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Nelson Fox: Just like Gillian.
Joe: Gillian ran off with someone?
Nelson Fox: The nanny.
Joe: Nanny Maureen?
Nelson Fox: Yes.
Joe: Gillian ran off with Nanny Maureen.
Nelson Fox: You got it!
Joe: It's incredibly ironic.
Nelson Fox: That's true.
Joe: No other word for it.
Nelson Fox: Well, who's better than us?
Joe: Father and son, together at last.
Nelson Fox: Who did you say you broke up with?
Joe: Patricia. You met her.
Nelson Fox: Would I like her? Just kidding, son. Now, is this beautiful or what? Cause I'll be living out of a suitcase for at least 3 weeks. And then there's the inevitable legal hassle. More of your inheritance down the drain.
Joe: Don't you worry about it.
Nelson Fox: I won't. I just have to meet someone new. That’s all. That's the easy part.
Joe: Right, yeah. A snap to find one thing, a person in the world who fills your heart with joy.
Nelson Fox: Don't be ridiculous. Have I ever been with anybody who fit that description? Have you?
Kathleen: Who is it?
Joe: It's Joe Fox.
Kathleen: What are you doing here?
Joe: May I please come up?
Kathleen: No, I don't... No, I don't really think that is a good idea, because... I have a... I have a terrible... cold. Can you hear that?
Joe: Yeah.
Kathleen: Listen. I'm sniffling, and I'm not really awake. I'm taking Echinacea and vitamin C and sleeping practically 24 hours a day. I have a temperature. And I think I'm contagious. So I would, I would really appreciate it if you'd just go away.
Joe: Kathleen.
Kathleen: Just a second! Yes, just a second.
Joe: Hello.
Kathleen: Hello. What are you doing here?
Joe: I heard you were sick. And I was worried. And I wanted to make sure…
Kathleen: What?
Joe: Is there somebody here?
Kathleen: No. It's the Home Shopping Network.
Joe: You buy any of those little porcelain dolls?
Kathleen: I was thinking about it. Hi. You put me out of business.
Joe: Yes, I did.
Kathleen: Did you come to gloat?
妙语佳句，活学活用
1. You got it!
“你说的没错！”
2. No other word for it
Have no words for something 的意思是“难以用言语形容某事”，那么 no other word for it 我们就可以理解为“没什么话好说的了”。
3. Live out of
这个片语是指“lead a lifestyle characterized by a particular item过一种以某事物为特征的生活”，比如 live out of can（靠罐头食品过日子）。而 live out of a suitcase 也是一个约定俗成的短语，意思是“to travel so much that one has no time to unpack one's belongings”，例如：Traveling for months on end, he got very tired of living out of a suitcase. 连续旅行了几个月，他厌倦了这种拎着旅行箱到处走的日子。
4. Down the drain
这个片语的意思是“on the way to being lost or wasted; disappearing 被浪费掉，消失掉”，例如：
During the Depression huge fortunes went down the drain. 大萧条时期大量的财富都化为无形。
All of our best laid plans are down the drain. 我们所有精心布置的计划都付之东流。
5. Echinacea
药品商标名，该药帮助身体增强免疫力，缓解感冒病毒引起的症状。
6. Have a temperature
“发烧”的意思，也可以用 run a temperature。
文化面面观
Home Shopping Networks
Home Shopping Networks, or electronic retailing, began in the 1980s in the form of television hucksters selling cubic zirconia jewelry and various knick-knacks. Then came lengthy "infomercials," costly television advertisements, often with celebrity hosts, that gave the impression of regular programming. By the 1990s the increase in the number of two-income families with little time for leisure; new concerns about poor service and rising crime rates at shopping malls; and the desire for quality merchandise at bargain prices had boosted interest in home shopping. These changing demographics and consumer attitudes gave televised home shopping a new prestige, and the industry earned $3 billion a year and reached more than 100 million homes.
The two largest services in the mid-1990s were QVC Network and Home Shopping Network, Inc. The popularity of home shopping was evidenced by Joan Rivers's Can We Shop show; Softbank on Hand, a CD-ROM with more than a hundred commercial programs for software shoppers; and the purchase by Home Shopping Network of the Internet Shopping Network to establish home shopping via computer. Some shopping channels use high-pressure tactics, such as horn blowing and whistle blasting to get viewers' attention, while others use more low-key marketing approaches. Large retail companies, such as Macy's and Spiegel, began their own cable channels, which combined programming and entertainment with selling. These retailers expressed great interest in interactive television shopping, in which the home consumer can call up any product at will, view it from various sides, obtain detailed information about the product, order by punching in a credit card number, and have it delivered within twenty-four hours. The next stage in interactive television may be "virtual shopping," in which the viewer will be able to "try on" a garment by creating a computerized self-image on the screen, realistic to skin tone, color of hair and eyes, and body measurements.
