用法学习: 1. TBBT: Voice: Now, take a deep, relaxing breath in through your nose. And let it out. Sheldon: Wow. Didn't see that coming. Voice: In. Sheldon: Let me guess. Voice: And out. Sheldon: What was I gonna do? Two ins in a row? Where's my lemonade? Penny: I didn't get it. Sheldon: A fitting 再合适不过的 swan song to your career as a waitress, to forget my order one last time. Penny: Do you think quitting my job was a mistake? Sheldon: Do you see me drinking lemonade? Penny: No. I'm serious. Sheldon: Why do you ask? Penny: Because Leonard just pissed me off. Am I being an idiot or not? Sheldon: No, I don't think you are. Penny: Really? Sheldon: The best way to achieve a goal is to devote 100% of your time and energy to it. When I decided I was going to be a physicist, I didn't take some other job in case it didn't work out. Which wasn't easy because there was a lot of pressure from Ms. Pearson for me to be chalk monitor that year. Penny: Thank you. I needed to hear that. Why can't Leonard understand it? Sheldon: Because he's not like us, Penny. We're dreamers. Penny: Yeah, I need to start cracking the window when I leave you in the car. TBBT: splat 啪的一声 Splat is used to describe the sound of something wet hitting a surface with a lot of force. The egg landed on my cheek with a splat. Sheldon: It's like there's a train in your mouth. Howard: Oh, yeah. I've got one. Um, the Amtrak Wolverine coming into Chicago. Bwch-wch-wch-wch-wch-wch, bwch-wch-wch-wch-wch-wch. Ooo-ooo. Man: I've been on that train. And I just was again. Amy: See if you guys can guess this one. Bang. Splat. Thud. Sheldon: How many trains have you been on? Man: Tons. A box fell on my head at UPS six years ago. Now I just collect disability and ride trains. Sheldon: Wow. Your life's amazing. Man: Not always. Amy: Why do I even try? Bernadette: I'm gonna fix this right now. Howard: Okay. Just make it look like an accident. 2. Sweet boy' has life support switched off after Oxford Street brawl [brɔl] 街上打群架, 打架斗殴( noun. A brawl is a rough or violent fight. a noisy fight in a public place. a drunken brawl. He had been in a drunken street brawl. verb. If someone brawls, they fight in a very rough or violent way. A bride and groom spent their wedding night in separate police cells after brawling with hotel security guards. Two gangs of youths brawled on the dance floor of the ferry. The brawling between the fans and locals last night went on for several hours. vocabulary: A brawl is a noisy fight in a crowd. If the food fight in the cafeteria gets seriously out of hand, you might find yourself in an all-out brawl. Brawl can also be used as a verb—people who are fighting can be said to be brawling, whether or not they are using their fists. Similarly, you can use the word to suggest that a war of words is rough, in the manner of a bar fight—the bride and her mother were engaged in a brawl over the guest list for the big day. brawler [ˈbrɔːlə] a person who engages in rough or noisy fights or quarrels, especially habitually. "the brothers were known as drinkers and brawlers, but not criminals". melee or mêlée [ˈmeɪˌleɪ] a. a hand-to-hand fight among several people. A melee is a noisy confusing fight between the people in a crowd. A policeman was killed and scores of people were injured in the melee. b. A melee of things is a large, confusing, disorganized group of them. ...the melee of streets around the waterfront., ruckus (informal), scrimmage 橄榄球, fracas [ˈfreɪkəs,ˈfrækəs] If your marching band gets into a fight with another school's pep squad, your principal might say the fracas was uncalled for and undignified. A fracas is a noisy quarrel. Fracas comes from an Italian word meaning uproar or crash. Two people in a quiet little spat is not a fracas, but a schoolyard rumble definitely qualifies as one! Sometimes fracas means the large amount of outraged discussion that an event causes. Imagine the fracas if your school decided to ban sneakers!, spat: You probably recognize the word spat from the phrase "lover's spat 情人超级, 夫妻小打小闹," which describes a minor squabble between a couple. The spat is usually over something as silly as which partner has to do the laundry, and the relationship usually recovers quickly, with no long-term harm done. For the purposes of this definition, the noun spat refers to a minor argument or mild bickering 斗嘴. That is the definition by which spat is probably best known, but the word has other