- pound 打擊、敲打、重擊
例:Two needle pricks Junior brought around to pound my ass were Russians. - cologne 古龍水
- Paco Rabanne 名服裝設計師
- foreplay 性交的前戲
- detail a car 非常仔細地洗車
例:Russian boo-boos, you go for some basic foreplay, they'll detail your car. 俄羅斯妹,你做好基本前戲,她們會把你「照料」得很好。
- hygiene 衛生、保健
例:How's the hygiene over there? - Big tits, little feet. A hit in any man's league. (美女人人愛)
- dolly 手推車,例:piano dolly。
- Georgia O'Keeffe 20 年代的美國藝術家,有許多花的作品,畫作色調柔和。
- back gate 後門
- Dominica 多明尼加,加勒比海上的一個國家。
- whooping cough = pertussis 百日咳
- vaporizer 蒸餾器
例:You've got whooping cough. Get yourself under the vaporizer! - retest 再檢查
- Alzheimer's 阿茲海默症、老人痴呆症
例:She's being retested for Alzheimer's. - odyssey 漫長的旅行、飄泊
例:It's been a long odyssey with your mother, hasn't it?
- race by 呼嘯而過
例:These last 500 years just seem to race by. - crop up 突然出現
例:Isn't it interesting how this memory loss has cropped up right after you failed to be killed in the carjacking? - hallucination 幻覺、幻想
例:Right around the time of the shooting, you were having hallucinations of that Isabella figure. The protective, loving mother. - subconscious 潛意識
例:Your subconscious was shouting something at you. - lay / put the cards on the table 講清楚說明白
例:Why don't we put our cards on the table here? - basket = package 男性生殖器 (因為穿緊一點的褲子時,看起來是一包)
- go after 追逐、追補
例:My mother never went after my basket. - phobia 恐懼症
例:These people's internal phobias are the only things that exist to them. The real world, real people are peripheral. - peripheral 周邊的、外部的
- Borderline personalities are very good at splitting behavior, creating bitterness and conflict between others in their circle.
- through 完結的、絕交的
例:We're through, you and I. We're finished. - pancetta = bacon 燻豬肉、培根
- iron out = settle = put right 處理
例:There's a few bugs to be ironed out. - The one in your salad, that was a freak occurrence. 你沙拉里用的那個,完全是巧遇。
- come through 逃出生天、脫險
例:The insurance really came through! 保險理賠 (一波三折地) 終於下來了! - individualist 個人主義者、利己主義者
- pistol 難以預測的人
例:She's a real pistol, what a character! - beside oneself 震驚、激動 (可能是正面或負面情緒)
例:He's beside himself (with grief). - have a lot on one's plate 事情很多、忙碌
例:He's got a lot on his plate. - bury the hatchet = make peace 講合,hatchet 是斧頭。
例:When are you gonna bury the hatchet? - hangout 常去的地方 (特別是為了尋求娛樂)
例:We just don't want this place to become another mob hangout.
- get into one's head 理解、懂
例:When are you get into your head that a certain amount of that kind of patronage creates buzz? - patronage 光顧、贊助
- buzz 流言、八卦、話題
- in droves 大量地、很多地,drove 是一大群動物或人。
例:That kind of buzz we should avoid in droves. - gift certificate 禮卷;certificate 證書
- trump 勝過、戰勝
例:They'd have to be doing something pretty special back there to trump you two ladies at the spice rack. - spice rack 放調味料的架子
- zabaglione 義大利甜點,蛋奶凍。
- take up 採用
例:I only wish Tony had taken me up on my offer to talk to him about the carjacking that day. - That makes two of us. 當對方說的話有失望或其他負面情緒,回答 That makes two of us 就表示「我的情況跟你一樣」。
- take a load off = sit down = relax
- millennial 千禧年的
例:I can set one of the dials to the millennial countdown. - box set 一套唱片、電視劇或電影
例:The Springsteen box set. I already got it. - run out (of) one's string 時間用完了、無立足之地
例:It's a safe assumption that you may have finally run out your string here in north Jersey. - colloquy = conversation
例:I understand you and Agent Grasso had an interesting colloquy about our shared heritage. - heritage 遺產、繼承
- hail from = come from
例:Our ancestors all hail from the same sunny peninsula. - peninsula 半島
- culinary 廚房的、烹飪的
- matriarchal 母系的
例:We do share some cultural ideas. Religious, culinary, matriarchal. - Get the kumquats out of your mouth. 把你嘴裡的金桔拿出來,叫人講話清楚一點。我們常用「含著滷蛋」形容人說話不清楚,外國人用金桔 (kumquats)。
- cavatelli 一種義大利通心粉
- ragu 一種義大利肉醬
- PB and J 塗了花生醬 (peanut butter) 和果醬 (jelly) 的三明治
- incinerate 焚化、燃燒
例:We should all be grateful that nobody was incinerated to death. - phone in = call in 打電話進電視節目
- bomb scare = bomb threat 炸彈恐嚇
例:I phoned in a bomb scare.
- over the top = (way) out of line 太超過了
例:Now that's over the top. - Boyz II Men 黑人 R&B 團體
- high up 地位高的
例:Mikey's now too high up. - coast guard 海上巡邏隊、水上警察
- even-keeled 穩定的、靜止的
例:You got to play the concerned daughter-in-law. You got to stay even-keeled. - dollars to donuts 十分確定一定會發生
例:Dollars to donuts this Alzheimer's thing is an act, so she can't be called on her shit.
