看Gossip Girl學(xué)英語(yǔ)11

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WORDS & EXPRESSIONS
    1.
    Chuck: Archibald, I haven't seen you around here lately.
    Nate: Why do you care?
    Chuck: Oh, I don't. If you're not with the Humphreys anymore, obviously things are looking up, which is too bad. I kind of liked watching you slum it. I thought it would teach you who your real friends were.
    Things are looking up: 情況在好轉(zhuǎn),越來(lái)越樂觀
    slum: 名詞是貧民窟的意思,這里做動(dòng)詞用,過著貧民的生活
    2.
    Dan: So what are you doing for your holiday?
    Vanessa: I decided to pass on joining my family at the Washoe reservation, where they're helping to stage a protest. And my plan is to hole myself up in my studio, rent "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and eat a frozen Annie's organic turkey dinner.
    pass on: 相當(dāng)于skip, 不做什么事情了,不要什么東西了。比如說“甜點(diǎn)我就不要了”,就可以說I'll pass on dessert.
    hole up: 想象一下動(dòng)物冬眠(hibernate)時(shí)候躲在洞里的那個(gè)樣子,與世隔絕,不接電話,不回短信。這個(gè)單詞有點(diǎn)“宅在家里”的意思。
    3.
    Captain: My life in Dominica is……well, it's good. We moved some money offshore before I left, enough to get a house on the ocean. Weather's always perfect. People are nice.
    Nate: I'm so happy you're living it up in the Caribbean while we're squatting with no heat in New York.
    Nate's Mom: Hear your father out, Nate
    live it up: 縱情歡樂,過奢華的生活
    squat: 蹲做著,縮成一團(tuán)
    Hear your father out: 仔細(xì)挺好了,注意加了介詞out語(yǔ)氣強(qiáng)了很多。
    4.
    Lily: I didn't know she was there until today. I called Serena. She didn't even know. Eric must have been sneaking her in at night.
    sneak: 偷偷帶進(jìn)來(lái),sneak out是偷偷溜出去的意思,出現(xiàn)頻率很高的一個(gè)詞組
    5.
    Rufus: If I want to see her, you're not gonna change my mind.
    Lily: I'm not trying to. It's just that I haven't seen jenny yet, let me talk to her, see where her head is at.
    see where her head is at: 聽聽她的想法,看看她腦子里都在想些什么
    6.
    Blair: A woman needs to be with a man who thinks of only her. Anything else is a nonstarter. Tell him how you feel.
    nonstarter: An idea, proposal, or candidate with no chance of being accepted or successful.這句話有點(diǎn)像中文說的“只有……才是真的,除此之外,其他都是空的,其他都是廢話”