- camellia 山茶花
- cuff 袖口、手拷
例:Shoot your cuffs. 把襯杉袖口拉出來,讓它露在外套袖口的外面。
- pound 敲打、劇烈跳動、重擊
例:My heart's still pounding. - boil down 熬濃、濃縮、摘要
例:When you think of all the headaches most human beings have in life, ours are boiled down to one. Not a bad deal, huh?
- riverfront 河邊、臨河
例:Anything on the riverfront esplanade project in Newark?
- esplanade 海岸旁的走道
- state assembly 州參議院
例:My guys on the state assembly, he says the matching funds are this close. - matching funds 配對經費 (專有名詞)
- spell 短暫的 (意識) 模糊
- epileptic 癲癇的、癲癇症患者
例:Julius Caesar was an epileptic. - stigmata 聖痕 (耶穌被釘十字架在手腳上留下的傷痕)
- court order 法院命令
例:He got court-ordered for that thing with his wife. - dial tone 撥號音 (電話一拿起來時的聲音)
- disrepair 失修、荒廢
例:So maybe for security reason, or so it don't fall into disrepair, you could stay there. - alma mater 大學、學校
例:We were just talking about our former alma mater. - prong 用叉子刺、分開、貫穿
例:The latest thought on treatment of Panic Attack Syndrome is a three-pronged approach. - delve 探究、鑽研、挖掘
例:We'll have to delve deeper. Focus.
- snuggle 依偎、緊抱
例:They were on the couch, watching TV. Snuggling. - buckwheat 喬麥、黑人 (有貶意)
- onset 進攻、攻擊、肇端、開端
例:The first onset of hyperventilation, that occurred upon seeing the rice? - hyperventilation 快速用力的呼吸,昏迷前的徵兆。
- kick off 開球 (美式足球)
例:Closing Ohio State, guys. They're kicking off. - point spread 一種賭博的方式,如賭球賽的差分。
- field-goal kicker 射門員
- When the frost is on the punkin (and the fodder's in the shock). 指入秋,天氣開始轉涼。出自 James Whitcomb Riley 的詩《霜降南瓜》。
- mortadella 一種義大利香腸、loser
- be Satan to 對誰嚴厲、兇
例:I'm Satan to this kid, just because I'm in love with his mom.
- heart-to-heart 感性對談
例:Maybe he'll sit him down for a heart-to-heart. - drag in 拉進來、扯進來
例:Don't drag in our friendship. This isn't about that.
- malocchio = evil eye 憤怒的眼神、瞪
例:Don't give me the malocchio. I'm not the one with the short bag. - osteopathy 整骨術
- periodontist 牙周病醫師
- got a nose for 對什麼有天份、有直覺反應
例:You got a nose for the ball, and that can't be taught.
- leverage 槓桿作用
- footwork 腳力、用腳技巧
例:The defensive lineman, you gotta have leverage and you gotta have footwork. - sled = sleigh 雪橇
- raw 傷害、疼痛
例:I remember staying after practice every day hitting that sled till my shoulder was raw. - tackle 處理、應付、扭倒、撞倒 (美式足球)
例:You need good bones for those open field tackles. - Possession is 9/10 of law. 指在法律上,若兩方都無法證明某樣東西是自己的,佔用權則歸屬目前的擁有者。
- hysterectomy 子宮切除
- tennis bracelet = diamond bracelet 鑽石手鍊。源自網球明星 Christ Evert 在比賽中遺失鑽石手鍊的事件。
- Range Rover 一種高級的 SUV
- Sprite 雪碧
- Halcyon 一種安眠藥
例:She put into my Sprite three Halcyon. - calfskin 小牛皮
- backtalk 頂嘴
例:You're gonna backtalk me now? - standing rib roast 一種高級的烤牛肉,之所以叫 "standing" 是因為肉是立著烤的。
- pinky 小指頭
例:- You father never cut off anybody's pinky? - That's traumatic for anyone to witness, much less an 11-year-old. - much less = not to mention 更不用說
- get over one's head 有麻煩了、失去控制
例:He got over his head in debt. 他快被債務淹死了。
- cold cuts 冷肉切片
- madeleine 一種茶甜、餅乾
- Marcel Proust 法國作家,著有經典名作《Remembrance of Things Past》。
- root cause 根源
例:Understanding root causes will make you less vulnerable to future episodes. - vulnerable 無防備的、易受傷害的、有弱點的
- head is swimming / spinning 頭昏腦漲、暈頭轉向
例:My fucking head is swimming here. - quarterback 四分衛 (美式足球)
- tailback 大排長龍的車子、後衛 (美式足球)
- sambo 黑人 (有貶意)
- make a scene 大吵大鬧、小題大作
例:If you want to make a big scene at your daughter's new college, then comb your hair and come right along. - comb 梳頭髮、用梳子整理、徹底搜查
- punch one's lights out 一拳打昏某人 (K.O.)
例:He's lucky I didn't punch his fucking lights out. - subject to 使服從於、使隸屬於、使經受 (什麼的影響)
例:You wanted your father to come here for what? To subject your friend to this again?
- retrograde 倒退的、退化的、惡化的
例:The rest of the world should work around his racist, retrograde, fucking-asshole personality? - the third millennium 西元 2001~3000 年
- catch on 了解狀況
例:Noah's not stupid. It took him a while, but he caught on. - fuel 加燃料、火上加油、促進
例:I'm gonna keep my mouth shut, because I know anything I say to you, or your father, will just fuel this. - preposterous = ridiculous 荒膠的、不合理的
- karmic 因果的、命運的 (佛教用語)
例:If you see some karmic connection between your taking mother's records and the disappearance of your leg, wow! - locksmith 鎖匠
- benefit concert 慈善演唱會
- autograph 簽名
- hype 刺激、促使
例:Little Jackie hyped us to a score at Rutgers campus, not bad. - smelt 嗅、聞、銀白魚
例:Have a smelt. - knock 挫折、不幸
例:He had a few knocks, but it came out alright in the end.
- strip search 搜身 (檢查看是否有毒品或武器)
例:They're subject to strip search for wires. 他們受命搜身檢查竊聽器。 - augment 加強、擴大
例:He had to augment his kick this week with a stickup out at the Rutgers little Jackie put him onto.
- stickup 強盜、搶劫 (持槍的)
- sideline 邊界 (球場)
例:He's on the sidelines three whole quarters waiting.
2009/02/21
The Sopranos 3x03 - Fortunate Son 英文筆記
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