影片對白  This is a poker game. You can't serve food with more than one syllable. It's gotta be like chips, or dip, or pretz...

 

3. bluff

意思是“虛張聲勢”。例如：When the bluffing didn't work, he had to go, and quickly.虛張聲勢不管用后，他必須要離開，而且要快。電影中的And... what is bluffing? Is it not another word for... lying? 意思是“那么……什么是虛張聲勢？不就是說謊的另外一種說法嗎？”

4. on

意思是“處于……狀況中”。例如：While you are still on that job, would you please do mine too. 既然你還在做那個工作，把我的也完成了吧？電影中的 You still on that? 意思是“你還沒有完呢（還在想那事呢）？”

5. off

意思是“錯誤的”。例如：Your guess that she will marry John is too off. 她會嫁給約翰，你猜得太離譜了。電影中的 You are way off, pal. 意思是“伙計，你大錯特錯了”。

文化面面觀

Poker Strategy: When to Check-Raise in a Sit and Go Tournament

The check-raise is a strong move that should be used sparingly. It can be used as a bluffing device, as a semi-bluffing device, and as a defending strategy for a great hand. The first way in which the check-raise can be used is as a bluffing tool. To set up the bluff the check-raise can be used during the preflop, the flop, the turn, at the river, or at a combination of these game events. If a player doesn't have a strong opening hand, but they do have the advantage of a late position and most of the early position players have folded or checked to them and there are no more than three players remaining in the round, the player can use a check-raise to start their bluff. A check-raise under these circumstances will almost always force the other players in the hand to fold, unless they too are trying to bluff their opponents.

If the check-raise is called or raised at the flop, and the player feels that their opponents are also trying to bluff in this hand, they may want to again make a check-raise bet instead of backing off or folding. If their opponent(s) still don't back down, then the player will need to decide if the amount of poker chips they have already added to the pot are all ready too much for them to wager, or if they feel that they have enough chips to see their bluff through until the showdown. If they decide to go as far as they need to defend their hand, they will want to maintain their aggressiveness to the end, when wither their opponents fold out of the hand or they meet their fate at the showdown.

Another way the check-raise can be used is as a semi-bluff tool. The semi-bluff check-raise can occur at the preflop to intimidate their opponents into folding out of the hand, or it can be applied to the flop thereby allowing the other players to add chips to the pot during the preflop. The benefit of using the check-raise for a semi-bluff is that if the semi-bluff makes it to the showdown, there is still a chance that the hand will be able to win the hand on its own merits.

The final way that the check-raise can be used is to defend a killer hand. The check-raise is a very strong and aggressive bet that should be used sparingly. However, if there is a hand that is worth defending, the check-raise is a great way to intimidate weaker players, and to entice aggressive players into adding more chips to the pot. This strategy will help a player to minimize their losses and it will help them to maximize their wins. By learning all of the above semi-bluffing skills and strategies a poker player will be able to perform better is a sit and go tournament, and they will be able to improve their overall poker playing abilities.

To quote the great Doyle Brunson "Poker without the check raise is like football without the forward pass".

考考你

用今日所學將下面的句子譯成英語。

1. "你不想改變？"想和他在一起就用這樣的爛理由！
2. 下周我們要去西班牙？不是開玩笑的吧？
3. - 尼可·基德曼要生女兒了。
－ 你太離譜了！
4. 在簡歷中需要一點點吹噓。但是吹的太厲害了將會是災難性的。

Friends 1 《老友記》1（精講十七）考考你 參考答案

1． 這是他第一次失約，我相信這也是最后一次。This is the first time that he stood me up, and I don't see that happening again.

2． 我可以向你提出分手，但是你不可以。
Only I can blow you off, but you can't do the same to me.

3． 離家出走已有一個星期，她還沒有想出下一步該怎么辦。
A week since walking out on her family, she hasn't figured out what to do next.

4． 雖然她不再是我女朋友了，我希望她一切都會好。
I hope everything will turn out fine with her, though she is no longer my girl now.

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(英語點津Annabel編輯)