Thursday, October 13, 2016

ESL notes

The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision making ability what so ever to make 6 decisions just to buy one cup of coffee
Whodunit (who done it) 悬念推理小说
Film noir 黑色电影(写实的,暴露社会阴暗面的电影) 如casablanca
thriller 恐怖电影
cliff-hanger 连续冒险的惊险片
Road move 公路电影(以旅途象征人生
Avante garde 前卫电影 

一切不曾发生,直到它被描述 Virginia Woolf
古代女子在庭院里戏耍逗乐,似乎很”休闲“,其实正是男权注意社会给女人画的圈,这就是我们所说的“古典园林”,特征是封闭性,突破这个小环境,就可能被视为“不敬,不忠和不贞
It's on me 我买单

Do you see what I'm getting at?
We've got 18 hours to kill before we hit New York

menopause 更年期
obituary讣告
muff before mates 重色轻友
That piece had a real impact on me. It spoke to you 产生共鸣
Everything's all backed up 堆积如山
All cars are backed up 水泄不通
I've seen each other through everything 痛看共苦


Grove
forest

The whole purpose of places like starbucks is for people with no decision making ability what so ever to make 6 decisions just to buy one cup of coffee.


OUT OF THE FIRE AND INTO THE FRYING PLAN 刚出虎口又入虎穴
Could you hurry the orders?
I'm in the mood for pizza.

Now people in growing numbers are coming to realize that a simple but powerful truth: we need each other. Many of the stresses of modern life have come to be accepted because there seems to alternative

中国思维:且听下回分解;美式好莱坞”先给一个mission“
photogenic上相的
It skipped my mind 我忘了。
wimp 懦夫
We have been growing apart fro quite a while 隔阂
obnoxious 讨厌的
You don't have to put your anger out on me 迁怒
When I asked where she wsa when Kennedy was shot she said, "Ted Kennedy was shot?"

Things are all backed up 堆积如山
All cars are backed up 水泄不通

A:I'm difficult
B:You are challenging
A: I'm too structured.
B: But in a good way
A:No, I drove him away. And I'm going to be forty
B: When?!
A: someday.
B" In eight years.
A: But it's there. It's just sitting there like this big dead-end. And it's not same for men. Charlie Chaplin had babies when he was 73.
B: Yeah,b tu he was too old to pick them up.

I'm not saying it didn't mean anything. I'm saying why does it have to mean everything. 我并不是说它无关紧要,我只是说它不是至关重要。

I've been doing a lot of thinking 深思熟虑

怪物史瑞克:People always judge me before they even know me.


M:Don't go. Please stay with me. I'm scared. I screwed up.
S: No.
M: I wanted to show you everything.
S: You will.
M: But you came all this way. Sorry.
S: Oh no, Maggie. I need to touch you, and feel you and hold you hand right now. You know what that means to me. Do you? You know how much I love you.
M: If you know this is going to happen, would you have done it?
S: I would rather had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one tough of her hand than an eternity without it. One!

Sink in thought of 陷入...

A:I don't want to spend the rest of my life in Csablanca married a man who runs a bar. It probably sounds very snobbish..
B:You rather be in a passionless marriage..
A: So would any woman in her right mind. Women are very practical, even Ingrid Bergman which is why she gets on the plane at the end.

There's no point in doing this. 做这事一点意义都没有。

Get up the nerve to do things. 鼓起勇气。
We've seen each other through everything. 同甘共苦

After all, am I gonna be jealous of you for the rest of my life? Our paths will keep on crossing. He's got you on a pedestal and me in his arms

If I didn't have to hate her, I'd adore her. This is my whole happiness. I have to be ruthless.

You commit to this wedding, and then it seems like momentum, then you forget you choose it.

I subscribe to the notion that life is a struggle.
downright 形容那些不喜欢的东东"彻底的“...stupidity愚不可

a musician of sorts
What's all the hurry?
He'd settle down on the grass, and puff his pipe and that would be it.

Will though love her, comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health, and forsaking 舍弃 all others? Keep thee unto her so long as ye both shall live.唯她是从,共度余生。Don‘t unto what you would not have them do unto you 己所不欲,勿施于人。

The day won't be far off when we can have a notebook-sized LCD screen.

As heavy study load is the by-product of the existing exam-oriented system, we should reform the exam assessment system

As heavy study load is the by-product of the existing exam-oriented system, we should reform the exam assessment system
They are entitled to take a loan from banks 有权力
It's natural and necessary to disperse the mystery shrouding sex as students approach adolescence

Joint venture 合资企业
It will bring crushing WTO pressure  on car, telecom and many other industries, it will make many non-profit companies, even the large-and medium-sized loss-making(亏损) state-owned enterprises go bankrupt. Worst of all, it will intensify the cut-throat competition in the global economic markets 激烈竞争


Many people are sparing no effort in applying for going abroad
The burden of debt weights heavily on these developing countries (worry, 陷入困难)
western nations imposed though sanction on the rebel regime (制裁)

Bush, Greenspan square off over stimulus: take a fight stance; prepare to fight
Talk about her bf always puts her on the defensive 戒心十足

The secretary general has to speak up about the conflict, look ahead to the future of Iraq, 表明立场

This is about liberation, not occupation
presumably 大概地
Indispensable 不可缺少的,非常必要的
imperils 危害
These setbacks are being dwarfed by this year's explosive outbreak 。。。相形见绌

wretched 糟透的...memory/health
I'd just as soon stay at home as go for a walk 。。。同样乐意做
His illness accounts for his absence 因病缺席
officious:过于殷勤,好管闲事;非官方的(opp. official)
what a big hassle 真麻烦
It slipped my mind 我忘了
I could bite my tongue off 我后悔的要死
Life is full of twists and turns
She is quite a dish 迷人
she likes to dish 说闲话
DISH OUT: 辱骂

lead actress
话长纸短,就此搁笔,怀着平常心,知道该做什么,然后去做。









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