Schuyler Fox: Your father's getting married again.
Joe: Really?
Schuyler Fox: Yep.
Joe: Congratulations!
Nelson Fox: Thank you.
Joe: Why?
Nelson Fox: Who knows?
Joe: Love?
Nelson Fox: Possible.
Schuyler Fox: I think you're a damn fool!
Nelson Fox: Pop, Matthew is four years old, okay? It'd be nice if he knew his parents were married.
Joe: Listen, I have a sad announcement to make. City Books on 23rd Street. It's going under.
Nelson Fox: Another independentbites the dust.
Schuyler Fox: On to the next!
Joe: Going to buy out their inventory of architecture and New York history for the new store.
Nelson Fox: How much, son, how much are you paying?
Joe: Whatever it costs, it won't be as much as that exquisitely uncomfortable mohair episode there which is now all over my suit.
Nelson Fox: Here you go.
Joe: Thanks. We're also going have a section dedicated just to writers who’ve lived on the West Side.
Schuyler Fox: As a shot to the neighborhood.
Nelson Fox: Perfect. Keep those West Side liberal nuts, pseudo-intellectual--
Joe: Readers, Dad. They're called readers.
Nelson Fox: Don't do that, son, don’t romanticize them. It'll keep them fromjumping down your throat.
Schuyler Fox: What's the competition?
Joe: One mystery store, Sleuth, at 78th and Amsterdam and a children's bookstore, Shop Around The Corner. It's been there forever.
Schuyler Fox: Cecilia's store.
Joe: Who's that?
Schuyler Fox: Cecilia Kelly.
妙語佳句，活學活用
1. Pop
這里的pop 是 papa 的另一種叫法，感覺上相當于我們說的“老爸”。
2. Go under
我們常用上坡、下坡來代表事業的成功和失敗，從 go under 的字面上來看，我們也可以猜到這個片語的意思是“suffer defeat or destruction; fail失敗”，例如：We feared the business would go under after the founder died. 我們曾擔心創始人去世后公司會經營失敗。
3. Independent
這里的 independent 是指“自營的（企業），不依靠也不加入某個大的或主要的集團或體系”。
4. Bite the dust
這個片語的意思是“suffer defeat or death 遭遇失敗/死亡”，可能是取“死了埋在土里就會 bite the dust”的意思吧，我們來看個例子：The 1990 election saw both of our senators bite the dust. 90年的大選，我們的兩位參議員都失敗了。
5. Buy out
Buy out 的意思是“to purchase the entire stock, business rights, or interests of 買盡，買下全部”，例如： A rival store owner offered to buy out my grandfather, but he refused. 一家競爭店鋪的老板提出要買我祖父的全部資產，我祖父拒絕了。
6. Jump down someone's throat
這個片語的意思是“Strongly criticize, reprimand or disagree with someone 強烈地譴責某人，和某人意見嚴重不同”，例如：Just because I admitted to being there, you needn't jump down my throat. 我不過承認去過哪兒，你用不著這樣苛責我。
