【句子】You do this every time. We meet a new friend, they say one thing you don’t like, and you just write them off. 【Modern Family-S2E11】
【发音】[ju:] [du:] [ðɪs] [ˈev.ri] [taɪm] [wi:] [mi:t] [ə] [nju:]/[nu:] [frend] [ðeɪ] [seɪ] [wʌn] [θɪŋ] [ju:] [dəʊnt] [laɪk] [ænd] [ju:] [dʒʌst] [raɪt] [ðəm] [ɒf]/[ɑ:f]
【发音技巧】meet a连读+美音浊化；don’t like不完全失去爆破；write them off不完全失去爆破+连读；
【翻译】你每次都这样！每当我们结识一个新朋友，只要他们说的话稍微不顺你的意，你就把他们踢出局（不喜欢这个人了）。
【适用场合】
write sb. or sth. off
1. to give up on turning someone or something into something
放弃把某个人/某物变成……；
或者to drop someone or something from consideration.
不考虑某种可能性；把某个人/某物从从考虑某件事的名单中剔除；

eg: I had to write Jill off as a future executive.
我不得不放弃让Jill做未来管理层的想法。

eg: The company wrote off the electric automobile as a dependable means of transportation.
这家公司不考虑把电动汽车作为可靠的交通方式。


2. to give up on someone or something as a dead loss, waste of time, hopeless case, etc.
放弃某个人/某物；觉得某个人/事物无药可救了，完全就是浪费时间；
eg: The manager wrote Tom off for a promotion.
经理不打算提拔Tom了。

eg: We almost wrote off the investment as a dead loss.
我们几乎已经放弃那笔投资了。

看完了这样的解释，再来回头看关键句，能明白了对吧？
视频片段中，还有一句话也出现了write sb./sth. off
一起看一下
What about Thomas? You wrote him off because he serves a salad after the meal, which, by the way, is very common in Europe.

那Thomas又是怎么回事呢？
就因为他先上主菜，后上沙拉，你就不喜欢他了。其实这种吃法在欧洲挺常见的。

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A lot of companies seem to write people off if they're over 50.