smart.fm - 背單字的好工具

http://smart.fm

最近才發現 smart.fm 這個網站，它原名是 iKnow，源自於日本。你可以把一堆你想學的東西 (必須一個一個的 "item")，加到這個網站裡，然後它會用有科學根據的方法，讓你有系統地記憶這些東西 (類似記憶卡)。

網站上放了一個很酷炫的介紹影片，看了大概就知道他們在做什麼。

我花了一些時間把這幾個月累積的單字或片語全放到 smart.fm 上，希望透用它來幫我複習以前學過的單字。

我的帳戶網址是：http://smart.fm/users/eliang

The Sopranos 4x01 - For All Debts Public and Private 英文筆記

• influence peddling 利用自己 (在政府組織的) 人脈關係幫別人解決問題，並藉此賺錢。這通常是違法行為。
  例：Italy was relieved today upon learning that the country's high court had ruled that influence peddling is not a crime.
  
• Protestant (work) ethic 新教倫理 
• ethnicity 種族特徵、種族淵源
  例：You're complaining about your paper on ethnicity. Right here's some interesting stuff from your own background.
• as a whole 整體來看、一般地
  例：This is about Italy as a whole.
• soggy 溼透的、潮溼的
  例：I do know that Meadow stepped in some soggy bread with her bare feet.
• pile 堆積、推疊
  例：I find them piled in his room.
• make a go of 成功、完成
  例：You better make a go of it at that new school.
• get fresh about sth. 對什麼不滿；get fresh about with sb. 言語上對誰無禮
  例：Now you're gonna get fresh about it?
• bring sth. home to sb. 讓某人更清楚地了解某事 (通常用在令人不愉快的事)
  例：He brought the war home to them up there.
• colicky 疝氣痛的、疝氣的
• zephyr 徐風、和風、微風、西風
  之前的相似字：breeze
  
• lackey 馬屁精、侍從、僕人、奉承
• audibility 能聽度
• xerox 影印、複印 (Xerox 是影印機的牌子)
  
• kielbasa 蒜味燻腸
• pocket rat 有頰囊 (cheek pouch) 的鼠類
• john 嫖客
• infallible 絕無錯誤的、絕對可靠的
  例：Ever since I questioned his judgment on some Ralphie/Jackie Jr. problem. Like he's infallible Pope Tony XXIII or some shit.
• endangered species 瀕臨絕種的動植物 
• perpetuity 永久、不朽、永久使用權
• overseas 海外的、國外的
  例：You're set in perpetuity. There's money in overseas accounts.
• sundae 聖代
• zone out 不專心、放空、放鬆
  例：I though maybe I could have a sundae and zone out in front of the frigging TV.
  
• asset allocation 資產的分配 (如分配到股票、房地產等)
• corporate structure 公司結構或階層 (如有什麼部門)
• cayman 一種美國鱷魚；Cayman 一種保時捷跑車
• monthly statement 月結單、月報表
• dilute 稀釋、使變淡、降低、削弱
  例：It dilutes the drinks.
• top-tier 高層的、高階的
  例：You're supposed to be earners. That's why got the top-tier positions.
• peter out 逐漸消失、消逝
• wither/die on the vine 植物枯萎、放著不管而爛掉
  例：It petered out. It died on the vine.
• time immemorial 很久以前 (久到無法回憶)
  例：This thing is a pyramid, since time immemorial.
• hat in hand 恭敬地、謙卑地
  例：I should not have to be coming here, hat in my hand, reminding you about your duty to that man.
• false tooth 假牙
• handlebar 機車或腳踏車的把手
• little boy's room 男廁
• diverticulitis (大腸) 憩室炎
• anisette 茴香酒
• loggia 涼廊、走廊
• legislature 立法院、議會
• omni 全部、所有 (拉丁字)
  
• galleria = shopping mall 購物中心
• turnip greens 蕪菁 (一種菜) 的嫩葉
• demographic 人口統計學的
• parcel 小包、一捆、一批
  例：I'm borrowing money myself to grab up parcels along Frelinghuysen Ave through a shell company.
• shell company 空殼公司
• patriotic 愛國的
  
• entrepreneurism 帶領創新
• collect call 對方付費電話
  例：I have a collect call for Mr. Walters. (Walters 先生打電話讓對方付費)
  
• in passing 偶然地、不經意地、順便地
  例：They just mentioned in passing that you were doing the county book in Youngstown.
• blinker 會閃的燈、警戒燈、方向燈
  例：Cops pull us over for no left blinker.
• Keep your dick up. 打起精神、別氣餒
• cookout 野炊、室外烤肉
  例：John said he went to a cookout at your house.
  
