[看電影學英文]Joy翻轉幸福

Joy

女強人，就是一個女強人的故事，

配著一堆豬隊友，依然能憑藉著本事度過重重難關，

珍妮佛勞倫斯不愧影后，演技超群。

電影裡出現的單字＆片語＆俚語：

Slangs/Vocabulary/Phrase	Translation/Meaning	Time	Sentences in the Movie
deed	契約	00:01:22	You can imagine changing your life...By fighting for the deed to the land, Clarinda.
rejoice	欣喜	00:03:49	Joy was one of those people who rejoiced in making things.
mold	發霉	00:06:46	It's starting to mold for Pete's sake.
invoice	發票	00:12:54	He doesn't send an invoice,and he hasn't even sent the metal. But why doesn't he just send the invoice? Send the invoice, I'll pay him.
carriage	車	00:15:19	My carriage awaits.
cufflink	袖扣	00:15:27	Where are my cufflinks?
cicada	蟬	00:16:28	"The cicada is a large flying insect "two to three inches long. It makes a sound of up to 120 decibels, louder than some telephones. It lives half of its life above ground evading predators."
ex-con	(=ex-convict)前科犯	00:17:51	No, Bartholomew's the ex-con in the story.
clog	堵塞	00:19:39	You know how my mom’s always clogging the sink with her hair from the brushes?
bash	重擊	00:19:48	Yes, and I had to bash open a hole in the floor.
valedictorian	畢業生代表	00:22:28	I was valedictorian in high school.
teakwood	柚木	00:28:00	Yeah, but not red wine, because it might stain the teakwood deck. It's very precious.
fiscally	財政上地	00:41:11	It's not only risky, but it's fiscally irresponsible...
royalty	專利權使用費;權利金	00:44:21	We're supposed to pay him a royalty on the patent as a protection, right?
endeavor	追求的努力	00:45:34	As Tony and you should respect what we're proposing as the lawyer for this whole business endeavor.
with all due respect	以對你該有的尊敬;無意冒犯你	00:47:17	But with all due respect, that actually wasn't my fault.
guff	(俚)胡言	00:52:48	And third of all, don't take any guff from anybody.
matriarch	女領導人	00:54:01	To be the successful matriarch that you were born to be.
Amish	安曼派教徒(主要位於賓夕凡尼亞州，以嚴格教義和樸素生活方式著稱)	00:54:51	But I don't understand what we're doing in amish country. They don't even have electricity out here.
deflect	使偏斜	00:59:04	I spend most of my day deflecting incoming shots from people like yourself.
absorbent	有吸收力的	01:00:17	It's also ten times more absorbent than any other mop on the market.
wring	擰	01:08:49	This is the new self-wringing mop.
finicky	過分講究的	01:03:07	Performers can be finicky creatures.
cynical	悲觀的；冷潮的	01:03:17	I see it as a privilege that we have to go into people's homes. And I despise anybody who's cynical about that.
FTC	Federal Trade Commission 美國聯邦貿易委員會	01:05:39	Look at the count. I guarantee we're gonna go over twenty. Those are ftc standards. Those are legal.
queue	行列;長隊	01:05:45	- Lines are busy?Is the queue full? - Queue's full.
apropos	《源自法語to the purpose》適當的	01:09:55	- These are my special occasion gowns - Uh… "Special." How apropos.
indemnify	補(賠)償	01:11:57	Well, it's your business. It's your debt.And we indemnify up to a third, if you read your contract. To be honest, that's even gonna be hard to get.
hemorrhage	出血	01:12:27	Joy, you have to let Trudy report this loss in bankruptcy...Because otherwise she's gonna hemorrhage even more money.
vogue	流行時尚的	01:14:33	Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Beautiful. Very vogue, very classic.
blouse	工作襯衫	01:15:39	I wear a blouse and I wear pants. That's who I am. I want to go on as me.
adversary	敵手；對手	01:21:37	Let's promise each other that if, one day, and that day may come...that we become adversaries in commerce, that we remain friends.
breach	違約;侵權	01:36:45	You could be sued for misrepresentation and failure to deliver your product. That's breach.
acumen	洞察力;經商能力	01:38:07	It was wrong of us to think that you'd be an instant business person overnight. Of course, this is not who you are. It takes a kind of toughness, a certain acumen...that you simply don't have.
notary	公證人	01:38:33	The notary's right outside. Let me get her.
in despair	絕望	01:45:00	Maybe people think you came to Dallas in despair to take your own life...Because you were in such deep financial trouble suddenly from your little venture.
embezzlement	盜用;侵吞;侵佔	01:46:37	We have a case of fraud and embezzlement.
steadfast	堅定的	01:51:56	Her ex-husband and her best friend would remain her steadfast advisers.

大家好，我是Y.C Bradley，可以叫我Brad。

我只是個業餘的電影、英文學習愛好者，這文章系列是希望讀者們能有更好的觀影體驗，同時增進英文能力。

此表格收錄的單字、片語和俚語，是我主觀所選，以電影中的意思為主翻譯，並以出現的先後順序排列。

怎麼利用此表格，讀者們可以自由發揮。建議在觀影之前，先瀏覽過單字，並在觀影時，將電影的「英文」字幕開啟。之後如果重看，更可以試著關掉字幕。一部電影可能會有很多不懂單字，不必要求全部學會；若是能加深自己對某些單字或片語的印象，和畫面聲音有連結，進而永遠記住，那才是更重要的。

學語言要開心學，最有效果。語言最精髓的是「用法」，翻譯永遠只是片面的「輔助」。當我聽到學過的單字出現在電影裡，心情是悸動的，遠遠勝過從單字本或課本學習英文。

祝，觀影愉快。