跟着《傲骨贤妻》学英语，第一季第一集-20

191. How do you figure?

figure: (informal)to think or decide that something will happen or is true

192. Don't make yourself collateral damage here, for your own sake.

*collateral damage 间接伤害，附带损害

- make somebody collateral damage 间接伤害某人

*for the sake of somebody/something,for somebody’s/something’s sake: in order to help somebody/something or because you like somebody/something

193. Childs, the day you leaked that sex tape to the press and forced me to shield my children from every cable news station that played it in a 24-hour rotation, that was the day I became collateral damage.

*[transitive]leak something (to somebody): to give secret information to the public, for example by telling a newspaper

*the press 媒体

*shield: to protect somebody/something from danger, harm or something unpleasant

 - shield somebody/something from somebody/something: The ozone layer shields the earth from the sun's ultraviolet rays.

*cable news station 有线电视台

*play something in a 24-hour rotation 24小时轮播

*the day..., that was the day...

194. Mrs. Lewis, did you and the deceased sign a prenuptial agreement?

*the deceased: a person who has died, especially recently

*prenuptial agreement: an agreement made by a couple before they get married in which they say how their money and property is to be divided if they get divorced  婚前财产协定

195. So if the deceased were to divorce your, let's say, in order to reunite with his first wife.

*注意虚拟语态

196. If the deceased were to divorce you, you would be cut off from his premarital savings, is that correct?

*cut somebody off: to refuse to let somebody receive any of your property after you die

 - be cut off from his premarital savings

*premarital: happening before marriage

 - premarital savings/sex

197. Mrs Lewis, you stated in your testimony that you were in Miami at the time of the shooting visiting family, so the police never suspected or questioned you.

*testimony: [countable,uncountable]a formal written or spoken statement saying what you know to be true, usually in court 证词

*that you were in Miami at the time of the shooting visiting family

198. This whole line of questioning is a smokescreen.

*line of questioning

*smokescreen: something that you do or say in order to hide what you are really doing or intending

199. Well, they had no reason to.

*they had no reason to (do something)

200. And you might want to stay standing.

*you might want to do something

*stay+v-ing