用法学习: 1. A short squeeze 打压空头 (In finance, a short sale 空头, 卖空 ( long 多头, 买空 In terms of a security, such as a stock or a bond, or equivalently to be long in a security, means the holder of the position owns the security and will profit if the price of the security goes up. Going long a security is the more conventional practice of investing. ) (also known as a short 空头, 做空, shorting, or going short) is the sale of an asset (securities or other financial instrument) that the seller has borrowed in order to profit from a subsequent fall in the price of the asset. After borrowing the asset, the short seller sells it to a buyer at the market price at that time. Subsequently, the resulting short position is "covered" when the seller repurchases the same asset (i.e. an instrument of the same type) in a market transaction and delivers the purchased asset back to the lender to replace the asset that was initially borrowed. In the event of an interim price decline, the short seller will profit, since the cost of (re)purchase will be less than the proceeds received upon the initial (short) sale. Conversely, the short position will result in a loss if the price of a shorted asset rises prior to repurchase. ) is a rapid increase in the price of a stock that occurs when there is a lack of supply and an excess of demand for the stock. Short squeezes result when short sellers 短线卖家 cover their positions (空头回头去补给借给他的人) on a stock, resulting in buying volume that drives the stock price up. This can occur if the price has risen to a point where short sellers must make margin calls 决定抛售, or more loosely if short sellers simply decide to cut their losses and get out. This may happen in an automated manner for example if the short sellers had previously placed stop-loss 及时止损 ( I. denoting or relating to an order to sell a security or commodity at a specified price in order to limit a loss. A stop loss is an order that contains an instruction to buy (or sell) a security once its price reaches a certain point (i.e. a price lower than the amount you paid). an instruction to a broker to sell shares if they go down to a particular price: With each share you pick, you should also set a stop-loss. Hold the shares for now, but set a stop-loss limit at 67p. A stop limit is an order with two specific price points that have to be met. The main difference between the two orders is the level of specificity. II. denoting or relating to a policy of forcibly retaining members of the armed forces on active duty beyond their original agreed period of enlistment. ) orders with their brokers to prepare for this possibility. Since covering their positions involves buying shares, the short squeeze causes an ever further rise in the stock's price, which in turn may trigger additional margin calls and short covering.
Underbelly: 1. What have we got, Steve Owen? Gregory Workman attended a party on the premises and the killer pumped a whole magazine into him. Witnesses? Uh, two sisters. We've got the girls inside. I've kept them separate so they don't get together on their stories 串通(get together I. [intransitive] 抛弃分歧, 达成一致. 串供. to reach an agreement on an issue that people have had different opinions about. get together on: I hope the committee can get together on this matter. II. [transitive] to organize or produce something that has many separate parts We've got to get this report together by tomorrow. III. [transitive] to find or collect things that you need, so that they are in one place and ready to use. I got together 攒起来, 收集起来 a list of all their names and phone numbers. a. to obtain an amount of money that you need. I managed to get the deposit together. IV. [intransitive] informal if two people get together, they start a romantic or sexual relationship. get it together a. to be in control of your life, so that you are successful and are doing what you want to do. b. British spoken if two people get it together, they start a romantic or sexual relationship. get yourself together to become calm and in control of your emotions. be ranged against/with sth/sb = range yourself against/with sth/sb 加入反对／支持…的行列, 联合起来反对／支持 to be part of a group that opposes/supports a particular idea, plan, or group. to be positioned or aligned with a group that opposes or is in opposition to something or someone. "The opposition party was ranged against the government's proposal" means they took a position against the proposal. Most of the state Democratic party are ranged against the president. She ranged herself with my opponents.). It's like he was crazy. He just kept shooting till the bullets ran out. Did you witness the actual argument? Nuh, just the murder. And he was known to you? Uh, Greg? He was a friend. 