第一部分 核心语汇

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 n. [C] 行动 (group action 团队行动)

Now it’s time to take action. (现在是该行动的时候了。)

 n. [U] 情节

The action is set in Paris. (事情发生在巴黎。)

 n. 战斗

The action lasted five hours. (战斗持续了5 个)

 n. 诉讼

She decided to take a legal action against him. (她决定起诉他。)

衍生词语

active (积极的);

actionless (没有行动的, 不行动的);

activate (v.激活)

复合词语

action movie (动作片; kongfu movie)

常见搭配 Useful Phrase

军事行动 --- military action

民事诉讼 --- a civil action

刑事诉讼 --- a criminal action

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

Action! --- 开拍（导演用语）

man of action --- 注重行动的人，实干家

生活用语 Street Talks

If you guys are going to bet on the basketball game, I want a piece of the action. (算我 一份)

Action stations, everyone!

The president has arrived! (各就各位)

电影对白 Transcripts

Linus: What does it tell you?

Sabrina: That’s between you and the river.

Linus: You know it’s funny listening to your talk. Makes

me…. Makes me wonder if I should…

Sabrina: What?

Linus: I don’t know, something is different. I feel different. At work I don’t… I love the action, but, sometimes I wonder, lately especially, been wondering what it would be like, to spend some time in a place that I love like that, not just a few days, but for a real change.

Actually, I think I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, I just, um, I just didn’t know it until, till you, uh… 《情归巴黎》

谚语 Proverbs

Actions speak louder than words.

行动胜于语言。

Don’t judge a man’s actions at first sight; give them asecond look.

乍看难评人，再看认得清。

 

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n. [C] 动物 (野兽 wild animal)

We should protect animals.

n. 兽性的人，衣冠禽兽

Drinking alcohol releases the animal in man. (喝酒使人兽行大发。)

衍生词语

animalism (兽性; 活力充沛)；

animate (v. 赋予…以生命，使活泼);

常见搭配 Useful Phrase

兽性 --- animal instincts

动物界 --- the animal kingdom

诱捕动物 --- trap animals

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

animal desire --- 肉欲

生活用语 Street Talks

A: Rebecca, I got a D in maths this term. What do I do?

B: Sorry about that, Freddie.  Cheer up! You can make it next term.But frankly speaking, if you weren’t such a party animal, you’d have more time for studying. （喜欢参加聚会的人）

A: Joanna usually talks to animals and toys.

B: Poor Jo. If only she had a healthy family!

Youth is/are full of animal spirits. （精力十分旺盛）

That fighter is really an animal when he steps in the (boxing)ring. （当这个拳击手开始比赛的 时候，他立刻变成了一个真正的野兽。）

电影对白 Transcripts

Newsman: Sir, why are you running?

Newswoman: Are you doing this for world peace?

Newsman: Are you doing this for the homeless?

Newsman: Are you running for woman’s rights?

Newsman: Or for the environment? Or for animals?

Forrest: They just couldn’t believe that someone would do all that running for no particular reason.

名言 Quotations

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

 

Basic need

音形义 Everyday Expressions

n. [C] 婴儿

She is expecting a baby. (她怀孕了。)

注：baby的性别不明时，通常用 it 来指代。

n. 孩子气的人

Don’t be such a baby! (不要这样孩子气！)

n. 宝贝（亲爱的）口语体为babe

Hey babe, you’d like another drink?

衍生词语

babyhood (婴儿时代);

babyish (幼稚的);

复合词语

baby-sitter/baby-minder (保姆);

babyfaced (娃娃脸的);

常见搭配 Useful Phrases

小儿语 --- baby talk

乳齿 --- baby tooth

嫩萝卜--- baby carrots(very small,tender carrots,not fullygrown)

生育高峰 --- baby boom

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

baby kisser --- [美俚] 为拉选票而到处拉拢人心的人

babes and sucklings --- 乳臭未干的孩子

sleep like a baby --- 睡得香

生活用语 Street Talks

A: Rosemary, will you go to the movies with me tonight?