• parkway 林蔭大道
• breadfruit 麵包樹 (的果實)
• papaya 木瓜 
• Mother May I? 一種小孩玩的遊戲，有點像一二三木頭人。
• cellmate 牢房室友
• outlive 比…活得久、因…存活下來
  例：- How come he's still walking? - Because he's been useful. But he's outlived it as of his cute little ceremony this afternoon.
  
• dome light 車內的燈、天花板上圓形的燈
• engrave 雕刻
  之前的同義字：inscribe
  例：Engraving on this watch says you retired today.
  
• vile 卑鄙的、惡劣的
  之前的同義字：despicable
  例：She must be a real vile twat.
  
• cut one's losses 停止目前正在做的事以避免造成更大的損失
  例：It's not too late to cut your losses.
• scrambled egg 炒蛋
• Nostradamus 十六世紀的法國占星家
• halfback 中衛 (美式足球)
• cathedral 大教堂
• ponder 深思、沉思、衡量
  之前的相似字：meditate
  例：You gonna tell me you never pondered that?
• honk 按喇叭
  例：Honk the horn.
• reckless 魯莽的、草率的、不注意的、不小心的。例：reckless driving。
  
• brazen 黃銅的、堅硬的、厚著臉皮做、無恥
• armored car 裝甲車
• denomination 面額、教派、種類的名稱
  例：The street where the robbery took place was littered with bills of all the denominations.
• shunt 轉向、轉移、分流
  例：We had a little scare. Thought it was the shunt in his heart.
• pass gas 放屁，比 fart 文雅一點。
  例：He passed some gas, and he seems better.
• piece of tail 女人 (性感的) 屁股
  
• flirty 調情的、挑逗的
• be led by the nose 被牽著鼻子走、完全被別人控制
  例：I was led around by the nose.
• chirp 唧唧叫、吱吱叫 (蟋蟀或鳥叫)
  之前的同義字：peep
  例：A young cooze smiled at me, and birds started chirping.
• snap into focus 豁然開朗、突然間變清楚
  例：My uncle definitely snapped it into focus.
• gargle 漱口
• inseparably 不可分地、形影不離地
  例：I started the process of bonding him to me inseparably.
• baptize 施洗禮
  例：She never had him baptized. She thought she knew everything.
  
• fluffernutter 花生醬三明治
• mouthwash 漱口水
• saddle 裝馬鞍、上馬鞍、加負擔
  例：Did I saddle you with a stepfather?
• French toast 沾奶蛋的吐司

The Sopranos 3x13 - Army of One 英文筆記

• crash 借住、睡覺
  例：This is the kid I told you about. He needs crash here.
• Parisian 巴黎人、巴黎的
• snail 蝸牛、遲鈍的人
• peep 雛鳥短暫的哭叫
  例：Dry those peeps.
• NBA draft = NBA 選秀
• strongbox 保險箱、保險櫃
• arrear 欠款、拖延、耽擱
• possum 負鼠
• economic downturn = recession 經濟不景氣
• insubordination 不順從、反抗
  例：You don't want to create confusion, insubordination.
• chain of command 命令階層 (特別指軍中制度)
  
• scrub 擦洗、擦掉
  例：It was both your urines that Mr. Lubimov spent two hours scrubbing.
• done for 完成的、結束的、被打敗的、毀壞的
  例：I think you're done for.
• play out 貫徹始終、從頭到尾玩完一場遊戲
  例：You should've played that out. That's the only way you gonna learn.
• Super Bowl 超級盃
• slip 紙條、紙片
  例：We're writing a lot of slips on this game.
• lo mein 撈麵
• not for nothing 指接下來要說的很重要
  
