格鲁阴差阳错地成了拯救月亮的大英雄，从此和三个养女幸福地生活在一起……
Gru: Okay, girls, time for bed.
Edith: Oh, come on! We want a story!
Agnes: Three sleepy kittens!
Gru: Oh, no! Sorry, that…that book was accidentally destroyed maliciously[怀有恶意地]. Tonight we are going to read a new book. This one is called One Big Unicorn[独角兽] by...who wrote this? Oh, me! I wrote it! Oh look, it's a puppet book! Here, watch this. (Gru puts his nose through the hole on the cover.) That's the horn[角].
Agnes: This is gonna be the best book ever!
Gru: Not to pat myself on the back, but, yes, it probably will be. Here we go:
“One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down.”
Edith: Hey, that one looks like me!
Gru: No, what are you talking about? These are kittens! Any relation to persons living or dead is completely coincidental[巧合的].
“They made him laugh. They made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And for now he knows he could never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart. The end.”
Okay, all right. Good night.
格鲁：好了，姑娘们，该睡觉了。
伊迪丝：喔，不要！给我们讲个故事嘛！
阿格尼丝：三只瞌睡猫！
格鲁：哦，不! 抱歉，那个啊……那本书一不小心惨遭毒手了。今晚我们要念一本新书，名字叫做《大大独角兽》，作者……是谁写的呢？喔，是我！我写的！瞧，也是木偶书哦！来，你们看。（格鲁将鼻子穿过封面的洞。）这个是角！
阿格尼丝：这一定是世界上最棒的书！
格鲁：我不是王婆卖瓜，但是没错，它或许真的是最棒的书呢。开始了——
“大大独角兽，强壮又自由，觉得自己最幸福。后来他遇到三只小猫，生活从此天翻地覆。”
伊迪丝：嘿，那只看起来像我！
格鲁：不对，你在说什么呀？这些是小猫！如有雷同，纯属巧合。
“她们为他带来欢笑，亦为他带来忧愁。他真不该放手说再见。现在他终于明白，这三只小猫改变了他的心灵，他们从此再也不分开。故事结束。”
好啦，就这样，晚安。
口语锦囊
“pat sb. / oneself on the back”为非正式用语，意思是“称赞某人/自夸”；“pat”也可以用作名词，“a pat on the back”同样表示“赞扬”，例如：
The teacher patted him on the back for doing a good job. （老师夸他表现良好。）
At a time like this, what she needs is a pat on the back. （在这种时候，她需要的是一声赞扬。）
《卑鄙的我》：不完美计划的完美转身 Despicable Me: A Not-So-Perfect Plan Turns Out Perfectly(5)
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