Peace Warrior–Another Buddhist Movie Following Fight Club
By Vincent
(Note: This article was written like a half year ago when I was totally smashed after finishing a few beers. As you can imagine, back then, I had a sudden flash of inspiration as I watched the movie in my place late at night. I didn’t pay much attention to the wording and grammar, so as not to break the track of my thought. Please try to focus on my thinking and the way I put it, instead of getting a sick thrill out of your marvelous findings of some minor grammartical errors or typos you are most likely to find in this ‘drunk talk’ like an annoying bitch. Plus, to get a better understanding of my ideas, you’d better see the movie ‘Peace Warrior’ and ‘Fight Club’ first. Anyway, enjoy your journey with the zen master wannabe Vincent to the
I was expecting something good as the sliding bar of my of my video player goes rightward, then I just got a feeling that something exceptional was going on there. The first thing that arouses my interest that the guy Scott Mechlowicz, who plays Dan Millman looks a lot like Brad Pitt! Can you fuckin believe that? 80% alike if not a mirror image of Brad. Suppose he was a blond like Brad Pitt, don’t you tell me he won’t get you the feeling that it’s Brad Pitt’s early movie when you first lay your eyes on him. He even talks and act like Brad Pitt. I mean, look at the way he looks at people. That’s something amazing, coz you know Brad is getting old, but we always need some cool guy to get our adrenalin going and inspired.
Enough about his look and demeanor. Let’s get back to the movie.
Socrates, played by one of my favourite actors, Nick Nolte, is an old man works in the gas station. Dan will go to him for inspiration everytime he is obsessed with confusion and depression. One time, when Dan is wolfing down rookies or something, he says:” Slow down! You might taste something!” From that very beginning，I start to get the feeling that is movie is sorta of related to Fight Club, cos there begins to have a really slight suggestion of Zen wisdom in his words. What he later says make this feeling even stronger: If I was training you, No meat… No TV, No alcohol, No drugs, No Sex, which define the life of MONK! That’s really getting interesting. First, a Brad Pitt alike Scott Mechlowics, then a Zen-master Socrates. It real starts to make me link this movie to Fight Club, a finest Buddhist movie in my opinion. If you got that enormous patience and courage, you can take a look at my dissertation on analyzing Fight Club as a Buddhist movie by click following link.
In the same scene, Socrates continues after Dan fails to “stand his Mabu(站马步)” on the table for more than five minutes and falls off the table: ”Everyone tells you want to do, what’s good for you. They don’t want you to find your own answers. They want you to believe theirs…I want you to stop from gathering information from outside y Read more
英语是一门叫Chemistry的课–Catch-22
Horton Hears A WHO 里的几句英语
By Vincent
This is the second time I watch this movie, a spring animation blockbuster adapted from Dr.Seuss’s Horton Hear’s A Who. Too bad I failed to find a proper English subtitle for this AVI file, as it was ripped and uploaded by AXXO a couple of days ago. Obviously, it’s impressive where the previous DR.Seuss’s adaptaion " The Cat In The Hat" has fallen short.
Anyway, I recommend everybody watch this funny anime.
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1.Certainly appreciately your input 非常感谢您的忠告 Input本意是信息的输入，在这里是那头可爱的大象Horton对要掌控丛林一切都袋鼠妈妈的威胁的回答，input就是advice（意见）的意思。考虑到袋鼠的口气，翻译成“忠告”。还有，Horton之前说的一句话：Ok, I will that under advisement. 意思是“我会好好想想的”
从图片上你们可以看到Horton是非常惧怕袋鼠妈妈的，She scared the shit out of him.
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嘿。Jojo。最近怎么样啊？
=what’s up?
=what have you been up to.
=what’s new
这些都可以用来向别人打招呼，相当于“最近如何啊”“近来可好啊”“最近怎么样啊？”
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| 3. No matter how tight this speck I get. The speck will never replace you.