2. What? Alphonse is slipping your girlfriend the length(Slipping her a length To have consenting sexual intercourse with a woman, to penetrate the vagina with the penis. "Did you see Glenn Beck interviewing Quitter Palin on Faux the other day?" "Yeah, he was a complete and utter quittergazer, I've never seen anything like it. It was almost as if he thought she made sense. He was just staring into her eyes as if he was caught in some kind of spell. I honestly thought he was going to pull down his trousers and try slipping her a length."). Tracey? Bullshit. She can't get enough of me. Well, she can't get enough of the Mediterranean either. How long have I been warning you about this prick, hey? Once bitten, twice shy. How many times you been bitten now, brother? 3. You did good 做得好 cutting him loose 甩了. I didn't. He cut me. Prick. Everything this family's done for him. Takes your girl and treats you like shit. 4. Munster, you got nothing to say? Well, he was my mate too, Mario. He just had a death wish 自己不想活了, 自寻死路. May he rest in peace. Anyway, bottom line is the witnesses' evidence is fairly useless.
Billions S1E3: 1. Uh, do you happen to catch the science section on Tuesday? I may have skipped it. Mm. I never miss a word. Anyway, uh, there was a piece on microbial research. It's a burgeoning ([ˈbɜrdʒənɪŋ]) field 蓬勃发展的新生领域. And this MIT team was looking into apoptosis. There are cells within me and you and other complex organisms that will actually sacrifice themselves for the whole. Healthy cells just kind of taking one for the team 牺牲小我全大我. What? Statue of Liberty attempted bombing case needs to come off your plate. I'm sorry? Eastern needs that case. No. That's a dagger(at daggers drawn 剑拔弩张 If you say that two people are at daggers drawn, you mean they are having an argument and are still very angry with each other. She and her mother were at daggers drawn.). I have this. I've been doing this for two years around the clock. Oh, believe me, I know, and I see that. But it really can't be helped. Besides, you're still gonna be on the case. What the fuck? You're cross-designating 借调 (外派 second) me to Eastern(Upon graduation, each officer was cross-designated as a law enforcement officer for the other country. Officers, who were cross-designated on vessels of the other nation, could authorize pursuit of suspect vessels crossing jurisdictions. designate [ˈdezɪɡˌneɪt] verb I. 指派. to formally choose someone or something for a particular purpose. to choose someone officially to do a particular job: Traditionally, the president designates his or her successor. Thompson has been designated (as/to be) team captain. [ + to infinitive ] She has been designated to organize the meeting. Nobody has yet been designated as the leader. social workers designated to work with difficult children. II. formal to give someone or something a particular name, title, or description. The park was designated as a National Monument in 1975. III. to represent something in a particular way, for example with a sign or symbol. Road hazards are designated by yellow diamond-shaped signs. to say officially that a place or thing has a particular character or purpose: This area of the park has been specially designated 特别分派, 特别分配 for children. They officially designated the area (as) unsuitable for human habitation. adj. [ˈdezɪɡˌneɪt] chosen for a particular job but not yet officially doing that job. used after the title of a particular official job to refer to someone chosen to do that job, but who has not yet started doing it: the Secretary General/Managing Director designate. the ambassador designate 候任的. -elect 当选的 adj Elect is added after words such as 'president' or 'governor' to indicate that a person has been elected to the post but has not officially started to carry out the duties involved. [formal] ...the date when the president-elect takes office. incumbent noun someone who has an official position the campaign to re-elect the incumbent. incumbent adj 现任的 holding an official position at the present time the incumbent president. be incumbent on/upon someone to do something to be someone's duty or responsibility to do something. "card-carrying 现任正式会员 member". sitting: I. A sitting of a parliament, legislature, court, or other official body is one of the occasions when it meets in order to carry out its work. ...the recent emergency sittings of the U.N. Security Council. [+ of] II. A sitting president or member of parliament is a present one, not a future or past one. ...the greatest clash in our history between a sitting president and an ex-president. You can't question a sitting 现役的, 在任的, 现任的 judge. "Our sitting president 在任, 现任 ran on a slogan that should have been a great first step," said Cruz. sitting member: a member of parliament at the present time. be sitting pretty to be in a good situation, especially when other people are not. He is sitting pretty with a 10% lead in the opinion polls over his nearest rival. outgoing 去职的, 离职的, 即将离任的. )? Like you said, you've been working on it for two years. They're gonna need your expertise. Yeah, I'm gonna do all the scut work ( scutwork 脏活, 累活, 苦力活, 枯燥无味的工作, 琐碎的工作 Tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project. grunt work = donkey work = dirty work I. work that is boring and sometimes difficult, but not very important. The British word is donkey work. II. 