兒子筆記

Horribile Harry Moves Up To Third Grade

We stopped dead in our tracks.

 stop dead/short/in your tracks
=stop walking suddenly

A huge bouquet of flowers

A bouquet is a bunch of flowers which is attractively arranged.

Bags crunched up

Third Grade Employment

Employment is the fact of having a paid job.

Custodian

someone who is responsible for looking after something important or valuable

Equipment-- the tools, machines, clothes etc that you need to do a particular job or activity

Courier- a person or company that is paid to take packages somewhere

Temporary- continuing for only a limited period of time

Pledge- formal a serious promise or agreement, especially one made publicly or officially

the Star-Spangled Banner

magnum opus- the most important piece of work by a writer or artist

memento- a small thing that you keep to remind you of someone or something

pantyhose- a very thin piece of women's clothing that covers their legs from the toes to the waist and is usually worn with dresses or skirts

egg sac- The silken pouch in which many spiders deposit their eggs. Also called egg case.

aluminum foil

wiener- a type of sausage, A frankfurter.

Copper- a soft reddish-brown metal

heebie-jeebies- infml ) feeling of discomfort or nervous fear

things took a nosedive- a sudden very large fall in the price, value, or condition of something

cringe- to move away from someone or something because you are afraid

flyswatter- a piece of plastic that you use for hitting and killing flies

abdomen- the part of your body between your chest and legs which contains your stomach, bowels etc

air out our brain

air (sth) out AmE
to put a piece of clothing in a place that is warm or has a lot of air, so that it smells clean

things get rocky- A rocky situation or relationship is unstable and full of difficulties.

Mica-雲母石

Pyrite-

Granite-花崗石

Quartz-石英

I ran myself ragged to see you eat salt.

【TIRED】 informal
tired after using a lot of effort

Like Elmer’s glue

Granby copper coins—a city in Canada

Burglar- a thief

Ransack- to go through a place, stealing things and causing damage

Single file

Zigzag- a pattern that looks like a line of z's joined together

Goose pimple-

Deposit- a layer of a mineral, metal etc that is left in soil or rocks through a natural process

Boogeyman- an evil spirit, especially in children's imagination or stories
someone who people think is evil or unpleasant

Chaperone- AmE someone, usually a parent or teacher, who is responsible for young people on social occasions

Go to the can-go pee

Pronto- Informal
Without delay; quickly.

Harry and Sidney made up.