• be wound tight 緊張、緊繃
  例：Not for nothing, Tony, but I think you been wound a little tight lately.
• dough 生麵團、錢
  例：Ralphie says the douph is his.
• Sucks to be you. 對別人不幸表示同情的一句話，類似「你真倒楣」。
• There's more where that came from. 表示還會出現很多類似的事或物
• regime 政體、政權
  例：We're starting a new regime around here!
• coddle 溺愛、嬌養、寵壞
  之前的相似字：pamper、indulge
• cop 抓、逮
  例：I heard you cracked and copped to everything.
• pediatrician 小兒科醫生
• perseverate = persevere 堅持、固執已見、持續
  例：Jackie's dead, and you persverate on secondary schools?
• corps 軍團、團、隊
• farewell address 離別時的演講或致辭
  
• cadet 軍校學生
• mess 伙食、食堂 (指某種大團體吃飯的地點，如軍隊)
  
• candidly 直率地、坦白地、直接地
  例：I, for one, think Anthony could greatly benefit from our program, which, as I candidly told is very rigorous.
• rigorous 嚴格的、苛刻的、嚴厲的
  之前的同義字：harsh、severe
• group think 團體思維
  例：I stressed rather heavily with Anthony the notions of duty and group think.
• fob off on / onto 遊說某人收下或買下他不想要的東西
  例：When things go wrong, we fob them off onto the ever burgeoning for profit substance recovery industry.
• veterinarian = vet 獸醫
  
• burgeon 萌芽、疾速成長
• foxhole 散兵坑
• barrel 槍管
• cherry bomb 一種鞭炮
• instill 逐漸引入、慢慢地插入
  例：That does not mean I'm gonna let you send him to the type of school whose whole reason for being, is to make him follow orders by instilling fear!
• devotional 奉獻的
• situate 使位於、定位、安置
  例：I think I got Ma situated.
• gag 嘔吐、窒息、封嘴
  例：I almost gagged.
  
• seeing-eye dog = guide dog 導盲犬
• heist 搶劫、偷竊
  之前的相似字：rip-off、maraud、stickup、pillage、loot
• fall into one's lap 天上掉下來 (的禮物)、(好處) 從天而降
  例：Frigging heist fell in your lap.
  
• carpenter 木匠、木工
• flying saucer 飛碟
  
• hear out 聽完 (不打斷)
  例：- Paulie, you requested a sit-down, he heard you out. - But Jesus Christ, I'm leaving $38,000 on the table!
  
• leave sth. on the table 把好處留下、沒有拿到錢 (或利益)
• dressy 衣著考究的
• slimline 很窄的、很細的
• girth 周長、腰身
• vitality = vigor = pep 活力、生命力、精力
• gloomy 陰沈的、令人沮喪的、黑暗的、悲傷的
  例：We shouldn't get too gloomy about this.
• lats = latisimus dorsi 背後腰部的兩片肌肉
• putrid 腐敗的、腐爛的、討人厭的
  例：He's got that putrid rotten Sopranos gene!
• tic 痙攣、局部抽筋、臉部肌肉無意識的抽動
• fight or flight response 心理學名詞，指動物做出對抗或逃跑的反應。
  例：It's a slight tic in his fight/flight response. It doesn't brand him as anything.
  
• come down through the ages 歷史悠久、由來以久
• jug 水壺、罐子、監獄
  例：He was transporting these valuable jugs of olive oil.
  
• litigious 好訴訟的、好爭論的
  例：I'm not a litigious person. I prefer to resolve things directly, but this time I'm gonna sue!
• brush (up) against 輕輕摩擦、和什麼有些微關係
  例：Our dads are in the garbage business and it's always good for a laugh. And yeah, they brush up against organized crime. But you think they control every slimeball and illegal gun in like a hundred communities?
• slimeball 討厭鬼、噁心的人、惡劣的人
• revere 崇敬、尊敬、敬畏
  例：Their hands are around football's most revered trophy.
  
• stupidity 愚蠢、愚笨
• turnout 參與者、出席者、聚集的人群
  例：Look at this crappy turnout. If Jackie Sr. was still acting boss, with a child passed away? This place would be filled to the rafters.
  