不管我手上这个小小点点有多酷，它都永远无法取代你。
Tight在俚语中和awesome, cool, rad, phat等意思差不多，就是指一样东西非常棒，牛逼，出色，酷。
Speck指的是这部动画片里黏在苜蓿花瓣上的小世界。Horton历尽千辛万险就是为了保护那个小点点上的小世界。而这个时候这只蓝老鼠怕Horton因为到处宣扬他的手上的speck有一个小世界而招惹麻烦，劝他把这些话Keep it to himself。结果Horton误会他是跟speck争风吃醋，所以说了这句话。
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执行这个计划。
这里的proceed相当于set about doing something，着手做某事的意思，在这里，也相当于implement。
上面这句话是这里的法官还是什么长老会的人说的，他还说了句We are all very busy….Let’s bring this meeting to order.
以前学过的是call this meeting to order。 估计bring也差不多。
意思是：现在我宣布此次会议正式开始。开庭的时候也差不多这么说。
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这可是你逼我的！
之所以翻译成这样，是因为这句话是袋鼠妈妈认为Horton关于苜蓿上的小点点上住着人的说法毒害了孩子们的思想，尤其是当她发现她pouch里的小袋鼠对Horton的故事表现出非常大的好奇心之后。之后Horton的坚决保护那个小点点免受伤害的做法让袋鼠妈妈忍无可忍，说出了那句话，并要采取行动毁灭掉那个小点点。所以这句翻译成“这可是你比我大！”。你不妨也可以理解为：你做得太过分了！总之cross the line就是指做出对方容忍范围之外的事情。
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我情不自禁。
fight在这里是克制、抑制情绪的意思。那么这句话就是再也无法掩藏我此刻的感受，再也无法克制我内心的情绪。
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Reporting A Stolen Car
By Vincent ( Previously posted on 19lou)
这是www.eslpod.com上的一期播客的文本，稍作了讲解（红色部分）。
Kenji: Hello, my car was stolen and I want to report it.
Officer: Where was it when it was stolen?
它被偷的时候停在哪里？
Kenji: It was parked outside of my apartment building. I went outside this morning to drive to work, and it was gone.
Drive to work: 开车去上班就这么说啊
路上（开车）小心是drive safe 或者drive carefully
你到底想说什么？ What are you driving at?
Officer: Okay, you need to fill out this form. Put down the make and model of the vehicle, the year, and the color. You’ll also need the license plate number. Do you know the vehicle’s VIN number?
Make and model and year of a car 汽车的牌子、型号和年份
License plate number：
车牌号
VIN number:车辆识别代码
Kenji: No, I don’t.
Officer: That’s okay. Just fill it out and we’ll launch an investigation.
还可以用Conduct, carry out和investigation 搭配
Kenji: What do you think the chances are that I’ll recover my car?
recover：找回（失窃、遗失的物品）
Officer: That’s hard to say. If it was stolen by some kids who wanted to take a joyride, they’ll abandon it afterwards and you may get it back in one piece. If it was taken by professional car thieves, that’s a different story. They usually strip the cars of their parts and sell them to chop shops. You may not want your car back after it’s been stripped. Read more
My Name Is Earl 里的几句英语
By Vincent
We’re not cut from the same cloth 这是一个成语，意思是我们不是同一类人（潜台词：我们不适合）
Turd
造句:You nasty piece of turd.
We’re gonna eat in a while 我们待会儿就开动。
Cross her off the list
把她从清单上划去。这是My Name Is Earl 的主人公在相信因果报应Karma后，将其一生所做的坏事悉数列在一张纸上，然后通过为那些Victims做一些事情来弥补其过失，为自己赎罪。
Different than 口语中和different from是通用的，还有些具体的讲究和习惯，你们可以自己去研究下。
But we just clicked 我们一见倾心，我们一拍即合，我们好投缘哦。和下面的hit it off差不多
I Hit it off with her=I fell in love with her at first sight(the second I laid my eyes on her)
比较：I don’t know what makes him tick 我真不知道他是怎么想到（或许你有更好的解释）
Relieve yoursel=take a leak
My ex is very clingy.我的前女友好粘人的。
She treats me like doormat. 我对她逆来顺受。在她面前，我就是个受气包，出气筒，没一点骨气。如果你对你的朋友说Don’t be such a doormat！应该是说你太贱啦！不要这么贱啦。她有什么好了，值得你这样逆来顺受吗?