苦力. 杂役. 杂货. 打杂. hard, boring work. laborious/ time-consuming/ not stimulating. In my apprenticeship, I had to do a lot of the grunt work. do all the heavy lifting (hard yards ) 苦力, 辛苦活 The most demanding part of an endeavour; work requiring the most effort, resources, or consideration. Graft means hard work. [British, informal] His career has been one of hard graft. hard graft 辛苦工作, 勤奋: The job was finished on time, thanks to the sheer hard graft of those involved. menial [ˈmiːnɪəl] 卖苦力的, 不需要什么技巧的工作, 苦工, 枯燥单调的工作 (of work) not requiring much skill and lacking prestige. menial factory jobs. "He took a menial job in a factory". hard labour 苦工, 苦力 heavy manual work as a punishment. "He was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour". ). They're gonna try the case and get the good stuff. I'll make it up to you. You gotta give me a reason. I'm making parlay with ( parley 和谈, 和平谈判 n. a discussion between two groups of people, especially one that is intended to end an argument. verb. to meet in order to discuss something, especially how to end an argument or a war: After some serious parleying, both sides agreed to settle their differences. He has led disarmament talks and parleyed with NATO. ) Eastern and I need big wampum ( [ˈwɑmpəm] I. shells on strings that some Native Americans used as money in the past. (formerly) money used by Native Americans, made of cylindrical shells strung or woven together, esp white shells rather than the more valuable black or purple ones. II. US and Canadian informal money or wealth. ). So I'm supposed to what, just grab my ankles ( grab your ankles To grab one's ankles is essentially to bend over and prepare for what's coming. It is a reference to getting fucked in the ass (usually in a figurative sense). Sometimes the person grabbing their ankles is at fault, and sometimes it is the result of some new organizational policy. The company just laid a bunch of people off and is requiring mandatory overtime for all salary-paid employees, so get ready to grab your ankles.) and take it 任人欺负, 任人欺凌, 弯腰承受, 逆来顺受? I'll send over a vat of ass lube. Chuck. What's the difference between ass lube or regular lube? Viscosity 浓度, 稠度, 浓稠度( [vɪˈskɑsəti] the thick and sticky quality of a liquid. viscous [vɪskəs] 浓稠的 adj A viscous liquid is thick and sticky. ...dark, viscous blood. ). 2. And you know what ATM stands for, right? Yes. I don't wanna be the kind of person that gets off on that 兴奋, 激动, 达到高潮. I really don't. But I've learned this, and it's one of the positives of getting older. It's better to accept who I am than fight it. Ass-to-mouth, by the way. Just so that we are speaking the same language. Oh, we are. Sometimes on the drive home, I'll roll it over in my mind. You know, what is it about a woman taking it into her mouth after a little raw-dogging that just seems so right? And it's this that I'm accepted as I am. Completely. For my good qualities, sure, but also for all of my filth. And I appreciate a woman who is that giving 无私奉献的 ( affectionate and generous where one's feelings are concerned I'm not at all sure how to be a devoted, loving, endlessly giving mother - or even whether I want to be! Jake likes receiving cuddles and can be very giving and affectionate once he trusts adults. ). I truly do. But there's more to it, isn't there? The act you're talking about has to do with power dynamics. Dominance. Maybe ask why this is coming up for you now. Is there a work connection? Someone you feel isn't looking at you like she should? Maria Saldana. Wow. What happened? She was kind of a bastard about her bonus at quarterly review, and then she went and got an offer away. Yeah, but she's still here. Yeah, but she threatened to leave, leveraging us to make a bigger offer, which we will, and I think she stays. You feel played 被玩弄了, 被玩了. Yeah, I do. Then why did you make her the counter ( noun I. In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served. ...a woman serving behind the counter at a bakery. ...the cosmetics counter. We were sitting on stools at the counter having coffee. II. Something that is a counter to something else has an opposite effect to it or makes it less effective. Pay and benefits can be used as a counter 起反作用的 to job insecurity. III. A