Four Christmases

    《四个圣诞节》，2008年美国电影。每年圣诞节是布拉德（Brad）和凯特（Kate）最开心的日子，因为这一天他们可以从平日忙碌的工作中抽出身来，找个借口躲开烦人的亲戚和爸妈飞往异国度假。但今年，由于天气原因，航班和出游计划被迫取消。他俩的父母都已离婚，因此必须去分别拜访4个分居在各处的家长，来回的奔波让圣诞节成了他们最繁忙也是最无奈的“工作日”。(p22)

Friends:  Oh, big bad Brad. Howare you guys doing? Look at this.

Brad:  How are you? You remember my girlfriend, Kate?

Kate:  How are you? Good to see you.

Friends:  Hi.

Brad:   So what are you guys doing for Christmas?

Friend A:  We got the entire family flying in. 13 airport pick-ups. 4 days of listening to how gifted my niecesare. My brother thinks his daughter, the four-year-old, is gonna be the next Beyonce. She is bad and she sucks.

Friend B:  I’m vacationing intropical Albany this year with Tricia’s family. They got us a cot, which is awesome. But we’ll probably end up sleeping on the musty couch in the basement with the cats, all seven of them. We’ll get to be there the whole week.

Brad:  Kind of sounds like a prison sentence.

Kate:  Why do you guys put yourselves through that?

Friend B:  It’s Christmas, right? Don’t you have to?

Kate:  We don’t need to do it anymore.

Brad:   We don’t. We actually don’t do it anymore.

Kate:  We’re done.

Friend B:  Why, what are you doing?

Kate:  We’re going to Fiji. Just the two of us.

Brad:  Yeah.