成长的烦恼第七季:It's Not Easy Being Green

Maggie: Hey are you sure you and Mike can't stay for dinner? I'm making a figment: Lettuce¹!
Kate: That's really sweet Mrs Siever but Mike and I have tickets to the Nut Cracker² tonight.
Maggie: The Ballet? Does Mike know they don't sell peanuts and you can't do the wave?
Jason: Jingle³ Bells Jingle Bells, ho ho ho. Guess what they've got down at Mary's Trees Trees Trees.
Maggie: I have to go trees?
Jason: They're better than any trees, these are twelve-foot noble firs, for only eight dollars.
Maggie: Eight dollars?
Jason: Well, previously⁴ owned.
Maggie: Jason we are not gonna get a big tree this year because you know how you get when you decorate it.
Jason: Jolly?
Maggie: Ho-ho-homicidal! Having everything your way! So this year we're gonna try something new.
Jason: Maggie, that's not a tree, that's Parsley!
Chrissy: Does a little tree mean little presents?
Maggie: Ho sweetheart, you know how much you care about saving the Earth? Well, after Christmas we can plant this tree and save it, too.
Chrissy: All year long, I care about Earth. At Christmas, I care about numero uno!
Mike: Ok, Katie, you ready to see the Nut Cracker?
Jason: Mike, you're going to the Ballet?
Mike: It's a ballet?
Carol: Yes, I am upset, and do you know why? Dwight Halliburton has just stood me up!
Carol: I trusted him and now my heart is cleft⁵ in twain.
Mike: Well I hope your twain will be leaving soon on a very long twip.
Kate: Mike, how could you do that to her when she is so upset?
Mike: Oh, Kate, she's just always like that. It's just who she is: Carol-yes-I-am-upset-Siever!
Kate: Well, could not you go and talk to her? For me?
Mike: Wa-el, okay.
Jason: Ouh, that boy is sm-itt-en!
Maggie: That boy is wh-ipp-ed!
Mike: Hey Carol, what are you doing?
Carol: Alphabetizing the bookshelf! I'd ask you for help but I'm too busy to train you.
Mike: I realize you don't wanna tell me about your stupid problem right?
Carol: Dwight has a new research assistant named: Felicia.
Mike: I guess you do.
Carol: And tonight we had tickets to see Istvam Penderecki.
Mike: Istvam who?
Carol: He's a performance artist who screams obscenities at the audience while setting his hair on fire. That's his Christmas show

Carol: Does not matter because he won't be going anywhere because I hate Dwight Halliburton before he even loses over!
Carol: Dwight baby, come home to Mama! Sorry Sir! Kate, telephone!
Kate: Thanks.
Mike: Carol you know what your problem is?
Carol: You and I both come from the same loin?
Mike: No, you get involved with people who make you jealous!
Carol: Everybody gets jealous.
Mike: Not me, because I know how to pick that woman I can count on, you don't see Kate standing⁶ me up do ya?
Kate: Mike?!! Great news! I believe…
Mike: Huh?
Kate: It was my agent! I have been picked in the Sporting Man swimsuit edition. We shoot in Jamaica, next week. So I have to get fitted for my suit right away.
Mike: But Kate, ah, I was so looking forward to going to the Ballet?
Kate: Oooh, (smooch) I'll make it up to you.
Carol: It's A, B…
Mike: Anybody still interested in a couple of tickets to the Nut Cracker?
Chrissy: I am I am!
Mike: Ok, fifty bucks⁷.
Jason: What about Kate?
Mike: Oh she had to leave. Her agent called; She got a job in the swimsuit edition of the Sporting Man.
Ben: The issue I live and die for?
Luke: Babes and postage stamp screen bikinis.
Jason: Boys, oh girl, I wanted to meet her last year, haha, I did. Chrissy, you wanna go to the Nut Cracker with your old man?
Chrissy: Yeah.
Jason: Okay.
Luke: So, uh, when is Kate doing this bikini shoot?
Mike: That' s next week in Jamaica.
Ben: Oh, I love to be the photographer on that job. I mean one guy all those babes?
Luke: Well, um, forget that! I'd love to be the guy who rubs on the coco butter!
Ben: Forget that, I'd love to be the coco butter!
Mike: Hey, why do not you guys run a roll in the snow? Well, that's no ordinary photo shoot.
Ben: Yeah, maybe, but if Kate was my girlfriend I sure would not let her go to Jamaica.
Maggie: Ben, your brother trusts Kate.
Mike: Yeah!
Maggie: I am appalled⁸ of you two. Kate's a professional. Now she can stand in the sun all oiled up in the briefest of bikinis, having her picture taken by some jet-set photographer without anything untoward¹⁰ happening. I am glad that at least Mike knows that.