meanings. Depending on how you use spat, it can be the past participle of spit, the short piece of leather men wore over their shoes in the old days, or an oyster that hasn't quite reached its prime. altercation Altercation is a nicer word for "quarrel," which is a nicer word for "fight." Fight is a simple, effective one-syllable word, while quarrel is a softer, two-syllable word, and altercation is a very civilized-sounding four-syllable word for the same uncivilized thing: a noisy argument between angry people. Someone who gets a black eye fighting for a parking spot might — after cooling down — describe the incident as an altercation rather than as a knock-down, drag-out brawl., rumpus 一阵骚乱 A rumpus is an uproar or a commotion. Setting a litter of excited puppies loose in a kindergarten classroom would be sure to cause a rumpus. While a rumpus can be loud and boisterous, like the rumpus underneath a piñata in the midst of a huge birthday party, others take the form of heated arguments. This kind of rumpus might occur during a political scandal, for example. Experts guess that the informal rumpus might come from the now-obsolete word robustious, which means "boisterous or noisy." In the mid-twentieth century, children's playrooms began to be called "rumpus rooms.", skirmish A skirmish is a small fight — more a dust-up than a full-out battle (fallout: with maximum effort or speed. a full-out effort. )— and it can refer to a physical fight or just a battle of words. It is definitely confrontational, though. Think of a skirmish as kind of a mini-battle, although a military skirmish can end with casualties. Still, although such an encounter can be serious, even the very word skirmish sounds slight, like a stirring of dust in the breeze. Shakespeare referred to the combative nature of his characters Beatrice and Benedick, in "Much Ado About Nothing," as "a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them.", bicker When you bicker, you argue in a petty way, like two kids squabbling in the backseat on a long car trip, or politicians taking cheap shots at each other but avoiding discussion of important issues. It's impossible to bicker in a dignified way, as the word always suggests pettiness and an unpleasant experience for anyone within earshot. If, for instance, you've listened for years to your ill-tempered aunt from Boise bicker with your uncle from Dubuque over how the Thanksgiving turkey should be carved, you might want to book a trip to Tierra del Fuego and avoid the holiday altogether. dust-up A dustup is an argument or scuffle. A controversial veto by the President might cause a political dustup. Dustup was coined during the late 19th century, from the idea that fighting in the streets would raise some dust — an earlier phrase was kick up a dust, or "cause an uproar." A dustup can be a physical altercation: "After their dustup in the hallway, they were both suspended from school." But it's most commonly used for squabbles 口舌之争, like the dustup between you and your neighbors over your loud music. scuffle 混战 As both a noun and a verb, scuffle involves a fight. As a noun, it is the clash itself, like a scuffle between sworn enemies. As a verb, it means to fight, like a bully who will scuffle with just about anyone. A scuffle is not an organized bout: it is a free-for-all, with fists flying in any and all directions. As a verb, it tells about the act of this kind of wild fighting, like angry kids who scuffle to try to settle their problems, but it can also mean "dragging one's feet while walking." Here, the meaning is not related to fighting, but rather the sound made by those shuffling feet., punch-up 拳脚相向. free-for-all I. A free-for-all is a situation in which several people or groups are trying to get something for themselves and there are no controls on how they do it. II. A free-for-all is a disorganized fight or argument which lots of people join in. ). Tributes are flowing for a man who died after a brutal bashing on Sydney's Oxford St as "waves of tears, pain and sadness" plague his family. A family has been devastated after a 23-year-old man died 72 hours after he was critically injured in a wild brawl outside a popular Sydney pub. Western Sydney man Evander Tuala was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Saturday after he was knocked unconscious 打昏了, 打到晕到 during a vicious brawl outside the Oxford Hotel. Police allege Mr Tuala was injured