口语常用语

Lugubrious a.郁郁不乐的，悲哀的

Insanity n.疯狂，愚昧

Vicious a.凶残的，恶毒的

Barge in闯入，干预 sorry to barge in!

Fire or demote her. Demote降职

Retaliatory a.报复性的

Fraud n.骗子 the total fraud.

Turn away 把……打发走 to turn away from evil when it tempts诱惑 us. Harassment 骚扰，烦乱

Whose side are you on here?

Statutory a.法定的，法规的

The crime is statutory. If she did it, she did it.

Blow it: cause a big mistake, ruin it, to spoil or lose through ineptitude. You blow it, you’re gone. No exceptions.

Buy you dinner: treat you with a free dinner.

By the time that = when/ after

Bye for now: goodbye but I will see you soon.

Bye for now. See you tonight at the library.

Do you think so? = do you agree?

Dumb: stupid

We have tons of dumb things for you to look at.

Dump: to reject

He dumped me.

Fix something

1 decides; determine

The hours and the place of the party will be fixed at Jenny’s discretion.

2 arrange; prepare

If you want to meet our general manager, I can fix it for you.

3 repair; correct

Many people can drive cars, but few of them can fix cars.

Fool around

1 to engage in idle or casual activity

He was fooling around with the old car in hopes of fixing it.

2 to engage in frivolous activity; make fun

Enough fooling around let’s get back to work.

3 to engage in casual, often promiscuous sexual acts.

She knows he’s fooling around, but she won’t confront him.

Go ahead: permit or sign to proceed

Here you are

1 can I use your phone?

Here you are.

2 here you are! This was the Confucius Temple. The building is over 800 years old. 你看

3 you would waste your money despite my repeated warnings, and here you are, you have too little left to marry your girlfriend.

How are you doing? = are you feeling fine?

I’ll make it up to you. = I will compensate for what you suffer, lose.

Let alone. = not to mention; much less.

Make it

1 go or come, arrive, attend

Can you make it tonight? Can you come to our party?

2 succeed in doing something

Needless to say = it is very obvious that there is no need to say.

Occur to me = come to my mind

Quite a few = a fairly large number

Reach someone = contact someone

Sick of = tired of

Gravy boat 盛沙拉汁的器皿

Turn on 令人兴奋的点

His voice is total turn-on.

Turn off令人倒胃口，兴致全无

The music there was total turn-off, so we left.

Freak out吓死我了

It hit me… = I realized that…

Drift apart关系疏远