The Sopranos 2x08 - Full Leather Jacket 英文筆記

• It's a reach = It's a stretch 表某件事很難，超出能力範圍。
  例：Georgetown is a total reach for me. 申請 Georgetown 大學對我來說太難了。
  
• over my dead body 除非等我死了、下輩子吧 (用來警告別人：只要有我活著，你就不能做麼做)。
• fudge 乳脂軟糖、欺騙、謊言
• crack a book 唸書、K 書
  例：You want to go to a collage like that you gotta crack the books.
• stocking 長襪、絲襪
• rent-a-sth. 出租東西的店，常出現在招牌上，例：rent-a-car、rent-a-geek (電腦顧問)、rent-a-cop (保全人員)。
• crowbar 鐵橇 (尾端有鉤子的)
• adrenaline 腎上腺素
• cat burglar = housebreaker 闖空門的竊賊、小偷
• start off 起步、開始
  例：- Pussy Bompensiero started off chipping safes like this? - Until he stepped up for Johnny Soprano during the unrest of '83.
  
• chip 鑿、鏟、削
• unrest 不安的狀態、動盪的局面
• door-to-door 挨家挨戶
  例：Selling stockings door-to-door.
• facelift 臉部整型手術 (去除皺紋、疤痕等)
• Profile Toner 美頸球，一種美容產品。
  
• give up on 不抱希望、失去信念
  例：The Profile Toner is great for any age and any body type, even for those hereditary conditions you've probably given up on.
• Notre Dame 巴黎聖母院
• baby boom 嬰兒潮
• exert 運用、發揮 (影響力)，例：exert a little pressure。
• bed 栽種植物的地方、苗床
  例：You're putting your roses to bed, huh?
  
• spinning class 健身房的一種課程，spin 是踩室內腳踏車 (indoor cycling)。
• ring the bell 按門鈴、鳴鍾、成功 
• escalator 電扶梯
  例：I see you going on the down escalator.
  
• letter of recommendation 推薦信
• transcript 成績單
• ice cap 冰帽
• poignant 辛辣的、強烈的、深刻的、感人的、切中要點的
  例：Her paper on the melting ice cap. It made me cry. It's so poignant.
• brace 支撐、強化
• youth 青春
  例：You're wasting your whole youth.
• bits of broken glass 玻璃碎片
• sob 啜泣、哽咽
  例：I hear your sobbing in your bed at night.
• carat 克拉
• blurry 模糊的
• drench 弄濕、浸濕、使充滿
  例：Don't drench it in oil this time.
• nickel bag 一小包大麻
• Tao 道家
  例：Like the Tao says, "you gotta shut one door before another one can open."
• swag 戰利品、贓物
  
• lay out 花錢
  例：I laid out my whole take on the diamond for Ade.
• childbearing 分娩、生小孩的過程
• burrito 墨西哥捲餅
• sign shop 做牌子、招牌的店
• canopy 遮雨篷、天篷、遮蓋物
  例：He's the only one who can smoke in the rain with his hands tied behind his back. His nose is a natural canopy.
  
• slip and fall 美國民法規定，因公共建設滑倒或跌倒而受傷，可依法索賠。
• deposition 宣誓作證、罷免
• goof 耍笨、出錯、搞砸
  例：I think I goofed.
• blind-side 沒有防備的一面、弱點，當動詞表示擊中要害。
  例：She just blind-sided me in the back yard. What was I supposed to say?
  
• elitist 優秀人材、傑出者、精英中的精英
• cement 水泥
• doormat 懦夫、弱者、擦鞋墊 (通常會擺在門邊)
  例：You want to be a doormat for the rest of your life?
  
• among the missing 失蹤、不知去向
  例：It's no trouble at all to add two more chairs. Especially with Ms. Meadow among the missing.
• foot 桌尾
  例：Let Janice's friend sit at the foot.
• The more the merrier. (參加某活動的) 人愈多愈讓人高興、人多才熱鬧
• crown roast 烤肋骨肉，外觀像皇冠。
• cerebral palsy 腦性麻痺
• addition 新成員、增加的人
  例：I think she would be a wonderful addition to Georgetown campus.
• officer of the court 泛指法律工作從事者
• academic year 學年
• rip up 撕成碎片、敲碎、劈開
  例：We heard from Gia Gaeta. Your little nephews ripped up the house and then haven't been back there.
• knock out 擊倒、驚艷
  例：She was knocked the fuck out by those teacher recommendations.
• puff 吹煙、噴煙、喘氣
  例：- You want one (cigarette)? - No, I'll have a puff of yours.
  
• Eye on the prize. 專心，把注意力集中在有用的事。
• communicate one's needs 表達需求
• tripe 牛肚 (內臟)、廢話
• flash in the pan 曇花一現
  例：Richie, you and Janice. This is no flash in the pan.
  
• For every shoe there is a mate. 每個人都有適合的另一半。
  
• bug out 離開、滾開
  例：I'm 18 years old. I'm going to be going to college. I can take care of myself, so just bug out, OK?
• pathfinder 探路者、領航者 
• incur 帶來、招致、遭受
  例：The car came into my possession because of a debt incurred to me by the kid's father. This is the way he elected to make payment.
  
• pink slip 解雇單、汽車擁有證明文件 (正式名稱是 vehicle title)
  
• rub one's nose in sth. 不斷地提醒、因某人犯錯而對他碎念念 (由來：讓狗不斷地去聞牠自己的屎，以訓練牠在室外大便)
• fettuccine 義大利寬麵條
• rub one's face in sth. 羞辱、給誰難看，例：rub her face in shit。