The Sopranos 4x10 - The Strong, Silent Type 英文筆記

• carrot 胡蘿蔔
  例：He eats his carrots. (暗指某人的視力好)
• lard 豬油
• warmth 溫暖、熱情
  例：She must've crawled under there for warmth.
• smack = scag = H = heroin 海洛因
• tryout 試驗、選拔、試演
  例：Try the gay men's choir. I read they were having tryouts today.
• pull the plug 拔掉某人的生命維持系統
  例：That guy would be the first guy on line to pull his plug.
• volatile 不穩定的、揮發性的、變化劇烈的
  例：Volatile, punching the walls. Compulsive gorging on food. Kind of a far cry from the seltzer bottle and bicycle horn.
  
• gorge 狼吞虎咽、猛吃
• far cry 很遠的距離、很大的差距
• on the stick 抓緊、趕快、十分用心、俐落
  例：You kick it up to 80 for a week, 10 days just to pull back on the stick, get the nose up, then you duck back down to 40 before the limp dick thing sets in.
• limp dick 軟屌、性無能
• that being said 話雖如此、儘管如此、然而
  例：It's sad that you've lost something that you love. That being said, it is a horse.
  
• touchy-feely 過於卿卿我我的、過於情感化的 (有負面意思)
  例：Can't I just be sad for a horse without some touchy-feely Freudian shit component to it?
• Freudian 佛洛伊德的
• embody 具體表達、包含、使具體化
  例：When it was the ducks, it embodied feelings of dread about your family, that something terrible was going to happen.
• cold feet 膽小、愄縮、害怕
  例：It's a stressful time, right before a wedding. A lot of guys get cold feet.
• stoned 喝醉的、被迷幻的、被毒化的
  例：He's stoned on H all the time.
• Hazelden 美國幫助人戒毒、戒酒的非營利組織
• stiff 不付錢、欠錢不還
  例：Don't stiff me on this, man.
• classy 上等的、優等的、高檔的
  例：A classy piece like this? 25 to 30 Gs at a minimum.
• maricon = faggot 同性戀 (西班牙語，有貶意)
  
• metropolitan 大都市的
• backsplash 廚房裡爐子或水槽旁的牆 (通常是防水的瓷磚)
  例：Wait until you see how a mirrored backsplash can amplify a room.
  
• amplify 放大、擴大、增強
• CompUSA 美國電子產品專賣店
• cyst 囊腫
• spring training 春訓 (大聯盟)
  
• bust one's ass 努力工作
• rabies 狂犬病
  例：A dog you love catches rabies, you put her out of its misery.
  
• liability 責任、債務
  例：He's a major liability. If it were anybody else...
• B&E = breaking and entering = burglary 破門盜竊、搶劫
• juicer 酒鬼、酒徒
• competency hearing 評估被告健康狀況的聽證會
• head shrinker = shrink 心理醫生
• smell a rat 感到可疑、覺得有蹊蹺
  例：I bring A.J. with me. Now even he smells a rat.
• slip through one's fingers (機會) 從誰的手中溜掉
  例：I feel like my life is slipping through my fingers and I will never be happy.
• confrontation 對峙、對證
  例：A intervention is a non-judgmental confrontation.
• belligerent = aggressive 有敵意的、好戰的、攻擊傾向的
  例：Christopher, last Monday you came home from work high and belligerent, and you were physically abusive to me.
• relapse (舊病) 復發、故態複萌
  例：In 1997, I suffered a relapse. As in heroin addiction, alcoholics suffer a fairly high recidivism rate.
  
• recidivism 再犯、累犯 
• medallion 大獎章、切成圓形的食物 (如牛排)
  例：I think I'm going to have the medallions of veal.
• Revolutionary War 美國獨立戰爭
• portly 肥胖的、壯的、魁梧的
  例：He's rather portly to be Napoleon.
  
• pork loin 豬腰肉
• gibberish 胡言亂語
  例：You were talking non-stop for 20 minutes, nothing but gibberish.
• Type A personality 一種人格，特徵是沒耐心、暴躁、好競爭。(與 Type B 相反)
  
• hairline fracture 骨裂、細微骨折
  例：The man has a hairline skull fracture.
  
• white powder 白粉
• grim 冷酷的、可怕的、殘忍的
• prop up = support 支持、支撐、支援
  例：I don't want all the time prop you up.