Stand up for herself 她终于长骨气了。她不再任人践踏，任人作践了。
You need to lighten up = 不要这么认真啦，你这是何苦呢，看开点啦。人家走就走了，你不能再找吗？天下好男人多大是。
Speak For Yourself
By Vincent
刚才在看Snoopy’Story ，看到一个很好的句子：speak for yourself。
且看Collins Cobuild的解释：
If you say “speak for yourself” when someone has said something, you mean that what they have said is only their opinion or applies only to them.(INFORMAL)
如果你在别人对你说了什么之后对那个人说“speak for yourself”，你是说那个人刚才所说的东西只是他们个人看法或者只对他自己适用（你和其他人可不一定那么觉得）
1.“We’re not blaming you,‘ Kate said.
“Speak for yourself，” Boris muttered。
“我们不怪你”凯特说。“恐怕就你一个人那么想吧”鲍里斯咕哝着说道。
这里的speak for yourself的意思是，我们可不这么看，就你那么觉得吧，我们可窝着火呢，我可没这么说（不怪凯特）。
2. “Mark，We all think Vincent is a major badass, and we are planning to crucify him tomorrow morning”
“Speak for yourself，Chuck”
“我们都一致认为Vincent是个卑鄙无耻的超级大坏蛋，我们打算明一早就把他钉死！“
“查克，别（他妈）把我也扯上啊“
这里的speak for yourself的意思是，你们要钉你们自己去，我才不趟这浑水。或者说，靠，就你这么想的吧。我可没这个意思。那只是你的个人想法吧。你们玩，你们玩，别算上我。
再看一句朗文的例句：
“We were all bored in that lecture.” “Speak for yourself！ I like it”
“那次讲座我们都听得烦死了。“（那么讲座真是没劲死了） “算了吧！我喜欢”
这里的speak it for yourself的意思是不是吧，我觉得很有趣啊，我可不这么看，我觉得挺好的啊。得了吧，我就觉得挺好的。
从例句中，我们可以看书，speak for yourself的语气可不大友好，往往有戏谑或贬义或不耐烦不客气的含义。所以，最后一句如果翻成“不是吧，我觉得不错啊”就显得没有把握好这个语气。大家慢慢体会吧。
South Park 第十二季第六集的6句英语
By Vincent
1.I’m getting on first!
我要先上(网)！
Oh, no! You’re not!
哦，不。你不能先上。
这里的you’re not其实是一个固定的用法，虽然貌似没什么可讲的。不过，no, you don’t 在朗文中都是被列为固定用法来讲的，就是说对方要做什么事情，你不允许，不希望，让人家别那么做。大家好好体会一下这里的命令式的语气。
A:I will go to the movies with Bob!
我要和Bob去看电影
B:No, you don’t.
不，不准去！
2.The internet isn’t working!
我上不了网！
3.Whoa！Settle down. Dude.
Whoa! 冷静！哥们。
Whoa本意是让马停下来来的口号，相当于“驭。。。”这里就是让人冷静下来。
下面就是表示让人说话做事慢一点。
Whoa! You are speaking fast!
４.We’re full up.
没房间了！
旅馆说房间住满了，还可以说 The hotel is booked up或者the hotel is filled to capacity.
还有说一个地方挤满了人，比如说外婆家生意很好，周末总是挤满人,我们就用cram into ，pack into
Numberous of people cramm/pack into Grandmather’s home（我随便翻翻）
Cram into， pack into 和flock into的差别或许你们可以尝试着自己去查查字典，或许会更有体会。
如果说工厂满负荷全力生产，就说The factory is working at full capacity.
