Week 3 Flashcards
take him out
I think I can remember your face. I think you were sitting very still with your hands in your lap. Were you afraid?
I was terrified. Yeah. I didn’t know that he would notice me exactly. But, uh–
Well, don’t worry. I would have taken him out. I had no fear, I’m telling you.
take someone out
- to date someone.
I hope he’ll take me out soon. She wanted to take out her guest for the evening.
- to block out a player in football.
You take Joe out and I’ll carry the ball. Who was supposed to take out that huge guy?’
- Sl. to kill someone. (Underworld.)
Mr. Gutman told Lefty to take Max out. One more word out of you, and I’m going to take you out.
warp
Oh my god. I did warp you. Do people still call you that?
- warp verb (BEND)
[ I or T ]
If wood warps, or if water or heat warps it, it becomes damaged by bending or twisting.
（使）（木材）彎曲，（使）翹曲，（使）變形
After being left in the damp garage, the wooden frame had warped.
由於放在潮濕的車庫裡，木頭框架已經變形了。
The heat had warped the boards.
熱氣已經讓板子變形了。
- warp verb (STRANGE)
[ T ]
to make a person or their behaviour strange, in an unpleasant or harmful way
使（人或人的行為）反常，使變得乖戾；扭曲
Prison warps people. Had it warped Kelley enough that he would kill a stranger?
監獄扭曲人性。它有沒有使凱利變態到會殺死一個陌生人呢？
hanging from
Susan got married when she was still in college and went to work for the phone company as a repair person.
She spent the next 20 years or so hanging from a telephone pole, she said.
She hated it, but the money was good.
hang from (something)
- To cause someone or something to dangle from something.
In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between “hang” and “from.”
Go on, hang our nation’s colors from the flagpole!
- To dangle from something.
Something must be hanging from my car—what else could explain all that racket?
dangle
to hang loosely, or to hold something so that it hangs loosely
（使）垂下；（使）懸著，懸掛；提著來回擺動
Hillbilly
Possom and Tom. We were hillbillies, remember?
But I can’t imagine what I took you over there for.
I’m sure it was for– you know, I think we were just running errands.
hillbilly
noun [ C ] US old-fashioned disapproving
UK /ˈhɪlˌbɪl.i/ US /ˈhɪlˌbɪl.i/
a person from a mountainous area of the US who has a simple way of life and is considered to be slightly stupid by people living in towns and cities
（住在山區的）鄉巴佬，土包子
running errands
Possom and Tom. We were hillbillies, remember?
But I can’t imagine what I took you over there for.
I’m sure it was for– you know, I think we were just running errands.
run errands
to go out to buy or do something
跑腿；出門辦事
After school he runs errands for his father.
放學後他替父親跑跑腿辦些事情。
料理一頭家所牽涉的瑣事繁多，單單是跑腿（running errands）的工夫已經消耗了不少時間，寄信、繳費、取乾洗衣物、買日常用品等等。
名詞errand解「跑腿、差事」，指為了做某事的短途行程，例如購買、遞送或收集某物。造句時，名詞errand常配搭動詞run或者do。
例句︰My grandparents live close to me so I often run errands for them.（我的祖父母住在我附近，所以我經常為他們跑腿。）Sorry, I can’t run errands for you every day.（對不起，我不能每天都做你的跑腿。）
I can only meet you at three because I’ve got some errands to do first.（我只能在3點見你，因為我得先去辦些事情。）
此外，也可以說be／go on an errand指「出門辦些差事」。例如，I’m just going out on an errand; I’ll be back soon.（我只是出去辦點事，很快回來。）
Some students volunteered to go on an errand to pick up the sandwiches.（有些學生自願幫忙去拿三文治。）
His boss has sent him on an errand to the headquarters.（他的老闆派他去總部辦事。）
dysfunctional
Why’d you want to get out so bad?
Because my family was dysfunctional.
