绝望的主妇S01E15-Part03课堂笔记
Hopped up：Full of enthusiasm or excitement. also : overly excited. : being under the influence of a narcotic. : more exciting or attractive than normal or usual.
What’s the word on someone: 访问某人的最新情况
Come through/pass sth with flying colors:
Bounce back as fresh as paint.
Triple bypass：心脏搭桥手术
Come up roses：things develop in a very favorable way.
Take the ball：/assume
Get the ball rolling: 让事情往下发展
Delay: 延期、推迟
In retrospect: 回想起来
Go after sth：
In-house position:
Brunch out / tap into…
On business:
Ruin: screw up
Original findings:
Critical thinking:
Here’s the deal/ thing:
Don’t get me wrong:
Let sb down gently:
Are you going steady?
Unless you’re really firm with her, she’s going to continue think there’s hope.
Be firm with someone: — make a clear break.
Better still：最好还是，更好的是，更甚者。。。
Be brutal:
Sweet tooth：
Modality: 意味形态、生理感觉
Icy look 触觉 视觉
/ sweet voice 味觉 听觉
/ white lie 眼觉 听觉
/ sharp cry 视觉 听觉
通感：
It makes sense in a weird and unparallel way.
Indulge oneself into sth: 让某人沉浸、醉心、放纵于某事之中
Kick the bucket.
Within – inside.
比较状语从句：adverbial clause of comparison.
比较状语从句常用引导词：as…as（和……一样），not so（as）…as …（和不一样）；rather（…）than… [“与其……不如……”; 是……而不是…；“宁愿……而不愿……,与其……宁可……”]比较级：more…than（更）；最高级：The most…of / in， the + 形容词+est…of/in。常用引导词：as（同级比较），than（不同程度的比较）；特殊引导词：the more … the more … 等。
Sit on the pins and needles: 如坐针毡
Our competitor has the more sophisticated facility/equipment of any peers I know.
比较状语从句
The more, the merrier.
The more, the better.
程度状语从句
The longer you wait, the bigger the butt.
As/so far as…引导的程度状语从句：
Well, um, as much as I appreciate this naked display of emotion,
you know how this sort of thing makes me uncomfortable.
As far as illness was concerned,
she was even worse off than most others. 就其疾病而言，她比其它多数人甚至更为严重。
Anyway, he has a soft spot for old people, And as far as he knows, so do I. （DH S08E02）
4、 To the/a/such extent/degree/point
Has this country come to the point where you can’t joke with the help?
I have to go onto a message board and disrupt the conversation to the extent that havoc ensues.
This was nothing more or less than an attempted coup, plain and simple. And I do not know to what degree you have been directly involved. （HOC S05E07）
DH S01E15 Part05
Pre-meditated:
Manslaughter:
Cover for sb：
Sucker：half-witted
I’m a sucker for sexy voice.
Genteelly, firmly, Better still, be brutal
Make a clear break
Zac threw a party for Julie.
I’ve got a surprise for you.
She’s going to lose her virginity in exchange for John’s love.
Alert the media 俚语
A sarcastic remark saying you don’t care.
管它呢、没什么值得大惊小怪的
Party animal：热衷派对者、派对达人
Howl：嚎叫
Revel in it：enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way, esp. with drinking and dancing at a party.’ – Noisy fulfillment
How was the P.T.A Meeting?
Parent and Teacher’s association
Hold sth for sb:
Work around the clock:
With all that extra stress,
This is the last chance that he could clime up to the top of the corporate ladders.
Mike approached Susan out of no where.
Peachy:
Drug dealer / drug trafficking.
Personal AD：The identity/persona that you wanted to be displayed in public. (人设)
Might as well:
Chock Living daylights out of sb:
我 X 你个仙人，我 X 你个仙人板板，我 X 你个仙人祖宗十八代。
Mess around.
Conditioned reflex: 条件反射
Pull up all the stakes:
Face the music：
A state of mind:
Back on one’s feet: 东山再起
High-maintenance bxxch.
Stray:
Pound：宠物收容所
A blessing in disguise. 反义理解
Lay out:
Cynical
Straight things out for him.
Yeah, each new day in suburbia brings with it a new set of lies, the worst are the ones we tell ourselves before we fall asleep.
We whisper them in the dark, telling ourselves we’re happy, or that they’re happy. That we can change, or he can change his mind, we persuade ourselves we can live with our sins, or that we can live without him. Yes, each light before we fall asleep, we lie to ourselves, in the desperate, desperate hope, that come morning it will all be true.
Old habits die hard.
Eliminate what’s get in your way
Find our customers the most effective means at the lowest cost.
Multi-layered input.
You can never make a fortune that is beyond your cognition.
Input（拆分）/ output (组装)
专注、绝望
Words, Idioms
Collocations
Sentence structures
Rhetoric
Quotations 引语、谚语
Business scenarios 商务剧集
