英文电影宝典——Best in Show

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in an existing state of quality. "Hygiene" is an important word that refers to basic cleanliness. We’re pretty well supplied here for any kind of contingency. If a place is "well supplied," it has plenty of the goods or products it is supposed to have. A "contingency" is any reasonably possible set of events that may happen in the future. This is a good product that doesn’t have a lot of odor, for your small stains, small dogs, Pomeranian, tea-cup poodle, what have you. A "stain" is a soiled, dirty or discolored spot, usually on clothes after you have spilled something on them. "What have you" is a colloquial way of ending a sentence when you want to say "whatever other types I can’t think of now" (The Pomeranian and poodle are dog breeds). Your bigger dog, your great Dane, your bull massif, rottweiler, you need to up the ante a little bit. "To up the ante" is to invest or risk more (It’s an expression that is used in poker, though here it is used to mean invest in more powerful detergents for the type of bigger dogs listed above). For the big critters, the big stains, sometimes you need the nuclear weaponry, the sodium hydrochloride. A "critter" is a funny word for an animal, and "sodium hydrochloride" is apparently a very powerful cleaner that can clean the poop (shit) of the world’s biggest dogs. Roasting a goat in the room, I still to this day don’t understand. "To roast" meat is to cook it slowly over a fire Getting the smell of the cumin and charcoal out of the drapes was a chore on to itself. That was a big deal. "Cumin" is a type of spice and "charcoal" are small pieces of black coal that are used for barbecues. "Drapes" are curtains, a "chore" is a task or small job that needs to be done. If something is "a big deal," it is either very important, or in this case, the cause of a lot of problems. A Parachuter. :: Don’t call that a doll; It’s an action figure. A "parachute" is a device that allows a person to jump from a plane and float down slowly to the ground. An "action figure" is a masculine expression used by boys who don’t want to admit that they actually own a lot of dolls. You got that right! A very slangy way of saying "I completely agree with you." I’m the chief hostage negotiator for the Akron and tri-county area. The "chief hostage negotiator" for a city is the person responsible for trying to convince kidnappers and terrorists to release or liberate the people that they are holding captive against their will. Akron is a major city in Ohio, and the "tri-country" area refers to the three counties that are in the general Akron area (A County is a the largest political or territorial division within a state). I talk people down. Whenever they’re on a big tall building, they call me. "To t

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