万花筒 2011-01-05&01-07 美国2010语录大盘点

 Plenty of politicians, celebrities¹ and other newsmakers follow those directions quite well this past year. Or they said something worth repeating, just for the fun of it.

 

For ultimately, the buck² stops with me. 

 

Right, it's too damn hard.

 

It's a lie, you know that's a lie. I never said it.

 

I'm not a witch, I'm nothing you’ve heard, I'm you.

 

I am not now, nor have I ever been. Anything but, a clean-shaven capitalist.

 

Carl. 

 

You send another goon to my daughter's house and I will take you out, buddy³. 

 

You gonna take me out? 

 

Yeah. 

 

How are you gonna do that? 

 

Watch.

 

We will keep clinging to our Constitution and our guns and you can keep the change.

 

Yes, we can, remember that was our slogan? Their slogan is "No, we can’t". No, no, no.

 

I'm exhausted⁴. I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle⁵ of change that I voted for.

 

How is that hope and change stuff working out for you?

 

Yes, we can, but it's not, it's not gonna happen overnight.

 

Yes we vote it, yes we vote it, yes we vote it.

 

Hello there, my name is C.Brian and I may soon be available for children's party so..

 

There is no one who wants this thing over more over than I do, you know I’d like my life back.

 

The No.1 goal is to shut in the well and kill it and stop it at the source.

 

We can’t cap a spill that large, fifteen times the size of the and within 120 days, whatever it is, expect 75% of it to be gone.

 

We gonna hold their feet to the fire to make sure that they are there until all the oil is gone out of the Gulf⁶ of Mexico.

 

Uh,Mr Hayward, you are not taking responsibility.You're kicking the can down the road and acting⁷ as if you have nothing to do with this company.

 

I think you're stalling, I think you're insulting our intelligence.

 

I'm very very sorry for this accident occurred.

 

I'm deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.

 

What I said was stupid, stupid, stupid, it was a metaphor⁸, I was speaking metaphorically⁹, obviously, I'm not blacker than President Obama.

 

Thirty days in jail on the first DUI case,consecutive. I'm not taking this as a joke, it's my life and it's my career and it something I’ve worked for my entire life.

 

I didn't, you know I'm not a hater, I didn't hate Kanye West.

 

We were, we like sort of ducks that is very calm on the surface but little feet under water.

 

Today is the day that the worst abuses of insurance companies come to an end.

 

Test my jaw¹⁰, I gonna have you arrested. You know I don't want some random¹¹ stranger looking at my naked body. 

 

Our burning of the Quran is to call the attention that something is wrong.

 

Now I was also to go and give a commencement speech in Arizona. But with my accent, I was worry they gonna deport¹² me back to Austria.

 

People get married in Lowa, but we can't get married in California. So I feel like a second class.

 

This was a car that was great for thirty-four thousand miles because last two second were really bad.

 

No, I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I did last night.

 

I certainly hope that my stock power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-Span 1.

1 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

2 buck   

n.雄鹿，雄兔；v.马离地跳跃

参考例句：

• The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
• The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。

3 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

4 exhausted   

adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的

参考例句：

• It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
• Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。

5 mantle   

n.斗篷，覆罩之物，罩子；v.罩住，覆盖，脸红

参考例句：

• The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green.大地披上了苍翠欲滴的绿色斗篷。
• The mountain was covered with a mantle of snow.山上覆盖着一层雪。

6 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

7 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

8 metaphor   

n.隐喻，暗喻

参考例句：

• Using metaphor,we say that computers have senses and a memory.打个比方，我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力。
• In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。

9 metaphorically   

adv. 用比喻地

参考例句：

• It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically. 对一个词的理解是按字面意思还是隐喻的意思要视乎上下文和习惯。
• Metaphorically it implied a sort of admirable energy. 从比喻来讲，它含有一种令人赞许的能量的意思。

10 jaw   

n.颚，颌，说教，流言蜚语；v.喋喋不休，教训

参考例句：

• He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
• A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。

11 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

12 deport   

vt.驱逐出境

参考例句：

• We deport aliens who slip across our borders.我们把偷渡入境的外国人驱逐出境。
• More than 240 England football fans are being deported from Italy following riots last night.昨晚的骚乱发生后有240多名英格兰球迷被驱逐出意大利。