标题: 美国口语常见词汇 [打印本页] 作者: huhu 时间: 15.11.2003 02:01
? He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion. <br>? MEANING: take a break <br><br>? con <br>? Don't try to con me. <br>? MEANING: deceive <br><br>? cool <br>? This is a really cool place to work. <br>? MEANING: good <br><br>? cool down <br>? Things should cool down in a day or two. <br>? MEANING: calm down <br><br>? cop <br>? How did you get the road sign? I copped it. <br>? MEANING: robbed <br><br>? cop <br>? The cop showed me his badge. <br>? MEANING: policeman <br><br>? couch potato <br>? He is a couch potato. <br>? MEANING: lazy person <br><br>? crack open a bottle <br>? Let's crack open a bottle for his birthday. <br>? MEANING: open <br><br>? cram <br>? I need more time to cram for the test. <br>? MEANING: study hard <br><br>? cream <br>? Our team creamed them badly. <br>? MEANING: beat <br><br>? croak <br>? I feel like I am going to croak. <br>? MEANING: die <br><br>? cruise <br>? The skier was cruising down the hill <br>? MEANING: going very fast <br><br>? cuffs <br>? He put the cuffs on the killer. <br>? MEANING: handcuffs <br><br>? cushy <br>? He has a really cushy job. <br>? MEANING: easy <br>? cut <br>? Could you cut my whiskey with a little water? <br>? MEANING: dilute <br><br>? cut out <br>? It is late. I have to cut out. <br>? MEANING: leave <br><br>? damage <br>? Lets get the bill and find out the damage. <br>? MEANING: cost <br><br>? dead <br>? This disco is really dead tonight. <br>? MEANING: quiet <br><br>? deck <br>? He was decked in the fight. <br>? MEANING: knocked down <br><br>? deep pockets <br>? Her boyfriend has deep pockets. <br>? MEANING: is a good source of money <br><br>? dicey <br>? Since the weather is a little dicey, I won't go today. <br>? MEANING: chancy <br><br>? dirty <br>? I hear that it's a dirty movie. <br>? MEANING: an obscene <br><br>? ditch <br>? I'll ditch my younger brother with my grandmother. <br>? MEANING: leave <br><br>? do a snow job on <br>? Don't try to do a snow job on me. <br>? MEANING: deceive <br><br>? dope <br>? He is such a dope. <br>? MEANING: stupid person <br><br>? dope <br>? There are a lot of dope dealers around here. <br>? MEANING: drug <br><br>? dork <br>? He is such a dork. <br>? MEANING: strange person <br><br>? dough <br>? I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping. <br>? MEANING: money <br><br>? down <br>? Let's go to a bar and down a few beers. <br>? MEANING: drink quickly <br><br>? drag <br>? Doing homework on the weekend is a drag. <br>? MEANING: boring <br><br>? dynamite <br>? This drink is really dynamite. <br>? MEANING: powerful; great <br><br>? earful <br>? My grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood. <br>? MEANING: a lot of gossip <br><br>? easy mark <br>? The Japanese are an easy mark because they usually carry cash. <br>? MEANING: likely victims <br><br>? eat <br>? The problem is really eating away at me. <br>? MEANING: bothering <br><br>? excellent <br>? That's excellent man. <br>? MEANING: fine <br><br>? face-off <br>? The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off. <br>? MEANING: confrontation <br><br>? far-out <br>? This music is really far-out. <br>? MEANING: great <br><br>? fix <br>? The addict needs another fix. <br>? MEANING: dose of drugs <br><br>? flaky <br>? He is too flaky to do the work. <br>? MEANING: unreliable <br><br>? flashback <br>? At the wedding he had a flashback of his old girlfriend. <br>? MEANING: remembered <br><br>? flick <br>? I haven't seen a flick in a long time. <br>? MEANING: movie <br><br>? flip out <br>? He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed. <br>? MEANING: lost control <br>? flip side <br>? What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape? <br>? MEANING: other side <br><br>? fox <br>? His older sister is a fox. <br>? MEANING: very attractive <br><br>? foxy <br>? She is a foxy lady. <br>? MEANING: sexy <br><br>? freebie <br>? The pillow was a freebie <br>? MEANING: free <br><br>? get into something <br>? I got into gardening in high school. <br>? MEANING: became seriously interested in <br><br>? get it <br>? I listened to the joke twice, but I still don't get it. <br>? MEANING: understand <br><br>? get with it <br>? If you don't get with