But my mom– it was pretty bad.
dysfunctional
adjective formal
UK /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/ US /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
not behaving or working normally
失調的，失常的
a dysfunctional family
不正常的家庭
much at all
The girl that I lived with– at that time, she was taking a lot of drugs. And her boyfriend.
And every time I would come home, they would always try to get me to take drugs with them or something.
And I really didn’t do it much at all. And it was tough to come home.
Much at all is used with “not” or a a words that use a negative contraction like don’t.
For example,”I don’t have much money at all,” or,”Their bad plan doesn’t have much chance at all of success.” It means very little. Another example could be,”I don’t like bad weather much at all.”
fondly
I think maybe that’s one of the reasons that I remember that we remember you so fondly, though, because I think it worked both ways.
I think that we felt– if that did make you feel closer to us, I think that we responded.
- fondly
adverb (LIKING)
in a way that shows love or great liking
喜愛地，喜歡地
He smiled fondly at the children.
他慈愛地對著孩子們微笑。
- fondly
adverb (HOPING)
hoping that something will be true when it probably will not
（對某些可能性不大的事情）充滿希望地
She fondly believed that he might come.
她天真地相信他也許會來。
hesitancy
Every time the subject of her hard times came up, I hear a subtle hesitancy in Susan’s voice.
At first I thought it was embarrassment, but that wasn’t it exactly.
It wasn’t until we had been talking for hours that I realized what it was.
She was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
hesitancy
noun [ U ]
UK /ˈhez.ɪ.tən.si/ US /ˈhez.ə.tən.si/
the failure to do something immediately or quickly because you are nervous or not certain
猶豫，躊躇，遲疑不決
The president is not known for his hesitancy in such matters.
總統在這類問題上從不猶豫不決。
Congress has not shown any hesitancy about spending more money.
國會在增加開支方面沒有表現出任何猶豫。
wait for the other shoe to drop
Every time the subject of her hard times came up, I hear a subtle hesitancy in Susan’s voice.
At first I thought it was embarrassment, but that wasn’t it exactly.
It wasn’t until we had been talking for hours that I realized what it was.
She was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
gnaw at
She hadn’t forgotten that her past had happened.
She’d just forgotten that I’d witnessed part of it. And her fear, it became clear, the one that had been gnawing at her our entire conversation, was that I was calling to say she had damaged me by exposing me to it.
turmoil
I don’t think I was too kind back then, because there was a lot of turmoil in my life and in my family.
And that’s what my fear is, that I might have had some kind of negative impact on people.
And I know probably I did on a couple people, but they were my age.
in the gentlest terms possible
And it turns out, I had also done my best to forget what I was like that year.
I didn’t think of myself this way at all, but Susan Jordan reminded me, in the gentlest terms possible, when I was nine, I was anxious and bookish.
I was kind of uptight.
uptight
And it turns out, I had also done my best to forget what I was like that year.
I didn’t think of myself this way at all, but Susan Jordan reminded me, in the gentlest terms possible, when I was nine, I was anxious and bookish.
I was kind of uptight.
uptight
adjective informal
worried or nervous and not able to relax
緊張的；焦慮不安的
Don’t get uptight about the exam - just do your best.
對待考試不要太緊張——盡力而爲吧。
deceive
Perhaps the most amazing thing about this whole story is how little our memories had deceived us about each other, even if they had deceived us about ourselves.
As Susan said at one point, each of us remembered what we needed to about the other.
I needed to remember the part of Susan that she doesn’t think about much, her toughness in the face of hardship.
She said she mostly remembered a side of my family that I just take for granted– that it was calm in our house, that there were books, there wasn’t much fighting.
deceive
verb [ T ]
to persuade someone that something false is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage
欺騙，矇騙；隱瞞
The company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones.
該公司用舊電腦冒充新機器欺騙顧客。
The sound of the door closing deceived me into thinking they had gone out.
關門聲讓我以為他們己經出門了。