• rafter 椽 (構成屋頂的樑)、筏夫
• flower car 葬禮用的花車
• cushion 墊子、坐墊、靠墊、枕頭
• stop and smell the roses 放慢腳步，享受人生。
  例：The illness changed my whole viewpoint. I'm gonna stop and smell the roses.
  
• stick one's nose up (in the air) 趾高氣昂、高傲、驕傲
  例：Tony sticks his nose up when I'm around.
• put one's feet up 休息、放鬆
  例：My ma thinks she's going to this paradise of nursing home. Same one his mother put her feet up at for a year.
• minestrone 義大利蔬菜濃湯
• max out 達到最高、達到上限
  例：You have to max out the good times with the people you love.
• under one's roof 在家裡、在房子裡
  例：Meadow, you're out from under our roof.

The Sopranos 3x12 - Amour Fou 英文筆記

• tampon 衛生棉條
• spotting 月經外漏，沾到褲子或裙子上。
  例：Meadow, do you have a tampon? I'm spotting and the dispenser in the lady's room is out.
• dispenser 分配的機器 (如販賣機)
  例：cash dispenser 提款機、soap dispenser 公共廁所裡提供洗手乳的設備、paper towel dispenser 公共廁所提供衛生紙的設備
  
• merchant 商人、店主
  例：She's just the wife of some rich merchant.
• semiotics 符號學
• captain-of-industry 工廠 (或組織) 領導人、大老闆
  例：I know you think I'm like a hard, cold, captain-of-industry type. That's not all there is.
• make one's own way 成功、發跡
  例：She made her own way in the world.
• puss 臉
  例：Spit it out. Whenever I bring her up, you get this weird puss.
• draw 吸引
  例：Can we say that there are certain kinds of people that are drawn to fire? Looking for an inevitable result, like a moth to a flame?
  
• like a moth to a flame 飛蛾撲火
• side of beef 牛排
• frown 皺眉、不悅
  例：What's he got to be frowning about?
• sack 袋、麻布袋
  例：Fucking crackhead sack of shit.
• Christmas play = Nativity play 以耶穌誕生為主題的話劇，美國很多小學生在聖誕節時都會參與演出。
• substance abuse 濫用會成癮的物質 (藥物、酒精等)
• have it in for sb. 有意圖傷害某人、對誰有敵意
  例：She said I always had it in for John.
• plaster 石膏、上石膏
  例：The way these trucks go by out here? Maybe I'll get plastered onto a grill.
• go ballistic 生氣、發怒、憤怒
  例：Wouldn't Tony go ballistic if I was in on it?
• jump ship 跳船、跳槽
  例：If you ever think about jumping ship, you know my number.
• courtesy van / car 免費接送客人的車，可能是飯店或機場提供的服務。
• give a lift 載誰一乘、開車載人
  例：I'll give her a lift. I'm going out anyway.
• homemaker 家庭主婦
• latch onto 取得、開始理解、變得親近、變得熟悉
  例：At least your daughter doesn't have to latch onto a man for success.
• bourgeois 中產階級
• early riser 早起的人
• marquee 戲院看板、公車車頭上標示目的地的牌子
  例：How do you think they got their name on the marquee? (打出名號、出名)
  
• clap = gonorrhea = STD 淋病
  例：I caught the clap from some hippie broad I was fucking. My dick was dripping like a busted pipe.
• fast track 快速達到目標的捷徑
  例：Your father and Tony was on the fast track to being made, and I was still a little shit here, like the two of you.
• rinse (用水) 沖洗
  例：Make sure you rinse those plates before you put them in the dishwasher. It clogs.
• livestock 家畜、牲畜
• all manner of = all kinds of 各式各樣的
  例：We can't help but be amazed at the instincts they posses. To protect all manner of livestock. To be protective of us.
  
• nurture 養育、提供營養
  例：Nurture their defenses they were born with, using the natural body defense system in Pedigree.
• slanted 傾斜的、有傾向的
  之前的相似字：oblique
  例：Does my car look slanted? Oh, shit. I have a flat.
  