B: I wish I could, Jo. But my baby’s taking me out to dinnertonight. (情人）

A: Tom, I need your help. It’s out of control here.

B: Come on, dear. You can make it. Come on! Give the talk. Thewhole plan is your baby. (由你 负责)

A: That wasn’t hard at all.

B: No, like stealing candy from a baby.

电影对白 Transcripts

句型 Now when I was a baby, Mama named me after the great CivilWar hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. 《阿甘正传》

对话 Lenora: Who’s your friend?

Gump: My name’s Forrest. Forrest Gump.

Dan: This is cunning Carla and Long-Limbs Lenora.

Lenora: Where you been Baby cakes? Huh? I haven’t seen you around lately. You know you should have been here for Christmas because Tommy bought a round on the house and gave everybody a turkey sandwich. 《阿甘正传》

谚语 Proverbs

The rich get richer and the poor get babies.

富人发财，穷人得子。

 

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音形义 Everyday Expressions

n. [c] 美丽的人或事物

She was a famous beauty in her youth.

n. [u] 美

We shall never forget the beauty of the old Beijing.

n. 优点,极具魅力的特色

The beauty of this machine is its simplicity. (这机器的优点在于简单。)

衍生词语

beautify (美化);

beautiful (美丽的);

复合词语

beauty contest (选美比赛);

beauty salon (美容院);

常见搭配 Useful Phrases

美容师 --- beauty aid

风景点 --- beauty spot

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

beauty sleep --- 美容觉（午夜前的睡眠）

the beauty of sth --- 有优势的方面

生活用语 Street Talks

A: Mom it hurts.

B: This black eye you got in the fight is a real beauty,huh?!

A: Please! Mom!

Saving petrol, you know, that’s the beauty of buying a smallcar.

The beauty of his new job is that he works his own hours. (flexible hours)

电影对白 Transcripts

句型  And now for your listening and viewing pleasure, direct from Hollywood, California, our very own beatnik beauty, let’s give a big round of applause to the luscious Bobby Dylan. 《阿甘正传》

对话 Jesse Jackson: It’s beautiful to be black, but beauty is not enough.

Crowd Leader: What do you want?

Crowd Response: Black power! 《阿甘正传》

谚语 Proverbs

Beauty is but skin-deep.

红颜易变。

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.

貌美而无德，犹如花之无香。

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. / Beauty lies in lover's eyes.

情人眼里出西施。

名言 Quotations

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all Ya know on earth, and all ya need to know.John Keats (1795-1821), English poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But … it isbetter to be good than to be ugly.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish author. Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 17 (1891).

 

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n. 鸟

She killed two birds with one stone by shopping and visiting the museum on the same trip. (她 出门一次，既买了东西又参观了博物馆，真是一举两得。)

n. 家伙，人

She is a strange bird.

衍生词语

birdy （小鸟球,高尔夫两杆进洞球。一杆进洞球---eagle。

常见搭配 Useful Phrases

益鸟 --- a useful bird

害鸟 --- a pernicious bird

候鸟 --- a bird of passage

不死鸟(长生鸟) --- the bird of wonder (phoenix)

鸟瞰图，要点 --- bird’s eye view

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

bird in the bush --- 没把握的事

bird in the hand --- 有把握的事

the birds and the bees --- （对孩子解释的）有关两性关系的基本常识

early bird---最早的人,早起的人

flip/ give somebody the bird --- 骂人的话（give somebody the finger）

生活用语 Street Talks

A: I’ll never be a telephone operator! That job is for the birds（毫无价值的/无聊 的）

B: That’s you! Personally, I think it’s an interesting job.

A: Gee, you are one strange bird. (古怪的人)

A: Hi Rick,guess what, Wallace’s twenty years old and doesn’t Know about the birds and the bees.

B: You’re kidding!

C: Hey guys, what’re you talking about?

