- 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
2009/01/13
The Sopranos 2x10 - Bust Out 英文筆記
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