Francis: When I was seventeen, it was a very good year…. What are you doing here?
Mike: You sent for me.
Francis: Ah, I understand you volunteered to drive the bus for this year's Christmas tree cutting trip?
Mike: Yeah, I thought it might be a nice chance for some inner city kid to experience Christmas. You know the snow, the silver bells, the mistletoe.
Francis: Forget that. Think Nunez with a Chainsaw! Siever, you don't have the seniority to do this on your own. If you insist on taking them on this trip, I'll be forced to go ith you.
Mike: Great, the more the merrier.
Francis: Siever, have I ever done you any harm?
Mike: Look, Mr. Tedesco, I'll level with ya, I need to find something to do this week while my girlfriend is outta town, see she is a model, and she is gonna be in Jamaica doing the swimsuit issue of the Sporting Man.
Francis: See, let me give some unsolicited advice: Catch the next thing smoking to Jamaica.
Mike: Well, Mr. Tedesco, Kate and I trust each other okay? We're in love!
Francis: Don't you know love is a state of insanity¹¹?? I myself married Mrs Tedesco because she had a body that would not stop. Shortly after I married her, it stopped…..Love!... Makes your judgement take a holiday. You, you think you are marrying a goddess; And you wind up with a walking bathrobe that reads the Tinsel town Tattler!
Mike: Look, Mr. Tedesco. I am darn sure that I know Kate… pretty well.
Francis: But do you know Nigel Done.
Mike: No. Who is he?
Francis: He is the chief photographer for the Sporting Man. He is an Australian with rugged¹² good looks and an appetite for every lovely model he photographs.
Mike: How do you know all this?
Francis: I read in the Tattler. "The bathroom can be lonely place…"
Jason: Okay son. How does it look now?
Ben: Perfect.
Jason: Hehehe, aw, come on Ben, it's still crooked¹³! That's at least two degrees off!
Ben: Looks straight to me.
Jason: Pretty straight does feed the ring here pal⁹...
Maggie: How's it going guys?
Jason: Hey great, just full of Christmas spirit.
Ben: At least it's full of it all right.
Maggie: Oh, Jason are you starting it again?
Ben: Yeah, but how do you always take this so seriously?
Luke: Yeah, Christmas is supposed to be fun.
Jason: Luke, Fun does not just happen. Fun is a matter of exacting¹⁴ preparation.
All: Oh no.
Jason: Yeah but, Christmas is the one time that you want everything to be right. Cuz I know when those stocking are hung at a 42-degree angle and that reed's centered precisely¹⁵ on the door is gonna fill us all with utile joy.
Jason: Besides, a sloppy¹⁶ Christmas is nothing more than a ..
All: Groundhog Day with Denzel.
Chrissy: daddy, loosen up.
Jason: I am lose sweetheart, I just have a crooked tree, something's just out of whack¹⁷ here. Uh, I must have the screw loose.
Mike: Ooh, lying sonnets… Is it time for dad's Groundhog with Denzel speech?
Jason: Yea it is.
Mike: (snaps) Ah.
Carol: If anyone asked I am off to the library to get a good look at Dwight's hussy new research assistant Felicia.
Mike: Aw, Carol, you're gonna spy on somebody outta jealousy¹⁸? It's completely infantile. Only pathetic fools do that.
Carol: So you wanna come?
Mike: Alright alright, go check out, check out the invitation, but let me be clear, if she is female, breathing, she is 2 of you.
Jason: Why do you need her like that, can't you see she is in pain?
Mike: Come on dad, she is jealous over Dwight?? Duke of Dork? Who's gonna be around him?
Jason: Felicia might?!! It's only natural, when people work closely together, they become attracted to each other. Right? Researchers and scholars, actors, directors.
Mike: Models and photographers?
Jason: Exactly! That, that's the hole in my fear, that's eh, the exception.
Kate: Ah, isn't this exciting?
Mike: Yeah, my first press party! Can I go home now?
Mike: Hehehe! Look at the lines in those pants, you think somebody might actually pay money for those babies?
Stranger: Tweed jacket? Can you believe he actually paid money for that?
Nigel: There you are, Kate, darling!
Mike: Darling?
Kate: It's the way people talk at these parties.
Kate: Nigel Done, this is Mike Siever.
