发布时间:2024-02-21 16:25
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Friends

In today's video, we're going to be talking about "Friends," a very popular sitcom which first aired in 1994. Even if you've never watched this series, I'm sure you would have heard of it because it's often recommended to people who are learning English, even though it's such an old series. So, in today's video, we're going to be talking about this series and why it's still relevant today.

		   
在今天的视频中，我们将讨论《老友记》，这是一部非常受欢迎的情景喜剧，首次播出于1994年。即使您从未观看过这部剧，我相信您肯定听说过它，因为它经常被推荐给正在学习英语的人，尽管它是一部老剧。因此，在今天的视频中，我们将讨论这部剧以及为什么它至今仍然有价值的。
		
	

Teenagers and young people from all over the world have watched this series, even though it first aired almost 30 years ago. This is because the series explores universal themes like friendship, love, and growing older or becoming an adult. At the beginning of the series, the characters are young, in their early 20s, whereas by the 10th season, they've hit 30, and their priorities in life have changed. They're settling down, getting married, starting families, and even buying their own houses.

		   
来自世界各地的青少年和年轻人观看了这部剧，即使它首次播出已经将近30年了。这是因为该剧探讨了像友谊、爱情和变老或成年这样的普遍主题。在剧集开始时，角色们还很年轻，处于20多岁的年龄阶段，而到了第10季，他们已经步入了30岁，他们的生活重心发生了变化。他们开始安定下来，结婚，组建自己的家庭，甚至购买自己的房子。
		
	

If you were watching it when it was first aired, you would be growing up with the characters as well. What I find interesting, though, is that people can watch this series now on streaming platforms and binge-watch all 10 seasons in 3 months. So, in that sense, you're not really growing up with the characters like you would have done at the time, but it's still very popular.

		   
如果您是在剧集首播时观看的，那么您也会和角色一同成长。然而，我发现有趣的是，如今人们可以在流媒体平台上观看这部剧，并在3个月内煲完10季的剧。因此，在某种程度上，您与角色一同成长的体验并不像当时那样，但它仍然非常受欢迎。
		
	

I think it's because a lot of the characters are very relatable. For example, Monica is smart and has worked for everything she has, even though she's annoying at times with her obsessive cleaning or strict rules. She's never been the favorite child; her brother Ross has always been the favorite. Monica has always been underestimated and looked down on by her parents, no matter what she achieves. Many people relate to her because they've experienced something similar.

		   
我认为这是因为很多角色都非常栩栩如生。例如，莫妮卡聪明，她为自己拥有的一切努力工作，即使她有时因为过分的清洁或严格的规则而令人讨厌。许多人都能理解她，因为他们也经历过类似的事情。
		
	

Some people do find her annoying because she's a bit of a control freak and overly competitive sometimes, which can make her come across as quite selfish. Also, she wasn't very popular at school and was tease a lot about her looks, but she overcame all of these issues. At the end of the series, she gets what she has always wanted, which is a family. This is just one example of how these relatable characters have made this show timeless.

		   
一些人觉得她很烦人，因为她有点控制狂，有时过于竞争，这让她显得有点自私。此外，她在学校时并不受欢迎，常常因为外表被嘲笑，但她克服了所有这些问题。在剧集结束时，她得到了她一直想要的东西，那就是一个家庭。这只是这些栩栩如生的角色使得这部剧经久不衰的一个例子。
		
	

The clever writing and Word-Friends#hilarious jokes are also a big part of this series. There are a lot of references in the show, and if you watch it nowadays as a young person, you might not get many of the jokes because they're cultural references that were relevant at the time but not so much now, especially if you're from another country.

		   
聪明的编剧和滑稽的笑话也是这部剧的重要组成部分。剧中有很多参考，如果您现在作为年轻人观看它，您可能不会理解很多笑话，因为它们是当时的文化背景，而现在则不那么相关，尤其是如果您来自另一个国家。
		
	

A lot of people have asked me about this when they watched the series and told me that they didn't understand some of the jokes. But I believe that it doesn't really matter; none of these jokes really affect the storyline. This show has become so iconic that some moments of the show have become ingrained in popular culture.

		   
很多人在观看这部剧后问过我这个问题，并告诉我他们不理解一些笑话。但我认为这并不重要；这些笑话并不真正影响剧情。这部剧已经成为如此具有标志性的作品，以至于剧中的某些时刻已经融入了流行文化中。
		
	

There are particular scenes that come to mind, like when Ross dresses up as the holiday armadillo or when he goes for a spray tan and has an incident. Even today, when you go to a gift shop, you'll see t-shirts, mugs, and all different types of things that you can buy as gifts that are sold in shops all over the world, not just in the United States.

		   
有一些特别的场景让人想起，比如罗斯扮成“假日犰狳”，或者他去喷雾晒肤时发生的意外。即使在今天，当你去礼品店时，你会看到T恤、马克杯以及各种各样的东西可以买作为礼物，这些商品在世界各地的商店都有售，不仅仅在美国。
		
	

One thing that I have noticed that is different nowadays is the fact that in this series, there are so many compilation or flashback episodes. Flashback episodes are basically episodes in which they mostly show clips of scenes from previous seasons. When I was watching it recently, I wondered why there were so many episodes like this. I think there was one per season, which is quite a lot. Then I realized that I was watching it on a streaming platform like Netflix or HBO, and I had watched the whole season in about 5 months, so about two seasons per month. I realize that nowadays, we have access to all of these episodes at all times, so we can watch our favorite episodes or scenes over and over, especially on YouTube. We don't even have to watch the whole episode. But 30 years ago, you had to watch it on TV, and unless you bought the DVDs years later, you couldn't watch the series whenever you wanted. So, these flashbacks or compilation episodes would be quite nostalgic for some people because if they were watching the ninth season in 2003, they wouldn't have watched some of the scenes for over eight years if they hadn't bought the DVDs.

