[原创]Gossip Girl Season 2 学习笔记 (p10新增Ep 25)

10个月前 hihk110abc:
高手好多啊

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10个月前 xlimy:
谢谢楼主的辛勤劳动，受益颇深。
会一直跟贴，好好学习.

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10个月前 helenkeller:
拽~

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10个月前 orchid99:
1.
Dan: You're gonna skip out on your family reunion? I appreciate the commitment to the game…
Nate: No, listen, man, I'm not gonna go pretend to bond with the people who shut me and my mom out when my dad got busted.

skip out on (somebody): to suddenly leave someone, skip out (on / of something): to avoid something
shut somebody out: to prevent someone from being a part of something

2.
Bex: Lily... I just want to thank you for handling this so gracefully...the whole Rufus thing... the whole "Rufus and I used to date" thing? Oh, god. Please tell me that I'm not putting an enormous foot in my mouth. He told you, right?

put one's foot in one's mouth: to say something that you regret; to say something stupid, insulting, or hurtful. 这是句俚语，指的就是“说错话”。

3.
Dan: It's flying low. There must be a hospital nearby.
Tripp: It's not a medevac. It's, uh, grandfather's ride.

medevac: 救伤直升机
ride: 座驾

4.
Chuck: What are you doing with this insect?
Blair: Having the time of my life. Thank you very much.
Chuck: Well, as much as I enjoy bursting your bubble, he's just using you to get at me.

insect: 笨蛋，无知的人，废人。Someone who is extremely ignorant.
burst your bubble: 挤碎泡沫，是梦想破灭
get at: 报复我，让我不爽，irritate/ bother/ annoy.

5.
Chuck: I'm the one trying to help you.
Blair: Help me? Is that what you were doing at your little gentleman's club while my life was going up in flames?

my life was going up in flames: 我生活在水深火热中

6.
Grandfather: So tell me, Nathaniel, what are your plans next year?
Nate: Well, I'm waiting to hear back from colleges. The only thing is, when everything went down with my father, it was around the time applications were due. So I didn't exactly knock the essays out of the park.

go down: 倒下，垮台，破产
it was around the time: 正好是……的时候
due: 到期，截止
knock it out of the park: 来源于棒球比赛中的本垒打，意思是完成一件很了不起的事情，让被人瞩目的事情。

7.
Blair: Do you know how exhausting it's been being Blair Waldorf for the past 18 years…all the work, the planning?
Serena: You mean plotting?
Blair: Yes, exactly. I'm glad it all blew up in my face. It was a wake-up call. I was such an overachiever. I was headed for a quarterlife crisis at 18.
Serena: Oh, B. You've had a couple of setbacks, but there must still be a way to get into a great college, and if anyone can do it, it's you.
Blair: No, S., I've learned the hard way. I can't control everything, plan everything. Now with carter's help, I'm trying something different.

blew up in my face: if a plan or situation blows up in your face, it has a bad effect on you instead of the result you expected. 事情的结局和想象完全不一样，通常指坏的结果。
overachiever: 成绩超过预料的学生，高成就者
quarterlife crisis: 青年危机。二十来岁的年轻人（尤其是在完成学业后）对人生的迷惑、自我怀疑及焦虑感。
setback: 阻碍，挫折
learn/ find out something the hard way.: to learn something by experience, especially by an unpleasant experience. 我从痛苦经历中学到了……

8.
Lily: Do you think he'll judge?
Serena: I think you should just sneak a peek at his little black book before you drop the yellow pages on him. Just make sure your numbers are on par.

sneak a peek: 偷看，peek本身就有偷看，窥视的意思。
black book: 黑名单，a book containing names of people or organizations to blacklist.
yellow pages: 黄页。这里Serena说Rufus的情人名单是“黑名单”，Lily的则是“黄页”，其实就是说Lily的情人太多了，名单厚的都赶得上黄页电话本了。
on par: equal to someone or something. 成正比，相抗衡。 Your effort is simply not on par with what's expected from you.

