【Boston Legal】Season 3 Episode 21

★Expressions★ brain cruise 指大脑空白(嗑药或服用兴奋剂后) imbibe v. 喝，吸(饮料酒)；吸入某种思想 schedule I narcotic 一类镇静剂/毒品 00:04:22 Alan Shore: That's a buzz kill. (After Gloria told him her being arrested for getting high by imbibing a tea considered schedule I narcotic) buzzkill n. Something that spoils or ruins an otherwise enjoyable event, esp. when in relation to ruining a drunken or drug-induced high. 因此，这句恰当的翻译应为：那真是扫兴。 photo op (short for photograph opportunity), is an opportunity to take a memorable and effective photograph of a politician, a celebrity, or a notable event. 政坛中常见，有作秀，摆拍的意味。 Shirley: I'm welling up. 00:05:01 well up (in) get someone off 00:07:31 1. to get someone cleared of a criminal charge.剧中应取此意 2. to get someone freed from a responsibility. witch hunt a targeted attack against one person, for reasons that are not necessarily tangible. maybe be in work colleagues be on a witch hunt 意指(对某人实施)迫害诽谤，而非遭受迫害诽谤 http://mediamatters.org/research/200909090051 Now we're getting somewhere. 00:08:06 意指 我们终于有点眉目了/取得点进展了。这句在很多美剧中都有出现 00:08:14 Judge Glori Weldon: But he's not the guy handling this. The case went to somebody who would love to make a name for himself by nailing...convicting me. 这里有个pun双关语——nail，同时有逮捕和做爱的意思，所以Glori改口为convicting me对我定罪，而不是nailing me 00:08:27 Alan Shore: We may need to trade on some of your connections.我们可能得利用下你的关系 00:09:05 Once it's excised, the legal status is debatable. excise here means to remove by cutting 一旦被切除或移走，那从法律上来讲，可能就不是你的了。 00:11:23 Denny Crane: It seems Denny has struck out with his connections. strike out 1. to remove or erase 2. to begin a course of action, to set out energetically 3. US and Canadian informal to fail utterly Alan Shore: We face a very difficult row here. a tough row to hoe: Informal A difficult situation to endure. dibs A claim expressing priority over an object. E.g. I got dibs on that last piece of pizza 00:20:52 Alan Shore: You do know he and the judge used to be romantically entwined? entwine 缠绕，此处romantically entwined意思就是had a relationship You just dodged a death sentence. 你刚刚逃过一死。 The distinction between A and B is a tough one to draw. eminent domain 征用权the right of the state to take private property for public use; the Fifth Amendment that was added to the Constitution of the United States requires that just compensation be made Nice guys finish last. It's a American adage that means you will never be able to get what you want by being kind and considerate. high wire A risky job or operation. Denny Crane: But that's the best part, being on the high wire. It's good to be in love, Alan. ★Closing★ 【Case1: Judge Gloria Weldon was arrested for importation and possession of a Schedule I narcotic. With the Amazonian plants psychotria viridis and Banisteriopsis caapi, you brew the two together, and you arrive at a tea called, hoasca. They call it, “The Vine of the Soul.” You get a 2-minute peak, followed by a 30-minute brain cruise.】 A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: Drop the charges? Alan Shore: Yes. A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: She had a 20- ounce bag of hallucinogens in her chambers. Alan Shore: It was tea. Not to mention, there’s no real proof it was hers. A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: I have the confession of the clerk! Alan Shore: That’s it? The linchpin of your case is the naked, hallucinating, dancing man who will say just about anything to temper his embarrassment, let alone criminal charges. A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: Are you really gonna challenge this? Alan Shore: Look, you’ve had many cases before Judge Weldon. She’s a fair and talented jurist. In fact, you’ve won many cases before Judge Weldon, as you’ve amassed your impressive record, which, as I see it, is about one high-profile conviction away from political advancement. A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: Not about that. Alan Shore: Well, here’s what it could be about, and please stop me if you’ve already considered this, and said, “Hell, it’s only my career.” A judge with a criminal conviction, one for using hallucinogens, no less, presents all kinds of problems. One might have to wonder—Was she on the whoopee tea while presiding over previous cases? Imagine all the felons sitting in jail, salivating at the chance to overturn their convictions. Quite a few of your convictions, maybe. So much for the impressive record. But I am a little concerned about your boss. You do know he and the judge used to be romantically entwined? But who really worries about that? Given your larger concern of alienating all those other state court judges, who tend to constipated and vengeful whenever one of their own is targeted. What needs to come first here is principle. Certainly not political pragmatism. If that were in play, we never would have gotten this far, would we? 