• slash 砍、割
• dealership 代理權、經銷權
• guilty conscience 罪惡感
  例：Why would you offer to pay for them if you didn't have a guilty conscience?
• Where do you get off? = How dare you?
  
• laden 裝載的、負擔重的
• call into question 質疑、討論
  例：This immigrant, alcoholic, probably HIV-laden slut slashes my tires and you have the nerve to call my life into question?
• for all intents and purposes 實際上、本質上、實質上
  例：For all intents and purposes, that's Ralph's game.
• free agent 獨立自主的人、可自由簽約的球員
  例：We're like free agents. We dictate the terms, not them.
  
• doctorate 博士學位
  例：He said you were getting a doctorate in psychiatry from Seton Hall.
• ovarian 卵巢的。例：ovarian cancer。
  
• hormone 荷爾蒙
• out of the question 不可能、絕對不行、沒什麼好講的
  例：You made a sacred vow. Divorce is out of the question.
  
• culpable 有罪的、該責備的
  例：There's a point inside yourself. An inner boundary beyond which you feel culpable.
• forego 放棄、居先、拋諸腦後
  例：Learn to live on the good part. Forego those things that lay without it.
• OB/GYN = O&G = Obstetrics and Gynaecology 婦產科
• mad-cow disease 狂牛症
• lease 出租、租約、租期
  例：I still have another year on my lease.
  
• ovary 卵巢
• head up one's ass 搞不清楚狀況、惹人厭
  例：You wanna spend your life with your head up your ass, be my guest.
• calamari 烏賊 (義大利菜)
• bite one's tongue 為了避免傷人或尷尬，而把想說的話吞回去。
  例：- I thought I was pregnant. - Bite your tongue. At our age?
  
• roll off one's back 不在乎、不影響某人
  例：The girl is so different than I was at her age. It just rolls off her back. There's no weight loss, no sleepless nights.
  
• for crying out loud = for God's sake
  例：The president of the United States for crying out loud. Look what his wife had to put up with, with the blow jobs and the stained dress.
• stick by 忠於
  例：She stuck by him, and put up with the bullshit.
• spun 紡織、作繭、結網
  例：She took all that negative shit he gave her and spun it into gold.
• gaudy 俗麗的、華而不實的
• take a dump 大便
• burn sb. at the stake 綁在木樁上燒死、嚴厲地處罰
• adage 諺語、俗語、古語
  例：Remember the old adage, son. Leave them while you're looking good.
  
•  Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. 甘迺迪名言之一。意思是成功時大家都要分一杯羹，失敗時卻無人敢承擔。
• erectile 勃起的
  例：If you're one of thousands of men who suffer from erectile dysfunction, you already know that it's no laughing matter.
• no laughing matter 不是開玩笑的、嚴重的
• bulge 膨脹、凸起、使膨脹、男性褲襠鼓起來之現象
  例：Maybe the doctor can give you a bulge.
  
• replicate 複製、折疊
  例：How did you recognize in Gloria, underneath all her layers of sophistication, this deeply wounded, angry being, that would let you replicate once again your relationship with your mother?
• incessant 不間斷的、不停的。例：incessant self-regard。
  
• self-regard 關注自己、自尊
• vis-a-vis (法文) 面對面的、比較、對應
  例：You made one good decision in your life vis-a-vis women.
• pep 活力、精力
  之前的同義字：vigor
• bake sale 在學校或教堂等地方舉辦的義賣活動，通常賣些餅乾、蛋糕和麵包等糕點。
• looney 瘋子、神經病