之前的類似片語:You can bet your boots that...
- razz 戲弄、開玩笑、嘲笑
例:I never should've razzed him about eating pussy. - avert 避免、防止
例:This whole war could've been averted. - cunnilingus (幫女人) 口交
- psychiatry 精神病學
- marina (有休閒功能的) 碼頭
例:I was taking my boat, putting it in the marina next door.
- Please state the nature of your emergency. 打 911 時對方會說的一句話,叫你說明你的緊急狀況。
- spark 發出火花、點燃
例:Like feelings of worthlessness sparked by your mother's plot to have you killed? - pose 造成、引起
例:I'm gonna work on this problem with the people that pose a threat to you and I'll take care of it. - party 參與、涉入
例:When you blew up the restaurant, you made me party to a criminal conspiracy! - clean bill of health 檢查報告上顯示正常
例:Two arson investigators gave that fire a clean bill of health. - put one's nose out of joint 激怒;out of joint 是脫臼的意思,nose out of joint 則是形容生氣時臉部扭曲的樣子。
例:It's good we can get together for our regular Sunday dinner. Or somebody's nose could get out of joint. - googoots 義大利俚語,沒用的人。
- If you believe she's going to study, I got a bridge to sell you. 如果她是去念書,太陽就要打西邊出來了。
- trichinosis 旋毛蟲病
例:That whole family died of trichinosis because of the uncooked pork. - stained glass 教堂常看到的彩色玻璃
- urge 衝動、催促
- jeopardize 危害
例:This will jeopardize your restaurant. Everything. - All due respect, you're getting off the subject. 離題
- discretion 慎重、謹慎
例:I'm sure you did it with complete discretion. - contra (介係詞) 反對、相反
- commandant = commander 司令官
例:The contra commandant was trying to scare us priests. - basil 羅勒,一種可做為食物香料的植物。
- solicitation 懇求、誘惑
例:At my other job, the waiters usually do the cocktail solicitation. - catch on 跟上、進入況狀
例:She catches on fast. Very conscientious. - conscientious 負責的、仔細的
- exterminator 撲滅蟲害 (或鼠害) 的人
- Portuguese 葡萄牙人、葡萄牙語
- stickler 堅持己見的人、有原則的人
- bar stool 吧台長腳椅
- Midol 一種治經痛的藥
- Mr. Magoo 老卡通人物,有著短視近利、頑固的形象。
- bear one's name 上面 (刻) 有某人的名字
例:Junior Soprano, alleged boss of the New Jersey crime family that bears his name, was indicted today on federal racketeering charges. - racketeer 從事黑道活動 (勒索、走私、詐騙等)
- perp = perpetrator 罪犯
- perp walk 被警察用手銬銬住帶著走
例:Look at the old guy, they're making him do the perp walk. A legitimate businessman! - blow dry 用吹風機 (blow-dryer) 吹乾
例:Go blow dry your hair. - enforcer 幫老闆做骯髒事的手下
- act on 根據…行事
例:Authorities believe Palmice may have fled the New Jersey area, acting on prior knowledge. - whereabout 身在何地的資訊
例:Palmice wife denied any knowledge of her husband's whereabouts.
- running shoes 慢跑鞋
- calling card 電話卡、名片
- reams of sth. 很多、大量
例:That prick Altieri gave them reams of shit. - Rust never sleeps. 鐵鏽從不睡覺,意思是如果你怠慢了,可能會被別人趁虛而入。
- odd bird = strange bird 怪人
- sea of negativity 充滿悲觀或負面消息的環境
- take sth. with a grain of salt 對什麼抱持懷疑的態度
例:This woman's always been an odd bird, a sea of negativity. Even as a kid, we all learned to take her ravings with a grain of salt.
- tenure 任期、佔用
例:Your tenure as boss was a short one. - emissary 使者、特使、代表
例:He controlled your capos with the backing of two of the New York families communicating through their emissary, John Sacrimoni. - corroborate = confirm 確認
例:We want to corroborate information we obtained through informants and wiretap. - informant 線人
- wiretap 竊聽
- eat shit 委曲受辱、受苦
例:How long you gonna keep eating shit? - hold up 生活、存活
例:- I just came to check on you guys. See how you're holding up with these indictments. - We're hanging in.
- hang in 堅持
- Video One 美國的租片店
- stressor 壓力來源
例:Maybe you want to take your mind off these stressors. - defrost 解凍
- foreseeable 可預見的
- schnorrer 乞丐
- parasite 寄生蟲、寄生物、食客
例:You do think I'm a schnorrer, dont you? A parasite. - whiff 輕輕地吹、輕拂
例:I think you like the whiff of sexuality that never goes anyplace. - pastoral 牧人的、牧師的、田園生活的
例:It's my job deal with them so I can carry on my pastoral duties. - intervention 介入、干涉
- M.O. = modus operandi = method of operation 行事的風格、方法
例:Call it an intervention. I think you have this M.O. where you manipulate spiritually thirsty women. And I think a lot of it is tied up with food somehow, as well as the sexual tension game. - be tied up with sth. 與什麼有關
- EMT = emergency medical technician 照顧並護送緊急傷患的專業人員
- off-road vehicle 四輪驅動車
- petrochemical 石化的
例:Off-road vehicles waste petrochemical resources. - steroid 類固醇
- lovesick 相思病的、為情所苦的
- pygmy 矮小的人
- irregardless = regardless
2008/11/09
The Sopranos 1x13 - I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano 英文筆記
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