when two groups clashed 起冲突 at the popular Darlinghurst venue before security forced them outside, where the issue escalated. A teenager is in custody after a 17-year-old was fatally stabbed and another youth was injured during a wild brawl at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. Mr Tuala's relatives had appeared resigned 接受了现实 to losing their relative affectionately known as "Woody" and have spent the past three days paying tribute to him. 3. Let's split the bill 分摊, AA吧, 各付各的吧. No this one is on me, it's my treat. negativity [ˌneɡəˈtɪvəti] 负面情绪, 消极态度 the attitude of someone who always sees the bad aspects of a situation. I loathe negativity. I can't stand people who moan. negativity bias the tendency of human beings not only to register negative stimuli more readily but also to dwell on these events. A new book reveals how the negativity bias operates in our lives and what we can do about it. The negativity bias can even cause you to dwell on something negative even if something positive is equally or more present. in the negative If an answer is in the negative, it is 'no' or means 'no'. The Council answered those questions in the negative. Seventy-nine voted in the affirmative, and none in the negative. negative noun. something that is harmful or bad She couldn't see any negatives in the deal. 4. haphazard [hapˈhazəd] 不是经过深思熟虑的, 凌乱的, 胡乱的, 潦草的, 草草地, 随便的 adj. [disapproval] lacking any obvious principle of organization. If you describe something as haphazard, you are critical of it because it is not at all organized or is not arranged according to a plan. "the music business works in a haphazard fashion". She looked at the books jammed haphazardly in the shelves. The investigation does seem haphazard. He had never seen such a haphazard approach to filmmaking as Roberto's. hapless [ˈhapləs] 不走运的, 走背运的, 倒霉的, 不幸的 adj. (especially of a person) unfortunate. A hapless person is unlucky. ...his hapless victim. "the hapless victims of the disaster". mishap 磕磕绊绊, 事故, 小麻烦 A mishap is an unfortunate but not very serious event that happens to someone. a minor mistake or accident. Hundreds of children end up in the hospital after some preventable mishap. without mishap: All six rocket launches that year went off without mishap. After a number of mishaps, she did manage to get back to Germany. The plot passed off without mishap. wayward [weɪwərd] 随意而为的, 不受管束的. 不受控的, 不听话的 adj If you describe a person or their behaviour as wayward, you mean that they behave in a selfish, bad, or unpredictable way, and are difficult to control. a wayward child or someone with wayward behavior is difficult to control and does unexpected things ...wayward children with a history of severe emotional problems. ...the curiosity, caprice and waywardness of children. not organized or controlled in the right way wayward thoughts. scattershot 胡子眉毛一把抓的, 什么都管, 什么都管不好的 adj A scattershot approach or method involves doing something to a lot of things or people in disorganized way, rather than focusing on particular things or people. trying to deal with a lot of things in a way that is not well organized. a scattershot approach to business problems. The report condemns America's scattershot approach to training workers. shambolic [ʃæmbɒlɪk] 凌乱的 adj If you describe a situation, person, or place as shambolic, you mean that they are very disorganized. ...a shambolic public relations disaster. John lived in a stylishly shambolic artist's studio. shambles [ʃæmbəlz] 一团乱, 一团糟 If a place, event, or situation is a shambles or is in a shambles, everything is in disorder. something that is very badly organized and that does not operate effectively. in a shambles: Government corruption has left the economy in a shambles. The ship's interior was an utter shambles. The economy is in a shambles. 5. obliging [əˈblʌɪdʒɪŋ] 让干啥就干啥的, 乐于从命的. adj. willing to do a service or kindness; helpful. "one of the most obliging stewards". If you describe someone as obliging, you think that they are willing and eager to be helpful. He is an extremely pleasant and obliging man. bellow [ˈbɛləʊ] I. 低吼. 怒吼. (of a person or animal) emit a deep loud roar, typically in pain or anger. to make the deep sound that a bull and some other large animals make. When a large animal such as a bull or an elephant bellows, it makes a loud and deep noise. A heifer bellowed in her stall. "he bellowed in agony". II. shout something with a deep loud roar. to shout very loudly. If someone bellows, they shout angrily in a loud, deep voice. 