The Sopranos 4x03 - Christopher 英文筆記

• disrupt 使分裂、使中斷、使瓦解
  例：New Jersey Council of Indian Affairs has announced plans to disrupt Monday's Columbus Day Parade in Newark.
• Columbus Day 紀念哥倫布發現美洲的節日
• anthropology 人類學
• marcher 遊行者、行軍者、住在邊界的人
  例：Council members and supporters will lie down in the path of Columbus Day marchers "in protest of Columbus' role in the genocide of American's native peoples."
  
• in protest 反對、抗議
  
• genocide 種族滅絕、集體屠殺
• deathwatch 觀看或看護將死之人
  例：To launch their protest, the Native Americans and their sympathizers plan to begin a deathwatch tomorrow over the statue of Columbus in Christopher Columbus Park.
• badmouth 誹謗、中傷
  之前的相似字：vilify、drag through the mud、discredit
  
• paint as 把什麼描繪成
  例：They wanna paint Columbus as a slave trader instead of an explorer.
• massacre 大屠殺
• peasant 農夫、鄉下人
• luncheon 午宴、正式的午餐
• missus = Mrs. 女士、夫人
• die a (natural) death 死亡、消失、結束
  例：You didn't hear the joke about Ginny? Never mind. Let it die a death.
• Sheetrock 一種石膏板 (品牌)
• coalition 結合、聯合、合併
• genocidal 種族滅絕的、集體屠殺的
• festivity 慶宴、歡慶
• put forth 放出、頒佈、發表
  例：You know very well of the compromised position we put forth.
• bondage = slavery 奴役、束縛
  例：American put your people in bondage for three centuries.
• brave 勇敢面對、敢於挑戰
• perilous 危險的、冒險的
  例：Two simple people from Sicily, who braved the perilous Middle Passage...
• Middle Passage 歷史上用來運送黑奴的海域 (大西洋)
  
• try 審理
  例：I'm going to give you some preliminary instructions and explain the process by which we will try this case.
• order of business = agenda 議程、待辦事項
• flair 天賦、資質、才能
  例：Such flair we have added to our image. And yet, America still see us as pizza makers and Mama Leones.
  
• spread the word 散播謠言、宣傳
  例：It is your job to spread the word.
• smelly 發臭的
• aromatic 芳香的
• Asiago 一種義大利起士
• Barolo 一種義大利酒
• orecchiette 耳狀的義大利麵
• broccoli rabe 一種義大利蔬菜 (類似油菜)
• depict = portray 描述、描寫
  例：Why would they do this? Because of the way the media depict us.
  
• wage-earning = blue-collar = working-class 工人階級的、藍領階級的
• law-abiding 守法的
• sorceress 女魔法師、女巫
• imago 成蟲、對某人理想化的意象
• uncalled for 不適當的、沒有必要的
  例：That was totally uncalled for.
• cut/tear a new one 教訓，字面上意思是幫某人挖一個新的 asshole。
  例：I'm gonna cut him a new one.
  
• outsider 局外人、外人、門外漢
• stench = reek 惡臭、臭味
• perish 毀滅、腐爛、死亡
  例："For the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men."
• lily-liver 膽小鬼
  例：What a coward that man is. He's always been a lily-liver.
• apologetic 道歉的、認錯的
  例：He's all apologetic now. I let him have it.
• ShopRite 美國超市
• oriental 東方的、亞洲的
• level-headed = sober 頭腦冷靜的、清醒的、穩健的
  例：What's with you? I count on you to be the most level-headed guy I got.
• consigliere 軍師、顧問 (義大利字)
• PR 公共關係 (public relations)
  例：This battle's gonna be won on the PR level. Heats and minds.
  
• hearts and minds (贏得) 民心 (透過建設或輿論)
• hot potato 燙手山芋、棘手的問題
  例：That's a tough one. Real hot potato. Nobody wants to touch it.
• First Amendment 憲法第一修正案 (保障言論、出版及集會自由)
• hands are tied on 幫不了忙、無法干涉
  例：My hands are tied on this one. Sorry.
• leave flat 頭也不回地離開、無預警地離開、拋棄
  例：The last time that you dated a friend and colleague of your brother's, he left you flat, disappeared into the witness protection program.
  