5.So they have to ration it out carefully.
所以他们必须小心地限额配给。
这里还有一个特别好用的句子
His wife rations him to 10 cigarettes a day.
他妻子规定他一天只能抽10支烟。 Read more
Why So Pissed Off
By Vincent
As usual, Young gave me a ride home in the unbelievably ’drivable‘ company car Jetta late tonight.
Last night, he called, asking me ‘what means ’pissed off”. FYI, he should’ve asked "what does ’pissed off’ mean".
Anyway, I told him that if you say ‘i’m pissed off’ , u mean you are very annoyed, irritated, and if you ask a person to ’piss off’, it’s like ”bugger off’, ‘fuck off’, ’ get lost’, stuf like that. Well, Young has been such a curious kido all along. With his hands holding the wheel, he looked at me, asking" as piss means ‘niao niao’, why ‘pissed off’ means 我火大了？
‘ uh…I don’t know, perhaps it’s because your are most likely to get irritated if I piss on you. This is the reason I can think of now’, answered Vincent.
Obviously, this guy was not convinced. I just could tell from his face.
He gets a kick out of my failure to answer his questions. He kept asking me and in the meantime, ran his imagionation wild, in an effort to figure that out.
‘Well, why dont you just visit my blog tomorrow. I will put it there later’.
Voila! This is the anwer you are seeking:
By Heather
I was rather pissed to find that there is not much evidence out there to substantiate or dismiss your excellent guess. We can be sure that the angry meaning of pissed off became popular among the Armed Forces in World War II, and entered into mainstream use during the post-war years. In 1946 it was defined as a new word in American Speech XXI: "This means roughly, fed-up, irritated, depressed." Some linguists and historians think the expression must have been well known during the war years, citing a story about General Eisenhower’s dog. The story goes that the dog (Felix) urinated on a map and the officers joked that the enemy was "pissed off." (Leonard Mosely, Marshall, 1982).
In the 1970s, pissed off became much more common in British English, and continued to gain popularity in the U.S. As its usefulness grew, several new variants of the expression sprouted. For the first time we find pissed (no "off"): "I’m pissed at people in the movement . . ." (It 9-23, 1971). This reduction of pissed off to pissed is primarily American; in British English pissed continues to be an adjective for drunkenness. During Read more
MUMA & THIRD PARTY SUMMER GIG IN HANGZHOU
By Vincent
Me and Foggy went to Muma and & Third Party’s summer gig in the Traveller Bar on July 28. Muma is easily the most badass Chinese rock band ever. Last yaer, Me and two friends of mine went to 4live bar in Shanghai for their live in celerbaton of their release of the new album ‘Velvet Road’. （I don’t know, I tend to come up with intolerably long sentences like this. It’s a curse and I seriously cannot do nothing about it) it was so impressed back then. They are absolutely groovy.
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Gossip Girl里的15句英语
By Vincent
1.Are we square? 我们扯平了，对吧？ 我们两清了吧？我们俩谁也不欠谁了吧？
2….at such short notice ：if you do something at short notice, you do not have very much time to prepare for it
a cancellation at very short notice 临时取消（约会等）
3.I’ve given this a lot (of) thought 我已经仔细想过了，我已经好好想过了
4.a short fuse
if someone has a short fuse, they get angry very easily
blow your top/stack/cool
also blow a fuse/gasket
informal to become extremely angry quickly or suddenly
One day, I just blew my top and hit him.
5.come to physical blows 诉诸暴力，要动手了
6.I’m late for work 我上班要迟到了（这句话你平时说对了吗）
7Fall head over heels 热恋中的男女沉溺爱海，爱得死去活来，全然不顾其他
to be in love with someone very much, especially at the beginning of a relationship
补充：cool one’s heel 放某人鸽子
8.Quickie 这里指得是在Brunch和派对时投投溜开到边上找个地方做爱
I’ve just made some coffee have you time for a quickie? 我刚煮好咖啡–你能抽空儿喝点儿吗?