'I didn't ask to be born!' she bellowed. She prayed she wouldn't come in and find them there, bellowing at each other. He bellowed information into the mouthpiece of the phone. I was distraught and let out a bellow of tearful rage. "I can't hear you!" he bellowed. "he bellowed out the order". III. sing (a song) loudly and tunelessly. "a dozen large men were bellowing 'Jerusalem'". noun. a deep roaring shout or sound. a loud deep sound made by a person. a bellow of laughter. "a bellow of rage". A bellows is or bellows 吹火筒 are a device used for blowing air into a fire in order to make it burn more fiercely. ...two stone forges, each equipped with bellows. billow [bɪloʊ] I. When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind. The sheets billowed 被风吹起 on the clothes line. His cloak billowed out 掀起衣襟 behind him. The curtains billowed in the breeze 翻飞. Her pink dress billowed out around her. ...the billowing sails. II. 浓烟滚滚, 烟雾滚滚 When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky. if smoke or steam billows, it rises or moves in clouds Smoke was billowing from the campfire. ...thick plumes of smoke billowing from factory chimneys. Steam billowed from under the bonnet. ...billowing clouds of cigarette smoke. In another video, smoke billows as people pour out of a subway car, some limping. noun. A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air. ...smokestacks belching billows of almost solid black smoke. He saw a gigantic billow of smoke 一团烟雾 pouring out of the train once the door opened. don 穿着, 戴着 verb If you don clothing, you put it on. to put on a piece of clothing Donning a new suit, he set off for his interview. The crowd threw petrol bombs at the police, who responded by donning riot gear. This morning, as a Manhattan-bound N train waited to enter the 36th [Street] station, an individual on that train donned what appeared to be a gas mask, he then took a canister out of his bag and opened it. noun. A don is a lecturer at Oxford or Cambridge University in England. Lecturers from any university are sometimes referred to as dons. usher If you usher someone somewhere, you show them where they should go, often by going with them. I ushered him into the office. They were quickly ushered away. Allan Lee was running his business, Cafe Nube, when police cars and fire vehicles suddenly converged on the block. "Then they started ushering 导引, 指挥, 引导 people that were on the block to the adjacent block and then closed off the subway entrance" near the cafe's door, he told the AP. When he noticed bomb squad officers and dogs, he was certain it was no everyday subway problem. usher in If one thing ushers in another thing, it indicates that the other thing is about to begin. ...a unique opportunity to usher in a new era of stability. noun. I. An usher is a person who shows people where to sit, for example at a wedding or at a concert. He did part-time work as an usher in a theatre. II. An usher is a person who organizes people who are attending a law court in Britain. 6. enfant terrible 特立独行的 [ˌɑ̃fɑ̃ təˈriblə] a person who behaves in an unconventional or controversial way. If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families. He became known as the enfant terrible of British theater. "the enfant terrible of contemporary art". A self-described "disruptive technologist", Griffith became something of a tech-world "enfant terrible" 坏小子 in the early 2000s. wiki: Enfant terrible ([ˌɒ̃fɒ̃ tɛˈriːblə]) is a French expression, traditionally referring to a child who is terrifyingly candid by saying embarrassing things to parents or others. However, the expression has drawn multiple usage in careers of art, fashion, music, and other creative arts. In these careers, it implies a successful, and often young, "genius" who is very unorthodox, striking, and in some cases, offensive, or rebellious. