The Sopranos 5x01 - Two Tonys 英文筆記

• inevitably 不可避免地、必然地
  例：Inevitably, what goes in must comes out.
• crackdown 壓迫、痛擊、鎮壓
• break the back of 打敗、鏟除勢力
  例：For years we heard how law enforcement broke the back of the mob.
• case in point = example of this (目前談論內容的) 例子
  例：New Jersey's a better case in point.
• pipe down 安靜下來、降低音量、小聲
  例：Will you pipe down? We're trying to watch it.
• chowder 海鮮雜膾濃湯
• vac = vaccum cleaner 吸塵器
  例：I see you didn't bring the power vac in from the pool house like I asked.
• pick-up time 接人的時間、收垃圾的時間
  例：You're not gonna put your trash cans out until as close to pick-up time as possible.
• ammonia 氨水、阿摩尼亞
• bust a cap 開一槍
  例：You should've busted a cap in his ass with Dad's rifle.
• discharge 開 (槍)
  例：It's illegal to discharge firearms within the borough limits.
• borough 城市的一個行政區
• damp 潮溼的
  之前的相似字：soggy、clammy
  例：The corn's gotten damp and aromatic.
• devious 迂回的、彎曲的、不直接的、不誠實的
  例：Women are more devious than men.
• tower of strength 值得依靠且能提供保護的人
  例：You expect a man to be a tower of strength.
• doggone = damned 該死的、可惡的
  例：Doggone, I hate this Freudian crap.
• one for the books 值得記上一筆、值得紀念
  例：Never would've happened if Paulie hadn't initially overreacted, but it's one for the books.
• jab 刺、戳、捅、重擊
  例：You let him jab you with that shovel was the problem. Lets his guard down.
• guard 警戒 (心)
• blood relation 血緣關係
  例：Always playing that blood-relation card. Tony's little favorite.
  
• respectable 不少的、量多的
  例：I waited a respectable period or whatever before making this call.
• undeterred 無法阻止的、無法恐嚇的、不灰心喪氣的
  例：I'm not undeterred by this. We will talk again.
  
• prairie 大草原、牧場
• trapper 設陷阱者 (捕獸)
• spoor 痕跡、足跡
• lanyard 繫索 (泛指掛在脖子或手腕上的繩子)
• timberland 森林地
• shot 老舊的、不能再用的、精疲力盡的
  例：The coffeemaker is shot. The heating element is corroded.
  
• corrode 侵蝕、腐蝕
• get a kick out of 因什麼興奮、快樂
  例：He'll get a kick out of it. It's an adventure.
• tooth and nail 拼命地、想盡方法地
  例：I gotta fight you tooth and nail.
• soak 浸泡、浸溼、收費過高、坑人
  例：You worried he's gonna soak you for an extra pencil?
• rimshot 打擊鼓邊發出的聲響
• How do you like them apples? = How do you like them? 你喜歡嗎？你覺得怎樣？(有挑釁意味)
• girl scout 女童軍
• simmer 燉、慢煮
  例：I think I'll let this simmer a bit.
• set a precedent 樹立先例、設規矩
  例：It's all about setting a precedent.
• in a mess 混亂地、雜亂地、髒亂的
  例：First day there, I walk in a mess. I'm wearing a puss, a fucking scowl.
  
• scowl 皺眉、顯怒容
• galoot 笨蛋
• go straight 改邪歸正、走正途
  例：What'd you go straight from the joint to Earl Scheib?
• code word 密碼、暗語、暗號
• secret passage 密道
• coconut 椰子
• so much as 甚至於
  例：From that time on, nobody so much as looks at me cross-eyed!
• entrepreneur 企業家
• station 駐紮、部署、配置
  例：He says he wants somebody stationed in the yard.
• pit stop 休息站、賽車修理站
• moss 苔蘚、青苔、泥沼
• jungle cat 山貓、叢林貓
• hold the horses 等一下、稍等
  例：- So can we go? - Hold your horses.
• acupuncture 針灸
• gherkin 一種小黃瓜
• paralysis 麻痹、癱瘓、停頓
• in the lurch 在危險、難堪之中
  例：I haven't forgotten our arrangement last year, you leaving me in the lurch like that.
• underhanded 秘密的、欺騙的、偷偷摸摸的
  例：Why did you have to be underhanded? I don't find that appealing, frankly.
• malpractice 不當治療、誤診
• cut of one's jib 一個人的外觀和行事作風
  例：If you don't like me personally, or the cut of my jib, or my face, or whatever, then the matter will end here and I will never ask you again.
• drop-dead 非常地、極度地
  例：You're different from what's out there, not to mention being drop-dead beautiful.
• fleece 羊毛 (外套)
• somber = gloomy 昏暗的、陰沈的、憂鬱的
  例：I don't want to paint in somber tones here, but the man is a sociopath, unpracticed in not getting what he wants.
  
• unpracticed 經驗不足的、不熟練的
• kaput 過時的、毀了的、完蛋的
  例：Now, since the therapy is kaput, what use are you to him except for sex?
• depth of feeling 深厚的感情
  例：Your depth of feeling is really quite extraordinary here.
• borscht 甜菜湯、羅宋湯 
• alpha male/female 有領導特質的人
• chisel sb. out of sth. 騙取某人的東西
  例：You chiseled him out of a dinner?
• page 男隨從、青年侍從
• youse = you all 你們
• moose 北美麋
• Lyonnaise 和洋蔥薄片一起炸的
• piss away 浪費、揮霍
  例：Yeah, go piss it away at blackjack.
• break out the big guns 拿出真功夫、開始認真了、使出壓箱寶
  例：Come on, I'm breaking out the big guns here.
• spell 使換班休息、輪替
  例：You can take the night off. I'll spell you.