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