Let's Travel With Rick &
想完整地给大家介绍一下这部风靡全球的成人猎奇、科幻类动画——Rick and Morty。
今天就让我们用一把portal gun（隧道枪）进入Rick and Morty的世界里看看吧。
Info
Rick and Morty is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim. The series follows the misadventures of cynical mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his good-hearted but fretful grandson Morty Smith, who split their time between domestic life and interdimensional adventures. The series premiered on December 2, 2013, and the third season concluded on October 1, 2017. In May 2018, the series was picked up for an additional 70 episodes over an unspecified number of seasons.
Roiland voices the eponymous characters, with Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer and Sarah Chalke voicing the rest of the family. The series originated from an animated short parody film of Back to the Future, The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, created by Roiland for Channel 101, a short film festival co-founded by Harmon. When Adult Swim approached Harmon for television show ideas, he and Roiland decided to develop a program based on the short. The series has received universal acclaim for its originality, creativity and humor.
fretful：[ˈfrɛtfəl] 形容词：烦躁不安的
interdimensional：这里是一个合成形容词inter(内部的)+dimensional(维度的)=次元间的
unspecified：[ˌʌnˈspesɪfaɪd] 形容词：未特别规定的
eponymous：[ɪˈpɑ:nɪməs] 形容词：齐名的
parody：[ˈpærədi] 名词：恶搞
acclaim：[əˈklem] 名词：赞誉
知识拓展：Block programming or television block is the arrangement of programs on radio or television so that several items of one general class, such as soap operas or popular music, occur in sequence.
Premise
The show revolves around the adventures of the members of the Smith household, which consists of parents Jerry and Beth, their kids Summer and Morty, and Beth's father, Rick Sanchez, who lives with them as a guest. According to Justin Roiland, the family lives outside of Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington. The adventures of Rick and Morty, however, take place across an infinite number of realities, with the characters travelling to other planets and dimensions through portals and Rick's flying car.
Rick is an eccentric and alcoholic mad scientist, who eschews many ordinary conventions such as school, marriage, love, and family. He frequently goes on adventures with his 14-year-old grandson, Morty, a kind-hearted but easily distressed boy, whose naïve but grounded moral compass plays counterpoint to Rick's Machiavellian ego. Morty's 17-year-old sister, Summer, is a more conventional teenager, who worries about improving her status among her peers and sometimes follows Rick and Morty on their adventures. The kids' mother, Beth, is a generally level-headed person and assertive force in the household, though self-conscious about her professional role as a horse doctor. She is dissatisfied with her marriage to Jerry, a simple-minded and insecure person, who disapproves of Rick's influence over his family.
Different versions of the characters inhabit other dimensions throughout the multiverse and their personal characteristics can vary from one reality to another. The show's original Rick identifies himself as "Rick Sanchez of Earth Dimension C-137", in reference to his original universe, but this does not necessarily apply to every other member of the Smith household. For instance, in the first-season episode "Rick Potion #9", after turning the entire world population into monsters, Rick and Morty move to a different dimension, leaving Summer, Beth and Jerry behind.
eschew：[ɛsˈtʃu] 及物动词：避开
Machiavellian：[ˌmækɪr'velɪrn] 形容词：（马基雅维利主义的）狡猾欺诈的，不择手段的
multiverse：['mʌltɪvɜ:s] 名词：多元宇宙
Expressions
-THE FIRST-
在这里想要跟大家说明的是“收肩”这个动作的表达，用的是square这个词当作动词。square通常的意思是：名词：广场；平方；正方形
-THE SECOND-
这里的hairy就不能当作“多毛（发）的”来理解了，这里hairy的意思可以理解为形容词：（事情因）繁多冗杂（而变得难办）的
-THE THIRD-
虽然这段台词不算长，但是有两个地方想要跟大家说明。1.这里的cut one’s losses原意是指（趁早收手以）减少损失。2.This is obvious a wash. 这句虽然语法以及词汇很简单，但是比较难立即的是 wash 在这的词义理解，因为wash作名词时有水流的含义，所以这里就是指Morty之前做冒险计划的用心都付之东去的意思
-THE FOURTH-
rope someone into something：
把某人卷入某事
-THE FIFTH-
在这里Morty说这句台词是为了控诉自己姥爷在制定计划时完全对他的意见不管不顾。这里的punches并不是指真正意义上的受到拳击，而是Morty指自己无论有什么险阻总是义无反顾地接受Rick的穿梭计划。roll with the punches这个表达主要的意思就是忍气吞声地行动