A: We’re talking about Wallace.

C: What about him?

B: Jack says Wallace doesn’t know about the birds and the bees!!!

C: That explains why he’s a bird-watcher! (喜欢盯着女人看的男人)

A: What are you doing up here?

B: I want to get a bird’s eye view of the campus. I don’t think I’ll ever be an early bird.

A: Do you see that?

B: What?

A: That guy just gave you the bird!

电影对白 Transcripts

对话  Little Jenny: Pray with me, Forrest. Pray with me. Dear God, make me a bird, so I can fly far, far far away from here. Dear God, make me a bird...

Forrest: Mama always said that God is mysterious. He didn’t turn Jenny into a bird that day. Instead, he had the police say that Jenny didn’t have to stay in that house no more. 《阿甘正传》

谚语 Proverbs

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 一鸟在手胜于两鸟在林。[明天得一百不如今天得五十/到手的东西才是可靠的]

Birds of the same feather flock together. 羽毛相同的鸟会结群在一起。[物以类聚]

The early bird catches the worm. 早起的鸟有虫吃。[捷足先登。]

Kill two birds with one stone. 用一个石头打死两只鸟。[一箭双雕，一举两得]

 

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n. [C] 身体

Swimming is the best way to tone your body. (增强体质。)

n. 躯体 The mind governs the body. (精神支配肉体。)

n. 机构 Congress is a legislative body. (国会是立法机关。)

n. 主要部分 (of) There’s something wrong with the body of a letter.

衍生词语

bodily (身体的,肉体的)

常见搭配 Useful Phrases

体形 --- body shape

健美 --- body building

肢体语言--- body language

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

body and soul --- 全心全意

hard body --- 身材不错的人 (person of good figure)

keep body and soul together --- 维持生命

生活用语 Street Talks

You’ve got the body and I’ve got the brains. (You’re good-looking,I’m smart.)

A: Where did you bury his body? (尸体)

B: On the the back hill.

A: Dad, I found a dealer!

B: Over my dead body will you sell this house. (除非我死了）

A: It’s illegal to write this kind of article. You see?

B: I’ll write whatever I want to!

A: But they’ll put you in prison,dear?!

B: They can imprison my body, but not my mind.

电影对白 Transcripts

对话  Joe: But he’s not here.

Kathleen: Well, if he’s not here, he has a reason. Because there is not a cruel or careless bone in his body, but I wouldn’t expect you to understand anybody like that… You’ve deluded yourself into thinking that you’re some sort of benefactor bringing books to masses. But no one will ever remember you, Joe Fox. And maybe no one will remember me either, but, plenty of people remember my mother, and they think she was fine and they think her store was something special. You’re nothing, but a suit. 《网上情缘》

谚语 Proverbs

A little body often harbours a great soul. 莫道身躯小，伟人寓其间。

名言 Quotations

Your body is the church where Nature asks to bereverenced.

Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), French author. Mme Delbène, in L’’Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du Vice, pt. 1 (1797).

 

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音形义 Everyday Expressions

n. 男孩

Put out that troublesome boy. (把那个捣蛋的男孩赶出去。)

n. 孩子

Cheer up, my boy!

n. 服务员

The bell boy is very responsible.

intej (美国口语中)表示惊奇的感叹词

Oh, boy ,what a beautiful girl!

衍生词语

boyhood (少年时代);

boyish (孩子气的)

复合词语

boyfriend (男朋友 );

playboy (花花公子);

the Boy Scouts (童子军);

busboy (餐馆中打扫桌子的人)

常见搭配 Useful Phrases

农场工人 --- a farm boy

报童 --- a newspaper boy

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

page boy --- 听差的男孩

party boy --- 善交际的男子

home boy --- 老乡

the boys --- 哥儿们

活用语 Street Talks

The cowboys in that movie are mostly nature boys.(男性味十足的男人)

A: Oh, boy! Look at that! (哎！哇！)

B: What’s up? A: That house is on fire!

