- plead 懇求、答辯
例:I can plead him out at three to five. 我可以幫他求到三到五 (年)。
- "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." -Nietzsche
尼采:當你凝視深淵時,深淵也在凝視你。 - close call 九死一生
例:A very close call, that brush with the murder beef. - beef 告發
- insulate 隔離、絕緣
例:Insulate yourself from these shenanigans. I told you once already.
- shenanigan 惡作劇、欺騙、壞勾當
- tax return 納稅申報單
- sledgehammer 大鐵鎚
- incision 切割、切開 (特別指手術)
例:That's just the incision where I inserted the stent.
- stent 手術後用來撐開血管的小管子
- bedpan 便盆
- discotheque 迪斯可舞廳
- magnifying glass 放大鏡
- mourn = grieve 哀痛、哀悼
例:You're still in mourning over the coming of managed care?
- managed care 健康管理 (目的在降低醫療成本和促進醫療品質)
- lift weights 舉重
相關字:pump iron 健身 (不特別指舉重) - bunion 姆囊腫
- mater 母親 (拉丁字)
- IHOP 美國連鎖早餐店
- self-indulgent 對自己縱容的、放縱的
例:She was a little self-indulgent when it came to the office supplies. (暗指她喜歡偷辦公室用品)
- rack 一對大胸部
例:Nice rack! - born-again Christian 重生基督徒,也就是新教徒。
- illustrated man 有刺青的人
- blow = coke 古柯鹼
- talk sb. out of sth. 說服某人打消念頭或不要做某事
例:He said last time he wanted to stop coming, but I talked him out of it. - pituitary 腦垂體
- train wreck 火車車禍,常來比喻你知道即將發生,但卻無能為力的災難。
例:It's like that thing with watching a train wreck. - repulse 拒絕、厭惡、擊退
例:I'm afraid and repulsed by what he might tell me. - ramp up 增加、加強、上升、促進 (活動或生產)
例:It'll ramp up to eight pounds per cubic inch. - obstructive 妨礙的、阻礙的、阻塞的
例:Obstructive sleep apnea is serious. - apnea 呼吸暫停、窒息
- REM = rapid eye movement 快速眼動期
- arousal 喚起、刺激 (可以指性方面)、覺醒
例:Nurse: Testing shows REM-wise you have 40 arousals per hour.
Junior: More, since I met you. Such a thing to say.
Nurse: "Arousals" means a change in your stages of sleep. You are such a flirt.
- dreadnought 無畏戰艦 (一種強大的武器)
- cleavage 乳溝、切縫、分割、切開
- finger food 用手直接拿來吃的食物
- landfill 垃圾掩埋 (地)
- in triplicate 三份、三倍
例:I gotta file it in triplicate every day. - breathe down one's neck 嚴密地監視、緊緊地盯住
例:The FBI and the DEA are gonna be breathing down our necks again. - municipality 自治市、自治區
- curbside 人行道的邊緣
- seaboard = seacoast 海岸
- wring 扭、擰
例:If it was a man, you'd wring his neck. - preliminary 初步的、早期的、預備的
例:I have your preliminary results. - put one's finger on 找出問題的癥結、原因
例:I'll be relieved when somebody puts their finger on whatever the fuck it is that's wrong with me.
- ladyfinger 鬆脆餅
- crumb cake 一種上面灑有糖粉的蛋糕
- flange 凸緣 (一種零件)
- squander 浪費、揮霍
例:Every paycheck squandered on alcohol. - convent 修道院、修女住的地方
- dinnerware 整套的餐具
- contractor 承包商、立契約的人
- deconstructivism 解構主義,一種建築主義。
- droll 逗趣的、好笑的、幽默的
例:My droll mom. - woefully 悲哀地、遺憾地
- lethal = fatal = deadly 致命的
例:Please call the police because I'm not the one with the lethal weapon here. - detergent 清潔劑
- lubricate 潤滑、塗油
例:Get the detergent and lubricate my wrist! - limp 軟弱的、無力的
- flex 彎曲、收縮
例:Limp! You're flexing! Let it go limp.
- simmer down = calm down 冷靜
- effrontery 厚顏無恥、大膽、放肆
例:Where does he get the effrontery? - grand mal 癲癇
例:He's the boss. Whether he has grand mals or not.
- bureaucrat 政府官員、官僚
- passive-aggressive 被動性攻擊,指一個人表面上看似被動,但實際上是主動。例如,有不滿不直接表達,而以消極性作為以表示反抗 (如不合作)。
- compulsion 強迫、強制
- sawbuck 十元鈔票、鋸木架
- rival 競爭者、敵手
- amicable 和平的、友善的
Even rival families settled their differences amicably.
- tempt fate 冒很大的風險
例:Let's not tempt fate by taxing the heart. - MSG = monosodium glutamate 味精
- undue 未到期的、過度的
例:Have you been under any undue stress? - dermatitis 皮膚炎
- irritant 刺激性的、刺激物
例:Dollars to donuts, you're being exposed to an irritant in the air there. - cortisone 腎上腺皮質素
- holler 喊叫
例:I thought I heard you hollering. - racetrack 賽馬場、賽車場
- fixture 固定物、設備
- den 洞穴、舒適的房間
例:You could make a den out of the closet.
- skim coat 比較高級的牆壁粉刷,摻有石膏和細白沙。
- lawn 草坪、草地
- clammy 潮溼的、陰溼的、溼黏的 (指讓人不愉快)
- arcade 騎樓、拱廊
- feel sb. up 撫模、愛撫
例:I remember my Johnny told me she let him feel her up behind the Sons of Italy hall. - sewer 汙水管、下水道
例:If she fell into a sewer pipe, she'd come up holding a gold watch in each hand. - acidity 酸、酸味
例:I can't handle the acidity. - obligation 義務、職責
- loophole 孔、彈孔
- mellow 成熟的、香醇的
例:You seem very mellow toady.
- ceaseless 不停的、不斷的
例:The individual craves almost ceaseless action which enables them to avoid acknowledging the abhorrent things they do.
- abhorrent 令人厭惡的、可惡的
- cathode 陰極
- self-loathing = self-hatred 極度討厭自己
- clay pigeon 泥製飛靶
2009/01/16
The Sopranos 2x11 - House Arrest 英文筆記
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