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0两个家庭丈夫有点想拒绝参加party的对话：
有意思的地道表达：
银质餐具（暗指优雅的生活）：silverware
我快累死了/头快炸了：I'm wiped out./I'm beat.
不在场证明：plausible alibi
LYNETTE:There'll be liquor. And hors d'oeuvres. And grown-ups without children. And, and silverware. Remember silverware?
TOM: Honey, can you take this in for me? (hands LYNETTE a camera)
LYNETTE: (takes the camera from him) Have you heard anything I just said?
TOM: Yeah, honey, I'm sorry. I'm just, I'm wiped out. Three cities in 6 days, my head is just pounding. I'm not ready for a dinner party.
LYNETTE: I already got a sitter.
TOM: Can you cancel her? (LYNETTE makes a shocked sound) Please? Look, let's just stay in tomorrow night. We can get a bottle of wine, and rent a video, and I just wanna hang out with my best gal. That's all.
LYNETTE: I was looking so forward to a night out.
TOM: I know, sweetie, I'm sorry, but I, I'm beat. I mean, do you remember what it's like to work a 60- hour week? (tosses a pair of socks into the laundry basket LYNTTE is holding and gets up, grabbing his briefcase and walking away.)
(LYNETTE just stands there, looking at him as he walks away.)
[CUT TO: INT. VAN DE KAMP HOUSE - KITCHEN]
REX: A dinner party? Do I have to go?
BREE: Well, given that we're hosting it, I say so. By the way, you won't be drinking at this party.
REX: Why's that?
BREE: Because when you drink, you get chatty. No one needs to know that we're seeing Dr. Goldfine.
REX: You know, if you spent half as much time working on our problems as you do covering them?
BREE: Not a drop!
REX: You know, this-this is ridiculous! This whole thing about us taking tennis lessons.
BREE: Well, the nurses at your office may start wondering why you're disappearing three times a week. Tennis lessons are a plausible alibi. (hands REX a lunch bag)
REX: So these tennis lessons we're taking. How we doing?
BREE: My backhand's improving immensely, but you're still having problems with your serve.
REX: Of course.
勒奈特：
会有酒，还有开胃小食，都是不带孩子的大人，还有…… 还有银餐具。你还记得银餐具吗？
汤姆：
亲爱的，帮我拿一下这个好吗？（把相机递给勒奈特）
勒奈特：
（接过相机）你刚才有听我说话吗？
汤姆：
听了，亲爱的，对不起。我就是…… 累垮了。六天跑了三个城市，头都快炸了。我实在没精力搞什么晚宴派对。
勒奈特：
我已经约好保姆了。
汤姆：
能取消吗？（勒奈特倒吸一口凉气）求你了。你看，我们明天晚上就待在家里吧。开瓶红酒，租部电影，我就想跟我最爱的女人待在一起，仅此而已。
勒奈特：
我本来超期待今晚出去的。
汤姆：
我知道，宝贝，对不起。可我真的累瘫了。你还记得一周工作六十小时是什么感觉吗？（把一双袜子扔进勒奈特手里的洗衣篮，起身拿起公文包走开）
（勒奈特就站在原地，看着他离去的背影。）
【切至：范德坎普家 厨房 内景】
雷克斯：
晚宴派对？我必须去吗？
布里：
既然是我们做东，那当然得去。对了，今晚派对上你不准喝酒。
雷克斯：
为什么？
布里：
因为你一喝酒就话多。没人需要知道我们在看戈德法因医生。
雷克斯：
你知道吗，你花在掩盖问题上的时间，要是有一半用来解决问题就好了？
布里：
一滴都不行！
雷克斯：
你知道吗，这…… 这太荒唐了！还有我们去上网球课这整件事。
布里：
不然你办公室的护士会好奇，你为什么每周消失三次。上网球课是个说得过去的借口。（递给雷克斯一个午餐袋）
雷克斯：
那我们这网球课，上得怎么样了？
布里：
我的反手进步神速，可你的发球还是不行。
雷克斯：
那是当然。