9.
Rufus: It's just, well, I'm relieved...please don't take that the wrong way.
Lily: Oh, no.
Rufus: It's just you've dated more people than I have, and I wasn't sure that we'd be in the same ballpark.
Lily: Well, I'm glad that that is behind us.

don't take that the wrong way:不要误解了，不要想歪了
in the same ballpark: of a similar nature
I'm glad that that is behind us: 事情总算过去了

10.
Dan: Spill it.
Vanessa: Spill what?
Dan: Come on, the minute we dropped Nate off, you just…you clammed up, and you got that look on your face.

spill it: 说吧，有话就说
drop somebody off: 放下某人，让某人下车
clam up: 拒不开口。clam是蚌的意思，clam up形容人的嘴巴像合上的蚌那样，关的紧紧的。

11.
Serena: Why are we crashing Nate's family reunion? And why would Blair be here?
Chuck: Well, Dorota tipped me off. She's coming. Maybe she's ready to relaunch herself into blue blood society.

crash: 不请自来
tip somebody off: 泄漏消息
blue blood: 所谓的“蓝血贵族”，上流社会

12.

Gossip Girl: The danger with calling someone's bluff is that even if you win...You risk them walking away from the table for good.

bluff: 打牌时候经常用，表示“虚张声势”，比如你手上的牌明明很差，但是你却下了很大的赌注，让别人觉得你拿了一手好牌。call someone's bluff就是不相信对方的bluff, 挑战对方或者提出看对方的牌，to challenge someone to give proof of his or her claims

13.
Nate: Do you remember when you used to make us watch your favorite movies over and over again? Like "Tiffany's" and "Holiday"? It used to drive me nuts.
Blair: Is this a pep talk?

drive me nuts: drive me crazy, 让我抓狂
pep talk: 鼓舞士气的话

14.
Dan: What? Why are you smiling?
Serena: I don't know. I am mad, but that was invigorating.

mad: 口语里一般指“生气”而不是“发疯”
invigorating: 爽快的，发泄的挺爽，这里S是说刚刚那一巴掌打的很泄愤。

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10个月前 orchid99:
1.
Serena: What was that?
Blair: Dorota has a cold. Dorota,I told you not to use your handkerchief at the table. It's disgusting.
Serena: Oh, it sounded like a car horn. It must have been on my end.

It must have been on my end: 声音一定是我这边的。当时 S跟B在通电话，B骗S说自己在家里，但其实她是在大街上并差点被车撞到，司机按了喇叭，所以S问B那个是什么声音，B撒谎赖在Dorota身上，S就说那可能是我听错了，大概是我这里的喇叭声。

2.
Rufus: Look at us. Everything's working out. You're in Yale and Jenny might actually make it to 16.
Dan: That was a little touch-and-go there for a while.
Jenny: Yes, but I still have 24 hours to mess up, so...

make it to 16: 总算平平安安到16岁了, make it有好不容易做成某事的意思，比如你长跑跑到终点，就可以说I made it.
touch-and-go: Dangerous and uncertain in nature or outcome; precarious; delicate. 危险的，不确定的，现在还说不准。Dan这句话就是针对Rufus那句“总算到16岁了”来说的，因为因为当时离Jenny 16岁生日还差一天。
mess up: to spoil something, or do something badly, 搞砸，做坏事

3.
Serena: Poppy. Oh, my gosh.
Poppy: Oh, it's so good to see you. I was beginning to think we weren't running in the same circles anymore. It's been so long.

running in the same circles: 不在一个社交圈子了，注意“混圈子”的混用run

4.
Poppy: Well, it sounds like everything's exactly the same as it was last time I saw you. Makes catching up easier, though, right?
Serena: Yeah. I'm throwing a party this weekend.
Poppy: Really? Oh, what's the occasion? Not that you need one.

catch up: To bring (another) up to date; brief. 叙旧。比如你和你的朋友很久未见，重新遇上了，你们有很多话要说，有很多互相的情况要汇报，那么你就可以说so much to catch up.
throw a party: 办聚会用throw, 比较随便的一个讲法。
what’s the occasion: 主题是什么，为了什么而办这个聚会
not that you need one: 当然你也不一定需要理由，not that表示“倒不是……”

5.
Chuck: So if you'll excuse me...
Eric: Does this feel like a sitcom to anybody else?
Dan: It feels like a reality show.
Chuck: Good. So I can vote you off.

