英文电影宝典——Risky Business

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on in charge of managing the money. Lana did production, and I concentrated on sales. Here, a business term referring to the actual creation of a product. You're in for roughly 60 odd dollars. "You've already spent about 60 dollars." He was glad to get that knowledge. Here, referring to sexual experience. College girls can smell ignorance like dog shit. Very crude, but a clever line implying that girls can sense inexperience in their sexual partners. I just don't want to spend the rest of my life in analysis. Refers to psychoanalysis (The process of seeing a psychologist). You're on, honey. Here, meaning "its your turn." A Princeton recruiter comes to speak with Joel, but its hard to give a good interview while simultaneously managing a whorehouse. "Mr. Bitterman." The recruiter from Princeton. A university recruiter is a person who goes around the country looking for the best high school students to bring to his university. Catch the phone, will you? Here, "to catch" the phone is to pick it up ("Can you catch that?" is often used). Note that "you"-----> "ya" in rapid speech. 52 in class rank. That places you in the 84th percentile. The level a student is, compared to other students in his class. And you wish to major in...business? "To major in" a topic, such as history or biology, is to focus on that topic when selecting college classes. Varsity track team, Yearbook staff, Student Council. The type of pursuits that students do during school which universities look at. "Varsity" is the principal team representing a school. "Track" is short for "track and field," and refers to sports like running. The "yearbook" is the annual book with pictures of students, and "student council" is a part of student government. Your stats are very respectable, but its not quite Ivy League, is it? "Stats" is short for "statistics," which here refers to grades and test scores. "Ivy League" refers to a group of very prestigious Universities on the East Coast of the US, including Harvard, Yale and Princeton. It looks like the University of Illinois! This is a respectable school, but definitely not as good as an Ivy League school such as Harvard, Yale or Princeton. They're very good talkers. One way of saying that "they talk impressively, but they don't actually do what they say." God knows, they needed the service. A somewhat poetic way to say "certainly." Right now, you're one hot shot future enterpriser. "Hot shot" is a slang term for a person who is very successful. And you've got a girlfriend, to boot. An interesting expression placed at the end of sentences which basically means "in addition." If there were logic to our language, "trust" would be a 4 letter word. A "4 letter word" r

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