【Case2: Simon Griffin want to make a fortune over his blood because he is cured from HIV. But his doctor had a patent of his DNA】 Attorney Regina Williams: The plaintiff wants to make this case about: Did Simon Griffin, who has a graduate degree, know what he was signing when he allowed Dr. Freemont to use his blood in medical research? Let me tell you what this should really be about. Three numbers: 40, 4, and 3. Like a locker combination. Forty million people have AIDS worldwide. Four million were newly diagnosed last year alone, and 3 million died. Simon Griffin’s blood has the potential to make that locker combination zero, zero, and zero. Now we don’t often get the chance to make someone do the right thing. Most of the time, people do the wrong thing, like pharmaceutical companies charging $15,000 a year for AIDS medication that costs them $350 to make. India brought them to task for that, and now it’s sold there at cost. This is AIDS, your Honor. The world is standing up, and saying, “You don’t get to make your fortune off the impending deaths of 40 million people.” Shirley Schmidt: Taking something from someone else for the greater good—we have a name for that. It’s called “eminent domain.” If you have a property, a—a home that’s in the way of a planned freeway, the government can just come right in and take it. If we can do that to facilitate traffic, then why don’t we do it to cure AIDS? Why don’t we just say, “Too bad, Simon, but the laws that protect everybody else don’t protect you because laughs well—you have something that we really, really want, so were just gonna come in and take it. Does anyone here remember the flu vaccine crisis a couple of years ago? That was the government’s baby. The flu kills 36,000 Americans a year, and yet, the government left 30 million without vaccinations. Oops. So, even if you don’t like Simon Griffin. You may think— Judge Robert Sanders: He’s an ass. Shirley Schmidt: Yes, he is. And, if you were in his position, maybe you would be totally selfless, but Simon Griffin isn’t saying no one can test him; he’s just saying he wants to choose who does it. And he doesn’t want to choose the same bunch that was in charge of the flu. 【Case3: Marcie Cooper was told to leave from the sorority Gamma Kappa Tau.】 Clarence Bell: College is a place where we teach our children, believing they are our future. Do we really want a future of social intolerance, where people are ostracized for being shy? Where the beautiful and the popular are celebrated, and the less attractive and the awkward are scorned. Gamma Kappa Tau is a national club promoting a message that is as intolerant as it should be unacceptable. I suppose it’s one thing if they never wanted to invite Marcie Cooper in, but having invited her, to throw her out on grounds of social unfitness . . . Shame on them. Jerry Espenson: College is also about preparing students for the outside world. Last time I checked, it’s pretty tough out there. There’s the old adage, “Nice guys finish last.” There’s some truth to that. I happen to know opposing counsel is a fundamentally kind man. Sensitive. He chose to exploit my Asperger’s syndrome to win this case. (Clarence Bell clearly regrets his actions.) My very best friend, a lawyer I had a case against not too long ago, he, too, exploited my Asperger’s. He’s a very good man, who opted for cruelty as a strategy. (And, just as clearly, Alan Shore is remorseful.) If Marcie Cooper comes out of this experience thinking that people can be cruel—even the kind, sensitive ones—if she’s learned that she will be judged not simply on merit, or the content of her character, but on how she looks and socializes with others, she’s gotten an education, one that will serve her in life. This is a free society. People get to choose their friends, clubs get to choose their members. Sometimes it’s very ugly and unfair. That’s . . . life. 【Brad’s confession to Denis about wearing military uniform in their wedding】 Brad Chase: My dad served in Vietnam. He put his life on the line. But instead of coming home to a hero's welcome, he found a country that was either ashamed of the war or just wanted to deny it, deny him. And I fear that our soldiers in Iraq could face the same thing. And we seem to be in such a hurry for this thing to be over with, so we can go back to pretending...see, in Vietnam, soldiers didn't survive. But today they do. And they come home missing legs and arms and eyes...you know, and not much to cling to. They need us to be proud of them. You know, they need us to show it. Every chance we get.