2007年10月24日星期三

<I want Candy>学习笔记(2)

44, get hold of sb. 与…联系上 I can't get hold of you, could please call me back?

45, VAT, abbreviation for "value added tax" 增值税 (BrE) a tax that is added to the price of goods and services

46, Bukkake, (original from Japanese) is a group sex practice that features a man or woman being ejaculated on by multiple man (如果还不理解,问问看过日本A片的男生)

47, bollocks, Œnonsense You're talking a load of bollocks!


(pl.) a man's testicles ŽBollocks! Exclamation used as a swear word when sb is disagreeing with sth. or when they are angry with sth.

Bollocks! He never said that!

48, grudge n. a feeling of anger or dislike towards sb. because of sth bad they have done to you in the past.

Eg. I bear him no grudge. 我对他没有恶意。

49, subsidiary adj. (同) additional n. 子公司

---connected with sth but less important than it.

50, what's the haps? = what's going on?

51, allegory n. 寓言 a story, play, picture etc in which each character or event is a symbol representing an idea or a quality

52, big-time adj. n. 第一流(的) 最高级(的)

Small time adj. 三流的

53, nugget n. a small round piece of some types of food

Chicken nugget 炸鸡块 You could order chicken Mcnuggets in Mcdonalds

54, cascade n. a small waterfall eg. Blonde hair cascaded over her shoulders.

55, heaving adj. –full of sb/sth

The place was heaving with journalists.

56, art-house adj. ---art-house films/movies are usually made by small companies and are not usually seen by a wide audience

Ukrainian art-house 指乌克兰拍的色情电影 (英国很多A片来自俄罗斯,乌克兰和东欧国家)

57, mediocrity n. 平常,平庸之才 Œa person who is not very good at sth. eg. A brilliant leader, surrounded by mediocrity


the quality of being average or not very good

Eg. His acting career started brilliantly, then sank into mediocrity.

58, toaster n. –an electrical machine that you put slices of bread in to make toast

59, shield n. 盾

60, continuez (French) --continue continuez-vous (?)

61, trot v. ---to move forward at a speed that is faster than a walk and slower than canter.

Trot along ---快点去 eg. The boy trotted along after his mother. 这男孩小跑步一路跟着他母亲。

62, chaloroform n. (CHCL3) –A clear liquid used in the past in medicine, etc to make people unconscious, for example before an operation


 

 

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