Shouts & Murmurs

A Few Quick Thoughts from Bridezilla!

新娘魔头的一点小想法!
How do I put this . . . I want to make sure that you all look worse than me, physically.
怎么说呢……我希望你们所有人,在肉体上,看起来都比我丑。
Group portrait of the bride and bridesmaids. Bride in a wedding dress and bridesmaids in pink or powder dresses and...
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Hey, besties! Thank you soooo much for agreeing to be my bridesmaids. I cannot wait to be getting down to Sabrina Carpenter on the dance floor with you all soon! But, before that can happen, I just have a few little things I want to say, and boundaries to set, that should make my big day a breeze.

嘿,姐妹们!太太太感谢你们答应做我的伴娘了。我已经等不及要跟你们在舞池里跟着萨布丽娜·卡彭特(Sabrina Carpenter)的歌一起嗨了!不过,在那之前呢,我有几件小事想说说,几条界限想划一划,这样我的大日子就能顺风顺水啦。

CAKE: As you’re all aware, I have a monster sweet tooth. (Danny sure learned the hard way not to get between me and my Nerds Clusters!) Hayley, I know you have that peanut allergy, but this is my only wedding day, and I am so sorry about this but I’m going to have a pretty peanut-heavy menu. Peanut-butter cake, peanut-brittle fudge, and then I want to throw unshelled peanuts into my bridesmaids’ mouths like you’re big fat sea lions. We’ve all noticed that you can be a real anaphylac-zilla, Hayley. But I’m asking you just this once to eat the food I give you because I need the photos of you eating peanuts while I spray you with the hose.

蛋糕:你们都知道,我嗜甜如命。(丹尼肯定吃了苦头才明白,别想碰我的Nerds糖串!)海莉,我知道你对花生过敏,但这是我唯一的婚礼,真抱歉,我的菜单会以花生为主。花生酱蛋糕、花生脆糖,然后我还想把带壳的花生扔进你们嘴里,就像你们是肥嘟嘟的大海狮。我们都注意到了,海莉,你有时候真是个过敏魔头。但我就求你这一次,吃我给你准备的东西,因为我需要拍下你吃花生的照片,同时我用水管喷你。

DRESS CODE: I’m obviously chill with whatever the gals want to wear. I just have one simple request about my bridesmaids’ dresses. They can be whatever length you like but they have to be a color I made up in my head when I was six and I will not tell you what it is, you just have to know. It’s the color of the feeling of when my mom made me peppermint waffles and said that Santa sent them to me special because I was at the top of the Nice List. We’re all going to be wearing it, so please factor in time to have your dress custom-made. No sustainable fashion, please. No offense, but I believe children need to have suffered for dresses to be cute and that no one looks good in one that’s tea-length.

着装要求:姑娘们想穿什么,我显然都无所谓。关于伴娘裙,我只有一个简单的要求。裙长随你们喜欢,但颜色必须是我六岁时在脑子里编出来的那种,而且我不会告诉你们是什么,你们得自己领会。那是我妈给我做薄荷华夫饼,还说是圣诞老人特意送来的,因为我在好孩子名单上排第一时,那种感觉的颜色。我们所有人都得穿这个颜色,所以请留出定制裙子的时间。别穿可持续时尚,拜托了。无意冒犯,但我相信,裙子要可爱,就得有孩子受苦,而且没人穿及茶长度的裙子会好看。

MY FAMILY: Please, y’all, run some interference with my kooky family. I mean, I love them, but they are wild! Jenny, I’m going to need you to fuck my brother. I know you’re married, but I promised him you’d do it. He’s disgusting and smells like tires, but I don’t want him to give a speech. He’s always covered in mud because he loves to curl up in old tires at the dump. He likes to pretend that he’s a junk-yard dog and even wears a collar. If you love me, you’ll fuck my muddy brother, babe.

我的家人:求你们了,姐妹们,帮我挡挡我那古怪的家人。我是说,我爱他们,但他们太野了!珍妮,我需要你去睡我哥。我知道你结婚了,但我跟他保证过你会去。他很恶心,闻起来像轮胎,但我不想让他致辞。他总是满身泥巴,因为他喜欢蜷在垃圾场的旧轮胎里。他喜欢假装自己是垃圾场的看门狗,甚至还戴着项圈。如果你爱我,宝贝,就去睡我那满身泥的哥哥。

WEDDING VIDEO: I had this really fun idea that my bridesmaids and I could do a video together that we’d show during the reception. It’ll be of us, like, goofing around and maybe doing a choreographed dance, and it will be in the style of “Boyhood” in that we’ll shoot it over the course of the next decade, on 35-mm. film, to better comment on the fluid nature of art and aging. I’m gonna need you to talk to your bosses and take about sixteen years off work to prepare for this. Maybe sixteen years and four hours for you, Kelsey—that adult acne isn’t going to airbrush itself!

婚礼视频:我有个超有趣的想法,我和伴娘们可以一起拍个视频,在婚宴上放。视频里就是我们,比如,瞎胡闹,或者跳个编排好的舞,风格会像《少年时代》那样,我们会用35毫米胶片,在接下来的十年里拍摄,以便更好地探讨艺术与衰老的流动本质。我需要你们去跟老板谈谈,请大概十六年的假来准备这个。凯尔西,你可能得请十六年零四个月——你那成人痘可不会自己给自己磨皮!

