- have all one's marbles / buttons 完全理智、頭腦很清楚,這裡 marbles 相當於心智 (wits)。
例:She's sick woman. She doesn't have all her marbles. - make an asshole out of sb. 使某人出糗
例:Don't make an asshole out of yourself! - fluff 使起毛、弄亂、弄鬆
例:Tony Soprano likes to fluffs his mother's pillow so she can get a nice long sleep. - bad blood 敵對關係、怨恨、不滿
例:Make peace with her. It'll look like no bad blood. It'll be good for all of us.
- mousehole 鼠洞
- industrialize 工業化
例:The black men industrialized the North, but we're still fighting for jobs. - reverend 牧師
- artisan 工匠、技工
- shut out of 被關在門外
例:Black joint-fitters like all black artisans have been shut out of the unions. - put sth. on the line 置於危險之中、使冒險
例:My father put his life on the line for this country. - tyranny 暴政、獨裁統治
- tabernacle 猶太教或摩門教的殿堂
- utter 發聲、說
例:I'm going to visit "she who's name may not be uttered." Wanna come?
- left-brained 死腦筋的、只用左腦思考的 (左腦負責邏輯、分析等理性思考)
- sacred 神聖的、宗教的
- birthmark 胎記
- cranapple (juice) 藍梅和蘋果綜合果汁
- plain apple (juice) 純蘋果汁
- tapioca 木薯澱粉
- crack up 逼瘋、精神崩潰
例:She cracks me up. - reek 散發濃厚氣味、發臭
例:Oh, you reek of cigarettes! - black and blue 黑青
- stuck in 插入
例:You see my hand? It's all black and blue where they stuck in the needle. - pitch = peddle 推銷、沿街叫賣
例:I had to go the city for a few days. I'm pitching my self-help video. - Jack Kerouac 美國小說家
- activist 激進份子
- picket 站哨、護衛、(用柵欄或木樁) 圍住、抗議
例:These activists are killing me. They're picketing my place 24-7. - 24-7 全天候地 (一天 24 小時,一週 7 天)
- jurisdiction 管轄權
例:You were told the joint fitter's union is under my uncle's jurisdiction. - pave the way for 為…鋪路、準備、幫助
例:You could pave the way for me to talk to your uncle, so he could maybe send some guys down and make it uncomfortable for these people. - electrician 電器師、電器工
- refinance 再提供資金
- subsistence 生存、活命
例:Tell him I'm gonna let him keep on earning. Subsistence level. - high-end 吸引內行人的、內行的
- dumpster 大型垃圾桶
- To the victor belong the spoils. 一句諺語,意思是「成王敗寇」或「戰利品全歸勝者所有」。原本是用來形容美國的政治系統,政黨贏得選舉後,除了可以得到官職外,還可以得到其他利益。
- quotation 引用語
- buzz 按電鈴
例:Buzz me when he feels ready to leave. - iota 極小的量
例:My back don't feel one iota different. - generosity 慷慨、寬大
例:Don't take advantage of the government's generosity.
- play both ends against the middle 在兩組對立的人馬間周旋,使自己漁翁得利。
- give sb. a window = give sb. a break
- Spare me, OK? 少來了,好嗎?
- chauffeur (專任) 司機
- errand boy 跑腿的小弟、專做雜事的小弟
- custody 監禁、拘留
例:This man should not be removed from custody for medical reasons. - incarcerate 監禁、使入獄
例:Every time we get one of these elder mafioso incarcerated, we get the same bag of tricks. - bag of tricks 錦囊妙計的「錦囊」
- take offense = be insulted = be offended
例:I take offense at the characterization of my client as a mafioso. - benign 良性的、溫和的、親切的
例:Mr. Soprano is suffering a very benign illness. A few clogged arteries. - clog 阻塞、塞滿
- artery 動脈、主要幹道
- lean towards 傾向
例:I'm leaning towards releasing this man from lockup. - lockup 監禁
- house arrest 軟禁
- primary residence 最常住的住所
- bracelet 手鐲、手銬、手環
- persecute 為難、困擾、迫害
例:While we certainly agree to house arrest, we are asking that Mr. Soprano not be further persecuted for yet-to-be-proven allegations. - allegation = formal accusation
- veteran 老兵
例:He's a veteran of the Second World War.
- long in the tooth 非常老
例:You're 28 years old when World War II starts. That's a little long in the tooth, isn't it? - Pharaoh 法老
- part 分開
例:Moses parted the Red Sea. - determination 決心
例:Never underestimate a man's determination to be free. - pout 噘嘴、不高興
- cardiologist 心臟學家
- debut 首次登台
例:I heard your radio debut on those tapes the feds made at Green Grove. - grub 挖掘、搜尋,例:money grubbing 愛錢的、嗜錢如命的。
- hairpiece = toupee = false hair 假髮
- take a vow = take an oath
- Inside Edition 美國新聞節目
- macaroni 通心麵
- kudo 名詞,讚美,通常用複數。
例:Kudos. You are a saint. - insensitive 沒感覺到、沒察覺
例:I was insensitive to his feelings. - power of attorney (POA) 委託書
- obnoxious 討厭的、不愉快的
- insecure 不安全的、沒有安全感的
- break free 逃走、掙脫
例:He's insecure. He's afraid to leave New Jersey and threatened by anybody who's broken free. - rehab 復健、復興
- community service 社區服務
- homeless shelter 給無家可歸的人暫時居住的地方
- frames (眼鏡) 鏡框
例:I should get new frames.
- cataract 瀑布、白內障
- continental 大陸的、洲的
- nucleotide 核甘酸
- strand 線之一股、海岸
例:Guess how many nucleotides on each strand? - fascist 法西斯主義者
- martinet 嚴格的人、嚴肅的人
- Jimi Hendrix 美國歌手
- make great strides 有很大的進步
例:Her rehab therapist says she's making tremendous strides and it's not gonna be long before they release her. - face-saving 保全面子
- taxpayer 納稅人
- foot 支付
例:The taxpayer foots the bill. - blimp 飛船、胖子
- pay one's dues 辛苦工作以賺取某種東西
- foreskin 包皮
- heart failure 心臟衰竭
- foul play 不正當行為 (特別指暴力)、犯罪、謀殺
- hover 徘徊、盤旋
- resuscitate 復活、復甦、復興
- anguish 痛苦、苦惱
例:DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) is to save the family a lot of anguish and decisions at a difficult time, when there is no quality of life.
- quality of life 生活質量,對生活幸福與否的衡量。
- deprive 剝奪
例:To deprive your mother of a place to live. To deprive me of my chance to make peace with my mother. - carouse 痛飲、暢飲
例:You got a driver's license, not a license to go carousing around on a school night. - pinochle 一種撲克牌遊戲
- Louisiana 路易斯安那州
- season 調味;well-seasoned 調味調得很好
例:Louisiana food isn't really spicy, it's just well-seasoned. - cayenne (pepper) 辣椒
- initials 縮寫
例:DNR, it's initials. - alphabet 字母系統、字母集
- Richard Widmark 美國演員
- longevity 長命、長壽
例:He lived well. God blessed him with longevity. - We all will have our time. 我們都會有離開的一天。
- bust up 爭吵、破壞
- asbestos 石綿
- harbor 遮蔽、保護、保有 (什麼想法或情緒)
例:He harbors resentment against me, and to this day I don't know what I did. - snake in the grass 陰險狡詐的人、心機重的人
- work ethic 職業道德
- piggyback 扛在肩上
2008/11/21
The Sopranos 2x02 - Do Not Resuscitate 英文筆記
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