The Sopranos 2x06 - The Happy Wanderer 英文筆記

• undergrad = undergraduate
• selective 嚴格挑選的、選擇性的
  例：Our undergrad student body at Brown only numbers about 6000 people. Admission is extremely selective.
• duck 寶貝
  例：Get all of your academic and your extracurricular ducks in a row. Leave nothing to chance.
• leave nothing to chance 不碰運氣；leave it to change 聽天由命
  
• trotter 輕快行走的人或馬、動物的腳 (通常指食物)、一種被訓練參加特別比賽 (trot) 的馬
  
• refreshment 提神用品、可恢復精力的東西 (如茶點、飲料、食物)，例：refreshment table 是放置茶點供人取用的桌子。
  
• be roped into 被牽扯入
  例：I don't know how I always get roped into this shit.
• janitor 清潔工 (同時身兼守衛和看門的那種)
  
• belly bomb 一大塊食物 (如麥當勞的大麥克)
• latrine 廁所 (比較簡陋的那種)
• grapevine 葡萄藤、小道消息、消息管道
  例：Listen, I heard through the grapevine that you're taking over your uncle's game.
• Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see. 意思是不要聽信謠言，出自一首歌。
• jockstrap 保護運動員私處的繃帶
• waste of oxygen 廢物
• pummel 打、擊、揍
  例：I want to grab him and pummel him right there for no reason.
• tie in 有關係、有關聯
  例：I think it all ties in.
• Santa Maria 聖母瑪莉亞；Santa Claus 聖誕老公公
• have one's work cut out for sb. 忙得不可開交、面臨困難的工作、工作行程滿檔
  例：We have our work cut out for us.
• try out for 嘗試參加、嘗試申請入內
  例：When you try out for Cabaret Night, the form asked what you wanna do, and I checked off solo.
  
• cabaret 有現演表演的餐廳
• check off 勾選
• at once 立刻、馬上
  例：The credit card companies didn't care what you bought as long as you don't pay all at once.
• ceci bean = chickpea 鷹嘴豆
• sing / cry the blues 訴苦、哭訴
  例：She's like a woman with a Virginia ham under her arm, crying the blues because she has no bread.
• freight 運費、貨運
• Some people are so far behind in a race that they actually believe they're leading. 落後一大截的人還以為自己領先。
• He was between me and your father in age. 他年紀介於我和你父親之間。
  
• cue ball 撞球
• feeble-minded 低能的、遲鈍的
• propeller 螺旋槳、推進器
  例：I want to buy a boat with three propellers.
• ho = whore
• c = c-note 一百元鈔票
• shy = short = lack
  
• catch up 趕上、補上
  例：Rich, that envelope's two c shy. I'll catch up on it next week. It's no problem. I just got caught off a little guard this month.
  
• catch sb. off guard 使人措手不及
• stutter step 網球、籃球、美式足球裡的一種步法，往左右兩邊踏的假動作。
• principal 本金
  
• tack onto 加在後面、釘在上面
  例：The difference gets tacked onto the principal. 差額會加入本金。
  
• snapper 鯛魚 
• fishy 有魚腥味的、像魚的
• nickel-and-dime 不重要的小事、小錢、節省地
  例：There's gonna be some serious money there. This is no nickel-and-dime shit.
• operating room 手術室
• losing streak 連輸；winning streak 連贏
  例：Silvio blamed Fritzi for his losing streak.
• efficiency 飯店裡有廚房的房間
• beanie 毛帽
• vest 背心、內衣、防彈背心 (life vest 或 bulletproof vest)
• cops and robbers 官兵抓強盜，小孩玩的遊戲。
  
• The Chairman of the Board = Frank Sinatra 的暱稱
• straighten out 整頓、安置、弄整齊
• TV tray 一張可摺疊的小桌子，可用來放食物，邊看電視邊吃。
• Taj Mahal 泰姬瑪哈陵，印度陵墓。
• resemblance 相似處
• prom 舞會 (學校畢業舞會)
• All kidding aside. 不開玩笑了、認真說
• float 借錢
  例：Can't you float me, short-term?
• penile implant 陰莖植入手術
• abound 充滿、富於、豐富
• nine of spades / hearts / diamonds / clubs 黑桃 / 紅心 / 方塊 / 梅花九
• provolone 一種義大利起士
• crotch 褲襠、跨下
• Viagra 威而剛
• a crate of 一木箱的
  例：I heard they're sinking a crate of Viagra down to the Titanic to try and raise it.
  
• deuce 撲克牌的兩點
• trips 三條；flush 順子
• lineup 陣容、一組人
• stonewaller 阻礙者、妨礙者
  例：How do you expect to make a dime with this stonewaller?
  
• lox 醃漬或煙熏的鮭魚 (salmon)
• holier-than-thou 字面上是「比汝還神聖」，意思是偽善的、自以為比別人高尚、自以為高人一等。
• make out 進行、相處
  例：How your kid made out at Bowdoin? 你小孩在 Bowdoin 的事怎樣了？
  
• Joe Blow = Average Joe 一般人
• gust 一陣 (強風)
  例：This gust of wind comes, knocks him off the roof. All for a satellite dish.
• knock off 除掉 (殺掉)、去除
• satellite dish 接收衛星訊號的圓盤
• Live every moment as if it were your last dance on earth. 拳擊手 Carlos Castenda 說的名言。
• prizefighter 職業拳擊手
• developmentally disabled 有身心障礙的
• have sb. in stitches 讓某人笑到不行
  例：He had everybody in stitches back then.
• function 活動、場合
  例：We knew we were bound to see them at some function. Just relax.
  
• blow up 暴走、暴怒、生氣到失去理智
  例：I'm sorry about blowing up in your game.
• mailman 郵差
• in a bind / jam 處境艱難、身處困境
  例：I got myself in a little bind.
• Chapter 11 美國破產條例中的一章，內容是破產保護。
• off-road 駛離道路
• accountability = responsibility 責任
• sport utility vehicle = SUV
• provost 院長、教務長
• wager 賭注、賭博
  例：A grown man made a wager. He lost.
  
• low-life 道德低下的、社會底層的、卑鄙的
  例：He's a real low-life asshole.
  
• lozenge 菱形、喉糖 (可能是藥用的)
• as opposed to 應該…而不是…、相反地
  例：If you're worried about coughing and feel a nice lozenge might help, may we suggest that now would be the time to unwrap it, as opposed to during the performance.