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Post  Vincent Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:23 am

将外语说得地道,是一件不可能的事情,所能做的就是背几个句子,偶尔地道一下。

(1)以下来自Gossip Girl,一部值得推荐的剧集。

1.Are we square? 我们扯平了,对吧? 我们两清了吧?我们俩谁也不欠谁了吧?

2....at such short notice :if you do something at short notice, you do not have very much time to prepare for it
a cancellation at very short notice 临时取消(约会等)

3.I've given this a lot (of) thought 我已经仔细想过了,我已经好好想过了

4.a short fuse
if someone has a short fuse, they get angry very easily
blow your top/stack/cool
also blow a fuse/gasket
informal to become extremely angry quickly or suddenly
One day, I just blew my top and hit him.

5.come to physical blows 诉诸暴力,要动手了

6.I'm late for work 我上班要迟到了(这句话你平时说对了吗)

7Fall head over heels 热恋中的男女沉溺爱海,爱得死去活来,全然不顾其他
to be in love with someone very much, especially at the beginning of a relationship
补充:cool one's heel 放某人鸽子

8.Quickie 这里指得是在Brunch和派对时投投溜开到边上找个地方做爱
I've just made some coffee have you time for a quickie? 我刚煮好咖啡--你能抽空儿喝点儿吗?

9.Let me get you a refill 我给你去加点酒

10. Lose the Scotch, it's barely noon. 中午还没到呢,不要再喝了

11.That black eye looks a bit lonely.

Used on the person Who was punched by you in the eye, so you look smart.

12.Brag about his conquests 夸耀或者吹嘘自己泡妞如何如何了得

13 I'm totally blank on the part when I invited you 意思是,你怎么来了?我完全想不起我什么时候邀请过你啊

14. Definitely second-shot material 翻不大好,大致是你绝对是(死叽八咧地或者死而后已)地让女生再给你一个机会的材料

15....and I blew it! 我搞砸了。 你还可以说,I fucked it up, I messed it up等

(2)来自世界上最聪明最有趣的电影之一“Thank You For Smoking" 的台词,如果你错过了这部电影,你应该有罪恶感。 另一部你不可错过的是Mr.Woodcock.

1....fronting an organization 男主角是美国烟草公司的spokesman,lobbist,他当然fronts 烟草公司了,可以解释为“代表”或“发言人”之类的

2.The man is a genius. He can disprove gravity. He通过几十年如一日的试验来证明吸烟无害健康,而这件事是不成立的。影史最聪明的台词之一。

3. fall all across the board.股票,销售业绩等的全线(全面)下跌
4.Menthol 这种味道的烟是给女生和像女生的男人的

5.Give sb good 让某人好看(中文和英文是一家,大家不分你我他)
6.shills bullshit for a living 靠B.S. 谋生, (看了电影你就知道什么意思)

7.All right. You are execused. 根据参议院当时的口气,这句话可以理解成 (行行行,请你他妈地给我滚出去)。

8. He gives that go-ahead=consent 英语确实是一门很灵活的语言

9. Everyone is got his mortgage to pay。 当男主角Nick问他为什么要昧着良心给烟草公司做lobbist时所说的,意思是“我也要养家糊口啊,我上有老,下有
小啊”。 根据我朋友的介绍,美国人平时最大的支出可能就是买房子和租房子了,而中国人以前和美国人是不一样的,主要还是一些日常的支出和
送孩子上学读书的费用,而现在也不一样,他们根本买不起房子了

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Post  Vincent Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:56 pm

替人打工,最怕老板说什么? 显然是人家问你夜宵要吃什么了(What do you want for midnight snack?) 。我在台州广告公司工作的时候,老板每天带着我们一干兄弟姐妹两三点跑到一家特色小吃店吃 midnight snack。老板每次都跑到厨房去拿榨菜出来好配粉丝。有一词他不高兴了:他们的,老子是你们孙子啊,天天给你们拿榨菜,要拿自己拿。。。

前几天,北风凛冽,在两岸和现在的老板在起草英文合同,夜已经深,老板关切的问:肚子饿了没有,要不要吃点夜宵。。。 看来,一时半会儿走不了了,吃了难不成要继续干到天明啊?。。。

那么除了发薪水,最喜欢老板说的就是:Let's call it a day (今天就到此为止吧,今天就干到这吧)

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Post  Vincent Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:58 pm

beauty rest:美人觉

one-hit wonder: artist or group with one hit: a musical performer, group, or composer who produces one hit song and then has no further success

