- settee 沙發 (椅腳比 sofa 長)
- Starving Students 美國搬家公司
- glide 滑動、滑行
例:These floors have wonderful glide. - (as) proud as punch 非常驕傲、趾高氣揚
例:His dad must be proud as punch. - wastrel 揮霍者、愛浪費的人
例:Go join your wastrel friends.
- dirt bike 越野摩托車
- stadium 露天大型運動場 (如巨蛋)
- The transmission slipped out of gear. 履帶脫離齒輪。
- plank 木板、舖板
- codependent 相互依存
例:Be a codependent to a shitbag. - hardship 艱難、苦難
例:My cousin Larry wants the Fairfield contract. Being the hardship on his family and whatnot, while he's awaiting trail.
- hemorrhage 出血
- spondulick 大筆的錢
例:I'm hemorrhaging spondulicks here. 我的荷包正在大失血。
- litigation 訴訟
例:I want to bring on specialized counsel to handle the wiretap litigation. - ballpark figure 大概的數字、估計數字
- lifeline 救生索、命脈、重要航線、
例:That coke is my lifeline right now. - feel out = sound out 探聽某人的想法或意見
例:Go talk to Ally Boy. Feel him out. - moxie 膽量、勇氣
例:He's got tremendous moxie for his size. - axle 輪軸
- turn one's head (on sth.) 改變立場、改變態度
例:The bureau would never turn its head on a murder charge. - a block of 一大塊
例:Tony made a guy order blocks of these things through his sporting goods store. - go out the window 消失、不見、離開
例:Any faith I had went out the window that very day.
- hand out 拿出來、分發
例:All I do is, I hand out money. - in denial 拒絕相信某件事是真的
例:You're in a bit of denial. Richie was always a disturbed kid.
- senile 老年的、高齡的
例:She's just too senile to remember who she hates. - ashram 嬉皮群居村、印度教修行的地方
例:I don't know what made me think I was gonna find anybody halfway decent in an ashram in Pradesh. - knock one's socks off = amaze 令人驚豔、太棒了
例:I just wanted to say that you knock my socks off. - sleeping pill 安眠藥
- cirrhosis 硬化,例:cirrhosis of the liver。
- hope chest 嫁妝箱
- radiant 光芒四射的、容光煥發的、洋溢幸福的
例:Remember how radiant I looked walking down that aisle? - aisle 走道、座位旁的走道、教堂中間的走道
- get off 性高潮、性興奮
例:- You let him hold a gun to your head during sex? - Ya, if that gets him off. It's not any different than garter belts and nurse's uniforms. - garter belt 吊襪腰帶
- fetishistic 崇拜物神的、戀物的
- lard 豬油
- turn the corner 好轉
例:He turned some corner. - Stockholm Syndrome 人質情結,指受害者對犯罪者產生情感。
- dermabrasion 去疤手術、磨皮手術
例:You talk to the king of dermabrassion about what went down?
- Plexiglas 樹脂玻璃
例:He's looking at his reflection in the Plexiglas. - bang 性交
例:I was banging her for two years. - out of the picture 不在了、退出行動
例:You take him out of the picture, believe me, everybody's gonna come along.
- setback 挫折、阻礙、退步
例:We can't be too fucked up by this setback. - screw your courage to the sticking-place 把勇氣固定住,比喻毅然決然、堅定、堅持到底,出自莎士比亞。
例:We gotta screw our courage to the post. - awe 敬畏、尊敬、害怕
例:I'm in awe of you. - Dow Jones 道瓊指數
- rally 集合、重振、召集
例:It rallied more than 100 points midday. - midday 中午、正午
- pharmaceutical 藥物的、藥學的
- Pokemon card 神奇寶貝卡
- convertible 有活動敞篷的 (車)、可轉換的
- ascertain 確認、確定
- salad spinner 一種廚房用品,沙拉脫水機。
- political rehabilitation 政治人物或組織平反汙名
- gutter 排水溝 (屋簷或路邊的)、槽
例:I'm gonna get started on your gutters tomorrow. - atrium 中庭、心房
- depart 起程、出發、離開
例:5:16 AM. Subjects departing Searchlight Diner. - almanac 曆書、年鑒
例:The planner check the almanac and he says there's 65% historical chance of rain on the twelfth. - fox trot 狐步舞
例:He wouldn't miss an opportunity to fox trot and tango in front of everybody.