(Smooches)
Mike: Hello, Darwin? hehehe.
Nigel: You are going to look fantastic in this Suit: What do you think?
Mike: Kate? Euh...
Kate: Mike? All the models are actually wearing suits like these.
Mike: Well, other models are jumping off the building, would you do that too?
Nigel: Come on angel, let me introduce you to the press. Sorry Mike no boyfriends allowed.
Nigel: (posing and mumbling) Baby... Hm. Baby.
Jason: Hey, I am ready with my square, I get my plumb¹⁹ line, I get my spirit level, I could use a little help getting the tree straight.
Maggie: I have to go scrub the toilets.
Ben: I have to get a credit for the science report.
Luke: I have to get the script off the whiteboard.
Chrissy: I gotta eat some spinach²⁰.
Jason: Ok then, that's all the more fun for me! Mike, oh, you look like you're ready to go beg some trees. Kate's flagging up ok?
Mike: Yeah, yeah, it was fine dad.
Jason: Are you alright? Something on your mind?
Mike: Oh, well actually yeah.
Jason: Oh! Hang on, that order is my last! Uh, I gotta get a broom, just look but don't touch. Don't start with me.
Mike: listen Carol, I was wrong.
Carol: Why you only do this when they're no witnesses?
Mike: No no I mean it. And you have every right in the world to be jealous of Dwight and his assistant Felicia.
Carol: I saw Dwight's assistant this afternoon. She's an older woman.
Mike: Aw, I am sorry.
Carol: No, no, I mean ooold, blue hair, black glasses, get sent movies with half the price.
Mike: Oh, obviously something could have happened if she was young and attractive. With all that heat, and the dust, and the glitter, and the glamour²¹ and the parties and steel drums pounding?
Carol: In the library?
Mike: Oh whether it's the library or Jamaica does not matter.
Carol: Wait a minute, you are talking about Kate?
Mike: Hey hey hey, You leave Kate and Nigel Done out of this.
Carol: Nigel Done? This is wonderful. I was always jealous about nothing, and you are jealous about Nigel-tiny-Kangaroo-dance- ur, Done!?
Francis: Let's go Siever. You are hustling²² some kids with chainsaws out there. If you don't hurry, we'll be driving convertibles²³.
Mike: Mr. Tedesco, I can't go.
Francis: Your cook stinks²⁴ in here, absolutely horrid²⁵! For a moment out there it sounded as if you said, "I can't go."
Mike: I can't.
Francis: Nnnno!
Mike: Mr. Tedesco, I have gotta go to Jamaica instead.
Francis: What??
Mike: Look, you're the one who told me to keep tabs on Kate.
Francis: You can't do this to me. I need this job till retirement²⁶. I have a wife and this pension is really the only thing we have going. I know it's no substitute for Children but we made a decision, I...
Mike: Mr. Tedesco, I did not quit. Look, I have gotta go to Jamaica.
Francis: Ohhhh. Well, if you must go, do me one favour:
Mike: What's that?
Francis: Take me with you!
Mike: Why am I in Jamaica? I 'm sure everything is fine.
Nigel: Okay give it to me baby. That's it, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Okay turn a little more towards me. I love it. I love it. Great. It's happening. Yes, it is.!
Mike: Kate!
Nigel: Beautiful, alright stand up now. That's it, that's it, okay. Beautiful, beautiful.
Yes, it's working. Let me see the back? Okay, I think what you need is …
Mike: Don't touch her. Don't you touch her!
Mike: Dah! You touched her!
Nigel: Okay, whose boyfriend are you?
Mike: Kate's!
Nigel: Last name, please!
Mike: Kate McDonald! Her! You are Kate? But that's okay, I was defending all women! Everywhere! And I am sure she's grateful…
Nigel: your Kate's off the shift.
Mike: No, no no, you can't do that!
Nigel: Already done!
Mike: Well, what if I apologize and let you hit me again?
Nigel: it's tempting²⁷ but no thanks. Kate's up the Boot Shacks²⁸ recovering.
Mike: Recovering?
Kate: Mike!
Mike: Kate!
Kate: What are you doing here?
Mike: What happened to your leg?
Kate: Oh, I got stung by a jellyfish! What happened to your eye?
Mike: I, I, forgot to put up my tray table in the upright position.
Kate: You won't believe what Nigel did. The minute I got on a plane he made a pass at me.
