《绝望的主妇》S07E02学习笔记：小三Renee

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Hey, good, you got the message.

Loud and clear. So you guys sure look like you're discussing something heavy.

What's up?

To be honest, I was talking about you, and your tendency to be critical,

and how frustrating it is to have me feelings invalidated, whenever I bring up something you don't like.

Renee, sidebar.

Did I or did I not tell you to butt the hell out of my marriage?

I was just finishing my dessert and listening to the guy talk.

"How frustrating it is to have my feelings invalidated"?

That's got your $500-an-hour shrink written all over it.

You need a project, and since you're currently without a house to remodel, you've decided to put the wrecking ball to my marriage.

Oh, please.

This is what you do.

You take other people's lives apart for your own amusement and then you get the fun of putting them back together.

Well, I'm not letting you do it this time.

My marriage is not some guest bathroom in your summer house.

Fine, let's just say that you're right, and I'm a terrible person.

But there's still a man in there who is in pain, and his wife won't listen to him.

That's not my doing.

I think this sidebar is over.

1. tendency

n. 倾向，趋势；癖好

常用短语：development tendency发展趋势，产业发展；natural tendency自然趋势，自然倾向；globalized tendency全球化趋势；tendency to sth 趋向；趋于 

例句：There is a tendency to externalize all religions.存在把一切宗教都视为仅具外表形式的倾向

 

2. critical

adj. 鉴定的；[核] 临界的；批评的，爱挑剔的；危险的；决定性的；评论的

短语：critical point 临界点；critical thinking 批判性思维，批判性的思考；critical factor 关键因素；critical value 临界值；critical of 挑剔；对……感到不满，对……表示谴责；critical moment 关键时刻；critical part 主要机件；要害部位；critical period 关键期；临界期 

 

3. invalidate

vt. 使无效；使无价值

短语：invalidate a statute使法规无效；Invalidate By Crossing Out涂除作废；to invalidate a visa废止签证

例句：Yes, we can invalidate that fingerprint.是的，我们可以使指纹无效。

4. butt

n. 屁股；烟头；笑柄；靶垛；粗大的一端vt. 以头抵撞；碰撞

短语：iron butt厚脸皮；cigar butt雪茄屁股，烟屁股；butt connection对接；端接

例句：In this style of humor, you are the butt of the joke for the amusement of others.在这种幽默中，你充当了娱乐别人的笑柄，玩这种幽默的人常常渴望自己被讨好。

 

5. shrink

shrink在美国俚语中有心理医生、精神科医师的意思。但通常情况下它用作动词或名词，表示“退缩、收缩”：

vi. 收缩；畏缩vt. 使缩小，使收缩n. 收缩

短语：shrink from 退避，在…前面畏缩；shrink into oneself 缩成一团，变得沉默；shrink back往后退