跟着《傲骨贤妻》学英语，第一季第二集-5

1. How flexible are you on confidentiality?

在此事上有多大的回旋余地？

*be flexible on something

2. Because she walked away from half a million dollars.

*walk away from somebody/something: to leave a difficult situation or relationship, etc. instead of staying and trying to deal with it

3. So your first thought is to come to the state's attorney's office?

*the first thought is to do something

4. You ran a solid rape investigation.

*[transitive]run a test/check (on something): to do a test/check on something

*solid: that you can rely on; having a strong basis

 - As yet, they have no solid evidence.

 - His advice was always solid and practical.

 - This provided a solid foundation for their marriage.

5. My law firm is bringing on a civil action.

*bring on: to make something develop, usually something unpleasant

*action: [countable,uncountable]a legal process to stop a person or company from doing something, or to make them pay for a mistake, etc.  诉讼

6. But out of compassion, I held back.

*out of some thing: used to show the reason why something is done

*hold back: to hesitate

7. Because we really hate to subpoena your books and client records.

*the books [plural]: the written records of the financial affairs of a business 账本

*client records

8. regular clients and special requests

*request: a thing that you formally ask for

9. I have to work late tonight.

*work late

10. There's probably less backstabbing than the state attorney's office.

*back-stabbing: the action of criticizing somebody when they are not there, while pretending to be their friend at other times