- cabinet 櫥櫃、內閣
- leave the scene 離開現場、肇事逃逸
例:They were gonna pinch you for leaving the scene, but I got you out of it. - LCN = La Cosa Nostra 黑道、黑手黨
- misspent 浪費、虛度
例:I hate LCN. I know I misspent most of my life.
- salvage and crusher 這兩個字一起出現時,通常指美國收廢車或零件公司,auto crusher 是用來壓爛汽車的機器,auto salvage 是將汽車零件拼一拼,再拿出來賣。
- jilt 拋棄、甩掉
例:He probably jilted her. It's the story of her life.
- nag 嘮叨、碎碎念、批評、使困擾、使煩惱
例:You're always nagging her about her weight. - tramp 妓女、乞丐、流浪漢
例:She goes out on a date, you call her a tramp! - narcissistic 自戀的、自我陶醉的
例:She says that our mother has a narcissistic personality.
- no prize as 不是模範的、做得不是很好
例:Grandpa Vito was no prize as a father. - blow one's stack at sb. 發怒、生氣
例:I used to suggest it, and you'd blow your stack at me. - pine cone 松果、松球
- accessory 共謀、幫兇、配件
例:For 18 years of marriage, don't make me make you an accessory after the fact. - tennis clinic 網球訓練班
2009/01/23
The Sopranos 2x12 - The Knight in White Satin Armor 英文筆記
2009/01/16
The Sopranos 2x11 - House Arrest 英文筆記
- plead 懇求、答辯
例:I can plead him out at three to five. 我可以幫他求到三到五 (年)。
- "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." -Nietzsche
尼采:當你凝視深淵時,深淵也在凝視你。 - close call 九死一生
例:A very close call, that brush with the murder beef. - beef 告發
- insulate 隔離、絕緣
例:Insulate yourself from these shenanigans. I told you once already.
- shenanigan 惡作劇、欺騙、壞勾當
- tax return 納稅申報單
- sledgehammer 大鐵鎚
- incision 切割、切開 (特別指手術)
例:That's just the incision where I inserted the stent.
- stent 手術後用來撐開血管的小管子
- bedpan 便盆
- discotheque 迪斯可舞廳
- magnifying glass 放大鏡
- mourn = grieve 哀痛、哀悼
例:You're still in mourning over the coming of managed care?
- managed care 健康管理 (目的在降低醫療成本和促進醫療品質)
- lift weights 舉重
相關字:pump iron 健身 (不特別指舉重) - bunion 姆囊腫
- mater 母親 (拉丁字)
- IHOP 美國連鎖早餐店
- self-indulgent 對自己縱容的、放縱的
例:She was a little self-indulgent when it came to the office supplies. (暗指她喜歡偷辦公室用品)
- rack 一對大胸部
例:Nice rack! - born-again Christian 重生基督徒,也就是新教徒。
- illustrated man 有刺青的人
- blow = coke 古柯鹼
- talk sb. out of sth. 說服某人打消念頭或不要做某事
例:He said last time he wanted to stop coming, but I talked him out of it. - pituitary 腦垂體
- train wreck 火車車禍,常來比喻你知道即將發生,但卻無能為力的災難。
例:It's like that thing with watching a train wreck. - repulse 拒絕、厭惡、擊退
例:I'm afraid and repulsed by what he might tell me. - ramp up 增加、加強、上升、促進 (活動或生產)
例:It'll ramp up to eight pounds per cubic inch. - obstructive 妨礙的、阻礙的、阻塞的
例:Obstructive sleep apnea is serious. - apnea 呼吸暫停、窒息
- REM = rapid eye movement 快速眼動期
- arousal 喚起、刺激 (可以指性方面)、覺醒
例:Nurse: Testing shows REM-wise you have 40 arousals per hour.
Junior: More, since I met you. Such a thing to say.
Nurse: "Arousals" means a change in your stages of sleep. You are such a flirt.
- dreadnought 無畏戰艦 (一種強大的武器)
- cleavage 乳溝、切縫、分割、切開
- finger food 用手直接拿來吃的食物
- landfill 垃圾掩埋 (地)
- in triplicate 三份、三倍
例:I gotta file it in triplicate every day. - breathe down one's neck 嚴密地監視、緊緊地盯住
例:The FBI and the DEA are gonna be breathing down our necks again. - municipality 自治市、自治區
- curbside 人行道的邊緣
- seaboard = seacoast 海岸
- wring 扭、擰
例:If it was a man, you'd wring his neck. - preliminary 初步的、早期的、預備的
例:I have your preliminary results. - put one's finger on 找出問題的癥結、原因
例:I'll be relieved when somebody puts their finger on whatever the fuck it is that's wrong with me.
