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Mrs Simpson: 3,2,1 and booze.
David: Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York.
Mrs Simpson: How lovely to see you both. Welcome to our little country shack1.
Bertie's wife: I came at the invitation of the King. Your Majesty2.
David: All right.
Bertie's wife: Sorry we're late.
Bertie: Very nice to see you, Mrs Simpson. Very nice. Hello David. Making... some changes to the garden I see.
David: I am. I am not quite finished yet.
Bertie's wife: Don't tell me I behaved badly, Mr Churchill.
Churchill: On the contrary, your Royal Highness. Etiquette3 decrees royalty4 should be greeted by the official host: in this case: the King. Not a commoner.
Bertie's wife: Thank you.
Churchill: What is her hold on him?
Bertie's wife: I've no idea. Apparently5 she has certain...skills, which she learnt in an establishment in Shanghai.
Mrs Simpson: David.
David: just be a sec, darling. Excuse me.
Bertie: David, I've been trying to see you...
David: I've been terribly busy.
Bertie: Doing what?
David: Kinging.
Bertie: Really?
David: Kinging.. is a precarious6 business these days!
Bertie: Where is the Tsar of Russia? Where is Cousin Wilhelm?
David: You're being dreary7.
Bertie: Is Kinging laying off eighty staff and buying yet more pearls for Wallis while there are people marching across Europe singing The Red Flag?
David: STOP your worrying. Herr Hitler will sort that lot out.
Bertie: Who'll sort out Herr Hitler?
David: Where's the bloody8 23'?
Bertie: And you've put that woman into our mother's suite9?
David: Mother's not still in the bed, is she?
Bertie: That's not funny.
David: Here it is, Wally likes the very best.
Bertie: I don't care what woman you carry on with at night, as long as you show up for duty in the morning!
David: Wallis is not just some woman I am carrying on with. We intend to marry
Bertie: Excuse me?
David: She's filing a petition for porce.
Bertie: Good God. Can't you just give her a nice house and a title?
David: I'm not having her as my mistress.
Bertie: The Church does not recognise porce and you are the... head of the Church.
David: Haven't I any rights?
Bertie: Many privileges...
David: Not the same thing. Your beloved Common Man may marry for love, Why not me?
Bertie: If you were the Common Man, on what basis could you possibly claim to be King?!
David: Sounds like you've studied our wretched constitution.
Bertie: Sounds like you haven't.
David: Is that what this is all about? Bashing up? Hence the elocution lessons? That's the scoop10 around town.
Bertie: I'm trying to... to...
David: Yearning11 for a larger audience are we, B-b-b-bertie?
Bertie: D-don't...
David: What's that? I'm sorry. Young brother trying to push older brother off throne... Po..Po..sitively medieval. Wallis.
Mrs Simpson: Where have you been all this time?
David: I've been talking to.
Mrs Simpson: Never mind. It's very complicated little king you're.
David: I tried to be.
妙语佳句 活学活用
1. booze: 酒宴，豪饮。这里是说酒宴开始。
2. country shack: 乡村小屋。Shack这里就是指简陋的小屋，棚屋。
Shack up with还可以表示与某人同居，比如：He was looking for a dame12 to shack up with when the police picked him up.（他正在找女性鬼混的时候，警察把他逮住了。）
3. commoner: 平民。与之相对的则是aristocrat（贵族）。除此之外，commoner还可以表示自费学生或者有共用权者。
4. Tsar of Russia: 俄国沙皇。俄国沙皇尼古拉二世就能称为Tsar Nicolas II of Russia。
5. dreary: 沉闷的，枯燥无味的。
比如：You can thank your lucky stars you don't have to go to this dreary reception.（你真走运，不需要出席那死气沉沉的招待会。）
6. sort someone out: 整治，惩罚，整理（某人）。
下面再向大伙介绍一些sort out构成的短语：
separate/sort out the men from the boys 表明╱证明哪个有技能（或更勇敢等）
sort out/separate the sheep from the goats 分辨好人和坏人，区别良莠
sort something/somebody/yourself out 妥善处置某人（或自己）的问题
sort itself out 问题自行解决
sort out/separate the wheat from the chaff14 辨别优劣；分清好坏；去芜存菁
7. carry on with: 与某人调情。一般指不正当的男女关系。
8. file a petition for porce: 申请离婚，办离婚手续。
9. elocution: 演讲方法，演说术。
10. scoop: 抢先报道的新闻，独家新闻。
比如：She scooped15 all the national newspapers to get the story.（她抢在全国各报之前发表了这一消息。）