The Sopranos 3x11 - Pine Parrens 英文筆記

• attendance 出席
• social security 社會福利
• rancor 深仇、怨恨
  例：I find it very interesting that you're able to talk about this without rancor.
• oblique 不直接的、間接的、傾斜的
• echinacea 一種北美的植物，可製藥。
• KGB 前蘇聯的密祕警察
• barehanded 手無寸鐵的、空手的
  例：You probably wiped your ass barehanded till you came to this country.
• comrade 朋友、夥伴、同志
• ruble 盧布 (俄羅斯貨幣)
• docking station 底座 (電腦擴充或充電設備)
• windpipe 氣管
• sheepish 懦弱的、羞怯的、像羊的
  例：I'm feeling very sheepish.
• sucker-punch 偷襲、偷打
  例：Prick sucker-punched me.
• rest stop 路旁的休息站
• London broil 一種烤牛排
• Roy Rogers 美國速食連鎖店
• shovel 鐵鏟、鏟
  例：I got a shovel I use for digging the car out.
• total loss 完全浪費、完全損失
  例：We'll go to Morton's, have a steak. This way the day won't be a total loss.
• be predicated on 基於、以什麼為前提、建立在什麼之上
  例：It's all predicated on a lie.
• holler 喊叫、抱怨、發牢騷
  例：Keep hollering. I'll put one in your head.
• pajamas 睡衣 (長褲的那種)
• know better than to (有足夠經驗或智慧) 知道不該做什麼事
  例：Don't you know better than to wear pajamas in the middle of winter?
• Siberian 西伯利亞的
• implement 工具、器具
  例：The package hit Chrissy with an implement and ran off.
• buzz saw 電動圓鋸
• reason out 下結論、推論
  例：Let's reason this out.
• clean as a whistle = very clean 非常乾淨
• Chechnya 車臣
• commando 突擊隊
• Chechen 車臣的、車臣人
• single-handed = by oneself 獨自一人地
  例：The guy you're looking for is some kind of ex-commando or some shit. He killed 16 Chechen rebels single-handed.
• Interior Ministry 內政部
• Green Beret 綠扁帽特種部隊
• interior decorator 室內設計師
• twig 細枝、嫩枝
• numb 失去感覺的、麻木的、發愣的、驚呆的
• gravel 砂礫、使擱淺、鋪碎石
  例：There's gravel under this snow.
• brain 重擊頭部
  例：That prick really brained me.
• You know the weather report in Mexico?
  Chili today, hot tamale. ("Chilly today, hot tomorrow." 的諧音)
  以墨西哥口音為笑點的笑話。tamale 是一道墨西哥菜。
  
• sieve 篩、篩選、篩子、過濾
  例：He's unarmed and bleeding like a sieve.
• Nathan's Famous 美國速食連鎖店
• halfway 一半地、半途地
  例：They're a little halfway frozen.
• relish 滋味、風味、食欲、辣的調味品
• sniffle 鼻塞聲、吸鼻涕
  例：Cocksucker got the sniffles, and we're stuck out here?
• pitch dark 一片漆黑的
  例：It's pitch dark out there.
• dirt road 泥土路、未鋪柏油的路
  
• picnic table 野外設置的野餐桌
• concussion 腦震盪、震盪、衝擊
• bear left 出現在路標，意思是「向左轉」(不超過 90 度的彎)。
  例：One time we went hunting, we saw a sign that said, "Bear left." So we went home.
  
• pull rank 仗著階級地位給人命令
  例：Don't make me pull rank on you, kid.
• leave in the dust 棄某人不顧、換掉某物
  例：You know how fast I can run. I'll leave you in the dust!
• drip = looser
  例：He was such a drip.
• albino 白化病者、白子
• grand slam 大滿貫 (棒球)
• hellhole 令人不舒服的地方、可怕的地方
  
• lunge 刺、衝、撲
  例：The guy lunged at us.
• flesh wound 皮肉傷、輕傷
• take the heat 承受責難或批評
  例：If this cocksucker crawls out from under a rock, he's your problem, not mine. You deal with Slava, you take the heat, you pay the price.
• chin 下巴、下顎
• read into 找出文句或話語的弦外之音 (可能不是寫文者或說話者的本意)
  例：Read into things however your choose. 三思而後行。
  

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• boatyard 製造或停靠船支的地方
• acquittal 宣告無罪、無罪釋放
  例：O. J. Simpson's acquittal they still cannot accept, and now they're suing him in civil court.
• civil court 民事法庭
• philosophic 哲學的
• shun 避開、避免、開除、驅逐
  例：He's shunned on his golf course now.
• briefs 緊身內褲
• quake in one's boots 害怕、恐懼、緊張
  例：You uncle's quaking in his boots I was there to pop him.
• no sooner ... than 沒多久…就
  例：No sooner do I get back from Florida than Ange has booked a suite on the Dawn Princess.
• seasick 暈船的
• rebar = reinforcing bar 鋼筋
  
• roll in 流入、流進
  例：Millions are gonna roll in off the Esplanade.
• scooter 速可達、滑板車
• turn loose 解放、解禁
  例：You wanna turn her loose on shellfish?
• be determined to 下定決心、決定
  例：She's determined to cook goose on Christmas Day.
  