- ladyfinger 鬆脆餅
- crumb cake 一種上面灑有糖粉的蛋糕
- flange 凸緣 (一種零件)
- squander 浪費、揮霍
例:Every paycheck squandered on alcohol. - convent 修道院、修女住的地方
- dinnerware 整套的餐具
- contractor 承包商、立契約的人
- deconstructivism 解構主義,一種建築主義。
- droll 逗趣的、好笑的、幽默的
例:My droll mom. - woefully 悲哀地、遺憾地
- lethal = fatal = deadly 致命的
例:Please call the police because I'm not the one with the lethal weapon here. - detergent 清潔劑
- lubricate 潤滑、塗油
例:Get the detergent and lubricate my wrist! - limp 軟弱的、無力的
- flex 彎曲、收縮
例:Limp! You're flexing! Let it go limp.
- simmer down = calm down 冷靜
- effrontery 厚顏無恥、大膽、放肆
例:Where does he get the effrontery? - grand mal 癲癇
例:He's the boss. Whether he has grand mals or not.
- bureaucrat 政府官員、官僚
- passive-aggressive 被動性攻擊,指一個人表面上看似被動,但實際上是主動。例如,有不滿不直接表達,而以消極性作為以表示反抗 (如不合作)。
- compulsion 強迫、強制
- sawbuck 十元鈔票、鋸木架
- rival 競爭者、敵手
- amicable 和平的、友善的
Even rival families settled their differences amicably.
- tempt fate 冒很大的風險
例:Let's not tempt fate by taxing the heart. - MSG = monosodium glutamate 味精
- undue 未到期的、過度的
例:Have you been under any undue stress? - dermatitis 皮膚炎
- irritant 刺激性的、刺激物
例:Dollars to donuts, you're being exposed to an irritant in the air there. - cortisone 腎上腺皮質素
- holler 喊叫
例:I thought I heard you hollering. - racetrack 賽馬場、賽車場
- fixture 固定物、設備
- den 洞穴、舒適的房間
例:You could make a den out of the closet.
- skim coat 比較高級的牆壁粉刷,摻有石膏和細白沙。
- lawn 草坪、草地
- clammy 潮溼的、陰溼的、溼黏的 (指讓人不愉快)
- arcade 騎樓、拱廊
- feel sb. up 撫模、愛撫
例:I remember my Johnny told me she let him feel her up behind the Sons of Italy hall. - sewer 汙水管、下水道
例:If she fell into a sewer pipe, she'd come up holding a gold watch in each hand. - acidity 酸、酸味
例:I can't handle the acidity. - obligation 義務、職責
- loophole 孔、彈孔
- mellow 成熟的、香醇的
例:You seem very mellow toady.
- ceaseless 不停的、不斷的
例:The individual craves almost ceaseless action which enables them to avoid acknowledging the abhorrent things they do.
- abhorrent 令人厭惡的、可惡的
- cathode 陰極
- self-loathing = self-hatred 極度討厭自己
- clay pigeon 泥製飛靶
2009/01/13
The Sopranos 2x10 - Bust Out 英文筆記
- windshield 擋風玻璃
例:The light was reflected off the windshield.
- heavyset 體格魁武的
- ragweed 豕草
- be fed up with sth. 受夠、厭煩
例:I'm so goddamn fed up with crime. - cadet 軍隊新鮮人、剛入伍的菜鳥
- bow tie 蝶形領結
- tonnage 噸位、噸位稅
- township 鎮區
- picnic cooler (bag) 野餐籃
- raise a red flag 亮紅燈、出現警訊、可能有危險
例:Won't it raise a red flag with travel agency? - in bulk 大批、大量
例:A sports store charges airline tickets in bulk? - horn 話筒
- backboard 籃板、靠背板
- cabana 小屋
- cap 殺、開槍射殺
例:Tony capped the Bevilaque kid. - boar 公豬、野豬
- husky 高大健壯的
- accomplice 幫兇、共犯
- throw away the key 把牢房的鑰匙丟掉,即處以無期徒刑。
例:I ought to burn you right now and let the judge throw away the fucking key! - nose blowing 擤鼻涕
- coinage 幣制、創造新字詞
- procrastinate = postpone 延遲、耽擱、拖延
- get one's ducks in a row 妥善處理或安排
例:Let me get our ducks in a row.