counter is a mechanical or electronic device which keeps a count of something and displays the total. ...an answerphone with an LED display call counter. verb I. If you do something to counter a particular action or process, you do something which has an opposite effect to it or makes it less effective. The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter 抵消 the effects of such a blockade. Congestion could be countered by persuading more drivers to get on their bikes. Sears then countered by filing an antitrust lawsuit. II. If you counter something 反击 对抗 that someone has said, you say something which shows that you disagree with them or which proves that they are wrong. Both of them had to counter fierce criticism. The union countered with letters rebutting the company's claims. The Prime Minister countered by stating that he had grave misgivings about the advice he had been given. 'But Peter, it's not that simple,' Goldstone countered in a firm voice. to run counter to something = be counter to If one thing runs counter to another, or if one thing is counter to another, the first thing is the opposite of the second thing or conflicts with it. Much of the plan runs counter to European agriculture and environmental policy. The finding ran counter to all expectations. We do not tolerate any behaviour that is counter to our core value of integrity. under the counter 私下交易 If someone buys or sells goods under the counter, they buy or sell them secretly and illegally. The smugglers allegedly sold the gold under the counter, cheating the VAT man out of £5 million. ) - if you feel that way? Because she's great at her job. Her P&L's always green. She grew her capital from 50 to $300 million. Men renegotiate. If they do it this way, they get fired. So it's really not because she's a woman? No, it's because she got out of line. You know that we're upping Donnie Caan's capital tripling it. I asked Axe why. He said, "Donnie's loyal, a good soldier." And in your mind, Maria's not. It doesn't matter. I'll keep her. You gonna tell me about that smile? Well, I'll keep her, but she won't have much fun. It's my duty to make an example of her now. You cannot leverage us. So over the next two years, she'll get cut back in ways she can't control. She'll get less deal flow, less information will fall into her lap. At the end of her deal, she'll be worth a quarter of her current comp. Ass-to-mouth, whether she likes it or not. 3. I am exposed here. This board seat gives me my own standing and $200,000 in income. Seats are always at risk during a takeover. You'll be fine. I don't wanna hear those words from you until you divorce Betty fucking Crocker. Cut the screen test ( screening test 筛查 A screen test 试镜 is a method of determining the suitability of an actor or actress for performing on film or in a particular role. The performer is generally given a scene, or selected lines and actions, and instructed to perform in front of a camera to see if they are suitable. The developed film is later evaluated by the relevant production personnel such as the casting director and the director. The actor may be asked to bring a prepared monologue or alternatively, the actor may be given a script to read at sight ("cold reading"). In some cases, the actor may be asked to read a scene, in which another performer reads the lines of another character. ), Evelyn. Let me read the goddamn letter. Jesus, really? "Hutch Bailey has betrayed the consumer and his own legacy by tampering with the recipe"? The product tastes fine. This isn't about the product. Bobby Axelrod knows about you and me. What? How? Not sure. But I'm impressed. He knows how important your happiness is to me, so he's making us his brushback pitch ( baseball a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head. ) to my son. It's nice handiwork(something impressive that someone has done or created. a. used in an angry way for referring to something bad that someone has done. ). We've got to stop it. He cannot get on a winning streak. What are we gonna do? I gave you my board seat, so I don't have a voice. But here's what you can do. You can talk to Jerome Purkheiser. And say what? You're a persuasive woman. Persuade him to ride this thing out ( ride something out I. come safely through a dangerous or difficult situation. to continue to exist during a difficult situation and until it ends, without serious harm: Many companies did not manage to ride out the recession. "the fleet had ridden out the storm". II. If a ship rides out a period of bad weather, it continues to float during it, without serious damage: The ship managed to ride out the storm. ) and block it. They're lobbying him. You should lobby him. 4. This thing I do I get so fucking turned on doing it because I see the change happen immediately, too. They go from zero to 100, and I can watch exactly how they use what I give them. Yeah, but something about it is not sitting right with you. You're in the horns of a dilemma(on the horns of a dilemma 左右为难, 犹豫不决 If you are on the horns of a dilemma, you have to choose between two things, both of which are unpleasant or difficult. to be unable to decide which of two things to do because either could have bad results. The head of the New York office was on the horns of a dilemma and wondering what to do.). 