scam

(名詞) (尤指詐財、騙錢的) 騙局;陰謀;詐欺。

  • Their scam was selling fake Chinese medicine to old people. (他們的騙局是賣假中藥給老人)

(動詞) 詐騙 (錢財);詐欺。

  • I gotta scam some money before Christmas. (我必須在耶誕節之前騙一些錢)

boob

(名詞) (女子的) 乳房。

  • His wife’s got big boobs. (他太太是波霸)

(名詞) 笨蛋,傻瓜 (fool, idiot, moron)。

  • He is such a boob! (他真是笨蛋)

(名詞) 愚蠢的錯誤;令人難堪的錯誤。

  • He’s made a few boobs. (他已犯了幾個愚蠢的錯誤)

(動詞) 犯愚蠢的錯誤;犯令人難堪的錯誤。

  • You boobed again? You’re fired. (你又犯錯了? 你被開除了)

kick ass

(形容詞) 非常好,棒極了,酷斃了 (very good, excellent, cool, awesome)。

  • You did a real kick ass job on your TOEIC test. (你的多益測驗真的考得很好)

(動詞) 變得棒極了,變成非常好。

  • That party kicked ass. (那場派對棒極了)
  • Your new shoes kick ass. (你的新鞋酷斃了)

(動詞) 毆打。

  • I’m gonna kick your ass and I don’t care if I go to jail! (我要把你海扁一頓,即使坐牢我也不在乎!)

(動詞) 擊敗。

  • We kicked their ass in the semifinals. (我們在準決賽打敗他們)

Expatiate (v.), expatriate (n., adj., v.)

這兩個字的意思截然不同且毫無關連,但它們的拼字僅一個字母之差,稍一不慎,有人可能就會錯把馮京當馬涼。Expatiate 意為「詳述;細說」,是個正式用字,與 dilate 同義。Expatiate 和 dilate 皆為不及物動詞,其後都是接介系詞 on 或 upon,再接受詞,如 He expatiated/dilated on/upon the main points of his thesis. (他闡述了他論文的重點);If there were time, I could expatiate/dilate on/upon the matter. (要是有時間,我可以詳細談談這個問題)。

Expatriate 可當名詞、形容詞和動詞用。這個字當名詞時意為「(旅居國外的) 僑民」,如Kaohsiung has a small population of American expatriates. (高雄有少數美國僑民);但在口俚語的非正式場合,expatriate 往往以 expat 來表達。必須注意的是,expat 是個衍生字,並非 expatriate 的縮寫,它們的關係可與 exam 和 examination 以及 math(s) (美國拼成 math,而英國拼成 maths) 和 mathematics 的情況等量齊觀。當形容詞時,expatriate 意為「移居或旅居國外的」,如 expatriate Taiwanese (移居國外的台灣人);There are lots of expatriate artists, writers, and musicians living in Rome. (羅馬住了許多外籍藝術家、作家和音樂家)。

Expatriate 當動詞時意為「流放,放逐;使流亡」,通常是指獨裁或威權政府基於政治因素將本國人驅逐出境,與 to banish 和 to exile 的意思相當,如 He was expatriated/banished/exiled by the government for political reasons. (他因政治因素被政府逐出國門)。就這三個動詞而言,使用頻率最高的是 exile,而 expatriate 是個正式字,僅用於正式場合。另外,還必須注意 expatriate 與 repatriate 的不同,後者意為「遣返;把 (某人) 遣送回國」,指的是把在本國的外籍人士遣送回他們所屬的國家,如 The Filipino workers have been repatriated. (那些菲籍勞工已被遣返 [回菲律賓])。

total

(動詞) (車輛) 撞毀,撞爛,完全毀壞。

  • They weren’t hurt in the accident, but the car was totaled. (他們在車禍中沒有受傷,但車子撞毀了)
  • Her new car was totaled in the accident. (她的新車在車禍中全毀了)

mush

(名詞) 朋友 (friend)。

  • What’s up, mush? (朋友,什麼事?)

(名詞) 嘴或臉 (mouth or face)。

  • If he doesn’t shut it, I’m going to smack him right in the mush. (如果他不閉嘴,我會給他一巴掌)
  • Wipe that chocolate off your mush. (把你臉上的巧克力擦掉)

(動詞) 一男一女在一起、交往、拍拖。

  • Did you hear about Jack and Mary …? They mushed last night. (你有聽說傑克和瑪麗…? 他們昨晚在一起)
  • You should so mush with him. You really suit each other. (你應該就這樣跟他交往。你們真的很適配)

biff

(動詞) 重重地滑跤或跌倒。亦叫做 biff it。

  • I didn’t see the “wet floor” sign and biffed! (我沒看到「小心地滑」告示牌,不小心滑了一跤)
  • Sally just biffed it on the ice. (莎莉剛剛在冰上跌倒)