- Does she feel anger, rage, ecstasy? What she feels, is so far below the surface.
- ecstasy/ˈek.stə.si/: a state of extreme happiness, especially when feeling pleasure. 欣喜若狂
eg.
-My father was in ecstasy when I won my scholarship.
-sexual ecstasy
- Do you use housework to disengage emotional?
- disengage /ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈɡeɪdʒ/:to stop being involved in something, or to stop someone being involved in something.
eg.
-They recognized that the country would revive only if it thoroughly disengaged from the chaos of the old regime.
-Both children, disengaging themselves from their game, came to her side.
- The truth hit her like a thunderbolt.
- hit sb like a thunderbolt 被雷劈了
- I talked to Julie and she suggested rid-eye steaks.
- rid-eye 肉眼-牛里脊
I'm sorry about your house. How you holding up? 你怎么挺(撑)过来的？
(这是口语常用语,省略了虚词(BE动词), 完整的是How are you holding up? 还有一句很常见的是：How you doing?)I don't want to intrude, three is a crowd.
- intrude /ɪnˈtruːd/： 入侵，打扰
eg.
-Do you feel anxious when unforeseen incidents intrude on your day?
- It's not like that, the more the merrier.
- the more the merrier: 越多越好;多多益善
eg.
-With skiing, it's definitely the more the merrier.
-Yes, by all means bring your inlaws with you to the party tonight-the more the merrier.
- She is not a vegetarian or something? Oh. no, she's definitely a carnivore.
- vegetarian: 素食主义者，去国外的餐厅菜单上会写一个给素食主义提供的专栏。
- carnivore: 食肉动物，剧里说的是 喜欢吃肉的人；食肉动物(诙谐说法)
eg. This is a vegetarian dish that carnivores love.
- Young boys can be so willful.
- willful: 任性的；故意的
eg.
-He displayed a willful ignorance of their plight(困难).
-The willful boy ran away wildly along the winding(弯曲的) path.
- They're just getting some perverse joy out of testing me.
- perverse /pəˈvɜːs/: strange and not what most people would expect or enjoy. 执拗的;任性的;我就要反着干
(per 自始至终 + vers 转 + e → 自始至终〔反着〕转 → 性情乖张的)
eg.
-Sometimes I think he refuses to cooperate just to be perverse.
-She takes perverse pleasure in shocking people.
- her mind has just turned to mush.
- mush：软稠的一摊;糊状物;玉米粥
- sb's mind trun to mush: 变糊涂了，脑子一团浆糊
- Can I be frank？ 我能实话实说吗？
- be frank= be honest= frankly speaking
- The truth is elusive because they know where to hide?
- elusive /iˈluːsɪv/：难找的;难以解释的;难以达到的
（e 出 + lus 玩；戏剧 + ive …的 → 把人玩出局的 → 难懂的）
eg.
-The elusiveness of her character.
-But why does creativity remain so elusive?
不过，为什么创意还是这么可遇不可求？