A: Mr. Smith, your son saved his classmate from drowning thismorning!

B: That’s my boy! (好小子)

A: Boy, you’re in trouble!

B: Why?

A: Mom found out you’ve been skipping school.

I went to the bar with the boys last night.

电影对白 Transcripts

句型  I like to know what my boys are up to. 《毕业生》

That boy sure is a running fool. 《阿甘正传》

So, you boys from Arkansas, huh? 《阿甘正传》

对话  Mr.Braddock: Listen. Now I'm going to ask for a big round ofapplause to bring this boy out here—All right.Now wait a minute—Oh, let me amendthat—to bring this young man out here—because today he is twenty-one years old—

Mr. Arnold: Yeah. Let's get on with the show! 《毕业生》

谚语 Proverbs

As the boy is, so is the man.三岁看老。

名言 Quotations

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.Mark Twain (1835-1910), U.S. author. Tom Sawyer, ch. 26 (1876).

 

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n. 职务,职责

It’s your business to take care of the kids. (你的职责是照顾孩子。)

n. 职业 What line of business are you in? (你从事那一行？)

n. 商业

John wants to go into business when he leaves university.

复合词语

businessman/ businesswoman (商人（男/女）);

businesslike (公事化的);

business hours (营业时间，办公时间)

常见搭配 Useful Phrases

娱乐圈 --- show biz (business)

开始办正事，言归正传 ---to get (down) to business

别管闲事 --- mind one’s own business

与…无关，没有权力… --- have no business to (do)

忙自己的事情 --- go about one’s business

破产，倒闭 --- go out of business

习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs

business is business --- 公事公办

It’s none of your business. --- 不关你的事

生活用语 Street Talks

A: Hi Bob, how’s business? (情况如何)

B: Just okay.

A: Okay, enough small talk. Let’s get down to business/ talk business. (谈正题吧)

B: Good idea.

A: Since we’re good friends, you don't have to pay me.

B: No, I can’t accept it. Business is business.

A: Joanna, will you go out with me tonight?

B: I’d like to, but I’m afraid I can’t. I have another date tonight.

A: With who?

B: David! C’mon! It’s none of your business. (你就别管了)

A: Why are you so happy?

B: Well, the bank just called and agreed to finance us. So we are in business now, buddy!

A: Hi Jane where’s your husband?

B: He’s away on business.

I majored in bookkeeping in business school.

Be careful, these guys mean business.

电影对白 Transcripts

句型  1  You went to business school, I can’t get you anywhere near the office. 《情归巴黎》

2  Cash, stock, and they don’t want to tell me how to run the business. 《情归巴黎》

3  In all these years, you’ve never once seen the face of somebody the day after we’ve taken over their business, have you? 《情归巴黎》

Didn’t you once say “Everything is business”? 《情归巴黎》

Don’t mention the IRS or the federal business system. 《西雅图夜未眠》

Well this is your business, I don't want to play games with you. 《毕业生》

谚语 Proverbs

Business makes a man as well as tries him. 事业既会考验人，也会造就人。

Business is the salt of life. 事业是人生之盐，不可缺少。

 

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n. [C] 小汽车 (美语中也用 automobile)

He goes to school by car.

n. 车厢 (美语中也用carriage)

Cafe cars are operated on trains by the Railways. (列车上有吸烟休息室的餐车由铁道部门经营。)

n. 其他车辆

I go to work by street car every day. (有轨电车)

车身--- body

轮胎--- tire(British English: tyre)

前灯--- headlight

方向灯--- turn signal

保险杠--- bumper

引擎盖--- hood

方向盘--- steering wheel

后视镜--- rearview mirror

行李箱--- trunk

挡风玻璃--- windshield

发动机；引擎 --- engine

变速箱--- transmission

离合器 --- clutch

仪表盘 --- dash board

跑车--- coupe（2 door sporty car）

轿车--- sedan（4 door family car）

三排以上座位的豪华车--- limonsine

敞篷车--- convertible

吉普类车---SUV (sport utility vehicle)

刹车--- brake

防死刹车系统--- ABS (Anti-lock brake system)

车牌--- license plate

常见搭配 Useful Phrases

晕车 --- car sickness

缆车 --- a cable car

车祸 --- car accident (短时间的)

停车场 --- car park

车费 --- car fare

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

car pool(ing) --- 为了节省parking space, 几人共同使用一辆车

car jack --- 在车中强行抢车

生活用语 Street Talks

A: Can I borrow your car tonight?