9.Let me get you a refill 我给你去加点酒
10. Lose the Scotch, it’s barely noon. 中午还没到呢，不要再喝了
11.That black eye looks a bit lonely.
Used on the person Who was punched by you in the eye, so you look smart.
12.Brag about his conquests 夸耀或者吹嘘自己泡妞如何如何了得
13 I’m totally blank on the part when I invited you 意思是，你怎么来了？我完全想不起我什么时候邀请过你啊
14. Definitely second-shot material 翻不大好，大致是你绝对是（死叽八咧地或者死而后已）地让女生再给你一个机会的材料
15….and I blew it! 我搞砸了。 你还可以说，I fucked it up, I messed it up等
Family Guy里的12句英语
By Vincent
用太多soon，可以考虑用用shortly。 Shortly还有唐突地，无理地，不耐烦地，不客气地等意思
2. You are working at my last nerve. 我已经忍无可忍了。
It means I’m about to explode in no time.
3. quality time
Quality time中文如何翻译，因视具体情况而定。它主要指你放下其他一切，空出大量时间，和家人，特别是孩子一起度过一段美妙的，交心的时光。 你全心全意地和狐朋狗友鬼混或者泡妞的时间应该不能算作quality time，不管你多投入。
3. for your information 你们给我听好了！
4. it’s off limits 你们不能进去！
如果一个地方对你来说是Off limits的，意味着你是不能及进去的，那个地方对你来说是进去。如果一个话题对你来说是off limits的，意味着你是不被允许谈论它的。
5. in this scenario 这样的话，这么说来，这种情况下
6. get a rip on yourself 指的是在你非常upset的时候尝试控制住自己的行为和情绪。
Stop being hysterical and get a grip on yourself.
而pull yourself together 是振作一点，振作起来的意思
7. at the cost of 以。。。为代价
8. You are supposed to pick up Cliveland’s mails, not go through them.
Go through在这里是偷看的意思
9. I’m completely off the hook 我现在完全没事了。 Read more
RAD
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这几天三番两次在电视节目上听到Rad这个单词，刚才又在一个脱口秀节目Real Time With Bill Maher上听到嘉宾用了这个词，想来这个词在美国应该是被广泛使用的。
最早是在一个自命不凡的杭州人写的一本小书上看到这个单词的，意思和phat，awesome，tight，cool，dope差不多，都是酷毙了，帅呆了之类的意思。
朗文字典的解释是这样的：
exciting or interesting
Have you guys seen Wendy’s new place? It’s so rad.
那么rad为什么在俚语中有这样的意思呢？
不妨研究一下它的词源。Rad，来自radical。Radical美国的口语中有表verygood 或者 enjoyable。比如
Father：Son, look what you old man just took.
Son (looking down to the toilet) : Wow…
Father: This is the biggest crap I’ve even taken.
Son: That’s totally radical.
据说，是由于80年代忍者神龟在美国大行其道的时候，里面的小乌龟们喜欢把radical说成是rad，造成了这个缩写词的跟着动画片一起流行起来。一开始都是一些青少年在使用，久而久之，其使用的年龄层也日渐提高，而且被认为比awesome和cool这些词更能够表达一样东西有多好多酷。 而且显然比phat这些词来得生命力更持久，更受认同些。
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英语是一门叫Chemistry的课–饱学之士
在看Alan Greenspan的回忆录的第三章，一开始就碰到这么一个单词：Erudite
It started when Walter Heller, a witty, erudite professor from Minne-
sota who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, told
President Kennedy that a tax cut would stimulate economic growth.