So if you'll excuse me: 抱歉我要离开了，这句话通常用在你和一群人正在聊天或者聚会的时候，你中途有事要离开，就可以说这句话。
vote you off: 我可以把你选出局了。Eric说大家一起吃早餐的画面像情景喜剧(sitcom), Dan说更像是真人秀(reality show), 于是Chuck接着他的话说如果是那样，我就选淘汰你。

6.
Dan was denied financial aid at Yale. Funds are limited, and these days, there are a lot of other students that need it more than we do.

be denied something: 申请被拒绝了

7.
Serena: Thanks for meeting me.
Poppy: After I saw you this morning, I felt kind of terrible.
Serena: I'm in a rut, aren't I?
Poppy: Yeah. Well, a girl like you should be on the arm of a designer at the costume ball one day and yachting around the Maldives the next, not making up and breaking up with the same high school boy and feuding with your frenemy.

in a rut: in a type of boring habitual behavior, 一成不变。rut是车辙，就是轮胎滚过的痕迹。这个词组来源于马车的轮子在泥路上留下车辙，后来的车子行驶就容易多了，只要沿着这条车辙继续前进就可以了，由此必须那些一成不变的习惯或者行为。
feud with: 长期斗争
frenemy: 亦敌亦友，是friend和enemy的合成词。Someone who is both friend and enemy, a relationship that is both mutually beneficial or dependent while being competitive, fraught with risk and mistrust.

8.
Chuck: I have to say I was a little surprised when you called.
Vanessa: That he dumped me, I can accept, but then he had the nerve to say that there was nothing between him and Blair.
Chuck: The "just friends" speech? I got it, too. They're making fools of us.

have the nerve to: 居然有胆子……
They’re making fools of us: 他们把我们当傻瓜耍

9.
Jenny: Uh, do you know if Vanessa's coming?
Dan: Yeah, she and Nate broke up last night. It seems like she's taking it pretty hard, but, uh, she wants to come to the party, said she'd call.

take it pretty hard: 她不好过，你不大能接受这个事实

10.
Jenny: First of all, you need to stop watching so many old sitcoms on Hulu, and second, Dad on the upper east side? I mean, there's no way. No, we can't live up here. We're...
Dan: Humphreys.
Jenny: Damn straight.

Hulu: 一个视频网站，由FOX和NBC共同投资，目前只对美国观众提供热门剧集的在线观看。Hulu的名字来源于中文，第一取“葫芦”之意，因为在古代葫芦都是用来装珍贵的东西的，所谓的“宝葫芦”；其二，来自中文“互录”，意思是可以互动的记录。网址是http://www.hulu.com/
no way: impossible
live up: 快乐的生活
damn straight: 相当于damn right, 完全正确

11.
Jenny: What are you doing here?
Penelope: Once I heard Poppy Lifton was coming to your party, I canceled mine. In the last 20 minutes, I've been hit on by two Bronfman’s and a gay designer. It was so worth it.
Hazel: Kudos on rising from the social grave.

hit on: 被搭讪
Bronfman’s: Bronfman家族，原来是Seagram酒业大王，后收购了好莱坞的Universal制片公司和Interscope唱片公司。1998年又收购了欧洲PolyGram唱片公司，成为唱片业的最大巨头。2000年6月，Bronfman家族将Seagram公司售与法国的Vivendi，换股合组Vivendi-Universal.
It was so worth it: 真是太值了
kudos: personal fame or glory. 注意kudos是一个单词，是单数。

12.
Jenny: Eric, I don't get it. Why would Serena hijack my birthday?
Eric: Well, I know she was trying to do something nice for you. Maybe she just got a little carried away.

hijack: seize control of, 夺权
be or get carried away: to be engrossed in or fascinated by something to the point of losing self-control, 对某事太过着迷以至于失去控制

13.
Nate: Where'd your boyfriend go?
Vanessa: We're not a couple. It's just physical.
Nate: I'll take your word for it.

It's just physical: 只是肉体关系
take your word for it: 我相信你的话

14.
Vanessa: They have been in there for a while. What if all we did is push 'em closer together?
Chuck: You just need to relax and trust in the power of our overwhelming sexual chemistry to drive a wedge between them.

chemistry: 形容两个人之间互相吸引力，mutual attraction or sympathy; rapport.
drive a wedge: 破坏

15.
Rufus: Did you call that kid who sent you a fan letter I bet he's dying to hear back from you.
Dan: Yeah, well, I mean, it was great of him to reach out like that, so I'll give him a call.

reach out: attempt to communicate. e.g. I try to reach out to my daughter but she doesn't want to have anything to do with me.

