1.Rex and I are hosting a dinner party for ten next week.
雷克斯和我下週準備辦個十週年婚慶派對。host: 主辦 a dinner party: 宴會
2.We’re using our best china and serving duck.
我們將用我們最好的瓷器，還要用烤鴨做主菜。
china: 瓷器（ China是中國的意思，而china是瓷器的意思）serve: 提供，端上
3. So, you and Rex are a couple again?
a couple: 一對夫婦
這麼說你和REX複合了？
4.Yes. You know that’s one of the things I hated most about our separation.
Not being able to throw dinner parties.
是的。你知道嗎，如果我們分開，我最不喜歡的一件事，就是不能舉辦派對晚會。
separation: 分居 throw: 舉辦
5.There’s just something so civilized and elegant about them, don’t you think?
它們是那麼的文明和優雅，你不覺得嗎？
civilized: 文明的 elegant: 優雅的
6.I take it you have resolved your feelings about his infidelity?
我還以為你已經原諒了他的不忠？
take: 認為 resolve: 解決 infidelity: 背信
7. Let’s just say that I put them in an imaginary box and don’t plan on looking at them for a while.
讓我們這麼說吧，我把它們放進一個虛構的箱子裡，且近期內不想看到它們。
imaginary: 虛構的
8. Do you think that’s the healthiest way to achieve a reconciliation?
healthy: 健康的 achieve: 實現，達到目的 reconciliation: 調和
你認為這個和解方式健康嗎？
9. Well, it won't be easy at first.
一開始會有些困難。
10.There will be a lot of forced smiles and perfunctory love making, but after a few decades whiz by I am sure I will find a way to forgive him.
你不得不強顏歡笑和敷衍了事滿足對方的性需求，但幾十年之後，相信我會有辦法原諒他。
forced: 強迫的 decade: 十年 forgive: 原諒 whiz by: 呼嘯而過 whiz: 發出呼嘯聲perfunctory: 敷衍的 love making: 做愛
11. Well, as long as you have a plan.
既然你已經有了計劃……
as long as: 只要
I do want to forgive him Doctor Goldfine, but, there’s something he’s still not telling me.
高德芬博士，我真的想原諒他，但是……有些事他依然瞞著我。
17. Really?
真的？
18. I think it has something to do with why he had the affair.
我想那和他為什麼有外遇有關。
ave something to do with: 與……有關 have an affair: 有外遇
19.Have you confronted him?
你有沒有和他開誠佈公地談過？
confront: 使當面對證
20.Once, and you should have seen the look in his eyes.
談過一次，你真該看看他當時的眼神。
21.He was terrified that I’d figure it out.
很害怕我知道。terrified: 恐懼的 figure out: 弄明白
You know what it is, don’t you?
你知道他隱瞞的是什麼，對吧？
22. Bree, I can't discuss other patients.
BREE，我不能和你談論其他的病人。
23. I realize that. This thing that he’s hiding, is it bad?
我明白。他所隱瞞的事很齷齪嗎？
24. Oh, okay, um, maybe it’s better that I don’t know.
哦，算了吧 。也許我還是不知道的好。
25.Bree, how does this reconciliation have a chance if the two of you cannot be honest about the innermost parts of your lives?
布里，如果你們兩個都不願意向對方坦誠自己內心最深處的部分，你們複合的機會很渺茫？
26.We’re, um, WASPs, Doctor Goldfine.
我們是歐裔新教徒，高德芬博士。
WASP(白人盎格魯-撒克遜新教徒) ，即White Anglo-Saxon Protestant的簡稱，是指盎格魯撒克遜新教徒裔的、富裕的、有廣泛政治經濟人脈的上流社會美國人，現在可以泛指信奉新教的歐裔美國人 。這些人是美國共和黨的重要支持者，共和黨也一直將實現他們的價值觀作為自己的目標之一。
27.Not acknowledging the elephant in the room is what we do best.
對礙眼的事情佯裝視而不見，是我們最擅長的事。
Not acknowledging the elephant in the room 【這裡的elephant有點類似於white elephant的意思，大而無用的東西】 acknowledge: 承認
the elephant in the room英語諺語“房間裡的大象”指某種巨大到不可能被忽視的真相，而事實上如此巨大的大象常常被集體忽略。用來形容一個明明存在的問題，卻被人刻意的迴避及無視的情形。
When discussing health-care reform, socialized medicine is the elephant in the room.
在討論醫療改革時，公費醫療制度是大家不願多談的話題。
28.You’d settle for that? A life filled with repression and denial?
你決定這麼做了嗎？選擇這種充滿壓抑和猜忌的生活嗎？
settle for: 勉強接受 fill with: 充滿… repression: 壓抑 denial: 拒絕
29.And the dinner parties. Don’t forget the dinner parties.
至少還有派對晚宴。別忘了。
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