唯有源头活水来
——2018年4月27日英语总结
口语来自于生活，回归于生活。影视剧是英语会话最好的载体。今天看英剧Inspector Lewis，一句一句过，不放过任何一个语言点。
剧中引用的雪莱的诗歌
Love’s Philosophy
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
语言点学习：
1. all right (GREETING)
UK INFORMAL used to greet someone at the same
time as asking if they are well（打招呼并问好的用语）你好吗
"All right, John?" "Not badthanks, and you?"
“挺好的吧，约翰？”“不错，多谢。你也挺好吧？”
2. I’m having a party.
3. call：a short visit,especially an official one made by someone whose job is connected with health
（尤指正式的）短暂拜访；（通常指医疗从业者的）出诊
Doctor Seward is out on a call this morning.苏厄德医生今天上午出诊去了。
The nurse has got a few calls to make this
afternoon.护士今天下午有几次出诊。
4. If you’d like to bring anybody…
5. dishy
OLD-FASHIONED INFORMAL
sexually attractive
What a dishy guy.
6. I didn’t think you’d turn up.
7. Having a nice time?
8. Considering the weather, we got here prettyquickly.
I was impressed that she found the way here,considering she'd only been here once before.
9. I’m out of practice with parities and such.
解释：If you are out of practice at doing something, you havenot had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or bequite good at it.
例：'How's your German?'—'Not bad, but I'm out of practice.'
10. A few of glasses of this, and they revert.
解释：When someone reverts to a previous topic, they start talking or thinkingabout it again.
例句：In the car she reverted to the subject uppermost in her mind. [VERB + to]
11. not one's scene
解释：Not something one enjoys or is interested in.
例句：‘as for that job you mention, not my scene’
12. Ah, thought so.
13. Didn’t fancy being scowled at by a room fullof doctors and nurses.
scowl
解释：to look at someone or something with a very annoyed expression阴沉着脸看，怒目而视
例句：The boy scowled at her and reluctantly followed her back into school.男孩对她阴沉着脸，很不情愿地跟着她回了学校。
14. decent
解释：sociallyacceptable or good
What time can I decently get up and leave?
15. We could invent an emergency call.
解释：invent：to create a reason, excuse, story, etc. that is not true, usually todeceive someone
But I didn't invent the story - everything I told
you is true.但我没有胡编——我告诉你的都是真的。
16. reassurance
解释：words of advice and comfort intended to make someone feel less worried
能消除疑虑的话；安慰，慰藉
例句：I felt I couldn't cope with the situation and was indesperate need of some reassurance.
我觉得我应付不了这种局面，真是特别需要别人的安慰。
Despite her father's reassurances, she was stillfrightened of the dark.
尽管她父亲说了很多安慰的话，可她还是惧怕黑暗。
17. Mercifully, by the sound of things.
解释：merciful：used to say that you are grateful for an event or situation because it stopssomething unpleasant
例句：After such a long illness, her death came as a merciful release.经受了如此漫长的病痛折磨之后，她的死算是一种幸运的解脱。
18. One or two glasses of champagne, they revert to being students again.
19. sell sth off
解释：to charge a low price for something to encourage peopleto buy it
减价出售；低价处理
例句：They're selling off last year's stock at half price.他们正以半价抛售去年的存货。
20. to sell all or part of a business出售（全部或部分企业）
The company announced that it would be selling
off its hotel business.公司宣布将出售其宾馆业务。
21. I suppose, if such a burglar existed, Oxford Might be the placeto find them.
22. I looked out of the wind and saw. It's not aprofession which tends to attract violent enemies.
23. Now, would I be right in thinking we haveexhausted this discussion? I think so.
24. Don't you, Sergeant? Unquestionably.
25. street value：the price that is
paid for something illegal, especially a drug, by theperson who uses it（非法物品，尤指毒品的）街头黑市价格
26. I think I was putting my faith in thedeterrent effect of the flashing blue lights.
27. slam: to (cause to) move against a hardsurface with force and usually a loud noise
（使）重重撞上，（使）砰地关上
例句：The wind made the door/window slam (shut).
28. party pooper: You describe someone as a partypooper when you think that they spoil other people's fun and their enjoyment ofsomething.
[informal, disapproval]
Listen, sorry to be party-poopers, but something'scome up.
29. naff: not stylish or fashionable无品位的；不时髦的
例句：His haircut was a bit naff.他的发型有点儿过时。
30. nominal：A nominalamount of money is very small compared to an expectedprice or value.