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10个月前 sobeit07:
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9个月前 felinesmile:
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9个月前 silence0099:
支持楼主~~好厉害

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9个月前 山大:
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9个月前 orchid99:
1.
Eleanor: For the last time, this dinner is very important to your stepfather and me.
Blair: And if only I could be two people but you know, Nate's cousin Tripp Van der Bilt is getting married tomorrow.

if only I could be two people: 如果我分身有术的话

2.
Grandfather: Blair, it's reached my ears that Nate has been accepted to Columbia. Has he spoken to you of his intentions?

Blair: Not in so many words.
it's reached my ears that: 我听说……
Not in so many words: 没说特别详细，我不是很清楚

3.
Dan: With all due respect, I don't feel comfortable serving knishes to Blair.
Eleanor: But Blair won't be here. And you don't serve knishes at Passover. I'll double your pay... For both of you.
Waitress: I could really use the money.

With all due respect: 恕我直言（或许我的话很直接，但其实我还是很尊敬你的），这句话后面通常跟一些比较直接的，或许会让对方不舒服的话。比如这里Dan后面就当着Eleanor的面说我不想给你女儿端盘子。
I don't feel comfortable: 这让我很不自在，我并不想那么做
knish: 一种犹太馅饼
I could really use the money: 我很需要这笔钱，这笔钱对我很有用。I could really use…我很需要……

4.
Serena: Two days into the trip, Poppy and Gabriel get in this huge fight, and then she just leaves, abandoning me and Gabriel. And so I stayed around to keep him company.
Dan: Well, you did a bang-up job.

bang-up: excellent, very good

5.
Rufus: That's Allan Levy, the art collector. He's the guy who put a Monet in his bathroom. I…Oh, no.
Lily: Well, he's an old friend of Cyrus. You've been saying the mid-range art market is dead, so I thought it might be nice for you to meet a few high-end collectors.
Rufus: No, Lil, I appreciate you trying to help, but I am not fawning over an ass like Allan Levy just to make a sale.

mid-range: 中端，高端就是high-end
fawn over someone: to flatter someone or attend to someone excessively; 拍某人马屁，讨好某人，也可以说 to curry favor with someone或者更粗鲁一点的就是to kiss someone’s ass

6.
Serena: I'm sorry that I snuck out, Mom, but I had to see Blair. She invited me to Seder, so I invited Dan.
Dan: Though Blair is now strangely nowhere to be seen.
Lily: Well, lucky for you, I don't want to cause a scene at Eleanor's. We'll talk about this later.

sneak out: 偷偷溜出来，snuck是sneak的过去式
Blair is now strangely nowhere to be seen: B都不知道跑哪里去了
cause a scene: 在大庭广众下训你，to be loud and rude with other people or in public

7.
Eleanor: Serena, what are you doing here?
Lily: Blair invited her.
Eleanor: Strange. Blair made it absolutely clear that she wasn't going to be here, but please stay. Daniel, would you go downstairs and get the kosher wine and could you please make yourself a little more presentable?

made it absolutely clear: 说的非常清楚，表达的很明确。如果你问别人“听清楚了吗？我说的够明白了吗？”，英文就是Am I clear?
make yourself a little more presentable: 穿的整齐一点，看上去拿的出手一点

8.
Nate: Most of you know me. I'm Nate Archibald, Tripp's cousin. When Tripp asked me to be the best man in his wedding, I was a little bit surprised, to say the least.

to say the least: 毫不夸张的说，at the very least; without overemphasizing the subject; to put it mildly

9.
Gabriel: Why won't you even talk to me? I mean, after everything that we've…
Serena: Because Dan is my boyfriend. We got in a fight before I left for Spain, and once I got there, I got a little carried away, but no matter what, I had to come back.

carried away: 兴奋，忘乎所以。to move or excite greatly. e.g. We was carried away by desire.

10.
Blair: Cyrus, I apologize about missing the Seder and being so snotty about N.Y.U.

snooty: 傲慢无理的，impertinent; arrogant.

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9个月前 gjella:
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9个月前 orchid99:
1.
Blair: Well, if it's casual like you say, no strings... Then what do you expect? It's not like you're gonna marry the guy.
Serena: I kind of did marry him. We got carried away. I talked to Cyrus. He said it doesn't count.
Blair: Let me get this straight. He goads you into making the ultimate commitment, and now he can't stick it out through a whole dinner?
Serena: He didn't goad me. It was...romantic.
Blair: Gabriel is disappearing for a reason. We need to get to the bottom of it.

no strings: 没有限制，没有附加条件，完整的说法是no strings attached. 用在这里就是说Serena和男友Gabrielle虽然谈恋爱，但是对双方既没有承诺也没有要求，来去自由。
carry away: to move or excite greatly
it doesn't count: 那不算数，意思是S的那段酒后宣誓的婚姻无效。
Let me get this straight: 恕我直言，我就直说了吧
goad: 本意是赶牲口用的刺棒，引申含义就是刺激某人做某事
stick it out: 坚持
get to the bottom of it: 寻根问底，找出事实真相

2.
Serena: Gabriel, it's a movie. You know, most of them are only, like, 80 minutes these days.
Gabriel: And you know that there's nothing else I'd rather do, but I'm a little behind on reviewing the prospectus. This is important to me.

