- 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.
2009/02/03
The Sopranos 2x13 - Funhouse 英文筆記
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