• ridicule 嘲笑、嘲弄
  例：I was shamed and ridiculed for being artistic.
  
• spearhead 當…的先鋒、帶頭、矛頭
  例：I represent a group of concerned citizens who are very upset about this protest you're spearheading, no puns intended.
• pun 雙關語、俏皮話
• resolve 決心、堅決
  例：If you've come here to intimidate me, you don't know much about Indian resolve.
• boner 愚蠢的錯誤
  例：This is a major PR boner. 這是輿論上的重大錯誤。
  
• environmentalist 環保支持者
• cavalry 騎兵、裝甲兵
• subjugate 征服、使服從
  例：With 50 men, we could subjugate them and make them do whatever we want.
  
• walk in one's shoes 設身處地
  例：You had to walk in Columbus' shoes to see what he went through.
• canasta 一種紙牌遊戲
• make an issue of 把什麼當作很重要的事來處理
  例：He makes an issue out of Zellman?
  
• maiden 初次的、未婚的、未贏過比賽的馬
  例：This is Pie-O-My. Just broke her maiden at Belmont last month. A lot of speed.
  
• freedom of speech 言論自由
• strictly speaking 嚴格來說
• conquistador 西班牙征服者
• common cause 共同的動機、共同的興趣
  例：Jews, because of their history, have common cause with the oppressed.
  
• oppress = suppress 壓迫、壓抑、鎮壓
• smallpox 天花
• wilderness 荒野、荒地
• talk out of one's ass 胡說八道、亂講話
  例：You're talking out of your ass.
• trivialize 簡單化、使不重要
  例：Columbus and Hitler? You're trivializing the Holocaust.
• Holocaust 猶太人大屠殺
• covert 隱蔽的、隱密的、隱藏的
  例：If you got that kind of covert anti-Semitism, I'd like you to leave my house.
• Semitism 閃族人的特性、閃族語 (閃族是猶太人、阿拉伯人、敘利亞人的祖先)
• villainize 汙名化、邪惡化
  例：Please don't villainize me.
• Bat Mitzvah 猶太女孩成人禮
• bubble jet printer 噴墨印表機
• hock 典當、抵押
• sales slip 發票、銷貨單
• (right) on cue 事情發生得剛剛好
  例：There he is. What'd I say? Right on cue. (說曹操，曹操就到)
  
• preppy = preppie 預校學生 (美國的寄宿中學稱為 preparatory school)
• state of the art 高技術水準、現代化的
  例：This is a brand new facility, state-of-the-art.
• burn in effigy 當眾燒毀肖像 (一種抗議行為)
  例：They're burning Columbus in effigy down there.
  
• ivory tower 象牙塔、與現實脫節的小天地
  例：People like Redclay, they're out of touch, in their ivory towers.
• better late than never 遲做總比不做好
• comp 提供免費的務服或禮物
  例：You gotta let me make it up to you. Come on up, spend a day. High rollers room, everything comped.
• level with 向誰坦白誠實
  例：You've got to sit him down and level with him.
• nomadic 遊牧的、流浪的
  例：They were a nomadic tribe.
• score 配樂
  例：My God, this is tragic. Could be scored with Albinoni's Adagio.
  
• adagio (音樂) 柔板、慢板
• scuffle 扭打、混戰、亂鬥
  例：...scuffle at the Columbus Day parade in Newark. Among those arrested for blocking a fire lane was Native American activist Del Redclay who called the protest an unqualified success.
  
• fire lane 防火巷、防火道
• unqualified 不合格的、不適任的
• junket 野餐、宴請、用公費旅遊
  例：That's what this whole fucking junket was about.
• buttonhole 強留談或聽、鈕扣孔
  例：That's way he buttonholed me, goddamn it.
• Sioux 蘇族 (印第安人的一種)
• Fundamentalist (Christianity) 基要主義 (基督教)
• spit on 吐口水、羞辱、唾棄
  例：My grandparents got split on because they were from Calabria.
• topless bar 上空酒吧
• tiptoe 踮起腳尖走、躡手躡腳地走
  例：We gotta tiptoe around the Indians though, don't we?
• tomahawk 印第安戰斧