it, we will never finish this work. <br>? MEANING: hurry up <br><br>? gig <br>? I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00. <br>? MEANING: job <br><br>? glitch <br>? This computer program has a glitch. <br>? MEANING: defect <br><br>? glitzy <br>? This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in. <br>? MEANING: fashionable <br><br>? go <br>? Let me have a go at solving the problem. <br>? MEANING: try <br><br>? go bananas <br>? I am going to go bananas if I don't have a vacation soon. <br>? MEANING: go crazy <br><br>? go down <br>? What is going down? <br>? MEANING: happening <br><br>? goof <br>? I am really a goof at times. <br>? MEANING: fool <br><br>? goof up <br>? I really goofed up when I painted my room green. <br>? MEANING: made a serious mistake <br><br>? goofy <br>? You are always acting goofy these days. <br>? MEANING: silly <br><br>? gourd <br>? Use your gourd to figure out what is happening. <br>? MEANING: head <br><br>? grand <br>? His salary is twenty grand. <br>? MEANING: thousand dollars <br><br>? grass <br>? Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory. <br>? MEANING: marijuana <br><br>? gravy <br>? This job is pure gravy. <br>? MEANING: easy money <br><br>? groovy <br>? This music is groovy. <br>? MEANING: pleasant <br><br>? gross <br>? Picking your nose is really a gross habit. <br>? MEANING: disgusting <br><br>? gross-out <br>? The party was a gross-out. <br>? MEANING: digusting time <br><br>? grub <br>? Where is the best place to get some grub around here? <br>? MEANING: food <br><br>? grubby <br>? Those clothes are too grubby to wear to the party. <br>? MEANING: unclean and untidy <br><br>? grungy <br>? That is a really grungy jacket. <br>? MEANING: dirty <br><br>? gut <br>? He got shot in the gut. <br>? MEANING: stomach. <br><br>? gut <br>? The gut issue is about what we are going to do now. <br>? MEANING: basic <br>? guts <br>? It takes a lot of guts to give the boss your true opinion. <br>? MEANING: courage <br><br>? hairy <br>? That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over. <br>? MEANING: dangerous <br><br>? hammer <br>? Put the hammer to the floor or we will be late for the wedding. <br>? MEANING: accelerator <br><br>? hang it up <br>? I have decided to hang up my teaching job. <br>? MEANING: quit <br><br>? hang loose <br>? Just hang loose for another few days. <br>? MEANING: relax <br><br>? hang tough <br>? We need to hang tough on our decision. <br>? MEANING: stick with <br><br>? hardware <br>? The police were surprised by all the hardware the gang members had. <br>? MEANING: weapons <br><br>? have a buzz on <br>? I had a buzz on after the third martini. <br>? MEANING: was slightly intoxicated <br><br>? have good vibes <br>? I have good vibes about our new secretary. <br>? MEANING: feel good about <br><br>? have it all together <br>? Recently I don't have it all together. <br>? MEANING: feel mentally all there. <br><br>? heave <br>? I heaved up on the floor. <br>? MEANING: vomited <br><br>? high <br>? The teenagers look high to me. <br>? MEANING: intoxicated on drugs or alcohol <br><br>? hip-shooter <br>? He is such a hip-shooter. <br>? MEANING: always talking without thinking <br><br>? history <br>? I don't have any idea where my old boyfriend is. He's history. <br>? MEANING: something in the past <br><br>? hit <br>? Your proposal was a hit with the boss. <br>? MEANING: successful <br><br>? hole up <br>? I had to hole up for three days because the police were looking for me. <br>? MEANING: hide <br><br>? honcho <br>? The honcho says that we are going to have to give up two days of our vacatio<br>n. <br>? MEANING: boss <br><br>? hooker <br>? Her clothes make her look like a hooker. <br>? MEANING: prostitute <br><br>? hot <br>? The police stopped them because they though the car was hot. <br>? MEANING: stolen <br><br>? huffy <br>? I will do it soon so please don't get huffy. <br>? MEANING: angry <br><br>? hungry <br>? If you are not hungry, you won't get ahead in the business. <br>? MEANING: eager to make money <br><br>? hustle <br>? If you don't hustle, we will be late again. <br>? MEANING: hurry up <br><br>? hyped <br>? The fans were all hyped up for the football game. <br>? MEANING: excited <br><br>? hyper <br>? Don't get hyper about what she told you. You know it isn't true. <br>? MEANING: over excited <br><br>? I.D. <br>? Can you show me some I.D. please? <br>? MEANING: identification <br><br>? in <br>? The tie you are wearing is really in. <br>? MEANING: fashionable <br><br><br>? in deep <br>? They are really in deep with each other. <br>? MEANING: deeply involved <br><br>? in the bag <br>? Everything is in the bag. There is nothing to worry about. <br>? MEANING: settled <br><br>? intense <br>? This is a very intense situation we are discussing. <br>? MEANING: serious <br><br>? jam <br>? I am glad you got yourself out of that jam. <br>? MEANING: trouble <br><br>? jerk someone around <br>? Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around. <br>? MEANING: wasting my time and causing me trouble <br><br>? jock <br>? My roommate is a jock for the basketball team. <br>? MEANING: an athlete <br><br>? john <br>? The john really smells. <br>? MEANING: bathroom <br><br>? joint <br>? Where is the closest joint to here. <br>? MEANING: cheap bar <br><br>? joint <br>? He is good at rolling joints. <br>? MEANING: marijuana cigarettes <br><br>? junkie <br>? Sam is a junkie. <br>? MEANING: rug addict <br><br>? just off the boat <br>? He acts like he is just off the boat. <br>? MEANING: naive <br><br>? keep one's cool <br>? He kept his cool when his house burned down. <br>? MEANING: remained calm <br><br>? kegger <br>? I hear there is a kegger at John's house tonight. <br>? MEANING: beer party <br><br>? kick <br>? I get a kick out of watching him paint. <br>? MEANING: enjoy <br><br>? klutz <br>? He is a real klutz. <br>? MEANING: stupid and clumsy person <br><br>? knock <br>? Don't knock it if you can't do it any better. <br>? MEANING: criticize <br><br>? knocked up <br>? My dog gets knocked up once a year. <br>? MEANING: pregnant <br><br>? knockout <br>? Who was that knockout I saw you with last Friday? <br>? MEANING: stunning person <br><br>? knuckle sandwich <br>? Shut up or I'll give you a knuckle sandwich. <br>? MEANING: punch in the mouth <br><br>? kook <br>? Watch out for all the kooks in this neighborhood. <br>? MEANING: strange people <br><br>? laid-back <br>? You need to be more laid-back. <br>? MEANING: calm and relaxed <br><br>? lame <br>? That is really a lame excuse. <br>? MEANING: an inadequate <br><br>? line <br>? I have heard that line a million times. <br>? MEANING: story <br><br>? loser <br>? John is a loser. <br>? MEANING: annoying and useless <br><br>? love handles <br>? I exercise every day, but I can't get rid of these love handles. <br>? MEANING: rolls of fat around my stomach <br><br>? make waves <br>? Try not to make waves around the office. <br>? MEANING: cause trouble <br><br>? maxed out <br>? I am maxed out at my work and need to rest. <br>? MEANING: exhausted <br><br>? mean <br>? He plays a mean violin. <br>? MEANING: performs well on <br><br>? mega <br>? I have mega amounts of tomatoes in my garden this summer. <br>? MEANING: large <br><br>? megabucks <br>? He made megabucks when he sold his company. <br>? MEANING: a lot of money <br><br>? knock <br>? Don't knock it if you can't do it any better. <br>? MEANING: criticize <br><br>? mellow <br>? You need to mellow out and enjoy life. <br>? MEANING: calm down and relax <br><br>? meltdown <br>? There has been a meltdown in the relationship between my parents and I. <br>? MEANING: total collapse <br><br>? mickey mouse <br>? The homework the teacher gave us was mickey mouse. <br>? MEANING: nonsense and a waste of time <br><br>? move on someone <br>? I am going to try to move on Sarah next Saturday. <br>? MEANING: pick up and seduce <br><br>? mush <br>? That is total mush and you know it. <br>? MEANING: nonesense <br><br>? nark <br>? Watch out for the narks in the airport. <br>? MEANING: drug police <br><br>? neat <br>? That was a neat idea that you had. <br>? MEANING: good <br><br>? negative <br>? There are too many negatives about the company merger. <br>? MEANING: bad things <br><br>? nick <br>? The police nicked the shoplifter as he was leaving the store. <br>? MEANING: arrested <br><br>? nip <br>? He took a nip out of the bottle. <br>? MEANING: a quick drink <br><br>? no sweat <br>? It's no sweat to have the report in to you