Mike: I knew it, I knew it, that scumbag just made a pass at you. Nothing happened right?
Kate: Nothing.
Mike: I knew it! I have got the most wonderful girl in the world and nothing could come between us!
Model: Nigel sent me over to check if you're all right.
Mike: Yeah, she's all right.
Model: Not her, golden gloves, you! We don't a stick to put on that but I'll send over for chilled blow-fish. Listen, don't feel bad, you're not the first jealous boyfriend who attacked Nigel. That's why he got his black belt.
Kate: You attacked Nigel? This whole time I thought you were handling things. You just did not trust me.
Mike: Kate, look I did it for you, I know guys like Nigel.
Kate: And you know me better. Mike, I am not the kinda girl who is gonna get involved with sly guys like Nigel Done!
Mike: But Kate.
Kate: Goodbye Mike.
Jason: Oh Christmas tree, o Christmas tree you are standing perpendicularly…Oh you are not one or two degree not most upright! O Christmas tree ? Oh Christmas tree, O Christmas tree we'll show them all night crazy!
All right time to decorate the tree everybody! Seems I am the only one with the Christmas spirit.
Maggie: Don't eat your fingers.
Luke: Everybody laughing, making decorations, now this is how I always imagined Christmas would be.
Chrissy: Ta-da!
Maggie: Oh, this is great! Nice plane, let's put it on the tree.
All: Ooooh.
Maggie: That's the perfect tree…..
Carol: Where have you been?
Mike: Well, I just spent my last dime²⁹ to fly over 600 miles to Jamaica, to get dumped by my girlfriend, get punched in the eye.
Carol: How lousy a travel agent.
Mike: Carol, you were right, I was jealous.
Carol: No, you were right, I was jealous.
Mike: Of what? I thought Felicia was probably good material.
Carol: It was Esther I saw. Felicia is 22. Kind of a good-looking Michelle Fiver.
Mike: Probably give a Christmas present early: Kate and I broke up!
Carol: Dwight and I did too!
Mike: Really? Heh! Love stinks.
Carol: Yeah, Pee you!
Mike: Yeah, family's all you got.
Carol: You bet. Who needs Dwight and Kate when we have each other?
Mike: Now you're talking, let's hang out together!
Carol: Yeah! We'll go to museums, to operas, whoo! We'll get a house together, and we'll get cats, lotsa cats!
Mike: Alright, let's stop and see a movie?
Carol: Okay, I'll get the paper.
Mike: Ok.
Kate: Why…
Mike: You know Kate, I was asking myself the same question, why I was an insensitive jealous fool?
Kate: Nooo, why can't I stay mad at you?
Mike: Uh, what a girl I've got!
Mike: From now on, I am gonna trust you at all times!
Carol: Ok, Mike, I got the Movie Guy.
Mike: Oh beat it, Cat Lady.
Carol: What!?? I thought you two were on the rocks.
Mike: Carol, does this look like we are on the rocks?
Kate: Oh, those are for you?? I found them outside, they were for Carol!
Carol: Give me those you Tree Stumb. Listen to this:
"Roses are red
Violets are blue
I fired Felicia,
Because I love you!"
Signed: Dwight Halliburton, your medieval prince.
Carol: Huh! Does not he just send you?
Mike: Yeah, right into the parcel of Brawn³⁰.
Jason: You guys wanna come in to the living room for a bit?
Mike: Oh the tree must be ready? Pretend that you like it.
Jason: Come on come. Cover your eyes!
Mike: Okay, cover your eyes.
Jason: Come on, Shhh! Don't wake the elves. Oops.
Chrissy: Can we look at our gifts?
Jason: No, no, nobody look, I want it to be a surprise, alright, everybody ready? Open Sesame.
Maggie: What's the matter you did not finish?
Ben: it's probably waiting for the blueprints³¹ to get back from the North Pole.
Jason: No, I am done, I just thought the rest of you might finish it up without me.
Luke: You mean we could decorate your tree any way we want?
Jason: Yes, look, its not my tree, it's our tree. I know it is hard to believe sometimes I just get carried away.
Maggie: Oh, Jason.
Ben: So can we put tinsel on in big handfuls?
Jason: If you wish?
Chrissy: I can put the candy kings in any crazy place we want?
Jason: If the spirit moves you?
Luke: And I put the heavy ornaments³² on top?
Jason: No, no, no.
Maggie: Ah, no!
Jason: Yeah, alright! But…
Maggie: Yeah! That's right.

