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From the episode 'Space Pilot 3000'

LEELA: Good afternoon, sir. Name?
FRY: Uh, Fry.
WOMAN: I'm Leela. Now it's New Year's Eve so I'd like to decide your fate quickly and get out of here.
FRY: Can I ask you a question?
LEELA: As long as it's not about my eye.
FRY: Er...
LEELA: Is it about my eye?
FRY: Sort of...
LEELA: Just ask the question.
FRY: What's with the eye?
LEELA: I'm an alien, alright? Now let's drop the subject.
FRY: Cool, an alien! Has your race taken over the Earth?
LEELA: No, I just work here.

good afternoon	buenas tardes
New Year's Eve	Noche Vieja, víspera de año nuevo
fate	destino
to get out of here	salir de aquí
to ask somebody a question	hacer o formular una pregunta a alguien
as long as	siempre y cuando
sort of	en cierto modo sí
alien	extraterrestre
to drop the subject	dejar el tema
cool!	¡estupendo!, ¡guay!
to take over something	asumir el control de algo

FRY: You know, I'm the luckiest guy in the whole future. I've been given a second chance and this time I'm not going to be a total loser. What's that?
LEELA: Your permanent career assignment.
FRY: Delivery boy? No, not again! Please! Anything else!
LEELA: Take your hands off me! You've been assigned the job you're best at just like everyone else.
FRY: What if I refuse?
LEELA: Then you'll be fired...
FRY: Fine!
LEELA: ...out of a cannon into the sun!
FRY: But I don't like being a delivery boy.
LEELA: Well that's tough! Lots of people don't like their jobs but we do them anyway. You gotta do what you gotta do! Now hold out your hand, I'm gonna implant your career chip. It will permanently label you as a delivery boy.
FRY: Keep that thing away from me!

the luckiest guy	el tipo más suertudo. Para aprender a formar superlativos, ver Comparatives and superlatives.
to give somebody a second chance	dar a alguien una segunda oportunidad
loser	perdedor. El verbo perder se dice to lose.
career	profesión, carrera
assignment	asignación
delivery boy	repartidor
anything else	cualquier otra cosa
take your hands off me	quita tus manos de encima mío
to be best at something	ser mejor en algo. Notar el uso de la preposición at.
to refuse	negarse, rechazar
to be fired	ser despedido. En este caso, se trata de un juego de palabras, dado que la oración continúa diciendo: "Serás despedido... desde un cañón hasta el sol!"
cannon	cañón
tough	duro, difícil
gotta	Forma coloquial de have got to (tener que)
hold out your hand	extiende tu mano
gonna	Forma coloquial de going to (ir a)
to label somebody as something	catalogar a alguien como algo
keep that thing away from me	mantén esa cosa alejada de mí

 

FRY: So I guess without jobs, we'll be fugitives forever.
FARNSWORTH: Not necessarily. Are you three, by any chance, interested in becoming my new spaceship crew?
BENDER: New crew? What happened to the old crew?
FARNSWORTH: Oh, those poor sons of -- but that's not important. The important thing is I need a new crew. Anyone interested?
FRY: Yes, yes! That's exactly the job I've always wanted!
LEELA: Thanks for the offer, Professor, but we don't have the proper career chips.
FARNSWORTH: Oh, that won't be a problem. As luck would have it, I saved the chips from my previous crew.
FRY: This is awesome!

to guess	suponer
by any chance	por casualidad
to be interested in something	estar interesado en algo
spaceship	nave espacial
crew	tripulación
offer	ofrecimiento, oferta
as luck would have it	el azar quiso que
to save something	rescatar algo
awesome	maravilloso, increíble

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