你知道哪些one-hit wonders 呢? 靠一首歌唱到老或者干脆就昙花一现,如流星般坠落了?

chin down: 下巴收一点,拍照的时候摄影师会说的

loosen up a little 放松一点

But I'm kind of stuck at this photo shoot with Blair 我陪Blair拍照片,一时走不开啊

follow your father's footsteps 自从父业,否则就是不肖子孙啦

I know its a girlie offer, but chew on this, i'll be there
chew on sth: to think carefully about something for a period of time

You can call Bex and set up a refund 退钱

That account was drained weeks ago.那个帐户的钱几周前就被取光了。

I shouldn't ve pushed to you to do this whole thing in the first place 我一开始(本来,原先)就不应该让你做这个一切。
Why didn't you tell me in the first place?
你干嘛不早说啊?

My hunch is 我的直觉是。。。

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Post  alex_wang Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:04 pm

wonderful ,I gain a lot for that, thank you!

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Post  Vincent Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:43 am

在给一家外商独资企业(WFOE)做Article of Association (章程)。 需要翻译一个词“备案” 随便上网查看了一下字典,什么put on record, entered into records,for the record, 等等五花八门,我没时间去论证其对错真伪,但是就是觉得不对劲。于是乎,苦思冥想,在我有限的词汇库里寻找真命天词。

结果FILE跑了进来,马上去查朗文,她是这么说的:
[intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] law to give a document to a court or other organization so that it can be officially recorded and dealt with
file a complaint/lawsuit/petition etc (against somebody) Mr Genoa filed a formal complaint against the department.
file for
The Morrisons have filed for divorce .Today is the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns .

wahaha,不是file还能是谁了?

请看这句例句:
Furthermore, the duly audited accounts must be filed with the Registrar of Companies, at a fee.

后面的介词用with,可不是at。

以前全搞错了。

那么章程里这一句应该是:
本公司当依照中国法律、法规和财政机关的规定,建立本公司财务会计制度,并报当地财政税务机关备案。

The company shall, in accordance with Chinese laws, regulations and the provisions of financial organs, set up financial and accounting systems, which shall be filed with the financial departments and the tax authorities at the place where the enterprise is located.

我觉得说地道英语是不可能的,但是,我们在自己工作的领域,应该有一种精神去寻求最妥当的字眼。朗文告诉你这个是“law” English,那么你就可以放心地放到章程里而不用担心被耻笑。 而花10分钟写这个帖子,可以刺激我的大脑皮层,我觉得我是无法忘记这个词了,现实不停在脑子里寻找,然后它蹦出来,然后去认证,记住,去确认很重要,然后它就开始在我的大脑皮层变得活跃起来。记一个但是需要耗费这么大的功夫,但是,与其随意看了一百遍还记不住,不如让自己的脑子受到强力刺激,然后就使其永远处于被激活的状态。

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Post  Vincent Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:47 pm

看漫画学口语


看漫画学英语
1. Posh Apartment block 豪华公寓楼
posh是豪华,奢侈的意思,posh 5-start hotel 豪华5星级大酒店, posh car 豪华车 posh school 富人学校
block指的是由独立的公寓和办公楼等组成的大型建筑群,如office block 办公大楼, block of flats 公寓楼
tower block 摩天大楼

2. lift 电梯 , 英式用法,美国人说elevator
引申:lift还有顺风车的意思 He gave me a lift to Intime 他开车顺便把我带到银泰, 还有一个很普遍的
表示搭便车的是Ride, we hitched a ride into town。

3. Her Ladyship 她小姐大人
这是一个戏谑的用法,用来表示不满和嘲讽

4.The lifts were out of order 电梯坏了
out of order是一个很常见的词组,用来表示机器之类的东西坏了,不能正常运转

5. “oh, honestly, Agrippine! Use the stairs!" 哦,真是的!Agrippine,走楼梯啊!
honestly这里不是说实话,坦诚地讲的意思,而是表现一种不耐烦和不满,
相当于你也真是的,后面的for goodness‘ sake 也差不多的意思

6 Brat 臭小子,小屁孩,顽童,淘气的孩子
babysitter 用来形容她们照顾的小孩的专用词。。。

7 “Downstairs,why?” 在楼下啊,怎么?
Agrippine显然之前被气昏头脑,气急败坏地爬楼梯,把brat完全忘到了九霄云外了,
所以这是Her Ladyship 问起来,她还没意识到自己做了什么傻事。
相当于what's up, what's the matter

