A to Z Mysteries: The Absent Author (Ron Roy)

Saturday, August 18, 2013, 11:53 PM

  

he was sweating buckets

sweat buckets  (informal)

to sweat a lot 

I was sweating buckets under my plastic rain jacket.

a bank of elevators
幾個並排的電梯

The bed was still made this morning.
就是這張床昨晚沒有人睡過

paid off the baby-sitter,

付錢讓她離開

My kid sister devours his books!”
我的小妹超喜歡他寫的書

Linkletter will have a fit.”

Get angry

go over the facts again?”

I’m feeling a bit peckish,

Hungry

without peer

unequaled; unrivaled:

he is a goalkeeper without peer.

something is bugging me, but I can’t figure out what it is.

Dink blotted his jeans with a handful of paper napkins.

blot

to make a wet surface become dry by pressing soft paper or cloth on it

vivid memories, dreams, descriptions etc are so clear that they seem real

barrette  /bæˈret/ n [C]
AmE a small metal or plastic object used to keep a woman's hair in place

keep a straight face
to not laugh or smile, even though something is funny

clam up [PHRASAL VERB] V P
If someone clams up, they stop talking, often because they are shy or to avoid giving away secrets. (INFORMAL)
As soon as I told her my name, she clammed up.

a roof over your head

I put a roof over your head. If that means nothing...
20 dollars an hour.
Monica 對 Rachel 所說的話。

a roof over your head
somewhere to live
　I may not have a job, but at least I've got a roof over my head.

A client of Phoebe's needs a new head-chef, so Monica auditions for him; unfortunately, he's stoned and the evening is a disaster.
stoned adj [usu pred ] (sl ) 
(a) very drunk  
(b) under the influence of (usu soft) drugs 

Phoebe: In the cab on the way over, Steve blazed up a doobie. smoked a joint.

doobie   n. Slang

A marijuana cigarette.

the weed informal
cigarettes or tobacco

blaze --- to light up the pot, smoke the joint, smoke weed

motif  

an idea, subject, or image that is regularly repeated and developed in a book, film, work of art etc

What a tool!used for a person who is a real jerk, someone who does things just to irritate and inconvenience people and make them feel bad.

spruce up

Open Season I
當Elliot看到小mm，他說 spruce up.
spruce up phr v
informal to make yourself or something look neater and tidier

racy photos

Dumb on her part for leaving racy photos of herself on her laptop.Dumb on her part for leaving racy photos of herself on her laptop.Dumb on her part for leaving racy photos of herself on her laptop.Dumb on her part for leaving racy photos of herself on her laptop.Dumb on her part for leaving racy photos of herself on her laptop.

racy writing is exciting and entertaining and often about sex









Ok. They should have not done that. You are bringing in your computer for repair and possibly check for any type of virus. They are going to look through all of the files to check for problems . Common sense would be to back up personal files then put them back when you get your computer back. Dumb on her part for leaving racy photos of herself on her laptop.

Now Alex Rodriguez is a snitch

Now he's a snitch. According to a report by CBS' 60 Minutes, Alex Rodriguez's representatives leaked the names of Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun and one of Rodriguez's own teammates -- Yankee catcher Francisco Cervelli -- to the media as the Biogenesis doping scandal unfolded last winter and spring.
To snitch on a person means to tell someone in authority that the person has done something bad or wrong. (INFORMAL)

視力的英文

astigmatism   / əˈstɪgmətɪzəm; əˋstɪɡməˏtɪzəm/ n [U] 

defect in an eye or a lens that prevents correct focusing 

（眼睛）散光, 亂視; 

cataract   / ˈkatərakt; ˋkatəˏrakt/ n 

large steep waterfall
(medical ) (a) disease in which the lens of the eye becomes cloudy, causing partial or total blindness 白內障. 

glaucoma   / glɔːˈkəumə; ɡlɔˋkomə/ n [U] 

eye disease causing gradual loss of sight 青光眼

nearsighted    adj especially AmE

unable to see things clearly unless they are close to you

far-sighted  

especially AmE able to see or read things clearly only when they are far away from you

This blows.

embolism  /ˈembəlɪzəm/ n [C]
medical something such as a hard mass of blood or a small amount of air that blocks a tube carrying blood through the body

bunk ²  

bunk² also bunk down v [I] informal
to sleep somewhere, especially in someone else's house
　You can bunk down on the sofa for tonight.

Bunk up

WASTE MONEY】 [T] informal
to spend a lot of money in a careless way, especially on one thing
　I blew all the money I won on a trip to Hawaii.

This blows.----This sucks.

I was thinking about how I’m always seeing girls on top of girls…

When they wanted you in your father’s business, did you cave?-----surrender

Don’t you dare bail on me? ---betray
Wendy bailed.(Wendy 本來答應要來，但她現在說不能來了)

slather  

to cover something with a thick layer of a soft substance

she wants to slather my body with stuff and lick it off.

These people would scooch down.

Scooch ---- move over