The Sopranos 3x05 - Another Toothpick 英文筆記

• point the finger at 指責、歸咎
  例：You can't get the answer out of him, so you start looking for someone else to point the finger at?
• favor 贊同、贊成、支持
  例：You were all in favor. 你之前是完全支持的。
• jump down one's throat 不同意、唱反調、批評
  例：It's like being the new kid at school, everybody jumps down your throat every time you open your mouth.
• speed trap 測速照相機 (或其他儀器)
  
• write up 開罰單
  例：This fucking smoke's actually writing me up.
  
• affirmative action 鼓勵女性和少數族群就業的政策
• levity 輕率、輕浮
  例：Come on. It's a tense situation. A little levity, huh?
  
• ear nose and throat department 耳鼻喉科
• whackjob 瘋子
  例：This kid's a whackjob. Meadowlands, last year, remember? Threw a hot dog vender off the second mezzanine. Too many onions or some shit.
• mezzanine 夾樓、中層樓
• prejudice 偏見、成見；terminate with extreme prejudice 刺殺某人的婉轉說法
  例：- You get him under control? - With extreme fucking prejudice.
• devout 虔誠的、誠墾的
• chemotherapy 化療
• frail 脆弱的、虛弱的、意志薄弱的
• fighting spirit 內心奮戰的力量
  例：Though frail and extremely thin, his fighting spirit was still intact.
• poor box 教堂裡的捐獻箱
• hearse 靈車
• shuffleboard 一種遊戲，玩家將圓盤推向長桌的另一端，看落在那一個得分區。
• Lee Trevino 高爾夫球員
• in name 名義上地 (非實質地)
  例：That prick is my godson in name only.
• cagey 機靈的、狡猾的、謹慎的
  例：You cagey fuck! You got them all fooled.
  
• gloomy Gus 陰沉、悶悶不樂的人
• anagram 重排字母造出新字 (一種文字遊戲)
  例：Stop speaking in anagrams.
• morbidity 病態、沮喪
• (on a) power trip 掌權者隨自己高興濫用權力
  例：What is it with you and these power trips?
• rustle up 很快收集到、湊集
  例：- Your girl got any coffee out there? - I think we can rustle some up.
• arouse suspicion 引起懷疑
  例：Old man Bacala's his godfather, he can get close without arousing suspicion.
  
• food taster 食品檢測員
• meat cleaver 切肉刀
• speeding ticket 超速罰單
• DMV = Department of Motor Vehicles 美國的監理所
• deplorable 淒慘的、悲慘的
  例：I told you, it's a deplorable situation and I'll take care of it.
• shortcake 一種脆餅
• empty handed 空手地
  例：He never comes empty handed.
• lodge 安頓、暫住、寄宿、容納
  例：Teddy Roosevelt gave an entire speech once with a bullet lodged in his chest.
• nodule 小瘤
  例：It's the nodules in his lungs.
  
• oncology 腫瘤學
• revitalization 新生、復興
• tax break 減稅
  例：It's part of the revitalization. The city of Newark is giving tax breaks for reopening old factories.
  
• turnoff 令人倒胃口的東西、側路、叉道
• vaseline 凡士林
• thine = thou 的所有格
  例：Be happy in thine own self.
  
• chariot 雙輪戰車
• butt in 干涉、介入
  例：I'm not trying to butt in. Junior reached out, asked me to talk to you.
  
• gum 牙床、用牙床咀嚼
  例：You send in an old man? What's he gonna do, gum the guy to death?
• stakeout (警察) 監視
  
• birdbath 花園裡裝飾用、供鳥戲水的水台
• ticket book 罰單本
• indecent exposure 防害風化罪
  例：Hey, get your ticket book. Doesn't that constitute indecent exposure?
• see to 參與、照料
  例：Your friend, the assemblyman, saw to it, I was transferred to the property room.
• property room 器材室
• scourge 鞭、鞭打、造成苦難的東西
  例：- So you're no longer the scourge of Cedar Grove? - Nor am I eligible for overtime.
  
• eligible 合格的、符合條件的
• overtime 加班、加班費
• harsh 嚴厲的、殘酷的、粗糙的
• rabble-rouser 煽動者
• wound up 緊張的、興奮的
  例：He's all wound up.
• spic 拉丁人 (有貶意)
• puttana 妓女 (義大利語)
• Fore! 提醒某人注意高爾夫球要砸到他了、前線友軍開槍前先告知後方友軍小心。意思是 look ahead 或 beware before。
  
• cause of death 死因
• metastasis 病毒或癌細胞的轉移、急速轉換
  例：How advanced was the metastasis?
• hair across one's ass 煩人的東西
  例：I don't know what your problem is, but you've had a hair across your ass all week.
• mow 割草
  例：He volunteered to mow your lawn.
• the big casino = cancer 癌症
• stool 大便
  例：There's blood in my stool.
  
• colon 結腸、冒號
• dummy up = clam up 閉嘴不談、保持默沉
  例：Promise me that you'll dummy up about this.
  
• nonentity 不存在、虛無的東西
  例：You're sick, people look at you different, they treat you like a nonentity.
• emphysema 肺氣腫
• old-timer 老前輩、老手、老人
  
• ward off 避開、擋住
  例：They're trying to ward off some evil.
• Holy Trinity 基督教的三位一體
• prey 捕食、掠奪、獵食
  例：Don't you think they should know there's a thief preying on the school?
• 10-speed 腳踏車的過時說法 (十段變速)
• income bracket = tax bracket 收入層級
  例：White or African-American, you're more likely to steal if you're in a lower income bracket, which most African-Americans are.
• halogen 鹵素 (氟氯溴碘)
• run-in 爭執、爭吵
  例：Did Christ tell you we had a little run-in?
• busboy 餐廳裡服務清桌子的人
• luxury yacht 豪華渡輪、高級遊艇
• brickwork 砌磚 
• scale model 放大或縮小的模型
• up to snuff 符合標準、滿足最低需求
  例：I don't feel up to snuff. 我身體不太舒服。
  
• wisenheimer 自作聰明的人