The Sopranos 1x12 - Isabella 英文筆記

• carry on = act up 做出不合宜的舉止
  例：Brendan Filone's mother at the kid's funeral, the way she carried on. 他媽在那孩子的葬禮上哭到失控。
  
• hypoglycemia 血糖過低
• Winston Churchill 邱吉爾，二戰時的英國首相。
• moody 情緒不穩定的、情緒化的
• mule 一種沒包住腳跟的高跟鞋
  例：A day at the mall in mules and I'll be crippled for life.
• giambotto 一道義大利菜
• How are you fixed for sweat socks? 你運動襪還夠 (穿) 嗎？
• Sports Authority 運動用品專賣店
• Lithium 鋰
• aromatherapy 香精療法
• hang over 使掛念、懸掛
  例：Those indictments are hanging over my head too, you know.
  
• downturn 低迷時期
  例：This downturn started long before Pussy Bompensiero disappeared.
• long before 很早以前
• formal 正式的社交活動
  例：I will get your son a suit to wear to his first formal.
  
• light hat 鑲有燈光的帽子
• pork-chop boy 胖子
• run one's mouth about sth. 亂講話、說出不合宜的話
• adjourn 結束 (會議)、中止、延期、轉移陣地
  例：The meeting's adjourned at the Green Grove.
• It'll never lead back. 絕對無法追查回來。
• pisciatoio 廁所 (義大利語)
• wake 葬禮、追悼會
  例：What am I saying at the poor woman's wake?
• prayer card = holy card 印有天主教相關圖像 (如耶穌) 的卡片
• Honus Wagner 前美國棒球員
• newsstand 報攤
• delegate 委派、交給別人處理
• jack shit = nothing
  例：If he's wired, it's doing jack shit for the government because all we feed him now is deliberate bullshit. 就算他戴竊聽器，對政府也沒用，因為我們現在跟他說話都小心翼翼。
  
• deliberate 深思熟慮的
• drier 烘衣機
• Bermuda 百慕達
• pitiful 可憐的、同情的
  例：My English is pitiful.
  
• root canal 牙齒根管治療
• look straight at 直直地看
  例：You make a left at the stop sign. You must be looking straight at us for Christ's sake.
  
• mint 薄荷 (糖)，薄荷正式名稱為 mentha。
  
• jolt 搖動、推動、撞擊
  例：We're trying to give a jolt to your system. Give it a little kick start.
• kick start (機車的) 踩發
• rib 肋骨
  例：You get stabbed in the ribs, that's painful.
  
• split hairs 雞蛋裡挑骨頭、為一些微小不重要的事爭論
  例：Don't split hairs with me because I've had it with you. 別跟我挑毛病，因為我受夠你了。
  
• King Midas 米達斯王，希臘神話裡的人物，有點石成金的能力。
• in reverse 相反地
  例：Like King Midas in reverse, everything I touch turns to shit.
• padded room 四周貼著軟墊的房間，用來關精神病患的。
• straitjacket 約束衣
• laughing academy 瘋人院
• gum 樹脂、膠、牙床
• graft 移植、嫁接
• hero sandwich 義大利口味的三明治
• stonemason 石匠、建築工
• palazzo = palace (義大利語)
  
• wine bar 酒吧
• conceive 懷孕、構想
  例：A baby was conceived in the town.
• dicked up = fucked up
• bathrobe 浴袍
• peep 吱吱叫、偷窺
  例：My father came to this country with 17 cents in his pocket and he never made a peep.
• glue factory 膠水工廠，刻版印象上，人們以為動物死後會被丟到 glue factory 做成膠水。所以 go to the glue factory 可以引申為死了，或被丟到某處等死。
  
• wallow 沈迷、打滾
  例：You're sinking this whole family into your misery with your wallowing and your complaining while I spoon-feed you and bathe you!
  
• spoon-feed 用湯匙餵食、填鴨式教育
• ounce 盎司、一點點
  例：If I had an ounce of self-respect, I would cut your dick off!
• lobotomy 額葉切除術
  例：My cousin Cakey, after he had his lobotomy. Looked exactly like my son.
  
• Pick Six 一種賭賽馬的方式，挑出六次冠軍。
• stitch 縫、針
  例：I'm putting in a few stitches to create a nice closure.
• gas mileage 耗油量
• bang up 弄壞、撞壞
  例：What's the matter with you? Forget how to talk because your old man got banged up a little?
• sew 縫合
  例：You people can't wait until they finish sewing my ear back on?
• in return for 做為報答、交換
  例：We're offering your husband full immunity from prosecution in return for his testimony he might give us.
• relic 遺物、遺蹟
• rattlesnake 響尾蛇
• ranch 牧場、農場
• self-involved 自私的、只關心自己的事
  
• squirt 矮小的人、小毛頭
  
• Jamaican bobsled team 牙買加雪橇隊，在 1998 年奧運奪冠而成名。
• cap gun 玩具槍
• awry 歪斜地、彎曲地
  例：Sources in the FBI say it was gangland execution gone awry.
  
• undisclosed 不公開的
  例：Soprano escaped with minor wounds and was taken to an undisclosed area hospital.
• assailant 攻擊者、刺客
  
• fatally wounded 重傷不治的
  例：One of his assailants was fatally wounded in the attack.
• hood = ghetto 落後且犯罪率高的地區
• Taurus 金牛座、汽車廠牌
• fit the profile 符合形象
  例：Moolies in a new Taurus. Doesn't exactly fit the profile. 黑人開 Taurus，不太相配。
• have a beef with 對某人或某事有意見而爭執、感到什麼事應該改變
  例：I had a beef with with these guys at the newsstand.
• disfigure 外觀損毀、變難看
  例：You ear's disfigured.
• kneel in prayer 跪著禱告
  例：If you'd like to speak privately, we could kneel in prayer or something.
• Sambuca 一種義大利酒
• nitrate 硝酸鹽
  例：Don't eat capocollo. It's nothing but fat and nitrates.
• fight off 擊退
  例：Dad fought off two black guys. One of them got shot in the head.
• being 存在、生命
  例：Every particle of my being was fighting to live.
• mind's eye 想像
  例：We went to another place like, in my mind's eye.
• in the nude 裸體
  例：You don't knock? I could've been in the nude!
• slipper 拖鞋
• go in / down the toilet 毀了、失敗、變得沒價值
  例：It's terrific timing. Right after the move on your son goes in the toilet!
• pull one's leg 開玩笑、愚弄、嘲弄
  例：You sure about this? You're not pulling my leg?
• voluptuous 豔麗的、身材很好的、有吸引力的 (女人)
  例：She was very beautiful and voluptuous.
  
• loving 有愛心的、深情的
• caring 關心的、有愛心的
  例：Why the need for the fantasy of a loving caring woman now?
• infanticide 殺嬰罪、殺嬰犯；infant 嬰兒、兒童
  例：Your mother is always talking about infanticide.