5. Amelia, I know it's a high profile case. But, uh, I'm building something here. So can we horse trade ( horse-trading the buying and selling of horses. II. hard and shrewd bargaining, especially in politics. "we will win with no horse-trading or electoral pacts". III. unofficial discussion in which people make agreements that provide both sides with advantages: There's been a lot of political horse-trading while the parties try to form a government. Horse trading 幕后交易, in its literal sense, refers to the buying and selling of horses, also called "horse dealing. Due to the difficulties in evaluating the merits of a horse offered for sale, the sale of horses offered great opportunities for dishonesty, leading to use of the term horse trading (or horsetrading) to refer to complex bargaining or other transactions, such as political vote trading. It was expected that horse sellers would capitalize on these opportunities and so those who dealt in horses gained a reputation for underhanded business practices. )? Listening. The Schachetti brothers. You gonna give me the Schachetti brothers? You like? You propose to trade a high-flying hedge fund manager for a couple of old goombahs throwing elbows over garbage pickups in Queens? Maybe, uh, you don't understand how horse trading works. Uh, you don't open with your, uh You can't offer me your mule for my thoroughbred 良驹, 良种马. You're hoping I'm dumb enough to go for that. So fuck you and the horse you didn't ride in on. I think maybe she does understand horse trading. 6. You ready to sweet talk me 说好听的? Statue of Liberty bombing attempt. I don't know. Oh, yes, you do. This story's front page of the Times, above the fold, and the case is solid. One condition. Shoot. Ari Spyros is embedded with you. No, you can't saddle me with that useless douche bag. Take or leave? Done. We'll send the transcript right over. 7. There's this woman. She's a real badass. I like her a lot. And I know she's about to get crushed, and the guy who's gonna crush her is my patient, too. All these people matter to me, and I can't do my job if I judge them. Do the triage 分诊. Figure out who needs what more and go that way. That's the short-term fix. Long term? This shit is gonna give you ulceritis 溃疡性结肠炎. Worse. Talk to Chase, the headhunter. Hmm. That guy. Yeah, we had a little thing. It was years ago. You were kinda into him. Mm-hmm. He was fun. Good at certain things, if I recall. Very conscientious (I. 敬业的. 认真负责的. 负责任的. Someone who is conscientious is very careful to do their work properly. wishing to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly. "a conscientious man, he took his duties very seriously" We are generally very conscientious about our work. [+ about] Virginia was still struggling to be a conscientious and dedicated mother. He studied conscientiously and enthusiastically. II. relating to a person's conscience. "the individual is denied even the opportunity to break the law on conscientious grounds". ). Someone's gotta talk to Purkheiser. He made his money in meat processing. Feared by the bovine. Kills over a million cows a year. He's been described to me as a cool-headed Midwesterner who can smell bullshit in the colon of a bull from across the ranch. Wanna try him? I can't do that. He's folksy (I. made or done in a way that is intended to remind you of traditional art, customs, or stories. If you describe something as folksy, you mean that it is simple and has a style characteristic of folk craft and tradition. You sometimes use folksy to show disapproval of something because it seems unsophisticated. ...folksy country furniture. a folksy piece of music. II. informal in a friendly way that makes you feel relaxed. If you describe someone as folksy, you mean that they are friendly and informal in their behaviour. ...an elderly, folksy postman. the president's folksy speeches. ). So? I've tried with folksy people. They find me to be a rapacious scumbag ( rapacious [rəˈpeɪʃəs] 贪得无厌的, 永远得不到满足的, 欲求不满的 never satisfied until you have taken everything that you can take. If you describe a person or their behaviour as rapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour. He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup. ...a rapacious exploitation policy. Rapacious developers soon bought up the land. rapacious appetites. insatiable [ɪnˈseɪʃəb(ə)l] always wanting more and never feeling satisfied. The public seems to have an insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. ). I'm sorry to break it to you, but I don't think it's just the folksy people. How 'bout you? You're my rapacious scumbag. This is what love is. They put me on fucking hold? Yeah, a man of your stature 你这种身份的人. Damn right. 