- smuggle 偷運、走私
例:They will probably go through their entire lives not knowing that their father's sperm was smuggled out of jail to get Nancy pregnant. - power drill 電鑽
- cut back 減少、縮減
例:You think you're the only one that has to cut back on shit they need because of the separation? - pimple 青春痘、面皰、討人厭但不會造成大傷害的人 (跟青春痘一樣)
- force one's hand 促使某人馬上行動或表態
例:Sounds to me like your friend John wants to force Little Carmine's hand. - smart as a whip 形容很聰明
- longshoreman 碼頭工人、港口裝卸工
- corner table 形狀被設計來放在牆角的桌子
- yarn 紗線、故事
例:It's a great yarn, right, Feech? - busybody 愛管閒事的人
- egomaniac 自大狂、驕傲的人
- stewardess 女服務員 (飛機或船上)、女空服員、空姐
- pothead 抽大麻的人
- white bucks 鹿皮製的白鞋
- lady luck 幸運女郎 (賭場常見)、幸運女神
- impermeable 不可滲透的、無法穿透的
例:Did I interrupt one of your impermeable stories? - snatch = cunt = twat
- keel over 翻身昏倒
例:- I got my shoe in her snatch... - and it falls off and she keels over. Che puzz'.
- thalidomide 一種鎮靜劑,被發現可能造成不孕。
- environmental event coordinator 辦理婚宴等活動的人
- publicist 公關、國際法學家
- puppeteer 傀儡師、操縱木偶的人
- sneeze at 忽視 (什麼的重要性)
例:Straight "A"s at Middlebury's Language Camp, can't sneeze at that. - folkloric 民俗的、民間的 (傳說或流傳)
- nudge 輕推、推動
例:If we can nudge Lem's verbals past 760 on the next round, he can basically write his own ticket. - write one's own ticket 根據自己所想要的,設定目標或規劃人生道路。
- stoked 激動的、狂熱的、興奮的
例:I'm stoked. - of the essence 非常重要的、不可缺少的
例:We are rapidly approaching crisis mode here with these grades, and time is of the essence. - have heart set on 想要、期望 (什麼東西)
例:If either of the Arizona's is what he's got his heart set on, he's not gonna get in with these grades. - ace in the hole 最後王牌、應急的手段
例:I know about football, Anthony. That's our ace in the hole. - edge up 推往、推向
例:I think we can edge up the math into the fives in the next round, providing Anthony can bear down and focus.
- bear down 努力、施壓、克服
- interpersonal 人與人之間的、人際間的
- constrict 壓縮、繃緊、拉緊
- all in all 整體來看地、各方面來看地
例:All in all he seemed to be handling the split well. - ration 定量、配給量、一份
例:This is not to say I don't get a ration of shit in every conversation. - googol 十的一百次方、1 後面 100 個 0
- supercharged 增加動力的、加強的
- sticker 貼紙、標籤
- deck = cool 酷的
例:This is so deck! - ozone 臭氧
- decapitate = behead 斬首
例:You wanna be the sucker in a regular car that gets decapitated? - carrot and stick 軟硬兼施、威逼利誘
- toddler 初學走路的小孩
- connoisseur 鑒識家、鑒定家、專家
- flunky = lackey 馬屁精、僕人
- popularity contest 比誰有人緣的比賽
- vile 卑鄙的、惡劣的、骯髒的
例:It is still no excuse to use the vile word that I used, of which I am sure you know that I'm talking about. - basketful 一籃 (滿滿) 的
- ablution 洗禮、洗身
- common ground 共同點、共同的興趣
- global positioning system 全球定位系統
- loophole 漏洞、槍眼、牆上的小洞
例:They used to be a great tax loophole, those SUVs. Told all my clients, write it off on your business.
- write off 勾銷、減稅
- hovel 簡陋、破爛的小屋
- cab fare 計程車錢
- zapped 很累的、精疲力竭的
例:He was pretty zapped. - easel 畫架、黑板架
- sedate 給誰服鎮靜劑
例:I had to sedate my own little girl at her wedding. - car carrier 運載汽車的大拖車
- premium 額外支出、獎金、酬金、保險費
- daybook 日記簿、帳本
- consignment 委託
- proclivity 傾向、癖好
例:If you've got some kind of sexual proclivity with that teacher or whatever, now is the time to tell us! - cloud 遮敝、籠罩
例:My pathetic need to compete with you clouded my judgment. - smirk 傻笑
- ply 不斷做、努力做
例:When did that happen, you gotta ask permission to ply your trade? - anecdote 軼事、趣事、秘史
- local color 地方特色、地方風格
- imbecile 低能的、智障的
- plasma 血漿、乳漿。例:plasma display 電漿顯示器。
- quotidian 每日的、司空見慣的、每日發作的
例:Some notion of escaping the quotidian. - dust bunny 一團灰塵
例:Eddie examined every dust bunny in the place just last week. - bequest 遺產、遺贈
- oil stain 油汙
- windup 投手準備投球的動作
2009/08/21
The Sopranos 5x04 - All Happy Families 英文筆記
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