Literature

Becoming - Words and Extracts

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Posted by edith on September 5, 2020

Preface - 1

  • station wagon: 旅行车

  • pediatrician: 儿科医生 \ ˌpē-dē-ə-ˈtri-shən \

  • pigtail: 马尾辫

  • boss somebody around

  • know exactly what I was shooting for: 知道我到底要的是什么

Preface - 2

  • a platform like nothing: 一个无与伦比的平台

  • limo: limousine

  • It's been quite a ride. 一路上很长

  • gemstone: 宝石矿石

  • crack somebody up: 让我开怀大笑

  • root around: 翻找

  • detractor: 恶意批评者/黑子

  • keepsake: 纪念品

  • mantel: 壁炉架

  • swampy parts of the Internet: 互联网的阴暗角落

  • sitting: 现任的 / a sitting congressman

Preface - 3

  • bowling alley: 保龄球场 \ ˈbō-liŋ \

  • florist: 花店

  • selfie stick: 自拍杆

  • awestruck: 惊叹的

Preface - 4

  • temperament: 脾气

  • We're still settling in. 我们还在适应新房子的阶段。

  • memento 备忘录

  • The chill of winter had finally lifted. 寒冷的冬天终于要过去了。

  • crocuses 番红花 \ ˈkrō-kəs \

  • jarring 不和谐的

  • push up through the beds 从花床冒出芽

Page 1

  • plink: 发声

  • learning their scales：学习音阶

  • prim: clean

  • chew out:reprimand

Page 2

  • boosting the volume

  • blot it all out: 盖过其他声音

  • tail end: the final part

  • late-season

  • swoon: RAPTURE

  • late-season swoon: falter late in the season

  • sweet swing - 应该是棒球用语

  • None of this really registered with me. 没有一件事情记在我心里。

Page 5

  • within five-block radius 五个街区范围内

  • We were not quite regulars. 我们不是常客。

  • not quite two years apart in age 相差不到两岁

  • implacability

  • allegiance \ ə-ˈlē-jən(t)s \ the fidelity owed by a subject or citizen to a sovereign or government

  • pudge-faced

  • no-nonsense: SERIOUS

  • bruiser: 好斗分子

  • bow tie: 领结

  • coop: 共有公寓

Page 7

  1. ruled over by competing sensibilities: 被两种不相上下的智慧所管理着

  2. land a jab: 出直拳

  3. crank Jackson 5 records on the stereo: 用曲柄转动，猜测是播放唱片机的意思

  4. emphatically: \ im-ˈfa-tik , em- \ uttered with or marked by emphasis

  5. flick the light switch: 来回拨动电灯开关

  6. ` pipe down`: stop talking or making noise

  7. ` raucous`: \ ˈrȯ-kəs \ boisterously disorderly

  8. can't begin to do something: 无从做起的事

  9. grouchiness: 抱怨

  10. wound up: 焦躁 pissed off

  11. a respectable if not well-paying profession: 一份受人尊重但是收入不高的职业

  12. immaculate: \ i-ˈma-kyə-lət \ spotlessly clean

  13. numbed formality: 沉默之中彬彬有礼

Page 8

  1. a pair of wing tips, suspenders, and a thin-brimmed fedora

    • wing tips: 翼波状盖饰男皮鞋
      wing_tips
    • suspenders: 背带
    • fedora: 浅顶软呢帽

  2. Highball and Schlitz: 嗨棒（威士忌和苏打水混合的饮品） / 施利茨（美国啤酒品牌）

  3. Spill whatever secrets he carried

  4. He was in the first grade. 他上一年级。

  5. upright: 立式钢琴

  6. unscathed: not injured

  7. osmosis: \ äz-ˈmō-səs , äs- \ 潜移默化

  8. exacting: 严苛的

  9. gift girl: 天才女孩 / star student: 模范生

  10. sit straight spined: 坐得笔挺

  11. upholstered armchair: 软垫扶手椅

  12. tap out the beat: 打节拍 / keep time with her head 和着音乐节拍甩脑袋 (Love in the time of cholera)

  13. her head cocked 伸直了脑袋

  14. There was a scariness to her. 看到她就发怵。

  15. piano bench: 钢琴凳

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  1. an expanse of black and white: 黑与白的一片

  2. achoring point: 锚点

  3. (hand) travel (on the piano keys) 游动

  4. treble: 高音 / base clefs: 低音谱号 / thorough bass 通奏低音

  5. fall into place 就位 / in its natural place (Love in the time of cholera)