8. patrician [pəˈtrɪʃn] 贵族 n. A patrician is a person who comes from a family of high social rank. ...the patrician banker Sir Charles Villiers. adj. If you describe someone as patrician, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank. He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties. ...her crisp, patrician voice. Wags is a patrician WASP who still has to work for a living. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) are a social group of typically wealthy and well-connected white Protestants of British descent. Until after World War II the group dominated American society and culture and the leadership of the Republican party. They were, and still predominantly are, well placed in major financial, business, legal and academic institutions and had close to a monopoly of elite society due to intermarriage and nepotism. 9. Mr. Decker, approximately two and a half hours ago, we had someone sitting where you are now a young man from a fund that I'm not at liberty to name 不能透漏名字, and he was downright chatty. So it looks like the race is on to see who's got the stronger information and who I'm gonna let take the credit for flipping on ( to flip on someone 背叛, 供出 (or some organization in this case) is to be disloyal, e.g. to "change sides." To flip on a friend might be to reveal his illegal activities to the authorities. To flip in your context would be to switch allegiances from the FBI to Interpol and do their bidding rather than your own organization's. flip out on someone 大发雷霆 "flip out" implies visibly and demonstrably angry. to become very angry. Her father flipped when he saw the phone bill. a. to become very enthusiastic or happy. He flipped when he heard that he'd won. flip = flippant 不严肃的, 不认真的, 玩世不恭的: If you say that someone is being flip, you disapprove of them because you think that what they are saying shows they are not being serious enough about something. [disapproval] ...a flip answer. The tone of the book is sometimes too flip. flip through: If you flip through the pages of a book, for example, you quickly turn over the pages in order to find a particular one or to get an idea of the contents. He was flipping through a magazine in the living room. He flipped the pages of the diary and began reading the last entry. ) Bobby Axelrod. And the winner gets to stay out of MCC. Yes, that's correct. Cooperate and go home. Uh, but this comes to trial, and you're talking to your kids through glass. We'll see how that all works out. Yes, we will. We're done here. Oh, you are far from done. Just know that 记住了, 记住喽, 你给我记好了.10. We have an awful lot to talk about. Okay. It isn't flattering. Looking at some pretty serious reputational damage here. Hmm, you think? Is it a defamation case? I don't know. You tell me. How much is true? He made some shrewd trades around 9/11. You know, he did what he had to do. My husband plays hardball 不计代价, 不计后果, 无所不用其极, 不择手段(to use any methods to defeat someone, even unfair or dishonest ones. Helms is playing political hardball with the White House, threatening that his committee will block the nominations.). Nobody makes billions of dollars pitching underhand ( adj. I. If an action is underhand or if it is done in an underhand way, it is done secretly and dishonestly. [disapproval] What really angered her was the dirty, underhand way they had tricked her. ...underhand financial deals. ...a list of the underhanded ways in which their influence operates in the United States. She accused the government of being underhand. II. BRIT, use underarm (forehand, backhand 正手, 反手) You use underhand or underhanded to describe actions, such as throwing a ball, in which you do not raise your arm above your shoulder. ...an underhanded pitch. Underhand is also an adverb. In softball, pitches are tossed underhand. ). But his work situation beforehand, what he did after, incendiary ( incendiary [ɪnsendiəri US: ɪnˈsendiˌeri] I. Incendiary weapons or attacks are ones that cause large fires. Five incendiary devices were found in her house. ...incendiary attacks on shops. II. likely to cause anger or violence. incendiary statements. n. An incendiary is an incendiary bomb. A shower of incendiaries struck the Opera House. ). So what do you recommend? Three avenues let her print, then we rebut and sue. And I'm not recommending that. People remember allegations, not rebuttals 驳斥. Exactly. Someone says Charlie fucked a goat, even if the goat denies it, he goes to the grave "Charlie the goat fucker." Second option buy the publishing company and kill it. That's too loud 动静太大, I think. Agreed. The third choice I could go and try and reason with her. No, I reasoned with that twat once before. I have ways to get her attention. 