		   
我注意到现在与以往不同的一件事是，在这个系列中，有很多合集或者回忆集的剧集。回忆集剧集基本上是展示以前季节的片段的剧集。最近我观看时，我想知道为什么有这么多这样的剧集。我记得每个季度都有一个，这已经相当多了。然后我意识到我是在像Netflix或者HBO这样的流媒体平台上观看的，并且我大约用了5个月的时间看完了整个季度，所以平均每月看两季。我意识到如今，我们随时都可以访问所有这些剧集，所以我们可以一遍又一遍地观看我们喜欢的剧集或者片段，特别是在YouTube上。我们甚至不需要观看整个剧集。但是30年前，您必须在电视上观看，除非多年后购买了DVD，否则您无法随时观看这部系列。因此，对于一些人来说，这些闪回或者合集剧集会引起很多怀旧情感，因为如果他们在2003年看第九季，如果没有购买DVD，他们可能已经八年没有看到一些场景了。
		
	

The consistent quality of this show also helped it become so popular. The cast and everyone involved in this show maintained a high level of consistency in terms of performance. Unlike other shows, there isn't really a bad season or bad episode, apart from the flashback episodes, which may be a bit monotonous for some viewers.

		   
这部剧的始终如一的质量也帮助它变得如此受欢迎。该剧的演员和所有参与其中的人在表演方面保持了高水平的一致性。与其他节目不同，除了闪回剧集可能对一些观众来说有点单调外，实际上并没有糟糕的季节或糟糕的剧集。
		
	

One thing that I do dislike about the writing and the character development of this show is the fact that the characters' quirks that they had at the beginning of the series became their whole personalities at the end of the show. Like in season 8, 9, or 10, you will notice this if you have finished the series and then watch it again. If you finish the 10th season and then go back to the first season, you will see that in the first seasons, Joey isn't as silly or stupid as he is in the 9th or 10th season, and Monica is a lot more controlling and competitive in the later seasons that it becomes quite annoying. I think that you wouldn't have realized this at the time because ten years had gone by, and you wouldn't have rewatched the episodes so often. It seems like they took one characteristic of each character and made it their entire character, and at times, it just felt a bit like lazy writing because they're going for the easy joke, so it became a bit predictable. Also, some of the jokes have not aged well and are not politically correct, and these jokes wouldn't be well-received if the show aired for the first time today.

		   
我对这部剧的写作和角色发展有一点不喜欢的是，角色在剧集开始时所具有的怪癖最终成为了他们整个人物性格的一部分。比如在第8、9或10季，如果您看完了整个系列然后重新观看，您会注意到这一点。如果您在看完第10季后回到第一季，您会发现在最初的几季中，乔伊并不像第9或10季中那样愚蠢；而莫妮卡在后期季节中更加控制和竞争，变得相当让人讨厌。我认为您当时可能没有意识到这一点，因为已经过去了十年，您不会那么频繁地重新观看剧集。似乎他们将每个角色的一个特征作为了他们整个的性格，并且有时，这让人觉得写作有点懒散，因为他们只是追求简单的笑话，因此剧情变得有点预测性。此外，一些笑话并没有经过时，也不符合政治正确，如果今天首次播出，这些笑话可能不会受到良好的接受。
		
	

I'm obviously not going to list the moments out, but if you have watched the show, there are probably some scenes where you have thought, "Hmm, I think that might be considered offensive nowadays." If you have watched the show, you were probably surprised by the number of actors who have guest-starred on "Friends." Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, and Brooke Shields are some examples of actors who have been on this show for an episode. If you haven't watched this series, I do think that it is worth a watch. You'll be able to watch the characters navigate their way through life, friendship, and love in the city of New York. It will definitely make you laugh, and you'll be able to expand your English vocabulary and practice your listening skills. I do think that it is a good series to practice listening and expanding your vocabulary because it's a sitcom, so that means that the events normally happen in the same place, at their houses or at the cafe where they always have coffee. The language they use is daily life language, so it's quite informal and predictable, so it's easy to follow the story. I think it's good to watch a series like this rather than a series which has very technical vocabulary like at a hospital or something like that. In this series, you're following their day-to-day lives, and they're talking about their relationships, friendships, and jobs, so it's definitely vocabulary that you will be using too in English.

		   
显然，我不打算逐一列举这些时刻，但如果你看过这部剧，可能会有一些场景让你觉得，“嗯，我觉得现在可能会被认为有些冒犯。” 如果你看过这部剧，你可能会对客串在《老友记》中的演员人数感到惊讶。布拉德·皮特、布鲁斯·威利斯和布鲁克·莎士比亚都是曾在这部剧中客串一集的演员的例子。如果你还没有看过这部系列，我认为值得一看。你将能够看到角色在纽约市的生活、友谊和爱情中一路前行。它肯定会让你笑出声来，而且你还可以扩展你的英语词汇量和练习听力技能。我认为这是一个很好的练习听力和扩展词汇量的系列，因为它是一部情景喜剧，这意味着事件通常发生在同一个地方，就在他们的家里或者他们经常喝咖啡的咖啡馆。他们使用的语言是日常生活语言，所以非常不正式的也是可预料的，所以很容易跟上故事。我认为观看这样的系列比观看有着非常技术性词汇的系列如医院之类要好。在这个系列中，你将跟随他们的日常生活，他们谈论他们的关系、友谊和工作，所以这绝对是你在英语中也会使用的词汇。