There’s a memorable scene in the 1980 comedy Airplane! in which the white air hostess can’t understand a black passenger’s slang. “Excuse me,” says a little old white lady, standing up from her seat to help. “I speak jive.” She proceeds to “translate”, with a comic disjunction between her WASP-y appearance and her fluent command of Ebonics.
1980年的喜剧电影《空前绝后满天飞》(Airplane!)有一幕令人难忘，一位白人空姐无法理解黑人乘客说的俚语。“打扰一下，”这时一名矮小的白人老太太从座位上站起来说道，“我会说黑人英语(jive)”。接着她开始“翻译”，她那白人盎格鲁-撒克逊新教徒(White Anglo-Saxon Protestant，简称WASP)的外表和对黑人英语的熟练运用形成一种喜剧式反差。
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