黄西在David Letterman Show上的台词[英文]

十年移民路_

Hi everybody. So... I'm Irish. I read a report recently that a man reaches his sexual peak at age 18 but I didn't know this... until I was twenty five. So the world will never know what a stud I was. No one took a bite out of this peach when it was ripe.

I'm not good at sports, but I love parallel parking... because unlike sports, when you are parallel parking, the worse you are, the more people that are rooting for you.
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: U8 X# T0 F$ b9 yI'm an immigrant and I used to drive an old car with a lot of bumper stickers that are impossible to peel off. And one of them said, "if you don't speak English, go home!" I didn't notice it for two years.

6 m  Q$ {' t* e1 W  t& K) Q, XI worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:
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3 ~: Y( r) [" P2 }+ ?2 e$ l"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"

I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?
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/ ]& V+ c/ k& X8 c4 @1 }And the second one was:
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% o* M2 x) D4 |7 C9 s; |; `"What's the 2nd Amendment?"

I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?

3 z- [& M; Z; K" {2 n% f0 o"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
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I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?
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I have a family now, but I used to be scared of marriage. I was like wow... 50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever!

3 p/ h# p5 F) a: p4 R+ BI just had my first child last year. I was really amazed at it. I was in the delivery room, holding up my son, thinking to myself, "Wow... He was just born... And he's already a U.S citizen."

5 j! j& O* }. ?, iSo I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"

) U& R3 ]: F% QNow I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby On board.”
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This sign is basically a threat. It just says that I have a screaming baby and a nagging wife and that I am not afraid of dying anymore.
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Thank you very much!

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, M8 h. i) |0 n! n' S2 g( AImplicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
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; Y8 m/ S/ g. N7 T1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.

2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.

9 }4 a* G$ @" l8 ^" f0 b( B' r. r"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.

! r% m# ~" t3 l" t5 q, D- lJoe Wong used this case in a form of a question: What is Roe vs. Wade? To which he cleverly delivered the punchline "Two ways of coming to the United States".
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Roe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.

: W% D. h& J6 GThe denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water".

billzhao

the first passage is funny. I did not fully comprehend the humor until I looked for the exact meaning of stud, which means:
: [( k5 U1 j, c7 K  E: Wa young man, esp one who is thought to be very active sexually and is regarded as a good sexual partner 小伙子（尤指性慾旺盛堪为性伴侣的）.

cyz0116

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SHARING. IT IS REALLY USEFUL. JOE WANG IS A FUNNY GUY AND HAS ACHIEVED AMAZING ACHIEVEMNET.

billzhao

朝阳

this guy is really cool.

cyz0116

50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever。
怎么理解？
50%的婚姻最终走向永恒？

Tara2009

6# cyz0116
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5 ]' |) x( D0 F% a( R+ C不离婚，白头到老

朝阳

50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever。
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cyz0116 发表于 2009-5-6 10:12

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0 e: a- Z1 |, M- C6 R我觉得JOE的意思可能是不离婚的比例这么高，（因为他害怕婚姻）可能他离不了婚吧。

Tara2009

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( `" h8 @4 C4 @+ k, Z. H0 |5 w+ x, p我觉得他的意思是离婚率太高了。

billzhao

同意朝阳的意见。原来没有认真看，觉着就是离婚率太高了。但是这样就没有什么幽默了，好玩的对方可能是为了迎合一些不爱结婚的美国人。从一而终对一些年轻人是来讲，不一定是梦想，却有可能是噩梦

Tara2009

表情僵硬。看第一遍没觉的，越看越觉的离专业演员差好大一截。

陕西闺女

东瞅瞅,西侃侃.