  6. (bits of the ivory) had broken off 象牙色有点剥落了

  7. a shoestiring musical opera program: 小成本音乐剧项目

  8. carefree: 无忧无虑

  9. a scraggly salt-and-pepper beard: 杂乱花白的胡子 \ ˈskra-g(ə-)lē \

  10. re-christen: 重新起外号 / refer to somebody as…

  11. wire the house top to bottom for music: 彻头彻尾

  12. cabinet system

Page 10

  1. scavenge to clean away dirt \ ˈska-vənj , -vinj \

  2. yard sales: 车库售卖

  3. rickety: SHAKY

  4. real-to-real: 卷盘式磁带

  5. conspiracy theorist: 阴谋论者

  6. Jim Crow laws: 吉姆克劳法 （有色人种隔离）

  7. take pains to do something: try very hard to do something

  8. an antidote to his worries: 解药

  9. have a payday for his work: 到了发薪日

  10. crowd something out: push or force something out e.g: crowd out worries 驱赶掉烦心事

  11. blow out birthday candles: 吹灭生日蜡烛

  12. play a record at full blast: as loud as possible

  13. immersing adventure: 沉浸之旅

  14. Southside was as big as heaven: Southside就是我的天堂

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  1. sight-reading: 视奏

  2. I was driven: 我动力满满

  3. I got a buzzy sort of satisfaction from it: 从中我能汲取一种让人振奋的满足感

  4. make it through a song without messing up: 丝毫不差地完成整首曲子

  5. One's lips unpurse themselves: 莞尔一笑

  6. her tapping finger would pick up a little bounce: 她打节拍的手指会跳那么一下

  7. fiddle around: to spend time in an activity that does not have a real purpose, e.g: fiddle around with playing them 瞎胡乱演奏

  8. She exploded, slapping down my achievement: explode - 发火, slap down - 言辞禁止

  9. chasten: 惩罚

Page 12

  1. reason things out to some logical if exhausting end: if - even though 即便磨破嘴皮也要说出个道理好

  2. veered toward dictatorial: veer - change direction, dictatorial - 专横的

  3. attest: to affirm to be true

  4. my freewheeling appraoch: freewheeling - not bound by normal rules

  5. a stream of: a flock of / a multitude of / a shower of

  6. give her little credit: 丝毫不感谢

  7. seethe: BOIL, to suffer violent internal excitement

  8. a by-the-book: 照着书按部就班做的人

  9. woe: used to express grief, regret or distress

  10. bolster: to give boost to

  11. be sassy with somebody: IMPUDENT

  12. live with Robbie on and off: INTERMITTENTLY

  13. every arcane rule the woman laid down: arcane - OBSCURE, lay down - 制定[规则]

  14. feistiness: feisty - showing a lively aggressiveness

Page 13

  1. a fancy recital: 私人演奏会

  2. perform for a live audience: 为现场观众演奏

  3. Chicago Loop: 芝加哥卢普区

  4. (crowded sidewalks) felt otherwordly to me: 拥挤的人行道对我来说仿佛来自另一个世界

  5. He was devoted to his car: 他对他的车简直是二十四孝

  6. in the capsule of my dad’s Buick: 在我爸爸别克车的车厢里

  7. the Deuce and a Quarter: 别克225车型的外号，二块两毛五

  8. be religous to the maitenance schedule: 恪守保养周期

  9. flop around in the rear: to turn around [awkwardly]

  10. drape out bodies over the front seat: 将身体挂在前座上

  11. jut my chin forward: 把下巴伸向前

Page 14

  1. painful slide toward immobility: 将失去行动能力的趋势

  2. odds: 几率

  3. unsheathing of neurons: unsheathe - 将…拔出剑鞘 / sheath：剑鞘 / neurons \ ˈnü-ˌrän \

  4. sclerosis: 组织的病例硬化 \ sklə-ˈrō-səs \

  5. sideways relief: 一种变相的慰藉

  6. dwell upon: 老是想着

  7. head-spinning: 伤脑筋的 / head-spinning charts

  8. guru: EXPERT

  9. faulty gene: 基因缺陷

  10. his left foot unable to catch up to his right: 他的左脚跟不上右脚

Page 15

  1. watch the bags: 看包

  2. sneak in a nap: 打个瞌睡

  3. patent leather shoes: 漆皮鞋

  4. experience the first cold sweat in my life: 经历人生第一次因为害怕而冒冷汗

  5. knock out cold: to be or be rendered unconscious, e.g: I had a shot at a championship boxing title, but I was knocked out cold in the semi-finals. (have a shot: to try something)

  6. practice my song to death: 拼命练习曲子

  7. tame his nerves around performing: 将表演方面的神经练得大条了

  8. white-capped swells: 白色的浪

  9. steel-gray chairs: 钢铁灰的椅子

  10. bustle about: move or cause to move energetically or busily; “The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance”

  11. floral-print dress: 印花裙

  12. belle: 风铃草

  13. shush the room into silence: shush - TO URGE TO BE QUIET

  14. baby grand: 小三角钢琴

  15. snippy: SHORT-TEMPERED

  16. internalize her devotion to vigor: internalize - 认同了她的… As much as I found Robbie to be snippy and inflexible, I’d also internalized her devotion to rigor.