1 lettuce   

n.莴苣；生菜

参考例句：

• Get some lettuce and tomatoes so I can make a salad.买些莴苣和西红柿，我好做色拉。
• The lettuce is crisp and cold.莴苣松脆爽口。

2 cracker   

n.（无甜味的）薄脆饼干

参考例句：

• Buy me some peanuts and cracker.给我买一些花生和饼干。
• There was a cracker beside every place at the table.桌上每个位置旁都有彩包爆竹。

3 jingle   

n.叮当声，韵律简单的诗句；v.使叮当作响，叮当响，押韵

参考例句：

• The key fell on the ground with a jingle.钥匙叮当落地。
• The knives and forks set up their regular jingle.刀叉发出常有的叮当声。

4 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

5 cleft   

n.裂缝；adj.裂开的

参考例句：

• I hid the message in a cleft in the rock.我把情报藏在石块的裂缝里。
• He was cleft from his brother during the war.在战争期间，他与他的哥哥分离。

6 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

7 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 appalled   

v.使惊骇，使充满恐惧( appall的过去式和过去分词)adj.惊骇的；丧胆的

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• They were appalled by the reports of the nuclear war. 他们被核战争的报道吓坏了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 pal   

n.朋友，伙伴，同志；vi.结为友

参考例句：

• He is a pal of mine.他是我的一个朋友。
• Listen,pal,I don't want you talking to my sister any more.听着，小子，我不让你再和我妹妹说话了。

10 untoward   

adj.不利的，不幸的，困难重重的

参考例句：

• Untoward circumstances prevent me from being with you on this festive occasion.有些不幸的事件使我不能在这欢庆的时刻和你在一起。
• I'll come if nothing untoward happens.我要是没有特殊情况一定来。

11 insanity   

n.疯狂，精神错乱；极端的愚蠢，荒唐

参考例句：

• In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.他伪称一时精神错乱，为自己辩解。
• He remained in his cell,and this visit only increased the belief in his insanity.他依旧还是住在他的地牢里，这次视察只是更加使人相信他是个疯子了。

12 rugged   

adj.高低不平的，粗糙的，粗壮的，强健的

参考例句：

• Football players must be rugged.足球运动员必须健壮。
• The Rocky Mountains have rugged mountains and roads.落基山脉有崇山峻岭和崎岖不平的道路。

13 crooked   

adj.弯曲的；不诚实的，狡猾的，不正当的

参考例句：

• He crooked a finger to tell us to go over to him.他弯了弯手指，示意我们到他那儿去。
• You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.在这些弯弯曲曲的乡间小路上你得慢慢开车。

14 exacting   

adj.苛求的，要求严格的

参考例句：

• He must remember the letters and symbols with exacting precision.他必须以严格的精度记住每个字母和符号。
• The public has been more exacting in its demands as time has passed.随着时间的推移，公众的要求更趋严格。

