Noun
- dog detective (寻狗侦探）
- carpool
- dry-cleaning (= clothe that are going to be, or have been dry-cleaned)
- booze (= alcoholic drink)
- monogamy (= the custom of being married to only one husband or wife)
- deposition (= a statement written or recorded for a court of law, by someone who has promised to tell the truth 证言）
- mispronunciation
- men’s room
- house of horrors
- diner (= a small restaurant that serves cheap meals)
- craze (= a fashion, game, type of music etc that becomes very popular for a short time) [fad]
- complaining
Did you bring in the dry-cleaning from last night?
Verb
- mar [spoil]
- rehearse
- blindside (= 1. to give someone an unpleasant surprise 2. to hit the side of a vehicle with your vehicle in an accident)
- adjourn (= if a meeting, parliament, law court etc adjourns, or if the person in charge adjourns it, it stops for a short time)
- run through (= to repeat something in order to practise it or make sure it is correct)
- vent (= to express feelings of anger, hatred etc, especially by doing something violent or harmful)
- usher sb in/out
- feel up to sth (= to have the strength, energy etc to do something)
- fare well/badly/better etc (= to be successful, unsuccessful etc)
- wet
- pick on (= to behave in an unfair way to someone, for example by blaming them or criticizing them unfairly)
- put out sth (= to put things where people can find and use them)
Halloween was marred for me personally by an accident long ago.
I was blindsided by his suggestion.
Their car was blindsided by a bus at the intersection.
Let’s run through the first scene again
I just want to run through this, really quick with everybody.
If he’s had a bad day, Paul vents his anger on the family.
I could hear mum venting her frustration by banging the pots noisily.
I just didn’t feel up to going.
He wondered how Ed had fared in the interview.
Other children haven’t fared well.
I nearly wet myself I was so scared.
Sam’s wet his bed again.
We should just put out a bowl of candy.
Adjective + Adverb
- conservative
- mediocre
- monogamous
- delightful
- insensitive to (= not paying attention to what is happening or to what people are saying, and therefore not changing your behaviour because of it)
insensitive to sb’s feelings / pain / the needs of others
Collocation (verb+noun)
Collocation (adj+noun)
- huge exam
- physical abuse
Collocation (adv+verb)
Phrase + Idiom
- knock/blow sb’s socks off (= to surprise and excite someone very much)
- slap something together (= to make or do something quickly and carelessly, without much planning, effort, or attention to detail)
- spare sb the trouble/ difficulty/ pain (of doing sth)
- get on sb’s nerve (= if someone gets on your nerves, they annoy you, especially by doing something all the time)
- out of the blue
- in sb’s / sth’s defense (= something that you say or do in order to support someone or something that is being criticized)
- for starter (首先 used to emphasize the first of a series of facts, opinions, questions etc）
- let’s roll (= used to suggest to a group of people that you all begin doing something or go somewhere)
- blessing in disguise
- break free (from)
- do my bidding (= to obey someone’s requests or orders)
- being held against your will
You can’t slap something together at the last minute.
I’m sparing you an entire day of guys asking you if you have a rough tongue.
Women are struggling to break free from tradition.
Not on my watch.
If …, you wouldn’t be in this situation.
Can I remind you, you have one child who’s not mediocre.
What’s tonight?
You can’t just show up with a backwards baseball cap.
Don’t worry. We got the whole thing worked out.
I have Manny in the carpool.
Did you ever do anything about costumes for Clair’s thing tonight?
I know less than I did before I asked.
As long as you got it covered,
Wait till you see what we got planned for tonight. Clair and I are going as corpse bride and groom.
Died of what?
- I was totally blindsided. I guess somewhere along the way she stopped finding me delightful.
- I don’t find you insensitive.
- Do you find me delightful?
If you need anything, all right? I’m your rock.
- How’s he doing?
- He’s not taking it as well as you are.
I just got a lot to get done.
Can you ask him if he still do it?