10. I'm in the 8:15 with Steffi. Um, I don't have you on my list. I booked online. There must be some sort of mix up. Your name didn't make it into the system. Okay. Um Lilly, Jane, Patricia you're all set. Thanks, Christine. I gotta change. Um, can you just, like, squeeze me in 通融一下, 加个塞, 加进去? Sorry. It's policy. 11. I don't see him caving. Mm, I think he will. You know, my fucking eyes are watering here. How many pints of that shitty toilet water do you splash on yourself every morning, Spyros? You think maybe it's gonna help you get some tail? Here's a tip it's not. It is a lot in a confined area. I cut back 收敛一点, 少喷点 a little. Yeah, maybe cut way back. 12. I had to give away your tee time. Uh, what are you talking about? I don't really know. Something about your account being in arrears. That is not true. My bookkeeper There has been a mistake. Well, you can't play golf till it's been resolved. 13. Folks, my proposal is simple. Return to the original recipes and restore the YumTime brand to its former glory 以前的辉煌. And then what? After a good quarter or two, you spin it off? Do you see what's happening here? This carpetbagger ( I. 外来客, 外人. 投机取巧的人. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there. [US, disapproval] He had come to Washington, not as a common carpetbagger, but a man well known. II. UK disapproving a person who becomes a member of a mutually owned building society or insurance company in order to gain financially in the event of the organization demutualizing. someone who invests in a financial organization that is owned by its members, in order to make a profit if it is sold: Thousands of carpetbaggers have invested in the building society, hoping that it will become a public company.), he comes in here, he shakes things up, he sells the company off in pieces, and then he dumps his shares the minute it ticks up. He's a raider, plain and simple. Not my intention. Do you have any idea of the cost of returning to the old recipes? We can't remain competitive. How do we explain that to the shareholders? No explanation necessary. We make up the difference by streamlining inefficiencies and trimming bloated 臃肿的 executive compensation and perquisites, beginning with the corporate jet. I move that effective immediately, Hutchinson Bailey III be removed from his duties as Chief Executive Officer of the YumTime corporation. Hang on a minute here! Purk, you're being conned 上当了, 受骗了! Jerome, this is not what we discussed. Evelyn, there have been subsequent discussions. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor? Motion carries. You traitor. My father is turning in his grave, I assure you. I'll go to the press. If you do, you'll be burned down with your own match 自取灭亡, 引火自焚. But if you don't, we'll write you a nice endorsement, and maybe you'll get another board. You old cocksucker. The same might be said of you, my dear. 13. What do you mean there is no place 没有位置 for him? His father, who died tragically, went to Stanford. And so did his grandfather, who has his name on a squash court. He plays the goddamn violin. This is a double legacy with perfect SATs who goes into Bridgeport to read to poor, dumb children! I mean, what the fuck happened?! June, you know how sorry we are about this. This is just a very competitive class. What about a gap year? Or what is his safety school 保底学校? His safety school is fuck you! Oh, and, June, I spoke to Carl Belanger at Stanford The president. Yeah, and, um, there seems to be a mix-up 出差错, 小差错, 搞错了. A mix-up? Yeah, the weighting they gave certain categories of your son's application, they were inputted incorrectly. And I believe corrections are being made. I have a very good feeling 有直觉 that he'll get accepted. 