▲How would you feel if your neighbors were always shouting at you, 'Please take off all your clothes and let me see what's underneath'. How would you respond You would want to call the police, I think.
(如果你的鄰居總是叫嚷著要你脫下衣服,還想看你穿什麼內衣,你作何感受?你是不是該報警?)──美國官員最近再提中國威脅論,要求中共提升軍費透明度;中共外交部發言人秦剛以具有「偷窺欲的變態鄰居」隱喻美國,表明中共對「中國威脅論」的反感
▲Could you double-check the envelope
(你要不要再仔細看看信封?)──改編自港片「無間道」的「神鬼無間」贏得最佳影片,馬丁史柯西斯(Martin Scorsese)贏得最佳導演,他今年第六次入圍,終於得獎時幽自己一默
▲Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clintons ] do it with such ease, it's troubling.
(政壇每個人都在撒謊,但他們〔柯林頓夫婦〕臉不紅,氣不喘,實在令人困擾。)──過去捐錢支持柯林頓競選總統的金主大衛.葛芬(David Geffen),這次決定轉而支持非洲裔參議員歐巴馬代表民主黨角逐總統
▲I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon, but I want to stay alive.
(我希望能像甘地、馬丁路德金恩及約翰藍儂,但我還想活著。)──歌星瑪丹娜(Madonna)接受電台訪問,笑談未來的演藝生涯及慈善事業