Daydreaming Girl

 

• pad：住处，房间

• Have you found a pad yet?

• MEANING: a place to live

• pain in the neck：烦人的

• My wife's best friend is a pain in the neck.

• MEANING: annoying

• paper-pusher：刻板的官员；干粗活的官员

• My office is filled with paper-pushers.

• MEANING: bureaucratic office workers

• party animal：喜欢聚会的人

• You're too old to be a party animal.

• MEANING: love parties

• party-hearty：庆祝

• We need to party-hearty because we just got a raise in salary.

• MEANING: celebrate

• paw：手

• Get your paws off of my body.

• MEANING: hands

• peanuts：极小的数目

• I am not going to work for peanuts.

• MEANING: practically no money

• pickled：醉的，酩酊的，烂醉如泥的

• He gets pickled after only one beer.

• MEANING: intoxicated

• piece of cake：容易的事

• Working on a computer for me is a piece of cake.

• MEANING: easy to do

• pig：贪吃的人

• He is a pig at parties.

• MEANING: eats too much

• pig out：像猪一样的大声吃，吃得过多

• Let's go to the restaurant and pig out.

• MEANING: eat a lot or overeat

• pit stop：停下方便一下

• Let's make a pit stop at the next rest area.

• MEANING: stop and go to the bathroom

• plastered：醉醺醺的

• He drinks too much and is always plastered on the weekend.

• MEANING: intoxicated

• pooped out：停止，退出

• He pooped out after we started to do the hard work.

• MEANING: quit

• pop：打

• Shut up or I will pop you.

• MEANING: hit

• pop for something：买

• It is my turn to pop for the doughnuts.

• MEANING: buy

• pro：专业人员，精通

• He is really a pro at his work.

• MEANING: professional

• prod：起刺激、鼓励的语言、行为等，提醒

• Can you give me a gentle prod next week so I won't forget?

• MEANING: reminder

• psyched up：做好思想准备的

• The players are really psyched up for the game on Friday.

• MEANING: mentally ready

• psycho：精神变态者，神经病

• She is a psycho. She should be in a hospital.

• MEANING: mentally ill

• puke：呕吐

• I feel like I am going to puke.

• MEANING: vomit

• push off：离开

• I am going to push off now.

• MEANING: leave

• put the moves on：诱惑，引诱

• You should give up trying to put the moves on her. She is married.

• MEANING: seduce

• put-on：欺骗，伪装

• It was an elaborate put-on which I almost believed.

• MEANING: deception

• quarterback：指挥，主持

• Who is going to quarterback the meeting?

• MEANING: lead

• quick buck：容易到手、尤其是以不正当手段得来的金钱

• I need to make a quick buck.

• MEANING: some easy money

• rack：床

• I have to hit the rack by ten or I'll be tired in the morning.

• MEANING: bed

• rack out：睡觉

• I am going to rack out for two hours.

• MEANING: sleep

• racket：噪音，喧闹纷乱

• There sure was a lot of racket outside last night.

• MEANING: noise

• rag：报纸

• I can't believe we still get this same old rag.

• MEANING: newspaper

• rap：交谈

• We need to sit down and rap about a few things.

• MEANING: talk about

• rathole：狭小龌龊的地方

• When are you going to be able to move out of that rathole.

• MEANING: run down place

• raw：新来的

• The raw office workers were not getting much done.

• MEANING: new

• ream someone out：生气

• The boss really reamed him out for his bad report.

• MEANING: got angry with him

• red hot：杰出的，出色的；

• Your idea is really red hot.

• MEANING: important

• repo：取回，收回

• Hey, don't repo my car. I will pay next week.

• MEANING: repossess

• rinky-dink：劣等的，破旧的

• The circus was really rinky-dink.

• MEANING: inferior

• riot：非常有趣或好玩的事物

• The comedy program was a real riot.

• MEANING: funny

• road hog：自私的司机，鲁莽的驾驶员（因其开车行驶在道路中央）

• That driver is a road hog.

• MEANING: takes up too much of the road

• rocks：加冰

• Would you like your whiskey on the rocks?

• MEANING: with ice

• rough time：艰难困苦时期

• We have had a rough time this winter.

• MEANING: hard time

• rug：男子假发

• Is that a rug on his head?

• MEANING: wig

• rug rat：小孩

• My sister has three rug rats.