14. What the fuck do you want me to do about it? He made a legal business play(make a play for sth/sb 玩了一招, 出了一招, 玩了一手 to try to get something, or start a relationship with someone, sometimes by using a plan. to try and get something such as an important job or position. Jim made a play for head of department, but didn't succeed. I wouldn't have made a play for him if I'd known he was married. a. to make an obvious attempt to gain. to employ one's arts and wiles in order to attract, esp. sexually. b. to attempt to attract or seduce. To be clear, I am making a play. That's what I like to call "the prisoner's dilemma." No, you don't like to call it that. That's what it's called. Started as a thought experiment, game theory in the '50s. Does no one ever check you on this bullshit? I'm just saying, I would've made the same play. the prisoner's dilemma: The prisoner's dilemma is a standard example of a game analyzed in game theory that shows why two completely rational individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests to do so. wiki: Albert W. Tucker formalized the game with prison sentence rewards and named it "prisoner's dilemma", presenting it as follows: Two members of a criminal gang are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of communicating with the other. The prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to convict the pair on the principal charge, but they have enough to convict both on a lesser charge. Simultaneously, the prosecutors offer each prisoner a bargain. Each prisoner is given the opportunity either to betray the other by testifying that the other committed the crime, or to cooperate with the other by remaining silent. The offer is: If A and B each betray the other, each of them serves two years in prison; If A betrays B but B remains silent, A will be set free and B will serve three years in prison (and vice versa); If A and B both remain silent, both of them will only serve one year in prison (on the lesser charge). It is implied that the prisoners will have no opportunity to reward or punish their partner other than the prison sentences they get and that their decision will not affect their reputation in the future. Because betraying a partner offers a greater reward than cooperating with them, all purely rational self-interested prisoners will betray the other, meaning the only possible outcome for two purely rational prisoners is for them to betray each other. The interesting part of this result is that pursuing individual reward logically leads both of the prisoners to betray when they would get a better reward if they both kept silent. In reality, humans display a systemic bias towards cooperative behavior in this and similar games despite what is predicted by simple models of "rational" self-interested action. An extended "iterated" version of the game also exists. In this version, the classic game is played repeatedly between the same prisoners, who continuously have the opportunity to penalize the other for previous decisions. If the number of times the game will be played is known to the players, then (by backward induction) two classically rational players will betray each other repeatedly, for the same reasons as the single-shot variant. In an infinite or unknown length game there is no fixed optimum strategy, and prisoner's dilemma tournaments have been held to compete and test algorithms for such cases. The prisoner's dilemma game can be used as a model for many real world situations involving cooperative behavior. In casual usage, the label "prisoner's dilemma" may be applied to situations not strictly matching the formal criteria of the classic or iterative games: for instance, those in which two entities could gain important benefits from cooperating or suffer from the failure to do so, but find it difficult or expensive—not necessarily impossible—to coordinate their activities. a blitz [blɪts] on sth 突击做事情 UK informal a great effort to improve something or do something that needs to be done: We had a blitz on the house at the weekend and cleaned it completely. ), and, uh, that's costing you some headaches, which is too fucking bad. It's gonna cost me $200,000 in upkeep 维护, 保养 ( I. The upkeep of a building or place is the work of keeping it in good condition. The money will be used for the estate's upkeep. The maintenance department is responsible for the general upkeep of the park. II. The upkeep of a group of people or services is the process of providing them with the things that they need. He offered to pay £100 a month towards his son's upkeep. ...subsidies for the upkeep of kindergartens and orphanages.) is what it's gonna cost me, but you have to ask yourself What is he gonna attack next? Now find a way to bury the son of a bitch. I am, but on my timetable, not yours. Your timetable will have me watching your gubernatorial ([ˌɡubərnəˈtɔriəl] relating to the position of governor.) campaign from my fucking mausoleum. I have to do this job right first before I even have a chance at the next one. 15. I have something for you. She wrote a book? Yes, she did. Am I in it? You were. Details about a certain time at the beginning of the century that very few people know about. And? She made some cuts. At your suggestion? She was resistant 抗拒, 不从, 不乐意, 敌抗 at first, but she came around to my way of thinking 听话, 想法一致, 听从了我的意思. You deserve a Nobel Prize, you know that? No prize necessary.