15 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

16 sloppy   

adj.邋遢的，不整洁的

参考例句：

• If you do such sloppy work again,I promise I'll fail you.要是下次作业你再马马虎虎，我话说在头里，可要给你打不及格了。
• Mother constantly picked at him for being sloppy.母亲不断地批评他懒散。

17 whack   

v.敲击，重打，瓜分；n.重击，重打，尝试，一份

参考例句：

• After years of dieting,Carol's metabolism was completely out of whack.经过数年的节食，卡罗尔的新陈代谢完全紊乱了。
• He gave me a whack on the back to wake me up.他为把我弄醒，在我背上猛拍一下。

18 jealousy   

n.妒忌，嫉妒，猜忌

参考例句：

• Some women have a disposition to jealousy.有些女人生性爱妒忌。
• I can't support your jealousy any longer.我再也无法忍受你的嫉妒了。

19 plumb   

adv.精确地，完全地；v.了解意义，测水深

参考例句：

• No one could plumb the mystery.没人能看破这秘密。
• It was unprofitable to plumb that sort of thing.这种事弄个水落石出没有什么好处。

20 spinach   

n.菠菜

参考例句：

• Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
• You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。

21 glamour   

n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住

参考例句：

• Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
• The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

22 hustling   

催促（hustle的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Our quartet was out hustling and we knew we stood good to take in a lot of change before the night was over. 我们的四重奏是明显地卖座的， 而且我们知道在天亮以前，我们有把握收入一大笔钱。
• Men in motors were hustling to pass one another in the hustling traffic. 开汽车的人在繁忙的交通中急急忙忙地互相超车。

23 convertibles   

n.可改变性，可变化性( convertible的名词复数 )；活动顶篷式汽车

参考例句：

• In Washington, the regulators did make a push to ban the manufacturing of convertibles. 华盛顿的各个管制机构曾经推动禁止敝篷车的制造。 来自辞典例句
• That's why they drive around in half-million-dollar convertibles? 因此他们就不惜花几千万美元来这里居住？ 来自电影对白

24 stinks   

v.散发出恶臭( stink的第三人称单数 )；发臭味；名声臭；糟透

参考例句：

• The whole scheme stinks to high heaven—don't get involved in it. 整件事十分卑鄙龌龊——可别陷了进去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The soup stinks of garlic. 这汤有大蒜气味。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

25 horrid   

adj.可怕的；令人惊恐的；恐怖的；极讨厌的

参考例句：

• I'm not going to the horrid dinner party.我不打算去参加这次讨厌的宴会。
• The medicine is horrid and she couldn't get it down.这种药很难吃，她咽不下去。

26 retirement   

n.退休，退职

参考例句：

• She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
• I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。

27 tempting   

a.诱人的, 吸引人的

参考例句：

• It is tempting to idealize the past. 人都爱把过去的日子说得那么美好。
• It was a tempting offer. 这是个诱人的提议。

28 shacks   

n.窝棚，简陋的小屋( shack的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They live in shacks which they made out of wood. 他们住在用木头搭成的简陋的小屋里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Most people in Port au-Prince live in tin shacks. 太子港的大多数居民居住在铁皮棚里。 来自互联网

29 dime   

n.（指美国、加拿大的钱币）一角

参考例句：

• A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
• The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。

30 brawn   

n.体力

参考例句：

• In this job you need both brains and brawn.做这份工作既劳神又费力。
• They relied on brains rather than brawn.他们靠的是脑力，而不是体力。

31 blueprints   

n.蓝图，设计图( blueprint的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Have the blueprints been worked out? 蓝图搞好了吗？ 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• BluePrints description of a distributed component of the system design and best practice guidelines. BluePrints描述了一个分布式组件体系的最佳练习和设计指导方针。 来自互联网

32 ornaments   

n.装饰( ornament的名词复数 )；点缀；装饰品；首饰v.装饰，点缀，美化( ornament的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The shelves were chock-a-block with ornaments. 架子上堆满了装饰品。
• Playing the piano sets up resonance in those glass ornaments. 一弹钢琴那些玻璃饰物就会产生共振。 来自《简明英汉词典》