1.
Now I
remember a lot of stories from back in the days before I met your mother, but
there's one story I don't remember. Uncle Marshall still
refers to it as
the ''pineapple incident''.
解析：
refers to (something or someone) as (something):
to call (something or someone) by (a specified name or title)
把……叫做……
例：
The victim was referred to only as ''John
Doe''.
（他们只用“某君”指代被害人。）
At one time, people referred to the city as
the Paris of the East.
（这个城市一度被称为“东方巴黎”。）
She teaches what her students refer to as ''the
sex course'', or ''sex education''.
（她教的那门课，学生们称作“性教育课”。）
2.
Bartender:
On the house
.
酒保：免费品尝。
解析：
on the house: without charge, especially
used when the meals or drinks are provided free by the owner of the bar or
restaurant
例：
The drinks are on the house.
（饮料免费。）
3.
Carl: It's
my own
concoction
. I call it the Red
Dragon.
（这是我自己调的，我给它取名叫“赤龙”。）
解析：
concoction: something, especially a drink
or food, made by mixing different things together
调酒
/
调制食物
例：
He sipped the concoction cautiously.
（他十分谨慎地啜了一小口特调酒。）
Would you like to try my new concoction?
（你想试试我新调的酒吗？）
大家还记得
S01E09
中：
Barney: The Thanks-tini. A fun and
delicious new
novelty drink
I invented. Cranberry
juice, potato vodka and a bouillon cube.
虽然
Barney
的酒也是各种配料混起来的，但
novelty
的意思是
''something new and unusual''
，
Barney
这句话突出“创新”。
而
''concoction''
突出了“调酒”。
4.
Marshall:
OK, I know that you've all
dismissed this theory
before, but
is there any chance that
Carl
is a vampire?
（我知道你们从来没这么想过。但卡尔有没有可能是个吸血鬼呢？）
解析：
（1）
dismiss: to decide not to think about or consider (something or
someone)
不考虑，不理会
例：
We can't completely dismiss the possibility
that she's right.
（她有可能是对的。）
I don't think we should dismiss the matter
lightly.
（这个问题要慎重考虑。）
（2）
chance: the possibility that something will happen
可能性
例：
There's a chance that she left her keys in
the office.
（她可能把钥匙落在办公室了。）
There's
a good chance
that we will
finish on time.
（我们很有可能按时完成。）
极小的可能性：
There's still
a slim chance
that we
can win.
（我们还有一点点赢的希望。）
There's
an outside chance
that
something could go wrong.
（出错的可能性很小。）
Chances are
(= It is very likely that) she has already heard the news.
（她很有可能已经听说了这个消息。）
There's
a
50 percent chance of
rain this afternoon.
（今天下午有可能下雨，有可能不下雨，说不准。）
With the operation, he'll have
a
fifty-fifty chance of
walking again.
（手术后，他有
50%
的几率可以恢复行走能力。）
5.
Robin: He's
not a billionaire. He's a hundred millionaire. Why do people always
round up
?
（他没有十亿身家，只有一亿身家。为什么大家总要往大了说啊？）
解析：
round :
v.
to increase or decrease a
number to the nearest whole or round number
四舍五入，凑整数
备注：
''round
number''
指的是把某一数字就近整成以
''0''
或
''5''
结尾的数字。
例：
He rounded 10.6 (up) to 11 and 10.3 (down)
to ten.
（
10.6
整成
11,10.3
整成
10
。）
You can round off the amounts to the
nearest dollar.
（把总额就近化整。）
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