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.