The Sopranos 2x12 - The Knight in White Satin Armor 英文筆記

• settee 沙發 (椅腳比 sofa 長)
  
• Starving Students 美國搬家公司
• glide 滑動、滑行
  例：These floors have wonderful glide.
• (as) proud as punch 非常驕傲、趾高氣揚
  例：His dad must be proud as punch.
• wastrel 揮霍者、愛浪費的人
  例：Go join your wastrel friends.
  
• dirt bike 越野摩托車
• stadium 露天大型運動場 (如巨蛋)
  
• The transmission slipped out of gear. 履帶脫離齒輪。
• plank 木板、舖板
• codependent 相互依存
  例：Be a codependent to a shitbag.
• hardship 艱難、苦難
  例：My cousin Larry wants the Fairfield contract. Being the hardship on his family and whatnot, while he's awaiting trail.
  
• hemorrhage 出血
• spondulick 大筆的錢
  例：I'm hemorrhaging spondulicks here. 我的荷包正在大失血。
  
• litigation 訴訟
  例：I want to bring on specialized counsel to handle the wiretap litigation.
• ballpark figure 大概的數字、估計數字
• lifeline 救生索、命脈、重要航線、
  例：That coke is my lifeline right now.
• feel out = sound out 探聽某人的想法或意見
  例：Go talk to Ally Boy. Feel him out.
• moxie 膽量、勇氣
  例：He's got tremendous moxie for his size.
• axle 輪軸
• turn one's head (on sth.) 改變立場、改變態度
  例：The bureau would never turn its head on a murder charge.
• a block of 一大塊
  例：Tony made a guy order blocks of these things through his sporting goods store.
• go out the window 消失、不見、離開
  例：Any faith I had went out the window that very day.
  
• hand out 拿出來、分發
  例：All I do is, I hand out money.
• in denial 拒絕相信某件事是真的
  例：You're in a bit of denial. Richie was always a disturbed kid.
  
• senile 老年的、高齡的
  例：She's just too senile to remember who she hates.
• ashram 嬉皮群居村、印度教修行的地方
  例：I don't know what made me think I was gonna find anybody halfway decent in an ashram in Pradesh.
• knock one's socks off = amaze 令人驚豔、太棒了
  例：I just wanted to say that you knock my socks off.
• sleeping pill 安眠藥
• cirrhosis 硬化，例：cirrhosis of  the liver。
• hope chest 嫁妝箱
• radiant 光芒四射的、容光煥發的、洋溢幸福的
  例：Remember how radiant I looked walking down that aisle?
• aisle 走道、座位旁的走道、教堂中間的走道
• get off 性高潮、性興奮
  例：- You let him hold a gun to your head during sex? - Ya, if that gets him off. It's not any different than garter belts and nurse's uniforms.
• garter belt 吊襪腰帶
• fetishistic 崇拜物神的、戀物的
• lard 豬油
• turn the corner 好轉
  例：He turned some corner.
• Stockholm Syndrome 人質情結，指受害者對犯罪者產生情感。
• dermabrasion 去疤手術、磨皮手術
  例：You talk to the king of dermabrassion about what went down?
  
• Plexiglas 樹脂玻璃
  例：He's looking at his reflection in the Plexiglas.
• bang 性交
  例：I was banging her for two years.
• out of the picture 不在了、退出行動
  例：You take him out of the picture, believe me, everybody's gonna come along.
  
• setback 挫折、阻礙、退步
  例：We can't be too fucked up by this setback.
• screw your courage to the sticking-place 把勇氣固定住，比喻毅然決然、堅定、堅持到底，出自莎士比亞。
  例：We gotta screw our courage to the post.
• awe 敬畏、尊敬、害怕
  例：I'm in awe of you.
• Dow Jones 道瓊指數
• rally 集合、重振、召集
  例：It rallied more than 100 points midday.
• midday 中午、正午
• pharmaceutical 藥物的、藥學的
• Pokemon card 神奇寶貝卡
• convertible 有活動敞篷的 (車)、可轉換的
• ascertain 確認、確定
• salad spinner 一種廚房用品，沙拉脫水機。
• political rehabilitation 政治人物或組織平反汙名
• gutter 排水溝 (屋簷或路邊的)、槽
  例：I'm gonna get started on your gutters tomorrow.
• atrium 中庭、心房
  
• depart 起程、出發、離開
  例：5:16 AM. Subjects departing Searchlight Diner.
• almanac 曆書、年鑒
  例：The planner check the almanac and he says there's 65% historical chance of rain on the twelfth.
• fox trot 狐步舞
  例：He wouldn't miss an opportunity to fox trot and tango in front of everybody.
  
• cabinet 櫥櫃、內閣
• leave the scene 離開現場、肇事逃逸
  例：They were gonna pinch you for leaving the scene, but I got you out of it.
• LCN = La Cosa Nostra 黑道、黑手黨
• misspent 浪費、虛度
  例：I hate LCN. I know I misspent most of my life.
  
• salvage and crusher 這兩個字一起出現時，通常指美國收廢車或零件公司，auto crusher 是用來壓爛汽車的機器，auto salvage 是將汽車零件拼一拼，再拿出來賣。
  
• jilt 拋棄、甩掉
  例：He probably jilted her. It's the story of her life.
  
• nag 嘮叨、碎碎念、批評、使困擾、使煩惱
  例：You're always nagging her about her weight.
• tramp 妓女、乞丐、流浪漢
  例：She goes out on a date, you call her a tramp!
• narcissistic 自戀的、自我陶醉的
  例：She says that our mother has a narcissistic personality.
  
• no prize as 不是模範的、做得不是很好
  例：Grandpa Vito was no prize as a father.
• blow one's stack at sb. 發怒、生氣
  例：I used to suggest it, and you'd blow your stack at me.
• pine cone 松果、松球
• accessory 共謀、幫兇、配件
  例：For 18 years of marriage, don't make me make you an accessory after the fact.
• tennis clinic 網球訓練班