2007年9月12日 星期三

miscellaneous 2 : colloquial (possibly from Sex & City)

1. Is everyone in this city so flattering?
2. The more you eat, the more you toot... (toot 放屁)
3. nice catching up 很高興遇到你
4. wacko= crazy
5. Could be coincidence 只是巧合吧
6. exclusivity (n) 獨占 (ex-clu-sivity)
exclusive (a)
* mutually exculsive plans 互相衝突的計畫
be exclusive in thought and manner 思想和態度排他的
an exclusive agent 專屬特約店
7. killer application 殺手級應用
8. red-baiting 扣赤色份子帽子
9. pictorial (pic-torial) 有圖片的, 用圖表示的
* pictorial art 繪畫
* a pictorial puzzle 畫謎
* a pictorial record of this event
* pictorial magazines
*They had insisted on a full pictorial coverage of the events.
他們堅持要用圖片來報導這些事件。

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12. You could've just said no, but you went the extra mile. That was harsh.
13. headlight 車頭燈= tit = knockers (taboo, Brit.)
She gets great knockers
14. I was traumatized (trau-matized) by the whole thing.
15. Likewise= Me too.
16. You're just fixated on the outside appearance of people. (be fixated: 著迷,迷戀)
17. My mom's hilarious 我媽是樂天派
18. Ok, hypothetical situation 好, 讓我們來做個假設 (hypo-the-tical)
19. a tad: a little bit
* But she is a tad muscular
20. Someone meatier, not as skinny (meatier: from "meaty") 有肉的

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