I'm a little behind on: 我在……上的进度上已经晚了，我还没来得及做……

3.
Blair: You have to dump him! We caught that redneck red-handed.
Serena: Well, B. Obviously I'm not thrilled, but I'm gonna get to the bottom of this on my own.

dump: 甩了他
redneck: 这是对美国南方劳动农民的一种贬义称呼，相当于说他们是“南方乡下人”，B之前听说Gabrielle来自于南方，就一直说“那个南方人如何如何”。
catch someone red-handed: 当场活捉，这里B是特地用了两个red来玩了一把文字游戏

4.
Gabrielle: Listen, these contracts will be done in one week. And after that, I promise you I will tell her everything. Trust me. The money she'll make, it'll cushion the blow.
Serena: As long as it's not physical, then I... I guess I can live with it.

cushion the blow: cushion有“减缓冲击”的意思，结合它的本意“垫子”应该不难理解。blow就是打击，cushion the blow意思就是减缓这件事情给她的打击，减少伤害。
physical: 这里的意思是只要你们两个人没有肉体关系
I can live with it: 我还可以忍受

5.
Chuck: She told you about our little run-in last night.
Nate: You told me you'd back off.

run-in: 偶遇
back off: 靠边站，不管这件事，和leave it alone很像，但是语气更加严厉。

6.
Blair: I thought if I proved the North Caro liar was cheating with his ex, that would be it, but she fell for his business meeting excuse-- monkey business, more likely.
Chuck: With Serena and Poppy both fighting over the banana.
Blair: I'm really worried, Chuck. You know how Serena is. She gets in over her head. We need to expose this two-timer for what he is.

fall for: to be deceived or swindled by，对谎言深信不疑
monkey business: Silly, mischievous, or deceitful acts or behavior. 骗人的把戏
get in: to become or cause to become involved陷入
two-timer: to be unfaithful to (a spouse or lover), double-cross，辟腿的人

7.
Poppy: What an idiot I am! Using my connections for your company?
Gabrielle: Poppy, it is not like that. You know it's not.

connections: 人际关系，也可以用network。networking这个单词也可以做动词用，表示“搞人际关系，经营人际关系”

8.
Jenny: Dad, my whole life, you said that I could do anything if I was willing to risk falling flat on my face. So why doesn’t that same advice apply to you? Right?
Rufus: Good point.

fall flat (on one’s face): to fail to achieve a desired effect达不到预期效果, 完全失败
good point: 有道理

9.
Chuck: So I heard you, uh, first met Serena on one of her infamous nights with Georgina. You know, I've always wanted to know what happened. It must be quite the story.

infamous: 臭名昭著的，声名狼藉的
It must be quite the story: 肯定大有文章，肯定有猛料

10.
Lily: Well, this is just the sort of thing that some of us at bass have been pushing for. Doing well by doing good.
Gabrielle: Yes. But the only thing is there's a ticking clock. Some of the major internet corporations are pushing to do a similar thing. If we act now, we block them completely and we make at least triple our investment.

a ticking clock: 时间不等人，老外还很喜欢说The clock is ticking, tick就是钟表的“滴答”声，同样也是表示urgent的意思。

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9个月前 orchid99:
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Dan: Well, it looks like we're not gonna have to wait until next fall for Serena to ditch. She's skipping brunch.
Rufus: Oh, I'd really hoped we'd all be together.
Dan: Y... you know what? Let me see what I can do. I mean, she's generally not a morning person, but show up with a bone dry
cappuccino, and she'll pretty much follow you anywhere.
ditch: to get away from (a person, especially a companion).
a morning person: 早起的人
bone dry cappuccino: 卡布基诺咖啡的一种，常规的做法1/3 牛奶, 1/3 奶泡, 1/3 espresso，而bone dry是只有奶泡和espresso, 而没有牛奶。cappuccino的分类大家可以看下面：1.) Wet: No foam, all milk, and espresso 2.) Dry: More foam than milk and espresso 3.) Bone Dry: All Foam, no milk, and espresso 4.) Regular: 1/3 milk, 1/3 foam, 1/3 espresso

