英文电影宝典——Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Sally helps me with my accounts. I have no head for figures at all. Holly’s way of saying she is not very good at basic math (adding and subtracting), and therefore she can’t balance her checking account. He feels that for me it’s better to operate on a cash basis, tax wise. "To operate on a cash basis" is to both receive payments and pay for purchases in cash, as opposed to with checks. "Tax wise" is a way of saying "in terms of how it relates to taxes." Of course it’s easier to cheat on one’s taxes if everything is done in cash! Isn’t that just the weirdest? I bet they haven’t had snow in New Orleans for a million years. I don’t know how he thinks them up. "Weird" is an excellent and common adjective meaning very strange. "I bet" is a common way of saying "I think" or "I’m sure that…" "To think up" something is to make up or imagine it. Two drifters, off to see the world. There’s such a lot of world to see. [Song] A "drifter" is a person who travels or wonders from place to place, without ever staying to settle down. I didn’t want to sound neurotic... A person who is "neurotic" is convinced that someone or something is going to hurt or harm them, even when there is no reason to think so. What crossed my mind...suppose Bill is having us watched. If something "crosses your mind," it occurs to you and you think about it. "Suppose" is another way of saying "what if…" Take it easy! I just want to find out what this is all about! A very common way of telling a person to calm down. Her name ain’t Holly. Her name was Lula Mae Barnes; It was till she married me. Note that "ain’t" is widely used among uneducated people for "isn’t." I’m a horse doctor, animal man. I do some farming, near Tulip, Texas. Note that Doc calls himself a horse doctor and not a veterinarian, probably because he never really went to veterinary school. I didn’t claim they were her natural-born children. The "natural-born" children of a woman are those she actually gave birth to, as opposed to the children of a man that she has married. Their own precious mother passed away, July 4th, Independence day, 1955, the year of the drought. In this case, "precious" means much loved or cherished. "To pass away" is the most common and gentle way of saying to die. A "drought" is a long period of time without rain. When I married Lula Mae, she was going on 14. One way of saying she was 13! You take Lula Mae. She was an exceptional person. In this case, "take" means to look at, as an example. "Exceptional" means very unusual or unique, but almost always in a good sense. She just plumb broke our hearts when she run off like she done. Here, "plumb" means completely, but this is never used. "To run off" is a gentle way of saying to run away from home,

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