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–noun 

1. a small 

mass, 

lump, 

or ball of anything: a wad of [paper]; a wad of [tobacco].

 

2. a small mass of cotton, wool, 

or 

other fibrous or soft material, used for stuffing, padding (墊), packing, 

etc. 

3. a roll of something, esp. of bank notes.  



4. Informal. a comparatively large stock or quantity of something, esp. money: 



He's got a healthy wad [salted] away.  



5. a plug of cloth, tow (麻纖), paper, or the like, used to hold the powder or shot, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge. (彈藥筒)

6. British Dialect. a bundle, esp. a small one, of hay, straw, etc.  



–verb (used with object) 

7. to form (material) into a wad. 

8. to roll tightly (often fol. by up): He wadded [up] his cap and [stuck] it into his pocket. 

9. to hold in place by a wad: 



They [rammed] (埋實) 

and [wadded] the [shot] into their muskets. (滑膛槍)



10. to put a wad into; stuff with a wad. 

11. to fill out with or as if with wadding; stuff; pad: to wad a [quilt] (被褥); 



to wad a [speech] 

with [useless information]. 



–verb (used without object) 

12. to become formed into a wad: The damp [tissues] had wadded in his pocket.  



—Idiom

13. shoot one's wad, Informal. 

a. to spend all one's money: He shot his wad [on] a new car. 

b. to expend all one's energies or resources at one time: She shot her wad [writing] her first novel and her second wasn't as good. 

c. Slang: Vulgar. (of a man) to have an orgasm. 





　

Though her [appearance] would [suggest] 

poverty, 

Irina always has a [sizable] wad of [cash] in her pocket 



and lives in a large apartment across the street from the loudly dysfunctional Adacher family. Gradually, the mousy cleaning woman works her way into 



the family home, befriending the parents (Claudia Gerini and Pierfrancesco Favino) and becoming a trusted confidante (知己女友) to their daughter Thea (Clara Dossena). 



As her relationship with the family [deepens], 



her motivations for getting so close become frighteningly clear.