2.
Dan: Gabriel is a con artist. His... his investment was a scam. He took all the money for himself, including my Dad's.
Lily: Oh, my god.
Dan: Yeah. Uh, Serena thinks she can somehow sweet-talk him into giving everything back, but I mean, r... seriously, I... I don't think Blair and Chuck can scheme their way out of this one.

con artist: con是confidence的缩写，confidence artist或者confidence man指的就是诈骗犯。这个单词最早出现在对一个叫做William Thompson的审判中。Thompson常常和陌生人搭讪，直到骗取他们信任，接着就问他们是否信任他并把他们的手表交给他(if they had the confidence to lend him their watches)，之后他就拿着手表走人。后来是有一个之前的受害者在路上认出了他，他才被绳之以法的。
scam: 和con一样，都表示骗局，诈骗的意思。另外还可以说：swindle, grift, bunko 或者flim flam
sweet-talk someone into: 甜言蜜语，连哄带骗说服某人

3.
Gabriel: Serena, I swear to you, in the beginning, you were just a mark. And your mom... Bart Bass' widow... was gonna be our big score. But then my... then my feelings for you got in the way of that.

mark: 容易被骗的人，通常是一个骗局里的初级目标，骗子就靠他来接近终极目标。
score: 这里就是目标，猎物的意思
get in the way of: 阻碍事情的发展

4.
Gabriel: Then you called me this morning. She thought you made me.
Chuck: Smart girl.
Gabriel: Yeah. She said we had to end it now. She offered to buy me out so I could leave.

make: 拆穿，发现
buy out: 付钱买断某人的权利或者地位

5.
Serena: Gabriel, you should go.
Chuck: Where's he going? My P.I. hasn't confirmed his story yet, and even if it is true, he's still a crook.
Serena: He's not the one we need, and besides, if we really need to find him, I don't think it'll be that hard.
Nate: But why would Poppy stay in town after what she did?
Serena: Well, she has to if she's gonna play the victim. She... she wants us to think Gabriel fooled her, too.
Chuck: She wants money. All we need to provide is some sap she thinks she can get it from.

P.I.: Private Investigator, 私家侦探
crook: 骗子
play the victim: 装做是受害者，这个“装”用play
sap: 俚语傻瓜的意思。或许有同学会知道，SAP是一个软件公司的名字，名气还挺大，我第一次知道SAP有“傻瓜“的含义，还是他们公司的员工自己调侃的时候告诉我的。

6.
Serena: I don't care what my mother says. Poppy Lifton must pay.
Blair: I knew you would come to your senses.

pay: 付出代价
come to your senses: 你总算想通了

7.
Nate: Okay, but how do we even gonna know she's gonna show up?
Blair: She thinks Gabriel took the fall. All she's worried about right now is party invitations and keeping a front row seat at Bryant park.

take the fall: to get arrested for a particular crime, especially when others are going unpunished for the same crime. 做别人的替罪羊
Bryant park: 纽约的布莱恩公园，是每年纽约时装周的举行地。这里意思就是说Poppy现在最关心的是她能否被社交圈接受，还有没有可能拿到时装秀的前排位置。

8.
Dan: Serena, what are you doing?
Serena: Uh, I'm in the elevator. I'm losing you. Sorry.

I'm losing you: 这句话超实用的，表示“信号不好(比如在电梯里)，我听不清楚你说什么”或者是“要断线了”类似的意思。

9.
Nate: No, no, no. Look, you had your shot, and you blew it. So why start toying with her again? I mean, if you want her, then man up and tell her. Otherwise you gotta cut her loose. You gotta cut her loose, and you gotta do it for real this time, man, because I want her.

shot: 机会。试一下，英文就是give a shot, 相当于give a try.
blow it: 搞砸了
man up: 做个男人，有点男人的样子
cut her loose: 放过她，不要再纠缠她了

10.
Poppy: Look, if you can get me a payment today, I'll find a way to get you in.
Georgina: Really? That would be amazing. I... I can't wait to help the children. Um, let me just call the bank to set up a wire transfer.
Poppy: Oh, um, I'm sorry. Just because of the time crunch, I'm afraid I'm only gonna be able to accept cash.