by Monday. <br>? MEANING: no problem <br><br>? nuke <br>? I'll nuke our dinner in a few minutes. <br>? MEANING: heat up in the microwave <br><br>? nuke <br>? Does that attack plane have any nukes? <br>? MEANING: nuclear weapons <br><br>? nut <br>? I think that he is a nut. <br>? MEANING: crazy person <br><br>? nuts <br>? You are completely nuts if you think I will go with you. <br>? MEANING: crazy <br><br>? pad <br>? Have you found a pad yet? <br>? MEANING: a place to live <br><br>? pain in the neck <br>? My wife's best friend is a pain in the neck. <br>? MEANING: annoying <br><br>? paper-pusher <br>? My office is filled with paper-pushers. <br>? MEANING: bureaucratic office workers <br><br>? party animal <br>? You're too old to be a party animal. <br>? MEANING: love parties <br><br>? party-hearty <br>? We need to party-hearty because we just got a raise in salary. <br>? MEANING: celebrate <br><br>? paw <br>? Get your paws off of my body. <br>? MEANING: hands <br><br>? peanuts <br>? I am not going to work for peanuts. <br>? MEANING: practically no money <br><br>? pickled <br>? He gets pickled after only one beer. <br>? MEANING: intoxicated <br><br>? piece of cake <br>? Working on a computer for me is a piece of cake. <br>? MEANING: easy to do <br><br>? pig <br>? He is a pig at parties. <br>? MEANING: eats too much <br><br>? pig out <br>? Let's go to the restaurant and pig out. <br>? MEANING: eat a lot or overeat <br><br>? pit stop <br>? Let's make a pit stop at the next rest area. <br>? MEANING: stop and go to the bathroom <br><br>? plastered <br>? He drinks too much and is always plastered on the weekend. <br>? MEANING: intoxicated <br><br>? pooped out <br>? He pooped out after we started to do the hard work. <br>? MEANING: quit <br><br>? pop <br>? Shut up or I will pop you. <br>? MEANING: hit <br><br>? pop for something <br>? It is my turn to pop for the doughnuts. <br>? MEANING: buy <br><br>? pro <br>? He is really a pro at his work. <br>? MEANING: professional <br><br>? prod <br>? Can you give me a gentle prod next week so I won't forget? <br>? MEANING: reminder <br><br>? psyched up <br>? The players are really psyched up for the game on Friday. <br>? MEANING: mentally ready <br><br>? psycho <br>? She is a psycho. She should be in a hospital. <br>? MEANING: mentally ill <br><br>? puke <br>? I feel like I am going to puke. <br>? MEANING: vomit <br><br>? push off <br>? I am going to push off now. <br>? MEANING: leave <br><br>? put the moves on <br>? You should give up trying to put the moves on her. She is married. <br>? MEANING: seduce <br><br>? put-on <br>? It was an elaborate put-on which I almost believed. <br>? MEANING: deception <br><br>? quarterback <br>? Who is going to quarterback the meeting? <br>? MEANING: lead <br><br>? quick buck <br>? I need to make a quick buck. <br>? MEANING: some easy money <br><br>? rack <br>? I have to hit the rack by ten or I'll be tired in the morning. <br>? MEANING: bed <br><br>? rack out <br>? I am going to rack out for two hours. <br>? MEANING: sleep <br><br>? racket <br>? There sure was a lot of racket outside last night. <br>? MEANING: noise <br><br>? rag <br>? I can't believe we still get this same old rag. <br>? MEANING: newspaper <br><br>? rap <br>? We need to sit down and rap about a few things. <br>? MEANING: talk about <br><br>? rathole <br>? When are you going to be able to move out of that rathole. <br>? MEANING: run down place <br><br>? raw <br>? The raw office workers were not getting much done. <br>? MEANING: new <br><br>? ream someone out <br>? The boss really reamed him out for his bad report. <br>? MEANING: got angry with him <br><br>? red hot <br>? Your idea is really red hot. <br>? MEANING: important <br><br>? repo <br>? Hey, don't repo my car. I will pay next week. <br>? MEANING: repossess <br><br>? rinky-dink <br>? The circus was really rinky-dink. <br>? MEANING: inferior <br><br>? riot <br>? The comedy program was a real riot. <br>? MEANING: funny <br><br>? road hog <br>? That driver is a road hog. <br>? MEANING: takes up too much of the road <br><br>? rocks <br>? Would you like your whiskey on the rocks? <br>? MEANING: with ice <br><br>? rough time <br>? We have had a rough time this winter. <br>? MEANING: hard time <br><br>? rug <br>? Is that a rug on his head? <br>? MEANING: wig <br><br>? rug rat <br>? My sister has three rug rats. <br>? MEANING: children <br><br>? rule <br>? My wife rules the house. <br>? MEANING: dominates <br><br>? run off at the mouth <br>? He is always running off at the mouth. <br>? MEANING: talking too much <br><br>? run out of gas <br>? The politician ran out of gas during the campaign. <br>? MEANING: lost interest or momentum <br><br>? sack <br>? When did you hit the sack last night? <br>? MEANING: go to bed <br><br>? scam <br>? Don't lose your money in some kind of scam. <br>? MEANING: swindle <br>? scarf <br>? Since he hadn't eaten in a week, he scarfed down everything on his plate. <br><br>? MEANING: ate quickly <br><br>? schmuck <br>? What a stupid schmuck. <br>? MEANING: jerk <br><br>? screw around <br>? If you screw around all day at this work, you will have to come back again. <br><br>? MEANING: waste time <br><br>? screw up <br>? If you screw up one more time, I will fire you. <br>? MEANING: make a mistake <br><br>? sharp <br>? He is very sharp with numbers <br>? MEANING: intelligent <br><br>? shot <br>? I'll give the puzzle another shot. <br>? MEANING: try <br><br>? shot down <br>? Everyone shot down my idea at first, but later agreed that it was a good ide<br>a. <br>? MEANING: <br>? disagreed with <br><br>? slammer <br>? The police threw them both in the slammer. <br>? MEANING: jail <br><br>? smashed <br>? Try not to get smashed at the beer party. <br>? MEANING: intoxicated <br><br>? smoke eater <br>? My father is a smoke eater. <br>? MEANING: fireman <br><br>? split <br>? It is time to split and go see the movie. <br>? MEANING: leave <br><br>? spook <br>? The cows were spooked by the howling of the wolves. <br>? MEANING: frightened <br><br>? spud <br>? Do you want rice or spuds for dinner? <br>? MEANING: potatoes <br><br>? square <br>? My father looks square in his jacket. <br>? MEANING: old-fashioned <br><br>? steamed up <br>? Don't get so steamed up over the issue. <br>? MEANING: angry <br><br>? stink <br>? This whole operation stinks. <br>? MEANING: is repulsive <br><br>? straight <br>? I want you to give me a straight answer. <br>? MEANING: honest <br><br>? stressed <br>? I am really stressed by all the recent world events. <br>? MEANING: upset <br><br>? ****er <br>? Don't be a ****er. <br>? MEANING: be deceived <br><br>? take a hike <br>? I am tired of all your complaining. Take a hike. <br>? MEANING: <br>? leave <br><br>? taken <br>? He was taken for all his money at the casino. <br>? MEANING: <br>? cheated out of <br><br>? taking care of business <br>? I have been taking care of business. <br>? MEANING: doing what I have to do <br><br>? threads <br>? Those look like expensive threads he is wearing. <br>? MEANING: clothes <br><br>? tool around <br>? I don't want to tool around all night. It is time to go home. <br>? MEANING: drive around <br><br>? totaled <br>? My car was totaled in the accident with the garbage truck. <br>? MEANING: completely wrecked <br><br>? up <br>? He has been up ever since he met his new girlfriend. <br>? MEANING: happy and cheerful <br><br>? up for grabs <br>? This is a sale. Everything is up for grabs. <br>? MEANING: available. <br><br>? veg out <br>? I want to veg out in front of the television this evening. <br>? MEANING: relax and do nothing <br><br>? vibes <br>? He really gives off good vibes. <br>? MEANING: feelings <br><br>? wad <br>? You don't want to carry a wad like that with you in the big city. <br>? MEANING: bundle of money <br><br>? waste <br>? After you waste him, throw the body in the river. <br>? MEANING: kill <br><br>? wheels <br>? If you let me borrow your wheels, I'll go out and buy a pizza. <br>? MEANING: car <br><br>? whiz <br>? He is a whiz at the computer. <br>? MEANING: talented person <br><br>? wired <br>? I am really wired after drinking five cups of coffee. <br>? MEANING: alert <br><br>? wussy <br>? Don't be such a wussy all the time. Say what you are thinking. <br>? MEANING: weak person <br><br>? yukky <br>? This food tastes yukky <br>? MEANING: bad <br><br>? zapped <br>? I am too zapped to help you right now. <br>? MEANING: exhausted <br><br>? zip <br>? He knew zip about running the company. <br>? MEANING: Nothing