• MEANING: children

• rule：统治，支配

• My wife rules the house.

• MEANING: dominates

• run off at the mouth：信口开河

• He is always running off at the mouth.

• MEANING: talking too much

• run out of gas：没有精神，没有力气，丧失动力

• The politician ran out of gas during the campaign.

• MEANING: lost interest or momentum

• sack：睡觉

• When did you hit the sack last night?

• MEANING: go to bed

• scam：诓骗，诈骗

• Don't lose your money in some kind of scam.

• MEANING: swindle

• scarf：狼吞虎咽般吃完

• Since he hadn't eaten in a week, he scarfed down everything on his plate.

• MEANING: ate quickly

• schmuck：笨人

• What a stupid schmuck.

• MEANING: jerk

• screw around：鬼混

• If you screw around all day at this work, you will have to come back again.

• MEANING: waste time

• screw up：犯错误

• If you screw up one more time, I will fire you.

• MEANING: make a mistake

• sharp：思维敏捷的

• He is very sharp with numbers

• MEANING: intelligent

• shot：尝试

• I'll give the puzzle another shot.

• MEANING: try

• shot down：反对

• Everyone shot down my idea at first, but later agreed that it was a good idea.

• MEANING:disagreed with

• slammer：监狱

• The police threw them both in the slammer.

• MEANING: jail

• smashed：喝醉酒的

• Try not to get smashed at the beer party.

• MEANING: intoxicated

• smoke eater：救火队员，消防队员

• My father is a smoke eater.

• MEANING: fireman

• split：离开

• It is time to split and go see the movie.

• MEANING: leave

• spook：使害怕，惊吓

• The cows were spooked by the howling of the wolves.

• MEANING: frightened

• spud：马铃薯

• Do you want rice or spuds for dinner?

• MEANING: potatoes

• square：古板守旧的

• My father looks square in his jacket.

• MEANING: old-fashioned

• steamed up：发怒，生气

• Don't get so steamed up over the issue.

• MEANING: angry

• stink：质量等极坏

• This whole operation stinks.

• MEANING: is repulsive

• straight：诚实的，正直的，直率的

• I want you to give me a straight answer.

• MEANING: honest

• stressed：情绪低落的

• I am really stressed by all the recent world events.

• MEANING: upset

• sucker：诈欺取才的人

• Don't be a sucker.

• MEANING: be deceived

• take a hike：哪儿凉快哪儿歇着去

• I am tired of all your complaining. Take a hike.

• MEANING:leave

• taken：被骗取

• He was taken for all his money at the casino.

• MEANING:cheated out of

• taking care of business：做分内的事，做该做的事；负责

• I have been taking care of business.

• MEANING: doing what I have to do

• threads：衣服

• Those look like expensive threads he is wearing.

• MEANING: clothes

• tool around：开车乱转悠

• I don't want to tool around all night. It is time to go home.

• MEANING: drive around

• totaled：彻底摧毁

• My car was totaled in the accident with the garbage truck.

• MEANING: completely wrecked

• up：愉快的，高兴的

• He has been up ever since he met his new girlfriend.

• MEANING: happy and cheerful

• up for grabs：很容易到手

• This is a sale. Everything is up for grabs.

• MEANING: available.

• veg out：什么也不做，放松

• I want to veg out in front of the television this evening.

• MEANING: relax and do nothing

• vibes：感情

• He really gives off good vibes.

• MEANING: feelings

• wad：一捆钞票，一沓钞票

• You don't want to carry a wad like that with you in the big city.

• MEANING: bundle of money

• waste：杀死

• After you waste him, throw the body in the river.

• MEANING: kill

• wheels：汽车

• If you let me borrow your wheels, I'll go out and buy a pizza.

• MEANING: car

• whiz：能手，专家

• He is a whiz at the computer.

• MEANING: talented person

• wired：极其兴奋的

• I am really wired after drinking five cups of coffee.

• MEANING: alert

• wussy：懦弱的，没有骨气的

• Don't be such a wussy all the time. Say what you are thinking.

• MEANING: weak person

• yukky：令人讨厌的；难吃的

• This food tastes yukky

• MEANING: bad

• zapped：劳累的，筋疲力尽的

• I am too zapped to help you right now.

• MEANING: exhausted

• zip：零分

• He knew zip about running the company.

• MEANING: Nothing