Corpus
while reading it, think about how to used it better, such as replacing some words or using it in mind and say it out loudly.
- technically, actually, anyways, basically.
- A little bit.
- Some FRIEND.
- Coming through.
- I was gonna get it.
- I'm not really a baseball guy.
I'm not really a dance girl. - I was just being facetious. -facetious /fə'siːʃəs/ /fə'siʃəs/ adj.
- chilling with sb. : I did nothing these days, just chilling with some friends.
- It'll just take a second.
- If you're on your way out, can you grab the garbage?
- He's a little jumpy.
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be all about ... :
-Cause I'm all about the learnin'.
-Thought you were all about keeping it real. - What are you talking about?
- you still walk on eggshells around him.
- That's such a nice offer, but I think we're good.
-Are we good? - It's gonna kill you to look like a girl for one afternoon?
It's gonna kill you to try it once?
Man or woman up is all I have to say. It's not gonna kill you. - It's non-negotiable.
- He's not a talker or a hugger.
I'm not a hugger. - that primal place where it started.
- I feel you rolling your eyes at me.
- I had no idea how to act out my clue.
- without missing a beat, ...
Don Royston rolls out of a warm bed without missing a beat. - you and Luke having a good time?
- It's just stuff with Alex.
It's just work stuff. -
grab: if you're on your way out, can you grab the garbage?
-Just grab two more.
-Let's grab a couple of coffee after work?
-I'm sorry. I have to grab this. - That's ridiculous!
- it's not the end of the world.
- He's a little loopy.
He's a little loopy 'cause he didn't sleep last night. - That's no way to talk to your grandmother.
- Not in those exact words.
- He took a chance.
- What are you, made of china?
- What do you like about me/him?
- This feels so right.
- Let's hang out tonight.
Words
- He's the tying run.
- You wanna fly one of these, you gotta be familiar with airfoil, drag, lift and thrust and these are all principles of aerodynamics.
- I'm pretty sure this is a typo.
- with kind of an invisible asterisk.
- silverback, Gorilla , ape .
- general store
- charade /ʃə'rɑːd/ /ʃə'red/. Let's play charade.
- he kept rolling his eyes every time I would get a little boisterous.
-boisterous /'bɒɪst(ə)rəs/ /'bɔɪstərəs/ GRE adj. - paper shredder. Confetti and crosscut.
- My mother says we are never to use the word "Step". Because it means "Not real."
【語法】be to do sth. ：
1.表示按計劃或安排要做的事。一般用於正式場合。區分be about to do .
2.表示“應該”，相當於should, ought to。
3.表示“必須”，相當於must, have to。
4.表示“想，打算”，相當於intend, want。
5.表示“可以，可能”，相當於may, can。
6.用於第一人稱疑問句，表示徵求對方意見。
7.用於否定句，表示“禁止”，相當於mustn’t。 - flatbed
- piercing
- busboy n. [美]
- Well, the wing is cracked, the propeller's bent.
- aileron.
- hick. a hick town.
Pronunciation
- presenting their nice scarlet behinds. -scarlet /'skɑːlɪt/ /'skɑrlət/
- You wanna go fly it?
- Those cookies smell like heaven. cookies-smell-like
- I just throw 'em in the oven. throw '-em-in
- Two girls out for an afternoon of fun.
- Did you do it to look sexy?