YOUR BODY: How do I put this . . . I want to make sure that you all look worse than me, physically. This can be achieved in a number of ways. Like, for example, you could get a horse to kick you, by taking away its carrot, or maybe you get a huge tattoo of Goofy with a distended penis poking through his pants, like a Tom of Finland drawing. Have fun with it—I want this to be your special day as well!

你们的身体:怎么说呢……我希望你们所有人,在肉体上,看起来都比我丑。这可以通过多种方式实现。比如,你可以让马踢你一脚,办法是拿走它的胡萝卜,或者你去纹个巨大的高飞纹身,让他勃起的阴茎从裤子里戳出来,就像汤姆·芬兰(Tom of Finland)的画。玩得开心点——我希望这一天也是你们特别的日子!

THE MAYOR’S DOG: O.K., I know this one is going to sound silly, but I have a sort of random request. The mayor’s dog has been talking to me and telling me to do bad things—like he wants me to kidnap the up-and-coming actor Josh O’Connor. I’m as confused about it as you are but I just kind of want my day to be as low-stress as possible, so, if you happen to see Josh O’Connor, please just tie him up and I’ll handle the rest. Thanks in advance!

市长的狗:好吧,我知道这个听起来很蠢,但我有个有点随意的请求。市长的狗一直在跟我说话,叫我去做坏事——比如它想让我绑架那位崭露头角的演员乔什·奥康纳(Josh O'Connor)。我跟你们一样困惑,但我只是想让我的日子尽可能少点压力,所以,如果你们碰巧看到乔什·奥康纳,请把他绑起来,剩下的我来处理。先谢了!

FATHER-DAUGHTER DANCE: I have been dreaming about my father-daughter dance since I was a little girl. Unfortunately, as you know, my dad passed away six years ago. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want him to cut a rug! As my besties, I’m going to need you to dig up my dad and put a spell on him that makes him come back to life for at least, like, three hours, so we can dance to “Isn’t She Lovely” together. I would prefer white magic, but if you need to use a curse or a hex, that’s fine—I’m not one of those girls who gets all up in arms when her girlfriends use dark arts to resurrect her dead dad. I hate those girls!

父女共舞:我从小就梦想着我的父女共舞环节。不幸的是,你们知道,我爸六年前去世了。但这不意味着我不想让他也来跳一曲!作为我的好姐妹,我需要你们把我爸挖出来,对他施个咒语,让他至少复活,比如,三个小时,这样我们就能一起跳《她不可爱吗》。我倾向于白魔法,但如果你们需要用诅咒或巫术,那也行——我不是那种看到闺蜜用黑魔法复活她死去的爸爸就大惊小怪的女生。我讨厌那种女生!

CIPHER: I have written a cipher that spells out the details of my next kill. Here it is—please solve it before the wedding! aKJSpUVKukvzuXyUmKxRnXhyfCjEeEQfGpUxVBYHNpigXEUMtZAMmAKJdSFxhbYMGUhhk FqvvFQzdyYwCzWEDCSJTLrWTFXDVrw!

密码:我写了一个密码,里面详细说明了我下一次杀戮的细节。就是这个——请在婚礼前解开它!aKJSpUVKukvzuXyUmKxRnXhyfCjEeEQfGpUxVBYHNpigXEUMtZAMmAKJdSFxhbYMGUhhk FqvvFQzdyYwCzWEDCSJTLrWTFXDVrw!

PHOTOS: I can’t wait for the bridal-party pics—all of us lined up in a cute little row! Emma, I know you’re pregnant, but I want my bridesmaid photos to be super uniform. I’ve arranged a Pitocin drip for a few days before the wedding to induce labor so you give birth early. I calculated it, and your baby will be born at twenty-six weeks, which is super viable. Most doctors say newborns can even breathe with their own lungs at that point, so it’s no biggie! And the doctors who don’t say that are just jealous of your hot little baby. We’ll keep it in a warm box next to the buffet chafing dishes, and you can do skin-to-skin contact right after speeches.

照片:我等不及要拍伴娘团合照了——我们所有人排成可爱的一小排!艾玛,我知道你怀孕了,但我希望我的伴娘照超级统一。我已经安排好了,婚礼前几天给你挂催产素点滴来引产,这样你就能早点生。我算过了,你的宝宝会在二十六周出生,这完全能活。大多数医生说,新生儿到那时候甚至都能用自己的肺呼吸了,所以没什么大不了的!而那些不这么说的医生,只是在嫉妒你那火辣的小宝宝。我们会把它放在自助餐保温炉旁边的暖箱里,你可以在致辞环节结束后立刻做肌肤接触。

THE MAYOR’S HOUSE: I want you to shoot the mayor’s dog because he is talking to me too much. I’m taken, after all!

市长的家:我要你们开枪打死市长的狗,因为它跟我说太多话了。毕竟,我可是名花有主了!

WEATHER: I want it to rain so I can get mad. If you love me, you will make this happen. ♦

天气:我想要下雨,这样我就能发脾气了。如果你们爱我,就让这事发生。 ♦

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