2013年8月25日 星期日

Zack Files S1 Episode 4:Quiet Please I'm Reading Your Mind

a scramble to signal
to use special equipment to mix messages, radio signals etc into a different form, so that they cannot be understood by other people without the correct equipment

chauffeur
to drive a car for someone as your job

he's waiting for the route to clear
等路上沒人

KGB前蘇聯國家安全局
CIA美國中央情報局
FBI美國聯邦調查局

a clearance sale
清倉大拍賣

butler
the head servant in a household 

nobody has the guts to rat
if someone rats on you, they tell someone in authority about something wrong that you have done

blow the lid off his scam
a clever but dishonest way to get money
把他騙人的伎倆讓大家都知道

zoom in
if a camera zooms in, it makes the person or thing that you are taking a picture of seem bigger and closer

Zack File, 268 - Dionne Warwick
a famous singer

A person who is suffering from hysteria is in a state of violent and disturbed emotion as a result of shock.

abuse a god-given talent
To use wrongly or improperly; misuse

benefit
If something is to your benefit or is of benefit to you, it helps you or improves your life.

blackmail his shorts off
Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.

disembodied voice

psycho
informal someone who is mentally ill and who may behave in a violent or strange way

figure of speech
an expression in which words are used in a nonliteral sense, as in metaphor

eavesdrop
to deliberately listen secretly to other people's conversations

walkie us when he is on his way back

use walkie to tell us

a potential menace
something or someone that is dangerous

trespass /ˈtrespəs US -pəs, -pæs/
to go onto someone's private land without their permission

we have a grave handy
Vernon昏倒在地上,開玩笑的話,我們剛好有一個grave

turn me in
to give something to a person in authority, especially an illegal weapon or something lost or stolen

I start it off as a hobby, but now it is more of a vocation, Zack.
If you have a vocation, you have a strong feeling that you are especially suited to do a particular job or to fulfil a particular role in life, especially one which involves helping other people.

We are stalking a weed killer.
stalk 
to follow a person or animal quietly in order to catch and attack or kill them

You know there a moral to this story, Zack.
The moral of a story or event is what you learn from it about how you should or should not behave.


silk
a thin smooth soft cloth made from very thin thread which is produced by a silkworm; 絲綢

Every week I help the city morgue
morgue
a building or room, usually in a hospital, where dead bodies are kept until they are buried or cremated

perhaps it's all for the best
good in spite of the way it seems; better than you think or than it appears to be. (Often said when someone dies after a painful illness.)
也許那才是最好的結果

Vernon bought a tarantula for the science fair.
A tarantula is a large hairy spider which has a poisonous bite.

take place
happen

a la mode
 (US) (of food) served with ice-cream 

the point is "All's well that ends well!"
All's well that ends well
Prov. Cliché An event that has a good ending is good even if some things went wrong along the way. (This is the name of a play by Shakespeare.) 

beige   / beɪʒ; beʒ/ adj, n [U]
(of a) very light yellowish brown 米黃色





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