• on the fritz = out of order 壞掉、故障
  例：She needs you because the fuse box is on the fritz again.
  
• square one 努力半天又回到起點
  例：All of a sudden, I'm back to square one.
• lead up 引起、發動
  例：Can you tell what led up to this?
• rabbit hole 兔子洞。因為《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》的關係，這個字常用來比喻進入一個非常不一樣的世界的入口。
• winterize 為冬天做準備 (車、船、房子等)
  例：Yesterday I went down to the shore to get my boat winterized.
• juncture 時期、時段、連接、關鍵時刻
  例：We're at one of our favorite junctures.
• stain 汙染、沾汙
  之前的相似字：taint
  例：His blood cleans every stain.
• mother-jumping 相當於 motherfucking，但比較婉轉。
  例：It's great mother-jumping lyric.
• record label 唱片公司；major label 大唱片公司；independent label 獨立唱片公司
• pigsty 豬圈、豬舍
• Percodan 一種止痛藥
• (soup) stock 湯底、湯料
  例：We can work on the stock.
• Christianity 基督教
• contemporary 同時代的、同期的、現代的
• knock over 打翻、弄倒
  例：You knocked over your drink.
• livery cab 比一般計程車 (yellow cab) 較高級的計程車
  
• Jarlsberg 起士品牌
• Brie 一種法國起士
• TIA = transient ischemic attack 暫時性腦缺血、小中風 (mini stroke)
  
• ice 鑽石的暱稱
  例：Michelle likes "ice". I'll get a piece from a Jew in the city.
• glim 光源
  例：We cast our glims on you. 我們把目光集中在你身上。
  
• vilify 輕視、貶低、誹謗、造謠中傷
  例：You vilify a man behind his back and then you smile in his face.
• ravioli 義大利菜，外型像水餃，辣味。
• designated driver 一群人裡被指定不能喝酒，負責當大家司機的人。
• crone = hag 醜老太婆、老巫婆
• clang 鏗鏘聲、叮噹聲
  例：My head is clanging like a bell.
• sweatshop 剝削勞力的工廠
• The Grinch 鬼靈精 (卡通人物)
• macabre 可怕的、恐怖的、殘忍的
  例：A strange and macabre Christmas story, another sad incidence of continuing violence against livery drivers.
• incidence 發生率、頻率、光線碰到物體表面 (物理)
• maraud 掠奪、襲擊、搶劫
  例：From his description of his assailants, police are questioning members of a marauding youth gang.
• appendicitis 盲腸炎、闌尾炎
• mean to = intend to = be destined to = is about to 想要、即將要、意圖
  例：I've been meaning to check out the competition.
• bottom out 跌到谷底、撞到地面
• pots and pans 鍋碗瓢盆、炊事用具
  例：Come on, stop with the pots and pans.
• monogamy 一夫一妻制
• toe the line 守規矩、不犯規
  例：I break up with the so-called Russian whore. I'm toeing the line and this is the thanks I get.
• Salvation Army 救世軍，歷史悠久的基督教慈善團體。
• kettle 茶壺、罐
• method acting 一種演戲方式，調強真實自然地飾演角色。
• dwell 居住、躊躇；dwell on 細想、詳述
  例：Why'd you go to that psychic last year? Since you don't dwell on this.
• flunk 沒通過、失敗、考試不及格、放棄；flunk out 退學
  例：I flunked out of Rutgers.
• aptitude 天份、資質、才能、天賦
  例：Ralph said I was probably wasting my time if I didn't have the aptitude.
• break into 破門而入、侵佔
  例：My car got broke into a couple of times at the frat house.