Season 1: 1-100 words

Question 1

That’s the Whartons’ dog.

Answer 1

The + 苗字の複数形＝ウォートン家の

Question 2

There are two kinds of pain The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain, the sort of pain that’s only suffering.

I have no patience for useless things.

Moments like this require someone who will act, who will do the unpleasant thing, the necessary thing.

Question 3

Do I believe in him? That’s beside the point.

Answer 3

When we say “I believe in God” what we are really saying is “I believe that God exists.” And similarly - “I believe in fairies” really means “I believe that faries exist”.

When we say to our loved ones “I believe in you” we are saying that we have confidence in them, and their abilities.
We also say this of politicians and other public figures - “I believe in Qaz Wsx” really means that I trust Qaz Wsx will do what s/he has promised to do.

Question 4

Any politician that gets 70 million votes has tapped into something larger than himself Larger than even me, as much as I hate to admit it.

Answer 4

even though -

Question 5

I latched onto him early on and made myself vital.

Answer 5

2 to follow someone and keep trying to talk to them, get their attention etc, especially when they would prefer to be left alone

Question 6

He did his duty in delivering the keystone state, bless his heart, and now they’re about to put him out to pasture.

Answer 6

bless one’s heart: may good things happen to someone:

Put somebody out to pasture: to stop someone working in a job because they are too old to be useful

Question 7

I’m just a lowerly house majority whip.

Answer 7

多数党院内幹事、多数党の院内副総裁

Question 8

I keep things moving in a congress choked by pettiness and lassitude.

Answer 8

Pettiness: small or of little importance

Lastitude: physical or mental tiredness

Question 9

The urinals.

Answer 9

男性用便器

Question 10

What you’re really telling me is to fuck off.

Answer 10

to leave or go away, used especially as a rude way of telling someone to go away:

Just fuck off and leave me alone!

He’s fucked off somewhere and left me to do all the work.

Question 11

I can hook you up.

How about you hook me up with the zoning laws you promised to get changed?

Answer 11

o arrange for someone to meet or work with another person or organization:

Question 12

It’s a chicken-shit move.

Frank - I was vetted.

Answer 12

If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.

vet=to study something, or to examine a person’s record to see that it is acceptableor accurate:

Question 13

Was that a ruse?

Answer 13

a trick intended to deceive someone:

You didn’t fall for my ruse. (ruz)

Question 14

rubbing shoulders with the big boys

Answer 14

o meet and spend time with someone:

Question 15

When you don’t involve me, we’re in free-fall.

Answer 15

if the value or price of something goes into free fall, it starts to fall uncontrollably.

Question 16

I’m livid.

Answer 16

Livid is a figurative way of describing angry. It literally means “blue” or “bluish”, referring to bruising, but by extension refers to the flushing of the skin (of the face) that may express anger or rage.

Question 17

Throw a tantrum?

Answer 17

〔子どもじみた〕かんしゃく［怒り］の爆発

音声を聞くレベル11、発音tǽntrəm、変化《複》tantrums、分節tan・trum

Question 18

I laid a suit out for you upstairs.

The Navy-blue one.

Answer 18

a と the の使い方

Question 19

Chin tuck probably,

Answer 19

あごを引いて

Question 20

We are no longer bound by allegiances.

Answer 20

Your allegiance is your support for and loyalty to a particular group, person, or belief.

Question 21

Want retribution? - No.

Answer 21

Retribution is punishment for a crime, especially punishment which is carried out by someone other than the official authorities.

[formal]

He didn’t want any further involvement for fear of retribution.

Synonyms: punishment, retaliation, reprisal, redress

Question 22

Look at the bigger picture.

Answer 22

その特定の状況における大局をいっているので、theと解釈

Question 23

That’s how you devour a whale, Doug One bite at a time.

Answer 23

f a person or animal devours something, they eat it quickly and eagerly.

A medium-sized dog will devour at least one can of food per day. [VERB noun]

She devoured half an apple pie. [VERB noun]

Synonyms: eat, consume, swallow, bolt More Synonyms of devour

Question 24

Give me a list of choices.

Answer 24

選択肢は複数あるので、Choices

Question 25

I’ll keep my ear to the ground.

Answer 25

have/keep your ear to the ground

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to pay attention to everything that is happening around you and to what peopleare saying

Question 26

He didn’t choose to be put on my platter.

When I carve him up and toss him to the dogs, only then will he confront that brutal, inescapable truth

Answer 26

carve = to drive past another car and then suddenly drive in front of it:

Some idiot carved us up on the way over here - I don’t know how he missed us!

Question 27

All I ever amounted to was chitlins.

Answer 27

amount to = 結局〜なる

chitlins

Food for people too poor to get real meet.

Damn, I would really like some steak but all I can afford are these stupid chitlins. Fuck!

Question 28

And he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Answer 28

To exalt someone or something means to praise them very highly.

[formal]

However difficult she might have been, this book exalts her as both mother and muse. [VERB noun]

His work exalts all those virtues that we, as Americans, are taught to hold dear. [VERB noun]

Question 29

Thanks be to God.

