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Osee Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

Phoebe and Ross, aura and murky

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00The following dialog is from the first episode "the pilot" of the comedy series Friends. The context for it is like this: Ross has a lesbian wife; Everyone knows this. After saying "hi" mortifily to everyone in the central perk coffee room, Ross goes to sit in a sofa with Phoebe beside him. Then we have the following dialog. My questions are put up with in red. thanks. 02br
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00Phoebe: Ooh! Oh! (She starts to pluck at the air just in front of Ross.) 01b01font00Q: Why Phoebe dose such a pluck thing?02font02b02br
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00Ross: No, no don't! Stop cleansing my aura! No, just leave my aura alone, okay? 01font01b00Q: What does aura here mean?02b02font02br
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00Phoebe: Fine! Be murky! 01font01b00Q: What does it mean by be murky?02b02font02br
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00Thanks a lot!0-
  

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02br 02br 00Phoebe is plucking "intrusions" from Ross's "aura". He says stop. 0-

  • 02br 02br 00Phoebe is plucking "intrusions" from Ross's "aura".
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0 An aura is the invisible force surrounding a living creature, often described as a coloured halo of light.02br
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00Phoebe is plucking "intrusions" from Ross's "aura". He says stop. She says fine, in that case his aura can stay muddied by these intrusions.0-
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0Hi Feebs11, thanks a lot for taking time considering my question. 02br
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00So, in general, an aura can stand for something either bad or good?02br
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00In this case, since Ross got a lesbian wife, his aura is not good--it is a murky aura. So Phoebe trys to get rid of it from Ross. Is this understanding right? If it is right, why Ross do not want Phoe
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0 Probably because he doesn't believe in silly things like auras and she is embarrassing him by acting so strangely! 0-
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0Absolutely! 05001b02b00 010id4

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