Page 16

  1. in the split second: 刹那

  2. squat: low to ground, “the squat little music room”

  3. her less-than-perfect upright, with its honky-tonk patchwork of yellowed keys: 她那台不那么完美立式钢琴，布满了那些乡村音乐式的发黄的按键

  4. I stared hard at the high gloss of the piano keys: 我直瞪瞪地看着亮锃锃的钢琴按键

  5. telegraph my fear: COMMUNICATE

  6. with a tight throat and chugging heart: 喉咙发紧，心脏突突跳；chugging - 发出轧轧声

  7. search for the safe harbor of of my mother’s face

  8. levitate in my direction: rise or float in as if in the air especially in seemingly defiance of gravitation \ ˈle-və-ˌtāt \

  9. brawl: quarrel noisily

  10. comeuppance: a deserved rebuke, DESERTS

Page 17

  1. diminutive: small-size 小个的 \ də-ˈmi-nyə-tiv \

  2. ancient to me: 在我看来年纪挺大了

  3. drawn to the kids: 对孩子亲近

  4. plow through the books: plow作为名词是犁的意思，这里是艰难地完成的意思

  5. courtesy of: 经由…支付/提供（使用）；plough through the books courtesy of my mom’s library card

  6. hue: 颜色

  7. quiz somebody: 对某人考试

  8. manila cards: manila paper，一种成本便宜的纸张

Page 18

  1. to sit down at whatever point they got stumped: stump - \ ˈstəmp \ to walk heavily or clumsily 难住

  2. a spelling bee: 拼字比赛

  3. a subtle sorting going on and a knowing slump of humiliation in the kids who didn't make it past "Red": 一种微妙的筛选正在进行，坚持不到“红”卡的小朋友会因为羞耻而感到失落

  4. have a head start: 起步优势

  5. compound your confidence: 形成自信 compound - to form by combining parts

  6. The advantage aggregated quickly: \ ˈa-gri-gət \ clustered in a dense mass or head

  7. rattle off: 轻易地说出

  8. my brain glitched madly: 我的脑子疯狂短路了

  9. I felt a weird airiness in my knees, as if they might buckle: 我感到膝盖那有股奇怪的空虚感，就好像发软了

  10. the word hit me in its full and easy perfection: 那个词语马上完整而轻易地映现在我的脑海里

  11. I didn’t want to be dismissed as in capable of achieving: dismiss - remove from position or service 我不希望自己被排除在有能力成功之列

  12. peg: peg [钉子] to place in a definite category; pegged me as someone who couldn’t read, 将我作为不识字的人之列

Page 19

  1. without a hitch: hitch - 故障/困难

  2. do-over 重来一次; ask for a do-over

  3. let my nerves short-circuit my brain: 允许自己因为精神紧张造成大脑短路

  4. have the courage to advocate for herself: 为自己声张

  5. claim my trophy: 索取我的奖励; trophy - 奖杯

  6. a world of high drama and intrigue: high drama - a very exciting and dramatic event or events

  7. park myself in the common area outside my room and Craig’: park - to settle, place for a considerable time

  8. insert G.I. Joe action figures into the plotlines: 将G.I. Joe (特种部队)的活动人偶也加入到剧情里

  9. vinyl suitcase: vinyl - 乙烯 \ ˈvī-nᵊl \

Page 20

  1. horror-show scenario: 恐怖片场景

  2. hack off the hair: 绞掉头发; hack off - to cut (something) off in a rough and violent way

  3. faces crosshatched with Magic Marker: 用魔术笔打叉后的脸

  4. kid dynamics could be messy: 小朋友的旺盛精力可能是毁灭性的

  5. beneath them lay a tyranny (\ ˈtir-ə-nē \) of shifting hierarchies and alliances: 在他们表面下，潜伏着一种压迫性的力量，能够颠覆阶级、联盟结党; tyranny - oppressive power

  6. sink into doing something: 将我的精力集中在…

  7. deity: 神

  8. set off for a gig: 出发赶往一场现场演奏会

  9. pickup: 轻型货车

  10. yapping dogs: 乱吠的狗, barking dogs

  11. racially mixed: 各色人种，应有尽有

  12. redhead: 红头发的人

  13. motley mix of last names: 各种杂七杂八的姓; motely -

  14. Craig and I were raised squarely in the crosscurrents of that flux: Craig和我正好在这股浪潮变化的交汇之际被抚养成人; squarely - exactly, crosscurrent - a conflicting tendency, flux - FLOOD

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