یادگیری انگلیسی با سریال فرندز

Context:

In this scene Rachel is helping Joey choose clothes for an important acting audition.

• Ok now Joey, you know that since you are returning all this stuff after the audition you’re going to have to wear underwear.

• Alright well you better show me some of that too then.

• Ok it’s missing something, oh I know, uhhhm ok.

• Really a purse?

• It’s not a purse it’s a shoulder bag!

• It looks like a woman’s purse.

• Joey look trust me, I’m telling you all the men are carrying them in the spring catalog, look.

See look, men carrying the bag.

• See look, women carrying the bag.

But it is odd how a woman’s purse looks so good on me a man.

• Exactly, unisex.

• Maybe you need sex, I had sex a couple of days ago.

• No. No Joey U-N-I sex.

• Well, I ain’t going to say no to that.

Audition:

A test performance an actor makes when trying to get a role in a play or movie.

• “after the audition”

To be missing something:

To not have something, to be lacking something.

• “ok it’s missing something” Purse:

A womans bag, usually made from leather used to carry money, and personal belongings.

• “really a purse?”

Odd:

To be strange, uncommon, or in this case unexpected.

• “but it is odd”

Pronunciation:

• You are going to have to = yur-gonna-hav-tuh wear underwear.

• You better show me some of that too then = you’beh-duh-sho-me-summa-dah-too-then.

• trust me I am telling you all the men = trus-me-I’m-tel-in-ya all the men.

• men carrying the bag = men cah-ring-thuh bag.

• women carrying the bag = eomen cah-ring-duh bag.

• I am not (I ain’t) going to say no to that = I ain’t gonna-say-no-duh that.

Cultural Reference:

Unisex:

Rachel says unisex, meaning the bag can be used by men and women, but Joey thinks that she is saying “You need sex.” U-N-I sex:

When Rachel spells ‘UNI’ Joey then thinks she is saying ‘you and I’ sex.