Anyhow
    Did you ever have nightmares about going to school dressed only in a vest that was too short anyway.
    你做過這樣的噩夢嗎？只穿著一件特別短的小背心就來到了學(xué)校。
    注：肯定沒做作業(yè)。
    Home is where you can say anything you like 'cause nobody listens to you anyway.
    家是你想說什么就說什么的地方，因為反正也沒人聽。
    注：前半句說明家是自由的港灣，你可以發(fā)泄傾訴，后半句說在家里沒人搭理你。
    Big sister: Eat your spinach. It will put color in your cheeks.
    Little sister: Who wants green cheeks anyway?
    姐姐：吃點兒菠菜，你氣色會變好（在臉上添顏色）。
    妹妹：誰想要綠臉呢？
    注：Put color: 使人氣色變好。妹妹怕吃菠菜多了臉都邊綠了。
    I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I’m still bringing a change of underwear anyway.
    我不相信有來生，但我還是準備帶上換洗的內(nèi)褲。
    注：以防萬一。如果真有天堂或地獄，等到了那兒，沒有換洗的衣服多不方便呀。
    Apart
    Sex brought us together, but gender drove us apart.
    性使我們走到了一起，但性別又把我們分開。
    注：兩性相吸，男女走到一起，但男女性格的差異又使他們分開。
    How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?
    兩車相撞時離得有多遠？
    注：在法庭上律師嚴肅地問詢問證人。
    Apart from a few odd words in Hebrew, I took it for granted that God had never spoken anything but the most dignified[尊貴] English.
    除了幾句奇怪的希伯萊文，我想當(dāng)然地認為上帝除了最尊貴的英語以外從沒有說過其他語言。
    注：如果美國人的上帝說英語，中國人的上帝說中文，他們誰也不想學(xué)對方的語言，他們怎么交流呀？
    Apartment
    All my friends in Paris seemed very happy when I was leaving. To them they were not losing a friend but gaining an apartment.
    當(dāng)我要離開時，我所有在巴黎的朋友好象都很高興，對他們來說他們一個朋友也沒有失去，但卻得到了一套公寓。
    注：他要暫時離開半年，有套單元房留給朋友們住，朋友們很高興，他們的友誼得以繼續(xù)。
    I really enjoy camping, especially since I don’t have enough money to buy an apartment.
    我喜歡野營，特別是因為我沒有足夠的錢買房子。
    注：他不是喜歡野營，他是沒錢買房子，被逼無奈才住在帳篷里。
    We’re lucky we have an apartment. If we lived in our car, we'd be home by now.
    幸運地是我們還有房子住，我們?nèi)绻≡谄嚴?，現(xiàn)在就到家里了。
    注：你爸爸在車里抱怨交通擁堵，你這么勸他。
    注：應(yīng)該樂觀地看問題。