The Sopranos 2x13 - Funhouse 英文筆記

• abusive 辱罵的、虐待的
  例：She was abusive to the staff!
• shred 少量、碎片
  例：If you had a mother that had one shred of gratitude in her. But you don't.
• take a page from one's book 跟誰學
  例：She's taking a page from your wife's book.
• tarmac 停機坪、柏油路
• zucchini 一種夏季南瓜
• mussel 蚌類、蛤
• fail to disappoint 不會令人失望
  例：So telecommuncations, once again, fails to disappoint?
• front man 用來當掩護的人
• acme 頂點、極致
  例：You buy a couple of million units of calling time from a carriers. You become Acme Telephone Card Company.
• cut rate 減價、折扣，例：Calling cards at a cut rate.
• on credit 賒帳
  例：You bought the bulk time on credit.
• stiff 作弊沒付錢、欺騙
  例：The carrier gets stiffed. He cuts off service to the cardholders.
• Vestimenta 男西裝品牌
• merkin 假陰毛
  例：It's growing a beard or a merkin or something.
  
• sable 貂皮、黑貂
• vindaloo 辣咖哩
• wog 中東人、印度人 (有貶意)
• snitch 告密者、偷、告密
  例：One snitch I worked with became recycling and garbage commissioner of a good-sized city in Florida.
• commissioner 委員、行政長官
• good-sized 大的 
  
• cocker spaniel 英國小獵犬
• hole in one 一桿進洞
  例：Every Christmas, he sends out these typed reports of what his nieces and nephews have been doing. Who got into West Point. Who got a hole in one.
• chatter 喋喋不休、卡搭作響、打顫
  例：Your teeth are chattering.
• out of consideration 顧及、為了…起見、為誰著想
  例：Just out of consideration for others, you'd dump those mussels you gave me before you cause an outbreak.
• outbreak 爆發、暴動
• handpick 親手挑選
  例：- I handpick every piece of shellfish myself! - Oh ya? You smelling them as you're picking them or you're staring off into space? Worrying about paying your rent or whatever it is you worry about!
  
• stare / gaze (off) into space 兩眼出神、發呆
  
• undigested 未消化的
  例：The mussels came up undigested.
  
• ghee 酥油，從牛奶中提煉，印度菜常用的油。
• clarified butter 牛奶加熱去除沉澱後，留下來澄清無色的油，即酥油。
• rancid 腐臭的、腐爛的、噁心的
  例：Ghee is clarified butter. You get a rancid hit of that.
  
• cremation 火化、火葬、 焚化
  例：When Indira Gandhi got assassinated, I was watching the satellite feed when they broadcast the cremation. Did you know they doused the body and the funeral pyre in clarified butter just to get it burning?
  
• douse 浸泡、弄溼
  之前的相似字：drench、dip
• funeral pyre 火葬用的木柴堆
• green around the gills 想吐的樣子、生病的樣子
  例：Tony's a little green around the gills. Flu, I'm guessing.
  
• eat something (that) didn't agree with sb. 吃到自己不能吃的東西
• salmonella 腸道沙門氏菌
• pappadam 印度薄餅
• course 一頓餐點中的一道菜 (主菜或配菜)，例：three courses meal。
• entree 入場權、主菜
• boardwalk 木板路、木板鋪成的步道
• carry off 因…而死、成功解決
  例：That's the friend that was almost carried off by the ducks, right?
• immensely 龐大地、巨大地、無限地
  例：I find you immensely attractive.
• go out of one's way = make an effort 用盡辦法、努力、竭力
  例：You go out of your way to repulse me.
• grit 咬緊、咬牙切齒、發出刺耳的摩擦聲
  例：He's gritting his teeth. He's freezing.
• E. coli = Escherichia coli 大腸桿菌
• campylobacter 曲狀桿菌
• raghead = towelhead 中東人、印度人 (指頭上綁頭巾，有貶意)
• microbial 微生物的、細菌引起的
  例：Those spices kill microbial agents. Very smart.
  
• pass over 忽略、忽視、略過
  例：You passed me over for promotion.
• flop 回來拍打、摔落、失敗
  例：I want to see you flopping around down there.
• cramp 抽筋、痙攣、肌肉收縮而痛
  例：Cramps are gone. I gotta go out.
• consomme 清燉肉湯
• mulch 護根、護蓋物，撒在植物根部避免失水或失溫的葉子或稻草。
• sea legs 明明站著不動卻感覺自己在動。在船上待幾小時後，剛下船到陸地時，會不習慣，有自己在動的錯覺。
• trot 很長的路途、拉肚子、腹瀉、落賽
  例：You're sure want to go out today? Just getting over the trots.
• Time and tide wait for no man. 歲月不饒人、時間不等人
• (ship) displacement 排水量
  例：This ship got a decent displacement for its size.
• mahogany 一種紅褐色的木材
• gossip column 報紙上的八卦專欄
• disinformation 假情報
• harm's way 危險的處境、危險的路
  例：I would do nothing, Tony, to put you in harm's way.
• tip off 洩漏、告密、透露情報
  例：That's how they got tipped off about the Bevilaqua hit?
• amount to 總計、加起來等於
  例：None of it amounted to anything.
• mind fuck 惡整某人的腦袋、耍
  例：I'm mind-fucking these donkeys like you wouldn't believe.
• swell (微微上下起伏的) 海浪
  
• Second Coming 耶穌第二次降臨，做最後審判。
  例：I tell you, this broad. Her ass was the Second Coming.
• snap at 抓、咬、向誰叫罵、向誰發怒或生氣
  例：Don't snap at me, okay? Don't press your luck with this diarrhea.
• push / press one's luck 把運氣推走，比喻在好的情況下還冒險、得寸進尺。
• parrot 鸚鵡
• mean well 用意良善、為誰好
  例：You have to understand that your father means well.
• capital punishment = death penalty 死刑；captital crime 死罪
• collude = conspire 同謀、共謀、勾結、串通
  例：A year ago you mother colluded to have to killed. Yet your never say "boo" about that. Even when I try to elicit.
  
• elicit 引出、帶出、抽出
• inflict 施以、加害
  例：If she tried to have to killed a year ago, believe me, in your childhood, she's inflicted serious psychic injuries that are still there.
• food for thoughts 精神糧食、發人深省的事；snacks for thoughts 不是非常重要，但可以娛樂或調劑心靈的事。
• rant 大聲責罵、叫罵、咆哮
  例：You go off on a racist rant about Indian food and your "demented old bat" of a mother.
• small potatoes 小數目 (常用來指錢)
  例：The youth. That's what's important. What we do is small potatoes.
• pinch 節省
  例：He got accepted at Georgetown. It's a little money pinch.
• run specials 推出特別活動、優惠專案
  例：The airlines are running specials nonstop into Nevada.