（金额）微不足道的，象征性的
例句：a nominal sum/charge象征性的一笔款项／一点费用
For a nominal fee, they will deliver orders to
customers' homes.他们只象征性地收点费用就可以送货上门。
31. formidable：causing youto have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or personis large, powerful, or difficult
可怕的；令人敬畏的；难对付的
a formidable obstacle/task令人生畏的障碍／任务
a formidable adversary/enemy/opponent难对付的敌手／劲敌／强大的对手
a formidable intellect令人敬畏的知识分子
DISAPPROVING the director and his formidable wife导演和他那令人生畏的妻子
32. be a pack of lies
FORMAL be a tissue of lies
33. to be completely untrue
例句：The whole report is a pack of lies.整个报告谎话连篇。
34. facetious /fəˈsiː.ʃəs/ DISAPPROVING
解释：not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or toappear clever
（尤指不问场合）好开玩笑的；滑稽的，诙谐的
例句：facetious remarks不合时宜的发言
He's just being facetious.他只是在乱开玩笑。
35. jest：[ C ] something
that is said or done in order to be funny笑话；滑稽事
例句：His proposal was no jest - he was completely sincere.他的建议不是开玩笑，他完全是认真的。
in jest：intended as a joke
and not said seriously开玩笑地，诙谐地
例句：I only said it in jest - you're obviously not fat.我那么说是开玩笑——很显然，你不胖。
36.jest动词
解释：to say something intended to be funny开玩笑
例句：Would I jest about something so important?
37. regress
解释：to return to a previous and less advanced or worse state, condition, orway of behaving
退步；退化；倒退
例句：She suffered brain damage from the car accident and regressed to the
mental age of a five-year-old.在那起汽车交通事故中，她的脑部受损，智商倒退到5岁孩子的水平。
38. serve (someone) right
解释：To be deserved under the circumstances: Punish him; it will serve himright for what he
has done to you.
39. bruise /bruːz/：to develop abruise or to cause someone or something to have a bruise
（使）出现伤痕；撞伤；碰伤
40. How did you bruise your arm?你胳膊上的瘀伤是怎么弄的？
41. go belly up
解释：INFORMAL UK ALSO turn belly up
If a company or plan goes belly up, it fails.
例句：The business went belly up after only six months.这家公司只营业了6个月就破产了。
42. be past caring ：to be nolonger interested in someone or something, because they have made you feelannoyed or tired of them
‘Don’t you want to know what she said?’ – ‘No,I’m past caring.’
43. parasol /ˈpær.ə.sɒl/ a type ofsunshade (= round frame covered in cloth on a stick) carried especially bywomen in the past, to give protection from the sun
44. clandestine /klænˈdes.tɪn/
例句：planned or done in secret, especially describing something that isnotofficially allowed
（尤指从事不被官方允许的活动）秘密的，暗中的，私下的例句：The group held weekly clandestine meetings in a church.
He has been having a clandestine affair with hissecretary for three years.
She undertook several clandestine operations forthe CIA.
45. fiver /ˈfaɪ.vər/
UK INFORMAL five pounds, or anote worth five
pounds5英镑（钞票）
Can you change a tenner for two fivers?你能把这张10英镑的钞票换成两张5英镑的吗？
46. shed light on in British or throw light on
解释：to clarify or supply additional information on
47. be (as) solid as a rock
48. to be very strong: I always thought theirmarriage was solid as a rock.
49. very reliable or calm：Throughoutthe crisis she stayed as solid as a rock.
50. be/go on at someone ：to keepasking someone to do something, or keep complaining about their behaviour, in away that annoys them
Dad’s always on at me to get a better job.
51. back to square one：Ifyou are back to square one, you have to start working on a plan from thebeginning because your previous attempt failed completely:
If this doesn't work we're back to square one.
53. organize：to make thenecessary plans for something to happen; arrange:
例句：The group organizes theater trips once a month.
They organized a meeting between the students andteachers.
54.grapple with sth— to try to deal with orunderstand a difficult problem or subject
例句：Today, many Americans are still grappling with the issue of race.今天，仍有许多美国人还没有克服种族歧视的观念。
grapple with sb
55. spell sth out
解释：to explain something in a very clear way with details 解释清楚；详细地说明
例句：The government has so far refused to spell out its plans/policies.政府至今拒绝透露详细的计划／政策。
INFORMAL What do you mean you don't understand -
do I have to spell it out for you?你说你不明白是什么意思——需要我详细地向你解释一下吗？
56. intoxicated：excited,happy, and slightly out of control because of love, success, etc.
陶醉的；极其兴奋的；忘乎所以的
例句：She was understandably intoxicated by her success in the national
competition.她因在全国比赛中获胜而欣喜若狂是可以理解的。
例句：An intoxicating experience or idea makes you feel excited and emotional.
（经历或想法）令人陶醉的，令人极其兴奋的
an intoxicating thought令人陶醉的想法
57. guilty party：the personor people responsible for an offence or misdeed
Awards for injury to feelings are designed tocompensate the injured party fully but not to punish the guilty party.
58. mea culpa
解释：used to admit that something was your fault
我的过失；我应受谴责；我应负责任
And if I tell you our security system, youprobably won't believe me.
59. deface
解释：to damage and spoil the appearance of something by writing or drawing onit
损坏…的外观；涂污
He was fined for defacing library books.他因在从图书馆借来的书上乱写乱画而被罚款。