不认识，所以翻了翻牛津（翻了六次就翻到，耗费数秒吧，训练下自己翻字典的速度，其实很快的），
“having or showing reat knowledge or learning" （博学的，有学问的）的意思。
origin：from latin eruditus, past participle of erudire" instruct, train". （based on dudis"rude, untrained").看到rude，就知道它怎么来的了： ex- "out" + rudis "unskilled, rude."， =（to make） not rude ,而rude在古英语中是无知的，无文化的，未开化的意思，那么erudite的“博学的，饱学的，有学问的”的意思就很好理解了。
langman的一些例句供你加深理解：
"The Cunning Man" is an intricate and erudite work.
Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.
Accelerating violence and horror eventually hit maximum velocity and warp into nonsense, no matter how erudite the script.
Among themselves, ecclesiastics have become eminently sophisticated and erudite.
Gregarious, erudite and energetic, Brezzo could never be accused of thinking in small, ordinary ways.
He’s erudite, enormously warm and most of all, a golfer. Read more
Two and Half Men (1)
By Vincent
From one episode of Two and Half Men. Cannot recall which one.
1. Slacker
懒人，懒鬼，懒虫，得过且过的人
Alan: You know what you call someone who just skates through life doing only the bare minimum?
Jack: Uncle charlie?
Alan: You call him a slacker.
Jack:Whatever
2．She is a catch. 她是难得的佳偶。她是个好媳妇。
这句话是Charlie对他的女朋友说。他女友一直对他说她儿子的未婚妻的好话，而Charlier以前睡过她，想尽早离开这尴尬的地方，在夺门而出的时候说了句。
Catch在牛津的解释是合意的人，值得的伙伴，中意的婚配对象。记得不久前的一个周末，和一群朋友聚会。席间，谁碰了一瓶啤酒，边上一个女生眼疾手快，一把接住。一个波兰朋友夸道：‘nice catch’. 我笑了起来，对波兰人说：‘She is a good catch,uh?” 波兰人迷惑了片刻，随即也大声鬼笑起来。这就是是双关 (Pun).
3.She is a cougar! 她专吊年轻男子。
这是Charlie的toxic she-devil般的妈妈说他的女朋友。
Cougar=puma，但是这里的意思，牛津大字典都没有，连Charlie也不知道她妈什么意思。所幸，she-devil立刻给出了解释：cougar=an old woman who preys on young men…
还有一个讲色狼的是man-on-prowl
4.What did I do to deserve that 我做了什么孽，（儿子）要这样对我。
Charlie的妈妈在Charlie离去后说的一句话。他妈是那种你最不想要的妈妈，她竟然有脸说出这种话。
5.Nah,I’m just screwing with you. 不是啦，我逗你玩呢。我耍你呢。
Jack说他可以用脑子就做出数学题。他爸很被thrilled到了。然后，Jack坏坏地说出了上面那句话。他只是把答案抄在背面而已。Jack owns！
6. He’s a postpubescent tapeworm with a bad haircut. 他是个发型糟糕的半大条虫。
Charlie对Alan这样评价Jack。Charlier和Jack既然是two of a kind，他们自然互相欣赏得要死。 Read more
让人滚蛋的23种说法
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By Vincent
所谓滚蛋，就是用粗鲁的语气让人从眼前消失，当然，很多时候，下面的句子并不单纯表示让人离开某地，而是夹杂了一些比较激烈的情绪，大多是消极的、愤怒的、恶意的情绪，有些也代表一些正面的情绪。所以，有时候，人家只是表达情绪，你千万别觉得你就一定要滚蛋啊。非常抱歉的是，get rolling是指着手干某事，让事情有一个良好顺利的开始。还有，如果你妈咪是不允许你对别人这么粗鲁的，你千万不要乱用下面的句子。还有，别破坏社会和谐啊！ 下面主要是我从影视作品中记下的，供你参考，并欢迎大家添加更多的说法：
1. Bag it!
You are not rad, and you are not awesome, so, like, bag it.
Bag it yourself!
FYI, ‘bag it’ also means ‘shut up’.