B: Just make sure you don’t wreck it.

A: Nancy, you want to go to a movie now?

B: Sorry, I can’t leave now. I’m car pooling today

电影对白 Transcripts

句型 Do you have a patrol car in the vicinity of twelve hundred Glenview Road? 《毕业生》

Did the dry cleaners have your car? 《情归巴黎》

I was just taking her hand, to help her out of a car. 《西雅图夜未眠》

The car is down this way. 《西雅图夜未眠》

Please do not leave your car unattended. 《毕业生》

对话  Mr. Carlson: Is that the new car out there? The little red Wop job?

Mr. Braddock: That's Ben's graduation present. 《毕业生》

Mrs. Robinson: We'd go to his car.

Ben: Oh no. In the car you did it?

Mrs. Robinson: I don't think we were the first.

Ben: What kind of car was it?

Mrs. Robinson: What?

Ben: Do you remember the make of the car?

Mrs. Robinson: Oh my God.

Ben: Really. I want to know.

Mrs. Robinson: It was a Ford, Benjamin. 《毕业生》.

名言 Quotations

I don’t even like old cars … I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.

J. D. Salinger (b. 1919), U.S. author. Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye, ch. 17 (1951).

 

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n. 偶然性，运气

Bill left everything to chance. (每件事都听其自然。)

n. [C] 机会

John wants to go abroad when he gets a chance.

n. 可能

This ideal stands a good chance of realization.

常见搭配 Useful Phrases

邂逅 --- chance meeting

私生子 --- chance child

偶然地 --- by chance

碰碰运气 --- take a chance

听天由命，顺其自然 --- leave…to chance

机会/可能性很大 --- stand a good chance

可能性很小 --- slim chance

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

Fat chance! --- 没戏！（Not a chance. No way.）

Chinaman’s chance --- 机会渺茫（美国社会中种族歧视严重，中国人的命运可想而知）

chance of a lifetime --- 千载难逢的机会

by any chance --- 或许，可能

the chance are that --- 很可能

生活用语 Street Talks

A: Sally, I was wondering if I, I could borrow…Well I mean…Imean borrow…

B: Money? Me lend you money! Not a chance! (全无机会)

A: Well Mr. Black, I appreciate your interest in our company, but I doubt you can do this job properly.

B: I’m sure I can do it well. I’ve always wanted to be the best in whatever I did. Give me a chance. (给我一次机会吧)

A: Well, the debate was fair.

B: Yeah, you said it. Each opponent had a chance to speak.

A: As chance would have it, I ran into Ron today. (很凑巧）

B: Do you have a cigarette by chance? (凑巧)

A: VV, would you lend me 50,000?

B: Fat chance!

What about my chances to got this job?

Are you from China by any chance?

电影对白 Transcripts

句型  The only chance they’ll ever have is a half way house, that’ll help them get their feet under them again. 《情归巴黎》

But, I’d go and visit her every chance I got. 《阿甘正传》

Everybody gets a second chance. 《阿甘正传》

Give it a chance. 《情归巴黎》

对话  David: Who are you to lecture me about closeness? Your idea of a long-term relationship is giving your date a chance to order dessert.

Linus: I don’t have time for dessert. I’m too busy with thiscompany. You’re a grown man, David. Finish something. Elizabeth Tyson’s the best things that ever happened to you, and you told me so yourself. 《情归巴黎》

谚语 Proverbs