Answer 29

I believe it is a subjunctive masquerading as an imperative. From the Wikipedia article on the subjunctive:

A present subjunctive verb form is sometimes found in a main clause, with the force of a third-person imperative (and such forms can alternatively be analyzed as imperatives). This is most common nowadays in established phrases, such as (God) bless you, God save the Queen, heaven forbid, peace be with you, truth be told, so be it, suffice it to say, long live…, woe betide… It can be found used more broadly in some archaic English.

Note that the “peace be with you” construction is most closely parallel to your “thanks be to God” example.

Question 30

And, of course, we should enjoy our success and be grateful for it, but never let your gratitude sour into pride.

Answer 30

sour = become bad or unpleasant, or cause someone to feel bad or unhappy:

Question 31

Well, as long as she’s good in the sack.

Answer 31

Good in the sack means you were pleasured and gave pleasure. If you aren’t good in the sack, you just lay there naked waiting for it to be over or you talk the whole time, maybe even complain that he wasn’t doing it right or didn’t focus on him at all. It might have something to do with how the guy felt about your body or personality. Whether you mixed well or clashed. It means, how sexy were you?

Question 32

Well, it’s true, isn’t it? Where is this coming from? You’re not going to just toss me aside for some slut straight out of vassar.

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Answer 32

slut = 俗・侮蔑的〉ふしだらな女、だらしのない女、尻軽女

vassar = A small, but renown liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York with a student population of 2400. It was founded by Matthew Vassar, a financially successful brewer. Originally a women’s college and member of the Seven Sisters, Vassar became co-ed in 1969. The college retains a majority of female students (60%), has a large gay population, and, just like other liberal arts schools, is known for popular recreational marijuana use.

Question 33

It’s not a little office fling anymore.

Answer 33

オフィスでの不倫

Question 34

Are we patrons, benefactors, or lepers?

Answer 34

1. countable noun

A leper is a person who has leprosy. This word could cause offence.

2. countable noun

If you refer to someone as a leper, you mean that people in their community avoid them because they have done something that has shocked or offended people.

The newspaper article had branded her a social leper not fit to be seen in company.

Question 35

They come with a complimentary set of tickets to the Jefferson ball.

Claire will be over the moon.

Answer 35

The Jefferson Ball is the inaugural ball in the United States. This means that the President-elect choses the guests to the ball after he is formally inaugurated. The President is most likely only going to invite allies and powerful people as his guests to the ball.

If you say that you are over the moon, you mean that you are very pleased about something.

Question 36

Did you smell that? The smugness, the false deference.

Answer 36

うぬぼれ（の強いこと）、気取っていること

f you say that someone is smug, you are criticizing the fact they seem very pleased with how good, clever, or lucky they are.

Deference is a polite and respectful attitude towards someone, especially because they have an important position.

Question 37

What am I, a whore in post-war Berlin, salivating over free stockings and chocolate?

Answer 37

salivate over

よだれ［喉から手］が出るほど～が欲しい、～を渇望する、〔主語にとって〕～は垂ぜんの的だ

A whore = 売春婦、ふしだらな人

Question 38

Ferguson.

Too old.

Willis.

• Too stupid.

Boyd.

• Too queer.

Answer 38

奇妙な、珍奇な、ホモっけのある
・There’s something queer going on. : 何か奇妙なことが起こっている。

Question 39

I’ve led a very long, very successful career avoiding this sort of intrigue with the press.

Answer 39

intrigue is the making of secret plans to harm or deceive people.

Question 40

Look, I don’t want to be a prick, but I’m a member of Of congress.

Answer 40

If someone calls a man a prick, they are indicating that they do not like him and that they think he is stupid.

Question 41

China doesn’t h-ave a king.

It’s a communist “agua-larchy.

” Oligar “Oliguarchy.

Answer 41

Oligarchy = a government in which power is held by a small group of people

Question 42

” would look good on that resume, wouldn’t it? We know that you’ve been angling to run for some time.

Answer 42

If you angle something or if it angles in a particular direction, it faces or points in that direction.

Question 43

How are we doing? - Good.

Progress.

Irons in the fire.

I like irons, but I love fire.

Answer 43

If someone has a lot of irons in the fire, they are involved in several different activities or have several different plans.

Question 44

They want your name because it carries weight.

Answer 44

to be considered serious and important enough to influence other people:

Question 45

Take care not to tip it over.

Answer 45

to (cause to) fall over onto one side:

Be careful not to tip that cup of coffee over.

Question 46

Enough to put Walker on his heels? Fuck his heels.

Answer 46

just behind or following closely

Question 47

My one guilty pleasure is a good rack of ribs, even at 7:30 in the morning.

Answer 47

guilty pleasure

【名】

後ろめたい喜びをもたらす物事、認めたくないが実は好きな対象、恥ずかしい趣味◆通例、one’sまたは冠詞のaを伴う。
・My guilty pleasure is chocolate. : いけないいけないと思いつつ、チョコレートを食べてしまいます。
・This show is my guilty pleasure. : 私はこの番組の隠れファンです。

後ろめたい喜び

Question 48

Work on the tables, charts The whole nine yards.

Answer 48

everything possible or available.

“send in the troops, aircraft, nuclear submarine experts, the whole nine yards”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/books/the-whole-nine-yards-seeking-a-phrases-origin.html?mcubz=3