iPOD touchで英語学習：「フレンズ」第1シーズン第4話

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第1シーズン第4話
「The One With George Stephanopoulos」

英語学習のためのシットコム


フレンズ I ― ファースト・シーズン DVD セット vol.1

やっと1枚目のCDの最後の1話です。
ジョージ・ステファノプロスさんは実在の人物で、ドラマの台詞通りクリントン大統領の補佐官だった方です。
現在はABCのキャスターで、http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=133369に写真が出ています。

単語・熟語

omnipotent
hiving unlimited power

boob
a woman's breast

nod off
fall asleep, especially briefly or unintentionally

insecure
uncertain or anxious about oneself
not confident

consummate
make complete by having sexual intercourse

swear
make a solemn statement or promise undertaking to do something or affirming that something is the case

duplex
a redidential building divided into two apartments

nectarine
a peach of variety with smooth red and yellow skin and rich, firm flesh

ass / butt
a person's buttocks or anus

dough
a thick malleable mixture of flour and liquid, used for baking into bread or pastry

slumber
a sleep

trashy
of poor quality

tweezers
a small instrument like a pair of picers for plucking out hairs and picking up small objects

in reference to
in relation to
as regards

frost
a deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces when the temperature falls below freezing

beanstalk
the stem of a bean plant, proverbially fast-growing and tall

come together
集まる

bunch
a number of things, typically of the same kind, growing fasened together

predicament
a difficult, unpleasent, or embarrassing situation

dent
a slight hollow in a hard even surface made by a blow or pressure

bonehead
a stupid person

nut
a crazy or eccentric person

preppy
a pupil or graduate of an expensive preparatory school, or a person resembling such a pupil in dress or appearance

glow
give out steady light without flame

freak
a person regarded as strange because of their unusual appearence or behavior

puck
a black disc made of hard rubber, used in ice hockey

Finders keepers, losers weepers.
見つけた者が持ち主、失くした者は泣きを見る
早い者勝ち

I'm rubber, you're glue.
僕はゴム、君はニカワ
君の言ったことは僕からはねかえって君にくっつくよ
→「その言葉はそのまま君に返すよ。」

表現

モニカ：　What's going with you?