get you in: 让你入伙，让你加入。get in这种词组，看英文很容易理解中文意思，但是真的要等我们用英文表达出这个中文意思的时候，却常常会“卡壳”，所以建议大家平时多留意一下这类小词。
wire transfer: 电汇
time crunch: 时间紧急，crunch可以表示emergency

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9个月前 米非浅:
好东西
要支持

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9个月前 Grace5427:
以下是引用半含朝雨在 2008-9-13 16:22:00 的发言：
好详细的笔记哦，学习了^^

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9个月前 oneofthet:
牛人

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8个月前 orchid99:
1.
Richard: Hey, beautiful. You get lost
Lily: I'm sorry I'm late. I couldn't find parking.
Richard: That's what the valet's for.
Lily: Right, but it also costs $2,and I just spent that on gas.
Richard: Here to hit dad up for some cash?

valet: 原本是仆人的意思，这里是指那些帮忙停车的侍者。另外注意一下that’s what the…for这样的用法，表示“……就是用来干……的”
hit someone up: to ask someone for a loan of money or for some other favor

2.
Lily: You hung up the phone with me, and you called her? You didn't even give me a chance to explain.
Cece: That's because he would have to parent, and we know he always leaves "bad cop" to me.

hang up the phone: （没等对方说完就）挂电话
bad cop: 中文说的红脸白脸，英文就是good cop, bad cop

3.
Cece: Actually, your father did make a call to the school.
Richard: I told them what had been happening at home, about your sister taking off, your mother and I splitting up. I explained that it was an isolated, uncharacteristic act of rebellion. They're willing to turn your expulsion into a suspension.

take off: 离开，离家出走。口语里take off通常就是leave的意思，而不是起飞，而且通常用进行时I’m taking off.(我要走了，我要离开了，我要出发了)
split up: 分手，break up
expulsion: 开除，更加口语的说法是get kicked out of school
suspension: 留校看察

4.
Serena: My mother didn't think that I was old enough to make my own decisions, so I decided to stay in jail, and I'm not leaving until she agrees to let me live my own life.
Blair: So it's a war of attrition.
Serena: So to speak.
Blair: Except she gets to wage the war from the comfort of her penthouse while you remain behind bars.

war of attrition: 消耗战，发生在以色列和埃及之间的一场战争（感兴趣的可以搜索“消耗战 1868年”），用在这里是形容S和她妈妈之间的母女之战。
so to speak: 可以这么说
penthouse: 顶楼的豪华公寓
behind bars: 蹲监狱，bar本意是栅栏，在栅栏后面(behind bars)，当然就是蹲监狱的意思了。
5.
Cece: Oh, what a restorative nap that was. I feel so much better.
Lily: Well, I'm afraid that moment is not going to last.
Cece: Eric’s out of earshot?
Lily: I sent him to a movie with Jonathan.
Cece: So no one can hear me scream. You're gonna what, lily, hack me to pieces, suffocate me with a pillow?

restorative: 有助恢复元气的。我觉得restorative这种单词是比较难记也比较难用的，这类单词的特点就是表达方式和中文完全不一样。比如同样一句话，中文说“睡了一个午觉，让我神清气爽，体力也恢复了”，于是英文我们就会按照中文习惯翻成”a nap makes me…”, 但其实英文用一个restorative nap就搞定了。
earshot: 听力所及之范围，out of earshot就表示听不见的意思
hack me to pieces: 把我大卸八块，hack就是砍的意思。
suffocate: 使窒息，这里是说用枕头把我闷死。

6.
Cece: Your sister was rebellious and ungrateful for my love, and look where she ended up.
Lily: From where I'm sitting, it doesn't look so bad. I don't want you meddling with my family or with my love life anymore. I want you out, now.

look where she ends up: 看看她的下场是怎么样的
from where I’m sitting: 从我的角度来说，就我看来……
meddle with: 搅和

7.
Owen: Personally, I don't see it.
Lily: See what?
Owen: The family resemblance.

The family resemblance: 你们两个长的像的地方

8.
Lily: It just--Your life isn't exactly how you described. You told mom that you were making it out in L.A.
Carol: I am making it. This is what making it looks like...before you've totally made it.

