Via：How did Monica get her apartment in the show Friends? (sportskeeda.com)
Although many different locations were used to film the American hit sitcom Friends, Central Perk and Monica's apartment set were well known to viewers. Monica's apartment was the gathering spot because it was the one that was used the most often for important conversations, Thanksgiving, or anything else.虽然《老友记》的拍摄地点涉及多个地方，但中央公园咖啡馆和莫妮卡的公寓场景是观众们最熟知的。莫妮卡的公寓是朋友们聚会的场所，重要的谈话、感恩节或其他事情经常在这里发生。
Joey and Chandler's home was also utilized frequently and for various occasions in addition to her apartment. These apartments, which served as the leads' primary residences and hangout spots, made up the majority of scenes in Friends.除了莫妮卡的公寓，乔伊和钱德勒的家也经常出镜。公寓作为主演们的住所，以及经常出入的地方，成为了《老友记》的大部分拍摄场景。
utilize，及物动词，指“使用；利用；运用；应用”（to use sth, especially for a practical purpose）
hangout，名词，指“（某一群人）常去的地方，聚集处”（If a place is a hangout for a particular group of people, they spend a lot of time there because they can relax and meet other people there.）Monica moved into the Greenwich Village apartment before the series' events. She once shared a room with Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), but Rachel moved in during the pilot. Although Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc) and Chandler lived across the hall, Monica's apartment was clearly much bigger.莫妮卡在剧集开始前就搬到了位于格林威治村的公寓。她曾经和菲比·布菲是室友，但在试播集时，瑞秋搬了过来。虽然乔伊和钱德勒就住在对门，但莫妮卡的公寓显然要比他们的大得多。
How did Monica manage to pay for such an apartment?There was a living room area and a full kitchen in the apartment, which was a roomy, open area. It also had a balcony, a full bathroom, and two bedrooms. Many viewers questioned how Monica and Rachel could pay their rent given the apartment's size and the Manhattan location. Prior to rising to the position of head chef in later seasons, Monica worked as a chef for the majority of the show, while Rachel served as a waitress prior to working in the fashion industry. Crane and Kauffman included information about the apartment's affordability and other issues because there were so many uncertainties.这间公寓有一个宽敞开放的区域，包括一个客厅和一个全套的厨房。它还有一个阳台，一个完整的浴室和两间卧室。很多观众不解，莫妮卡和瑞秋的公寓这么大，又是在曼哈顿，她们怎么付得起房租呢？在莫妮卡升职为主厨之前，她在剧中大部分时间都是做厨师，而瑞秋进入时尚行业之前是做服务员的。考虑到有太多不确定的因素，编剧克莱恩和考夫曼也将她们二人是否有负担房租的能力以及其他相关信息写入了剧情中。
The landlord, Mr. Treeger, threatened to evict Monica and Rachel from their apartment in the Friends season 4 episode titled "The One With the Ballroom Dancing" because they had been unlawfully subletting. The fact that Monica moved in and rented out the second bedroom after her grandmother, who had been the original tenant, also revealed that the apartment was rent-controlled, which meant that even after her grandmother's passing, she was still obligated to pay the $200 monthly rent. As Monica and Chandler get ready to leave in the series finale episode, Chandler said, "Thanks to rent control, it was a friggin' steal."在《老友记》第四季的“The One With The Ballroom Dancing”一集中，房东Mr. Treeger威胁要把莫妮卡和瑞秋赶出公寓，因为她们非法转租。事实上，这间公寓一开始的承租人是莫妮卡的祖母。莫妮卡后来搬了进来，在祖母去世后，她又将空出来的房间租了出去。此外，这集还透露了一个信息，那就是这套公寓属于房租管制，也就是说，即使莫妮卡的祖母去世了，莫妮卡仍可以以每月200美金的房租继续住下去。后来，当莫妮卡和钱德勒搬走的时候，钱德勒还说过“多亏了房租管制，这真是太便宜了。”
evict，及物动词，指“（尤指依法从房屋或土地上）驱逐，赶出，逐出”（to force sb to leave a house or land, especially when you have the legal right to do so）
sublet，及物或不及物动词，指“转租，分租（租来的物业）”（If you sublet a building or part of a building, you allow someone to use it and you take rent from them, although you are not the owner and pay rent for it yourself.）The writers of Friends chose the rent-control explanation as it was the simplest way to explain how Monica and her various roommates could afford to pay their rent. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, viewers predicted that the women should have been paying about $3,000 per month for an apartment of that size in Greenwich Village. According to researchers (via CNBC), the price of a residence of that size in 2018 would have been at least $4,500 and possibly as high as $8,000, depending on the location.《老友记》的编剧选择用“房租控制”这种最简单的方式，解释了为什么莫妮卡和室友能够支付得起房租。有观众估计，在20世纪90年代末和21世纪初，要想要在格林威治村租到这么大的公寓，每月的房租应该在3000美元左右。根据CNBC网站的信息，在2018年时，这种规模的公寓，房租已涨到至少4500美元，也可能高达8000美元，这取决于房子的位置。
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