[看電影學英文]San Andreas加州大地震

San Andreas

完完全全、徹徹底底的美國英雄式噱頭片，

完全只有特效有觀賞價值。

電影裡出現的單字＆片語＆俚語：

Slangs/Vocabulary/Phrase	Translation/Meaning	Time	Sentences in the Movie
squadron	中隊	00:03:30	So, I understand that you all were part of the 58th Rescue Squadron...
gust	刮風	00:04:44	Winds are variable, 270 to 300. 10 knots gusting to 15.
skid	(直升機降落用的) 起落橇	00:06:37	Hooking up. On the skid.
pin	釘住;壓住使動彈不得	00:07:50	Jesus. Joby's pinned!
spawn	產(卵);大量產生;釀成	00:10:24	This quake lasted 11 minutes and spawned a tsunami 82 feet high...
fault	錯誤;斷層	00:10:56	Well, the San Andreas fault runs right up the spine of California.
demarcation	界線	00:11:00	It's the demarcation line between two tectonic plates that are constantly moving.
tectonic	建築的;地殼構造的	00:11:00	It's the demarcation line between two tectonic plates that are constantly moving.
overdue	期限過期的;誤點的	00:11:06	And add to that the fact that it's supposed to happen every 150 years...and we're about 100 years overdue...
tug of war	拔河比賽	00:11:22	- Damn, Godzilla.What the hell'd you do to her this time? - Played a little tug of war with a car.
seismic	地震有關的	00:12:06	Now, we got a rare low-level seismic swarm out in Falco, Nevada.
swarm	群集	00:12:06	Now, we got a rare low-level seismic swarm out in Falco, Nevada.
spike	(圖表)尖峰波形;提升	00:15:54	Pulse rates are spiking again. They're huge.
seismologist	地震學家	00:19:00	The southern pan' of Nevada...was rocked today by what seismologists are calling...the most destructive earthquake ever recorded in that area.
anomaly	異例地; 反常地	00:27:20	That would tell us that what happened yesterday in Nevada was not an anomaly.
precursor	先驅;預兆	00:27:26	No. What if it was a precursor movement...
itinerary	旅行計畫	00:30:07	Would you like to hear our itinerary?
bluntly	鈍地;直率地	00:30:53	- And you have just the one daughter. Right? - Right. - Your other one drowned in an accident? - Yes, to put it bluntly.
rotary	迴轉的;運轉的	00:52:08	Okay, anything running on electricity isn't gonna work...so we have to find a rotary or a push-button phone.
landline	敷設在地面上或埋在地下的通訊電線	00:52:26	Great. I'll look for a landline.
gridlock	極端嚴重的壅塞	00:53:35	Getting outta there is gonna be a complete gridlock nightmare.
nozzle	管嘴;噴嘴	00:53:47	- That tall cement nozzle thing on the hill. - Exactly.
standstill	停滯不前	00:59:51	Communication at a virtual standstill. The devastation to Southern California is expected to be massive.
seismology	地震學	01:00:15	Serena Johnson is on the ground at the seismology center at Caltech.
bust	使爆裂	01:04:00	We nearly made the same mistake ourselves… when we went off the road.
axle	車軸,輪軸	01:04:00	We nearly made the same mistake ourselves… when we went off the road.
backtrack	原路返回	01:04:18	Oh, ya gotta backtrack, maybe, 70 miles or so.
tactical	作戰的;戰術的	01:08:57	Every city has a tactical channel...first responders use to communicate on.
tandem	一前一後的;兩人以上協力的	01:12:41	- But I don't know how to parachute. - That's okay. We're gonna tandem-jump.
blanket	毛毯;全面管制	01:14:21	With a grave warning from Dr. Lawrence Hayes blanketing the airwaves...San Francisco has begun evacuation.
crest	(鳥)冠;頂部;浪峰;達到頂點	01:23:22	All right, hold on! We gotta get over it before it crests!
ample	充裕的	01:44:25	Authorities in San Francisco are attributing a tremendous amount of lives saved...thanks to local experts, who were able to give ample warning of the massive quake.

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。