Act one:
Dobie Gillis (柴雪） Petey Burch (余晨）
D: Don’t move. Don’t take a laxative. I’ll get a doctor.
P: Raccoon.
D: Raccoon?
P: I want a raccoon coat.
D: Why do you want a raccoon coat?
P: I should have known it, I should have known they’d come back when the Charleston came back. Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks, and now I can’t get a raccoon coat.
D: Can you mean that people are actually wearing raccoon coats again?
P: All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where have you been?
D: In the library.
P: I’ve got to have a raccoon coat. I’ve got to.
D: Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are unsanitary. They shed. They smell bad. They weigh too much. They’re unsightly. They-
P: You don’t understand. It’s the thing to do. Don’t you want to be in the swim?
D: No.
P: Well, I do. I’d give anything for a raccoon coat. Anything!
P: Anything.
D: Petey, are you in love with Polly Espy?
P: I think she’s a keen kid, but I don’t know if you’d call it love. Why?
D: Do you, have any kind of formal arrangement with her? I mean are you going steady or anything like that?
P: No. We see each other quite a bit, but we both have other dates. Why?
D: Is there, any other man for whom she has a particular fondness?
P: Not that I know of. Why?
D: In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is
that right?
P: I guess so. What are you getting at?
D: Nothing, nothing.
P: Where are you going?
D: Home for the weekend.
P: Listen, while you’re home, you couldn’t get some money from your old man, could you, and lend it to me so I can buy a raccoon coat?
D: I may do better than that.
D: Look!
P: Holy Toledo! Holy Toledo!...
D: Would you like it?
P: Oh yes! What do you want for it?
D: Your girl.
P: Polly? You want Polly?
D: That’s right.
P: Never.
D: Okay. If you don’t want to be in the swim, I guess it’s your business.
P: It isn’t as though I was in love with Polly. Or going steady or anything like that.
D: That’s right.
P: What’s Polly to me, or me to Polly?
D: Not a thing. It’s just been a casual kick-just a few laughs, that’s all. Try on the coat.
P: Fits fine.
D: Is it a deal?
P: It’s a deal.
Act two:
Dobie Gillis (柴雪） Polly Espy (余晨）
D: Polly, tonight we will not discussion fallacies.
P: Aw, gee.
D: My dear, we have now spent five evenings together. We have gotten along splendidly. It is clear that we are well matched.
P: Hasty Generalization.
D: I beg your pardon.
P: Hasty Generalization. How can you say that we are well matched on the basis of only five dates.
D: My dear, five dates is plenty. After all, you don’t have to eat a whole cake to know it’s good.
P: False Analogy. I’m not a cake. I’m a girl.
D: Polly, I love you.You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. Please, my darling, say that you will go steady with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless. I will languish. I will refuse my meals. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk.
P: Ad Misericordiam.
D: Well, Polly, you certainly have learned your fallacies.
P: You’re darn right.
D: And who taught them to you, Polly?
P: You did.
D: That’s right. So you do owe me something, don’t you, my dear? If I hadn’t come along you never would have learned about fallacies.
P: Hypothesis Contrary to Fact.
D: Polly, you mustn’t take all these things so literally. I mean this is just classroom stuff. You know that the things you learn in school don’t have anything to do with life.
P: Dicto Simpliciter.
D: Will you or will you not go steady with me?
P: I will not.
D: Why not?
P: Because this afternoon I promised Petey Burch that I would go steady with
him.
D: The rat! You can’t go with him, Polly. He’s a liar. He’s a cheat. He’s a rat.
P: Poisoning the Well, and stop shouting. I think shouting must be a fallacy too.
D: All right. You’re a logician. Let’s look at this thing logically. How could you choose Petey Burch over me? Look at me-a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future.Look at Petey a kont-head, a jitterbug, a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from. Can you give me one logical reason why you should go steady with Petey Burch?
P: I certainly can. He’s got a raccoon coat.
学院：外国语学院
班级：B1503
姓名：柴雪
学号：16
