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影视来源：美剧《超人新冒险》

小噱头：当妈的总是为儿子的终身大事八卦~~

剧情引导：本来要和Lois同去富豪Lex Luther舞会的男伴感冒生病，不得已Lois只能拖上Clark去，而Clark正好要飞回农场老家吃顿家常顺便拿件正装，他同可爱的双亲提起了这位女同事……

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Clark: Dinner was great, Mom. Thanks.

Martha: Thanks, honey.

Jonathan: Mnn, huh. More than I get these days. Your mother is now an "artiste".

Martha: I call it, "Too Much, Too Soon, Tortured Heart, Waning Moon." What do you think? Too cerebral?

Clark: No, no. It's very... imaginative.

Jonathan: Uh, huh.

Martha: Tell me more about this woman you're going to Lex Luthor's Ball with.

Clark: Lois is ... well, she's complicated. Domineering, uncompromising, pig-headed... brilliant.

参考答案：她……挺复杂的。专横跋扈，永不妥协，固执己见，但又……非常出色。

And we're not really going out. It's business.

Martha:Uh, huh.

背景链接：

pig headed，猪头？！

pig headed在英文中是个固定词组，表示“固执的，刚愎的”，你别看着字面意思告诉我解释成猪头啊！（虽说某人最近猪头ing……）或者自己想一下“像猪头的”，嗯，那就是“迷迷糊糊的、呆头呆脑的”……这些都不对的哈！你要问为什么老外觉得“猪头”不是表示“愚蠢”而是表示“固执”的话，那我只能告诉你说不定他们还觉得“牛脾气”用来表示“倔强固执”很不可思议来着。这就是传说中文化差异~~

另外，理解成扎马尾辫的，是和pig tail搞错了吧？