- midlife crisis 中年危機
- scavenger hunt 一種找尋事先藏好物品的遊戲
- count noses / heads 點名
- fence 擊劍、劍術
- tie up 完結、完成
- loose end 未完成的事
例:All right. Next week, my house. We'll tie up the loose ends. - glare 照得刺眼、怒視
例:The light bulb glares the "one" ball when I rack. - felt 毛毯、毛布
- erotic 性感的、挑逗的
例:I find powerful men erotic.
- "When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare." 出自孫子兵法:「敵人開戶,後如脫兔。」
- lamb chop 羊助骨肉
- bygone 過去的 (事)
例:Bygones are never bygones. - infested 泛濫的、蔓延的、大批出沒的
例:That poor prick he had five minutes to run and ended up in some rat infested motel down in Elvis country.
- lien 留置權、抵押權
例:I open my mail and it's a lawsuit. It's a lien on the building! - preoccupied 出神的、忙碌的、迷住的、心事重重的
例:Dave's been even more preoccupied than usual lately. - wait on one's hand and foot 全心全力照顧某人、服伺
例:When his wife was dying, he waited on her hand and foot. - hostile womb 一種不孕症,有敵意的子宮,免疫系統會攻擊胎兒。
- rod and reel 釣桿和捲線器
- back order 賣完了,等待補貨。
例:You wanted it for Christmas last year, remember? We couldn't get it because it was back-ordered? - bittersweet 又苦又甜的、苦樂參半的
- brat 頑童、搗蛋鬼
- barricade 阻擋、設置路障、築柵防禦
例:Do you remember they caught you up at Garret Mountain and had you barricaded in your old man's car, and I whipped that rock and hit that guy in the eye?
- reminisce 回憶、回想
例:Don't reminisce on me.
- The Scorpion and the Frog 寓言故事,蠍子要求青蛙載他過河,並保證不會螫青蛙,但在過河途中,蠍子還是螫了青蛙,結果兩人都死在河裡。死前青蛙問蠍子為什麼這麼做,蠍子回答:"I'm a scorpion, it's my nature."
- bang 撞擊、猛擊
例:If I wouldn't have banged my foot, I would've came in second. 如果我沒撞到腳,我早就是第二名了。
- gourmet 美食家
例:My wife was a gourmet cook. - powder room 化妝室、女廁所、洗手間 (比較高級的)
- duct tape 膠帶 (銀色的那種)
- in no shape for 沒有本錢、沒有能力、沒有好的狀況
例:You're in no shape for disharmony.
- disharmony 不和諧、不一致
- tight-lipped 閉緊嘴巴的、保守祕密的、口風緊
例:Officials close to investigation are keeping tight-lipped as it may involve a high-ranking Mafia member. - twist in the wind 在外受風吹雨打,比喻孤立無援,沒有人幫助。
例:Where were you when I dropped out in the first place? I was twisting in the wind out there. - get a broom up/in one's ass/tail 賣命地做、拼命做,例:your broom-up-her-ass sister。
- saving 存款、儲蓄
- liquidator 清算人
- termite 白蟻
- flip-flop 夾鞋拖鞋
- controversy 爭論、議論
例:General George Patton knows that the controversy that have swirled about him have tarnished his reputation. He desperately wants to vindicate himself in the only way he knows how: In battle.
- tarnish = darken 玷汙、使變暗
- vindicate = justify 維護、表白、辯護
- fierce 猛烈的、強烈的、兇猛的
例:Patton's hatred for the enemy is matched only by his fierce concern for his men. - cliché 陳腔濫調、老生常談、老套
例:That's kind of a cliché, isn't it?
- disparaging = belittling = derogating = denigrating 輕視的、蔑視的
例:I didn't mean to sound disparaging. - dodge a bullet 成功避開危險
例:I dodged a very big bullet, and I'm feeling pretty good about it.
