption. But I have something I thinkalmost everyone here would want to see. Headmistress, if you'd like tocheck your e-mail... I believe it's called exculpatory evidence. I love "damages."

be closed to students: 禁止学生入内，注意这个禁止用be closed to，同样的，“道路封路”也可以说the area is closed to traffic.
exculpatory evidence:applied to evidence which may justify or excuse an accused defendant'sactions, and which will tend to show the defendant is not guilty or hasno criminal intent.
damages: FX电视台的电视剧，讲的是关于律师的故事

11.
Harold: I saw a different side of you last night, and I'm disappointed.
Blair: But, daddy, I was right.
Harold: No, you were lucky. And you allowed me to defend a lie, a liethat you looked me in the eyes and told. Why did you do that?
Blair: Yale was on the line.

on the line: at risk of failing or being harmed, 岌岌可危

THE STYLE

Serena always finds a way to jazz up her school uniform and this week is no exception. In this scene, Serena wears her usual French Toast plaid skirt with a blouse and sweater from James Perse, all paired with DVF boots and a Nuti bag.

While Serena's school looks tend to be a little more disheveled,Blair's are decidedly more polished. She proves that point wearing ared double-breasted coat from H&M with a black bubble skirt and perfectly plaid Robert Clergerie pumps.


大家注意看这张照片里的handsome，它也是学院派风格，穿的是格子装。另外Yale的吉祥物(mascot)就叫HandsomeDan,也是一只斗牛犬。而Yale的fight song里就有一段"Bulldog, bulldog, bow wowwow",Blair在s02e09里曾经说过这段台词，当时她正要去拯救Emma(就是那位一心要lose virginity的小姐)。

The logo of the Yale bulldogs.


我大爱的Dorota华丽丽的登场啦——渐变色的墨镜，黑色风衣，好一个special agent.她手上拿的则是小号的LVNOE包包(我一直称这款包为“烧卖包”)。这段台词也很精彩，当B拿出手机后，Hazel说"Thank you, Jesus!"Blair纠正说"No. Thank you, thank you, Dorota."Rundown

这是我新找到的一个内容，所谓的rundown,就是a point-by-point summary，大家可以作为阅读资料来看，顺便也可以回忆一下剧情.  提供了从第12集开始的rundown,我稍后也会补充到之前的笔记里。

There's a fine line between confident, scheming Blair and petulant, tantrum-throwing Blair, and on this week's episode of Gossip Girl,we get a huge helping of the latter. Frankly, the wholepouty-lower-lip-for-daddy routine wore on my last nerve. I want to seeBlair's misguided attempts at standing up for friends and getting whatshe wants, not stomping her foot and whining. But Blair is actually theleast of my concerns this episode, as Dan and the teacher make oneidiotic move after another. Let's discuss — just read more.

Blair is officially on detention and has to clean up the park(Dorota does this, naturally) and whines to Serena about how suckyRachel is. But Serena doesn't agree and tells Blair how much this newteacher "gets" her. Ha!

It's funny, cause you know who teacher really gets? she's gushing to him about his short story over breakfast whereSerena catches them. Because that's appropriate — breakfast withteacher.

Meanwhile, Chuck awakes to a new morning perplexed because he's having flashbacks to an Eyes Wide Shut evening that he doesn't remember. But there's sex! And masks! He must find out what this place is!

Back at school, Rachel says she hopes Blair learned a lesson outthere in the park, to which Blair responds sarcastically, "I madefriends with a family of squirrels and had lots of time to think."

Meanwhile, Serena confronts Dan about spending time with the teacherand Dan's all, "you crazy." And Serena's all, "Silly me, I should trustyou."

Blair's on the warpath against Rachel and summons her girls to helptake her down, but they refuse: "Sorry B, this is your vendetta." Evena hilarious speech about liberty and all that they've worked fordoesn't help.

Until, of course, the announcement comes that cell phones are nowbanned from school. Whose fault is this? Rachel's, of course! Hazel,Nelly and those other ones in their bright coats are all officially onboard to take Rachel down.

Hazel gets the shakes because she can't check Gossip Girl ("Is ascandal still a scandal if you can't text about it?") while Nellymumbles something about checking the Dow.

But ha! Dorota shows up in disguise (dark sunglasses) to give Blairher cell phone. The other girls: "Thank you, Jesus!" Blair: "No. Thankyou, Blair."

And then Blair spots stupid Dan complimenting the teacher's stupidsweater while she blushes. Blushing is not appropriate, people! Sheimmediately texts Gossip Girl a Mary Kay Letourneau alert with hercontraband phone.

Chuck, Nate, and Vanessa apparently have no use for school and arefiguring out where Chuck went the other night. When they appear at amysterious address, Vanessa muses, "Is this the Chuck Bass version ofNarnia?"

OK, so after there's a rumor going around that Rachel is having an inappropriate relationship with Dan, and aftershe uses the rumor to get Blair expelled, she then deems it appropriateto go have a candle-lit meet up with Dan? After hours?! Dan and thisteacher are really, really stupid.

Blair almost loses Yale, but then Serena turns on Rachel too andworks a little phone-camera magic. One parents' council meeting and onesnappy Damages reference later, Rachel's fired.

So, she and Dan hook up, because she's already fired for the hugging, so why not? But then she's not fired, so, uh, whoops. Could they pack in more plot twists last night? Sheesh.

You know, this is good. Dan and Rachel's "courtship" makes zerosense, but it's a heck of a lot better than Dan and Serena talking outtheir "issues" all. the. time. Meanwhile, what do you think aboutChuck's subplot? It made me laugh at first (the cheesy flashbacks,Chuck's melodramatic tone) but then I felt a bit bored. Time to soundoff!



"What Goes Around" by Justin Timberlake

One thing is certain on the Upper East side. What goes around, comes around. XOXO, Gossip Girl.