英文电影宝典——Meet the Parents

a friend or relative that you don’t often see. Why would a barbecue at the best man’s be weird? "The best man" in a wedding is the person chosen by the husband-to-be to make the official speech in honor of the new couple. "Weird" is an excellent adjective meaning strange or bizarre. I was able to salvage this wood from an old seaman’s chapel in Nantucket. "To salvage" something is to save it for use before it is destroyed. A "chapel" is a small church (Nantucket is a town in Massachusetts). The sun is out, the grill is hot and the pool is luke. The grill refers to the barbecue grill for cooking meats. "Luke" is short for luke warm, which is a bit cooler than warm, but it is never used! It’s not a big deal. If I can handle a weekend without sex and cigarettes, I can handle an afternoon with your ex-fiancée. If something is "not a big deal," it’s not important. In this case, "to handle" a situation is to be able to accept it or survive with it. For the floor, I chose this Bolivian worm wood. Apparently, a type of expensive wood from the country of Bolivia. I have the Viking range and the twin sub-Zs. A "range" is an oven, and "sub-Zs" are an expensive type of refrigerator. Yeah, they kind of blend in. If something "blends in" with the rest of the room, they are not easily noticeable, perhaps because they look like other things in the room. I got in early on some wireless IPOs and the stuff just skyrocketed from there. "To get in early on" a stock is to buy it before the price goes up. "Wireless" refers to those technologies such as cell phones that do not need to be plugged into a wall. An "IPO’ is an Initial Public Offering, which is when the stock of a company is offered for sale for the first time, and "to skyrocket" is to go up very quickly and very high. There is a lot…..to be made with biotech stuff. "Biotech" is short for biotechnology, such as modern drugs. Note the general use of "stuff," that in this case refers to the products that biotechnology companies make. How’s your portfolio? Short for "investment portfolio," which refers to the stocks, real estate and other investments where people put their money. Generally speaking, only rich people refer to their investments as portfolios. You gotta strike while the iron is hot. Note that "have got to"-----> "gotta" in rapid speech. This is a way of saying that with investments, a person must take action when there is still opportunity if they want to make a lot of money. That’s great to give something back like that. I’d like to find some time to do some volunteer work. "To give something back to the community" refers to the general idea that people that make a lot of money should contribute to the world around them since the world has given them so much. I saw this golden retrie