Category: English

apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

這是在看Wednesday(Netflix)時，戲裹的Marilyn Thornhill(normie teacher)說Wednesday和她爸爸很像(都是殺人犯?), 有其父必有其女。

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flat tire當然是爆胎, 但今天在看電影Glass Onion時, 畫面上完全沒有車子, 輪胎, 怎麼flat tire?

flat tire在俚語是當一個人的鞋被另一個人踩到, 鞋子掉了.

ex. When I gave him a flat tire, everyone laughed.

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interested…in

make overtures: To express a willingness, openness, or eagerness to pursue something, such as a relationship or an intended course of action.

在WSJ一篇報導加州一個小鎮,Nipton,的鎮長打算把她的小鎮賣掉, 一家馬戲團的公司有興趣買:

That is perhaps why, when a circus made an overture, she didn’t find the offer strange.

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大眾的用法是quietly. He quietly sits behind her.

高級的字是surreptitiously. A Russian merchant ship whose owner has allegedly carried weapons for the Kremlin turned off its transponder last month before surreptitiously docking at South Africa’s largest naval base. 一艘俄羅斯據信載著武器的商船偷偷地停泊在南非最大的海軍基地

也可用furtively:

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有些字就是用影音解釋最快, 最好. 開頭的那一段就是riff

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穿著很少的. e.g. scantily-clad women

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Glamping是Glamorous和Camping 兩個字合成出來的, 是豪奢露營.

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Throw someone under the bus

第一次聽到這個是在一個會議中, 一個同事講(Wendy)了一些話, 讓另一個同事(Jeff)難堪.

Wendy just threw Jeff under the bus in the meeting!

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