1、美国俚语手册2AMERICAN SLANG COLLECTION ace Hes an ace reporter. MEANING very good action Do you know where the action is in this town? MEANING excitement airhead My sisters boyfriend is a real airhead. MEANING stupid person all wet Your ideas about politics are all wet. MEANING completely wrong all-nighte
2、r I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter. MEANING after studying all night. ammo The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo. MEANING ammunition antifreeze I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this. MEANING liquor armpit This town is really an armpit. MEA
3、NING undesirable place awesome What an awesome sunset. MEANING great bad Wow, that was really a bad movie. MEANING intense barf He barfed all over the seat of the airplane. MEANING vomitted bashed The boat was bashed beyond recognition. MEANING crushed beat After working all day I am really beat. ME
4、ANING exhausted beemer He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in. MEANING B.M.W. car bench He was benched during the basketball playoffs. MEANING taken out of the game bent Its OK. Dont get so bent. MEANING angry bent out of shape Dont get so bent out of shape. MEANING become upset big gun The
5、 president brought two big guns to the meeting. MEANING powerful people big mouth Shut up! You really have a big mouth. MEANING talk too much big stink The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station. MEANING big issue blade He carried a ten inch blade with him. MEANING knife blimp
6、 I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel. MEANING very fat person blow Im going to blow out of here now. MEANING leave blow He blew all his money gambling. MEANING lost blow a fuse Hey, dont blow a fuse. MEANING lose your temper. blow ones cool Calm down. Dont blow your cool.
7、MEANING become angry blown away I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars. MEANING greatly impressed bomb The movie was a bomb. MEANING bad bombed The driver of the car was bombed. MEANING intoxicated bonkers I think I am going bonkers. MEANING crazy boo-boo If you make another boo-boo l
8、ike that, you wont have a job. MEANING mistake booze I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party. MEANING alcohol bread I need some bread to pay for my car. MEANING money break A lucky break helped him get the job. MEANING opportunity break it up Break it up, or I will call the police. MEA
9、NING stop bring-down The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down. MEANING depressing buck Do you have a buck I can borrow? MEANING dollar bummed I was really bummed after I heard the news. MEANING depressed bummer My trip to New York was a bummer. MEANING bad experience bust The whole idea was a
10、 bust. MEANING failure buy it If you dont slow down, youre going to buy it in a car accident. MEANING die call The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come. MEANING prediction can Do you know where the can is? MEANING bathroom carb My motorcycles carb is out of adjustment. MEANING
11、 carburetor catch some rays Im going to lie on the beach and catch some rays. MEANING get some sunshine. catch some Zs I need to catch some Zs before I go on my trip. MEANING get some sleep cheesy That is really a cheesy looking outfit. MEANING cheap chicken Dont be a chicken. MEANING coward chintzy
12、 That really was a chintzy present you got him. MEANING cheap chow down I need to find a place to chow down. MEANING eat a lot clip Watch out or they will clip you at that bar. MEANING cheat clunker I cant go on a date in that clunker. MEANING old car cold fish My date for the dance was a cold fish.
13、 MEANING dull collar I knew they would collar the robber sooner or later. MEANING arrest come up for air He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion. MEANING take a break con Dont try to con me. MEANING deceive cool This is a really cool place to work. MEANING good cool down Things shou
14、ld cool down in a day or two. MEANING calm down cop How did you get the road sign? I copped it. MEANING robbed cop The cop showed me his badge. MEANING policeman couch potato He is a couch potato. MEANING lazy person crack open a bottle Lets crack open a bottle for his birthday. MEANING open cram I
15、need more time to cram for the test. MEANING study hard cream Our team creamed them badly. MEANING beat croak I feel like I am going to croak. MEANING die cruise The skier was cruising down the hill MEANING going very fast cuffs He put the cuffs on the killer. MEANING handcuffs cushy He has a really
16、 cushy job. MEANING easy cut Could you cut my whiskey with a little water? MEANING dilute cut out It is late. I have to cut out. MEANING leave damage Lets get the bill and find out the damage. MEANING cost dead This disco is really dead tonight. MEANING quiet deck He was decked in the fight. MEANING
17、 knocked down deep pockets Her boyfriend has deep pockets. MEANING is a good source of money dicey Since the weather is a little dicey, I wont go today. MEANING chancy dirty I hear that its a dirty movie. MEANING an obscene ditch Ill ditch my younger brother with my grandmother. MEANING leave do a s
18、now job on Dont try to do a snow job on me. MEANING deceive dope He is such a dope. MEANING stupid person dope There are a lot of dope dealers around here. MEANING drug dork He is such a dork. MEANING strange person dough I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping. MEANING money down Lets
19、go to a bar and down a few beers. MEANING drink quickly drag Doing homework on the weekend is a drag. MEANING boring dynamite This drink is really dynamite. MEANING powerful; great earful My grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood. MEANING a lot of gossip easy mark The Japanese are an e
20、asy mark because they usually carry cash. MEANING likely victims eat The problem is really eating away at me. MEANING bothering excellent Thats excellent man. MEANING fine face-off The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off. MEANING confrontation far-out This music is really far-out. MEANING gre
21、at fix The addict needs another fix. MEANING dose of drugs flaky He is too flaky to do the work. MEANING unreliable flashback At the wedding he had a flashback of his old girlfriend. MEANING remembered flick I havent seen a flick in a long time. MEANING movie flip out He flipped out when he heard th
22、at his mother had been killed. MEANING lost control flip side What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape? MEANING other side fox His older sister is a fox. MEANING very attractive foxy She is a foxy lady. MEANING sexy freebie The pillow was a freebie MEANING free get into something
23、I got into gardening in high school. MEANING became seriously interested in get it I listened to the joke twice, but I still dont get it. MEANING understand get with it If you dont get with it, we will never finish this work. MEANING hurry up gig I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00. ME
24、ANING job glitch This computer program has a glitch. MEANING defect glitzy This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in. MEANING fashionable go Let me have a go at solving the problem. MEANING try go bananas I am going to go bananas if I dont have a vacation soon. MEANING go crazy go down What is
25、going down? MEANING happening goof I am really a goof at times. MEANING fool goof up I really goofed up when I painted my room green. MEANING made a serious mistake goofy You are always acting goofy these days. MEANING silly gourd Use your gourd to figure out what is happening. MEANING head grand Hi
26、s salary is twenty grand. MEANING thousand dollars grass Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory. MEANING marijuana gravy This job is pure gravy. MEANING easy money groovy This music is groovy. MEANING pleasant gross Picking your nose is really a gross habit. MEANING disgusting gross-out The p
27、arty was a gross-out. MEANING digusting time grub Where is the best place to get some grub around here? MEANING food grubby Those clothes are too grubby to wear to the party. MEANING unclean and untidy grungy That is a really grungy jacket. MEANING dirty gut He got shot in the gut. MEANING stomach. gut The gut
