图说英语：跟老友记学英语口语1.1(29)

[Scene: Central Perk, everyone but Rachel is there.]
Joey:(sitting on the arm of the couch)Of course it was a line!
line: 谎言。
老美最讨厌的就是liar。
line有“台词”的意思，在加上这句话是joey说的，他是个演员，所以我认为这里的line是台词的意思，而不是谎言。
Friends的编剧文字功底醇厚，用词也常常叫人拍案叫绝。这里的line就是一例。不仅复合joey的“actor”身份，词本身用在这里也是恰到好处。
Line一词也可作为俚语解释，字意为：“one"s usual way of talking, esp when being persuasive or self-aggrandizing”,这不正是"the wine guy" Paul的狐狸真面目（as ross said, to get women to go to bed by acting patheticly）？
A line is a phrase tend to say to several people. It"s a phrase designed to get what they want. Sometimes people have a line they use to get girls and it"s called a "pick-up line." people also have lines they might use if they are businessmen and want you to buy something. it"s not always a lie but it"s almost always some exaggeration.
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今天读Erich Segal的小说Man, Woman and Child外研社’88年版时，在119页遇到这个词在相同情形下的用法。
In a restaurant
Gavin: … And I hope you’ll accept my invitation for nightcap, without any superfluous qualms.