8 She went berserk! 她勃然大怒,她发飙了,她气得吹胡子瞪眼
形容人生气的用法有很多,最常见的如get angry, get furious, lose one's temper, go mad, go crazy,go nuts, go bananas,
还有一些用法我也不会用,比如,
blow your top(怒发冲冠,气急败坏) ,raise one's hackles (hackles是鸟类的羽毛或者狗颈部的毛,
毛都竖起来的,当然是勃然大怒了,要发作了)hit the roof (暴跳如雷?), have a fit ( 发火,气死了,大发脾气) fly off the handle (失去控制,常态,开始发脾气)

9 On Top of Everything 还有呢,还有更惨的呢,更糟的是,更过分的是,不仅这样啊,她还。。。
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Post  Vincent Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:39 pm

论坛英语


在19楼注册了发了几周的帖子,发现了一些非常普遍的错误。最常见的就是把“顶”说成up了。其实“顶”是BUMP!注意,BUMP是Bring Up My Post(帮我顶贴)的意思,而不是我们常说的那个表示撞击,撞见某人,抬高物价,杀死某人等的bump。但是经常发这样的帖子或者笑脸之类的行为就会被称为spam,这样的人也就是spammer。就算想顶自己的帖子,也尽量发一些有价值的信息。

Post指的是,比如,我发的这个帖子的第一个贴就是post,而你我的回帖和我的首发帖子一起组成了一个thread。thread在朗文中的解释是a series of messages concerning the same subject, written by members of an Internet discussion group。
而那些看贴不回的人被称作lurker,论坛新手(即我们说的菜鸟)被称作newbie,另外一个称谓是n00b,但是好像有较多贬义,用来形容新手么时要注意一点。
那些发恶意帖子或回帖进行挑衅和人身攻击的行为叫做troll。这是一个网友的解释:
One who purposely and deliberately (that purpose usually being self-amusement) starts an argument in a manner which attacks others on a forum without in any way listening to the arguments proposed by his or her peers. He will spark of such an argument via the use of ad hominem attacks (i.e. 'you're nothing but a fanboy' is a popular phrase) with no substance or relevence to back them up as well as straw man arguments, which he uses to simply avoid addressing the essence of the issue.


Flame 就是只论坛成员之间之间的骂战,多涉及人身攻击。我不大喜欢flame,可以论事,但是不要对人,尤其不要问候对方家族任何年代的女性成员。
请看一个网友的定义,最后一句get out of the gene pool非常有趣。
To insult someone electronically, or otherwise. Sometimes to be a group insult.
The l4m3 k1dd13 finds himself flamed.

UserA:hay ne1 gots sum wareZ ?!@#!@# I wanna h4x0r my momz yahoo account!!
UserB: You're a tard... seriously. Do yourself a favour and get out of the gene pool.


论坛和QQ群里的公告都叫做announcement,而不是bulletin,

Avatar是头像的意思,
Highlight是加精,
Retard是指那些在论坛上试图找到那些可以在10分钟内就疯狂地爱上他们进而愿意为他们做任何事情,并因为对方是一个理智的人而恼羞成怒的人

最后还是劝告一句,别用你臆想出来的毫无根据的英语,你并不会从反复不断地重复自己的错误中进步。

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Post  Vincent Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:01 am

这几天三番两次在电视节目上听到Rad这个单词,刚才又在一个脱口秀节目Real Time With
Bill Maher上听到嘉宾用了这个词,想来这个词在美国应该是被广泛使用的。

最早是在一个自命不凡的杭州人写的一本小书上看到这个单词的,意思和phat,awesome,tight,cool,dope差不多,都是酷毙了,帅呆了之类的意思。

朗文字典的解释是这样的:


exciting or interesting
Have you guys seen Wendy's new place? It's so rad.

那么rad为什么在俚语中有这样的意思呢?

不妨研究一下它的词源。Rad,来自radical。Radical美国的口语中有表very good 或者 enjoyable。比如
Father:Son, look what you old man just took.
Son (looking down to the toilet) : Wow…
Father: This is the biggest crap I’ve even taken.
Son: That’s totally radical.

据说,是由于80年代忍者神龟在美国大行其道的时候,里面的小乌龟们喜欢把radical说成是rad,造成了这个缩写词的跟着动画片一起流行起来。一开始都是一些青少年在使用,久而久之,其使用的年龄层也日渐提高,而且被认为比awesome和cool这些词更能够表达一样东西有多好多酷。 而且显然比phat这些词来得生命力更持久,更受认同些。

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