Bag it! I’m feb up with your nonsense!
2. Bag your face!=go away
3. Drop dead= Get lost. Don’t bother me.
I don’t give a fuck, just drop dead!
4. Eat shit!
Eat shit, you grandmother-fucker!
5. Forget you!
Forget you! You don’t stand a chance.
=‘Forget it’
6. Kiss my ass!
Yeah…Kiss my supertight ass…
7. Like it or lump it!
Do it my way or drop dead!
8. Nuts to you!
Nuts to you! You give me creeps.
9. So’s your old man.
相当于去死吧你
10.You can suck a cock.!
11. Up yours!
=go to hell.
I’m not sign up for it. Up yours!
12. Butt out!
Butt out! Mind your own business!
13. Get out of town!
14. Go blow it out your ear!
=Bug off and stop irritating me!
15. Go chase yourself!
16.Go chase your tail!
17.Go climb a tree.
18.Go fly a kite!
19.Go fry an egg!
20.Go jump in the lake!
21.Go soak your head!
22.Go soak yourself
23.Scat!
24. Shit or get off the pot!
天！这就是传说中的“占着茅坑不拉屎”？
25. Take a running jump in the lake!
26.Vamoose!
Vamoose! Get your fat ass back to your trailer house! Loser!
Busboy 什么意思？
By Vincent (转载请注明出处）
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19楼上都笃在一口外语上问了个问题：He is a busboy什么意思？ 我发现好多人对busboy这个字典上都说得清清楚楚的单词还是有很多误解，故解释如下：
1.Busboy或者bus boy是餐厅侍者（waiter and waitress)的助手，负责清理餐桌上的脏盘子的，可以称作勤杂工，打杂的，其在餐厅的“组织机构图”上的位置绝对在侍者之下。
2.是没有Busm Girl这样的说法的，不过你可以说bus person
3.据说bus boy代表勤杂工是源自omnibus：选集，汇编，电视节目，特别是肥皂剧的联播，现在很少有人会用其来指公共汽车。 from L. omnibus "for all," dat. pl. of omnis "all" (see omni-). 最具代表性的原词(omniscient) 无所不知的和omnipotent (无所不能的)（无能的是impotent)。 那么omnibus和有什么联系呢？一种说法是因为餐厅的勤杂工要推着一个小车（你们在餐厅和KTV能看到的），而小车cart和bus都是车 另一种说法是勤杂工的工作包括清理food, dishes, silver, glassware, and crumbs—而这些东西（ items）被认为是omnibus，如果不解，请再去查看一下omnibus的意思。
4.办公室的勤杂工可以叫office boy，因为他们基本上只负责一些简单的事情。at some point, Vincent is an office boy. 还有一个说法是copy girl。就是帮忙打字，复印等杂事的年轻女性，感觉上和office boy应该是差不多的。
Please take a close look at below analysis by Kenneth G. Wilson
The motor vehicle for carrying passengers is spelled bus; its plural is either buses or busses, both Standard. The verb bus, meaning “to transport by bus,” developed quite regularly through functional shift. It met some opposition at first, primarily because it was new, but the movement toward racial equality in education in the sixties brought it into widespread use, and it is now Standard: The board decided to bus the children to the suburban schools. Its participles are both spelled either way: bused, bussed; busing, bussing. The other noun, meaning “kiss,” is always spelled buss, and the plural and the third person singular of that verb are spelled busses. This word, both noun and verb, is Standard but perhaps now either arch or old-fashioned.
A bus boy or busboy assists the waiter or waitress in a restaurant; he clears dishes (he buses or busses them), and all of his duties come under the heading of busing or bussing. The origin of this Americanism is uncertain. It is almost certainly from a clipping of omnibus, but whether because busing involves pushing a cart (a bus) full of dirty dishes or clearing everything (food, dishes, silver, glassware, and crumbs—a regular omnibus of items) from the table is unknown. There is no bus girl, but some speakers are beginning to use bus person.