- spinal cord 脊髓
- poster boy / child 公益活動 (如某疾病基金會) 宣傳單或海報上的人或小孩,以鼓勵人捐款或發起某活動。
- harbor master 港口的管理員
- horsepower 馬力
- starboard 右舷、船的右側;larboard 左舷
2009/01/05
The Sopranos 2x09 - From Where to Eternity 英文筆記
- spleen 脾臟、壞脾氣
- His Holiness 教宗的敬稱
- agony 痛苦、折磨
例:I want that motherfucker in agony! - ICU = Intensive Care Unit 加護病房
- give birth 生產
例:She just gave birth to Ralph's baby. A C-section. - C-section = Cesarean section 剖腹產 (手術)
- CK One 香水牌子
- stink up = smell up 弄臭、使發臭
例:Maybe it has to something to do with the CK One sticking up your shirt last Wednesday night. - vasectomy 結紮、輸精管切除手術
- put sb. at risk 置於風險之中、使處於危險中
例:You're putting us all at risk. - V one's ass off 形容努力地做某事
例:They're working their asses off on him. - be up on 精通、通曉、熟悉
例:This is the best trauma unit in Tri-State area. I'm up on all the ratings.
- cardiac 心臟的
- respiratory 呼吸的
- arrest 停止
例:Mr. Moltisanti suffered cardiac and respiratory arrest due to internal bleeding.
- intubate 插管
- ventilator 通風設備、呼吸器
- bouncer 守衛 (守在活動門外的大塊頭)
- emerald 翡翠
- piper 風笛手
- morphine 嗎啡
- pinstripe 細條紋 (的布料)
- spay 切除卵巢、絕育
- pry 打聽、刺探、窺探、窺視
例:I'm not trying to pry into that part of your life. - near death experience 瀕死經驗
- Pol Pot 波帕,柬埔寨的獨裁者。
- floodgate 水閘、水門
- hive 蜂窩、蜂巢、鬧區
- crook 賊、罪犯、彎曲的東西
- wind chime 風鈴
- flip out 發狂、發瘋、暴怒、生氣
- event manager 活動主管 (負責承辦活動)
- baffle 困惑、煩惱、為難
之前的相似字:bewilder
例:I'm battled by this three o'clock thing. - goon 笨蛋、呆子
- bud 花蕾、芽、萌芽,例:buds for horns。
- dispute 爭論、反對、質疑
例:The heat would have been the first thing you noticed. Hell is hot. That's never been disputed by anybody. - purgatory 淨化的地方、煉獄、滌罪
- mortal sin 不可饒恕的大罪
- venial sin 可饒恕的輕罪
- can do sth. standing on one's head 比喻很輕鬆或很熟練,站在頭上都可以做。
例:I can do that standing on my head. - deliberately 故意地、蓄意地、從容不迫地、有條理地
例:Did I do it deliberately? - facile 容易的、口才好的
- analogy 類比、類似、相似
- never-never land 夢想之地、想像的地方
例:I'm living in a mortal never-never land with this patient.
- feel for sb. = feel sorry for sb. 同情、感到遺憾
- courtesy 禮貌、謙恭有禮
例:It's a common courtesy. - the odds don't favor it 機會不會偏坦
- repent 悔改、懺悔
例:You have to look at this experience as an opportunity to repent. - intact 原封不動的、完整的
例:I got balls, and I as long as I do, they will remain intact. - Trajan 保險套品牌
- heir 後嗣、繼承人
例:I'm supposed to get a vasectomy when this is my male heir?
- den 洞穴、獸穴,例:lion's den。
- satanic 撒旦的、惡魔的
- queer = fagot 同性戀 (有貶意)
- ringleader 頭目、首領、元兇
- write off 註銷、取消 (債務)、行雲流水地寫
例:I was ready to write the whole thing off until this psychic mentioned Little Sonny Pagano. - Ghostbusters 降妖伏魔的人、電影《魔鬼特攻隊》
- cut loose = release = set free
- on spec 做不確定會得到報酬的事情、投機
例:Sean did it on spec. - parish 教區
- divination 占卜、算命、預言
- unsanctioned 未核准的
例:You should've never gone to a psychic. It's divination, it's the devil, and completely unsanctioned by the church. - heretic 異教徒、異端
- witchcraft 巫術、魔法
例:Psychics are heretics and thieves who practice witchcraft. There's no validity to anything he told you.
- validity 正確性、有效性
- organ 風琴
- reed 蘆葦、樂器的吹嘴
- slack off 鬆懈、偷懶
例:You've been slaking off on me. You left me unprotected. I'm cutting you off for good.
- snip 喀嚓、剪斷
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