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, gives the definition: "A child who embarrasses his elders by untimely remarks; transf. a person who compromises his associates or his party by unorthodox or ill-considered speech or behaviour; loosely, one who acts unconventionally." tectonic [tekˈtɑnɪk] I. relating to the structure and movement of the surface of the earth. II. usually before noun tectonic changes are very large and significant. The tectonic shift in the American church isn't coming – it's here. Something's changing and it feels tectonic. plum job/role/assignment etc 令人垂涎的好工作, 好工作 informal a good job etc that other people wish they had He landed a plum role in a TV mini-series. Plum jobs worth up to $500,000 a year were extended to Liberal Party-linked individuals by the Morrison government in the dying days of the 46th parliament. In addition to fielding accusations that it stacked the AAT with former politicians, staffers, party supporters and donors, the Coalition is now being criticised for rushing through a number of non-urgent term extensions, instead of leaving them for an incoming government to handle. push sb out I. to make someone leave a job or stop being involved in an activity by being unpleasant or unfair to them. To force someone out of some position or group. The board of directors secretly began pushing out the CFO due to his political beliefs. I helped set up the organization, but they pushed me out when I started questioning their agenda. I felt I was being pushed out of the job. II. 推开. To exclude someone emotionally; to isolate oneself from someone else. I knew he needed help, but he kept pushing me out. Tom really loves you, Sarah—don't push him out like that. push out 伸出来, 探出来 To extend or protrude outward. to spread out; to expand outward. the cliffs pushed out to the sea. The point of land pushed far out into the sea. The sides of the box pushed out, and I was afraid it would break. His little tummy pushed out 鼓起来, 腆着肚子 when he was full. I could see a bit of bone pushing out where he broke his ankle. There are a bunch of loose wire pushing out through the back of the unit. push sth out to produce large quantities of something: Companies are pushing out products at almost any price, desperate to generate cash to survive. 7. squabble [skwɒbəl] verb. When people squabble, they quarrel about something that is not really important. They are devoted to each other although they squabble all the time. The children were squabbling over the remote-control gadget for the television. My four-year-old squabbles with his friends. In recent months its government has been paralysed by political squabbling. outwardly 看上去, 外表看起来 in appearance, or the way that something seems, but not always the way that it really is. You use outwardly to indicate the feelings or qualities that a person or situation may appear to have, rather than the ones that they actually have. They may feel tired and though outwardly calm, can be irritable. Outwardly, little seems to have changed. He remained outwardly calm. Outwardly, Sue seems happy enough. Before setting off on his one-way journey to Rotenburg, Brandes was, outwardly at least, a successful, financially secure professional, with a live-in girlfriend.
TBBT: 1. Leonard: Maybe we should take a step back. Howard: Take a step back? I'm not a young man any more. Leonard: No, I mean re-evaluate what we're doing with the guidance system. Howard: But I got a baby on the way. I got to make some money. Leonard: What good is money gonna do 钱有什么用, 有什么意义 if we inadvertently bring about Armageddon? Howard: Okay, let me stop you right there. We absolutely know our invention will not be used to destroy the world. Leonard: How? Howard: Because no one from the future has come back to kill us. Leonard: Very funny. Howard: You got something better? Leonard: Well, not really. Howard: Okay, then. Geez, how much wine did you drink? Leonard: Not a lot. I just couldn't start until you walked away. 2. Bernadette: I'm excited to meet Emily. Howard: Me, too. I just hope he doesn't blow it. Bernadette: Why would you say that? Howard: Because he's Raj, that's his thing. Beckham can bend it, Ralph can wreck it ( A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives. Ralph is tired of playing the role of a bad guy and embarks on a journey to become a video game hero. But Ralph accidentally lets loose a deadly enemy that threatens the entire arcade. "Wreck-It Ralph" is the story of an arcade video game character. He is the bad guy who wrecks everything in sight so that "Fix it Felix," the hero and namesake of the game, can fix it. The game ends with Felix always getting a medal for his good deeds. It takes us behind the scenes, when the arcade closes, and the characters "come to life" and socialize with other arcade game characters before getting back to the roles that they have to play the next morning when the arcade