make out: 出人头地，有成就

9.
Blair: This is low, even for you. I can't believe you did this, Chuck. You know how important prom is to me!
Serena: Blair, what's wrong? I caught him with these. They're all marked with Nelly Yuki's name. He's sabotaging me.
low: 低级的，整句话的意思就是“即使对你来说，这也太低级了吧”
sabotage: 暗中破坏

10.
Cece: You think Serena's a handful? I would rather have 20 Dan Humphreys from Brooklyn instead of that boy you loved from the valley.
Lily: Well, you took care of that, didn't you?

handful: someone, often a child, who is difficult to deal with, 另人头疼的人
take care of that: 搞定了，fix

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8个月前 orchid99:
1.
Serena: Okay, can you just take my mind off of me? Talk about anything.
Blair: Did he say it like...
Serena: Anything but--
Blair: "I love her"?"
Serena: I totally set myself up for that one.

take my mind off: 不去想，转移注意力。这里S和B在聊gossip girl, S的意思是拜托你，我们换个话题吧。
I totally set myself up for that one: set up表示“陷害，设圈套”，这句话的意思是“都是我自找的”，有点像中文的“自作孽”。前面S要B换个话题，于是B又那Chuck说“I love you”这件事情来烦S，所以S说自己绕来绕去，还是没的安宁。

2.
Nate: Good, good. I start my internship at the mayor's office next week.
Vanessa: So that's the big news.
Nate: As for today ,I got my mom and my grandpa to agree to sit together, so that's something.

internship: 实习
so that's something: 那还不错，那还挺了不起

3.
Cyrus: We were talking on the way over here about what a wonderful couple you two make. So we decided you should take the plunge like us. Dating at our age is not enough, marry before it's too late.
Rufus: Well, it's not exactly-- uh, we're just enjoying the journey.
Lily: Well, apparently at one point we had a destination, but that no longer seems to be the case.

take the plunge: to marry someone. plunge本意是跳入，冒险做某事，这个词组除了结婚，还可以用来指你经过很长一段时间犹豫后，最终决定做某事。
we're just enjoying the journey: 享受过程
that no longer seems to be the case: 现在已经不是那样了，情况已经不同了

4.
Serena: Chuck, get the room quiet for me.
Chuck: I'm way ahead of you.

way ahead of you: 早就想到，在你说之前我就想过了。这句话用在你们两人想同一件事情或者想说同一句，但是对方比你快一步说出来，你就可以说way ahead of you, 意思是我只是说的比你晚，但其实我也想到了。

5.
Serena: Can I actually borrow you for a minute? I'd like you to help me dig deeper.
Jenny: Nothing in here's good enough to beat the new girl... except for this.
Eric: No way.

borrow you for a minute: 借一步说话
No way: 这里不是“没门”的意思了，这里表示“不是吧，不会吧”，惊讶的意思

6.
Rufus: You going to Nate's party?
Dan: Uh, no. I thought Vanessa and I would hit a movie instead.

hit a movie: 看电影，hit是一个很百搭的单词，有点”do”的意思，比较随意的讲法。洗澡也可以说hit a shower, 出发、上路就是hit the road

7.
Isabelle: It's not midnight.
Jenny: My gossip's too juicy to wait.

juicy: interesting and exciting，形容八卦很吸引人

8.
Gossip girl: Serena Van der Woodsen just couldn't leave well enough alone. Since she had to find out the truth about me, I'm going to tell you the truth about everyone. Every gossip bomb I've got is about to drop, and if you've got a problem with that, take it up with her.

leave alone: leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking，放手，相当于let it go
get a problem with: 很口语化的讲法，表示有意见，有问题
take up: deal with, 和她去交涉，找她算帐

9.
Nate: Oh, my god.
Dan: Oh, that makes sense.
Nate: Wait. They're a team.
Blair: Team of what?

that makes sense: 这就说的通了，这就有道理了。当时Nate, Serena, Dan都在酒吧里等gossip girl, 结果等来的是Blair, Dan说这句话的意思就是Blair是最有可能是gossip girl的人。makes sense在否定句里(it doesn’t make any sense)用的也很多，意思是某句话“毫无道理，一点都说不通”。
Team of what: “什么团队”这句话让我们说的话很容易会翻成”what team”, 但其实应该用team of what, 这个就是很典型的中文和英文思维差异。

10.
Serena: Drink’s on me.

something is on me: 我请客，我做东，比如你请客晚餐，就可以说dinner’s on me.

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7个月前 LIJUNXIAXUE:
gossip girl is a nice tv series,but i just watched season one

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