精彩对白：
Jane: Good morning, Gina.
Gina: Hi.
Jane: You haven't seen my Filofax anywhere, have you?
Gina: No.
Jane: No. Okay. I'll go look for it. Did you get those catalog pages in for George?
Gina: No.
Jane: Okay. No worries. I'll get them from production.
Casey: Attagirl. Show her who's boss.
Jane: I'm not her boss.
Casey: You're the boss's assistant. Same diff. What's the good of your job if you can't abuse the power?
Jane: Casey, go to Accounting1.
Casey: Now you're bossy2.
Jane: Where the hell did I put that thing?
Kevin: That is a great idea for the front page of the section.
Maureen: Oh, come on, Doyle. How many times have I heard this from you?
Kevin: I'm telling you, Maureen: It's a great idea.
Maureen: Really? As great as your last great idea, an expose on price-fixing at wedding bakeries?
Kevin: Yes! Yes! They're ripping people off. Flour cosplayts pennies per ounce. That's an 800% markup3. It's outrageous4.
Maureen: Yes, it is. Also, no one cares.
Kevin: What about the piece I wanted to do on the exploitation of workers in lace factories? That is a killer5 piece.
Maureen: Oh, right. That's what people really wanna read about in the Style section. Kevin, this section practically pays for the entire paper: Our advertisers want fun, upbeat, colorful human-interest stories... opposite their products.
Kevin: So that's what we're about now? Making money?
Maureen: Get out.
Kevin: All right. Listen. That was not right. I get it. But this one is. Look, this woman has been in seven weddings-
Maureen: So?
Kevin: This year. She was in two on Saturday alone. But it won't just be about her. It'll be an incisive6 look at how the wedding industry has transformed something: That should be an important rite7 of passage into nothing more than a corporate8 revenue stream. In a fun, upbeat, you know, cheerful way. Look, Maureen, I am dying back there in Commitments. If I have to write another sentence about baby's breath, I'm gonna shoot myself. This is a real story. This is what I wanna do.
Maureen: I need you covering weddings. That's what you're good at. And that's what I need you to do.
Kevin: If you don't start giving me feature stories, I'm gonna have to quit.
Maureen: All right. One chance. If I don't like it, you go back to Commitments for the rest of your life with a big smile on that ridiculously handsome face of yours.
Kevin: Deal.
妙语佳句，活学活用
1. Filofax: 备忘记事本。Filofax是一种商标的名字，指一种轻便的活页文件夹，用来装日记本、文件、信用卡等，80年代雅皮士族常常备带。
2. Attagirl: 好啊，好棒，an informal expression of encouragement or admiration9 to a woman or girl（表达对女人的赞叹，非正式用语）。
假如赞叹的对象是一位男士，大家可以用attaboy来表达。
3. Same diff: 一回事。Same diff是一种 oxymoron（矛盾修辞法），用来形容something as being the same as something else（两件事其实是一回事），常在说错话时用来做借口。
比如：You said jackflap, not flapjack Same-diff）你刚刚说的是jackflap，而不是flapjack。那不是一回事嘛。
4. bossy: 专横的，盛气凌人的。
比如：No, she is stingy, narrow-minded and bossy.（不，她小气，心胸狭窄，又拔扈。）
5. front page: 头版。
比如：The news got a front-page splash.（该消息在头版显眼地登出），而排front page的版面，大家就能说：to make up the front page。
6. price-fixing: 限定价格，指一种价格垄断行为。Maureen在这里是说，Kevin上次报道了结婚典礼蛋糕店开天砍价的行为。
7. rip off: 宰客，敲诈。
The used car adverti百度竞价推广ent is a big rip-off.（这个二手汽车广告是个大骗局），大家从不刊登如此的广告to rip off the customers（宰客）。
8. rite of passage: （标志生活要紧阶段的）通过仪式，重大事件，a ceremony or an event that marks an important stage in sb's life. 譬如出生、成人、结婚等等，所以有时也用复数rites of passages。
9. die back: 枯死，枝叶枯萎。Kevin在这里的意思是说，我写《承诺》专栏写到闷。
10. baby's breath: 水香花菜，满天星，这里泛指结婚典礼上的花束。
11. deal: 一言为定。这个词目前常单独用，用来表示答应付方提出的条件。