opens. But even though they are not "on stage" for the gamers, the characters still distain Ralph and love Felix. Here is where the movie takes a unique twist. Ralph is a good person -- who has been programmed to act in a certain manner. The characters dislike him for the role he plays, but they now come to realize that without his wrecking, there would be no need for fixing, and if there were no one to help fix the town, then there would be no hero, no need to rise above anything and more importantly -- no game! The deeper truth is that we have programmed ourselves to think just like the characters in this story. We all wreck things. We wreck our health, our environment, our relationships, our world and more -- and we look for heroes to come and help us, even to save us. We look to political leaders, or church leaders. We look toward sports heroes, actors, men and women of business and finance. We look for people outside to fix things and someone or something that we can blame as the "wrecker." We do this because we have this underlying belief that we are powerless. ), Raj can blow it. Look, I don't want it to happen, but odds are he's gonna find a way to… Oh, crap, I know that girl. 3. Mrs Wolowitz (off): I need to tinkle ( tinkle I. If something tinkles, it makes a clear, high-pitched, ringing noise, especially as small parts of it strike a surface. A fresh cascade of splintered glass tinkled to the floor. We strolled past tinkling fountains and perfumed gardens. ...a tinkle of broken glass. tinkle of: the tinkle of breaking glass. II. If a bell tinkles or if you tinkle it, it makes a quiet ringing noise as you shake it. An old-fashioned bell tinkled as he pushed open the door. Miss Peel tinkled her desk bell and they all sat down again. ...the tinkle of goat bells. III. 嘘嘘 spoken an act of urinating. This word is used mainly by children or when speaking to children. ). Howard: Sounds like a job for a loving person. Would you like me to play some Polish music while you carry her to the toilet? Bernadette: You are a putz. Howard: As advertised. 3. Sheldon: And here's another interesting weather fact. Penny: Another? Great. Sheldon: Changes in jet streams can affect the speed at which the Earth rotates on its axis, so bad weather can actually make the day longer. Penny: Well, there must be a hell of a storm somewhere. Sheldon: Joke if you must, but you're going to miss these moments. With Leonard home in a few days, this was your last time driving me to the grocery store. Penny: You know, I will miss this. Sheldon: I'll tell you what, if my apples are mealy [miːli ] ( I. mealy fruit or vegetables 沙沙的 are soft and feel rough, dry, and unpleasant in your mouth. Food that is dry and powdery can be described as mealy. ...the mealy stodge of pulse, grain and potato dishes. a mealy apple. II. made of crushed grain or covered with it. ), we'll hit the produce section for one last crazy blowout ( blowout [ˈbloʊˌaʊt] I. an occasion when a tire on a moving vehicle suddenly bursts. If you have a blowout while you are driving a car, one of the tyres suddenly bursts. A lorry travelling south had a blow-out and crashed. We had a blowout on the highway. II. American informal an easy victory in a game or competition. When the Yankees scored ten runs in the first inning, we knew the game would be a blowout. III. usually singular informal 吃大餐. a celebration during which people eat and drink a lot. A blowout is a large meal, often a celebration with family or friends, at which people may eat too much. Once in a while we had a major blowout. Jim's having a birthday blowout at the Hacienda. IV. an occasion when oil or gas suddenly escapes from a well (=a deep hole in the ground). V. [Australian, journalism] A blowout in an amount or a price is a sudden increase in it. ...a blowout in surgery costs. ...a blow-out in the balance of payments. ). Heck, you can even push the cart. Please don't take my looking forward to Leonard's return as criticism of the job you've been doing in his absence. Penny: I won't. Sheldon: That criticism will come later in your report card. Penny: Yeah, I didn't stay for the detention, I'm not gonna read the report card. 4. Sheldon: Wrong. Hunt's. Hey, Amy, what do you say? You ready to move on to the mustard round? Amy: Have you not noticed that I've been sitting back here quietly stewing 生闷气 for the past two hours? Sheldon: I just thought you were bad at the game.
