2009年2月28日 星期六

Proletarian (續:人馬 單字大集合)



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proletarian

Ya. (形容詞 adjective)

          1.    無產階級的

n. (名詞 noun)

          1.    無產者;勞工


barton 
But Fink, who claims to be the poet of the working man, is not interested in a real proletarian, and spends most of his time staring at his typewriter in despair. He has writer's block.


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cohort
retinue
cavalcade
splinter
When reality seems to [splinter], there is only one answer, and it is: "Reality has seemed to [splinter]."
coterie
this is the kind of rarified romance that should [garner] a select coterie of dedicated fest and arthouse followers,
Writer/director Sally Potter takes her time, with only six features released after her 1983 debut, The Gold Diggers. Her 1992 movie Orlando helped push Tilda Swinton from the Derek Jarman coterie into the larger indie movie world, but Potter’s own films since have sat pretty firmly on the [fringes] of art house territory.
esoteric
Threnody
bevy
group of birdsa bevy of boisterous [sailors]
The film is similar to Gray's first feature in its tragic tale of a family divided by violence and corruption, but also seriously underdeveloped, with a [bevy] of characters whose motivations seem [puzzling] at best.
There are several references to filmmaking in the text, Anderson’s [knack] for wordplay and a bevy of almost insignificant details that help paint a unique picture.
troupe
Continuing on their way, the [knight] and [squire] encounter a troupe of [performers], including a couple named Joseph and Mary who have a young child.He has a briefly bright encounter with a theatrical troupe of [dwarfs] who entertain him with a bit of playful make-believe,
Set in Taipei like his other movies (save for parts of What Time Is It There?) and starring Tsai's regular troupe of [players], the movie [trains] the director's [un]blinking gaze on the breakdown of the [nuclear] family.
squire
As the film opens, a [knight], Antonius Blok, and his [squire], Jöns, have just returned from the Crusades to a Sweden being ravaged by the plague.
In the West of England there was a Squire Allwothy.
(in England) a country gentleman
esp. the chief landed proprietor in a district
...or, as he was called usually by the company, who affected what Nate called "napping English", the squire, who was [leader] of the opposite faction.
posse
a body or force armed with legal authority 
who travels with a [posse] of two smaller thugs and almost drowns him in a swimming pool.
she snaps to a sex-star-[posse] roundtable during the course of her View-like "topical discussion chat-reality show."
but also a host of incidental but memorable characters, from a [hapless] Japanese exchange student to a prom queen and a posse of barely [pubescent] nerds.he has his own home, a luxury car, and [posse] of friends who do double duty as his crew,

clique
congeniality, exclusiveness.
cliques in a [school]
"Christian Jewels," the most devout and popular clique of girls in the [school],
We're having a hell of a time breaking into the social world here. It seems very [cliquish]. I don't know what it is. We didn't get into the good golf club.
The boys and I were only trying to help. You and your boys. There's a very old bylaw in this institution about gangs or cliques. We don't like them. We don't want them.
ring
selfish, dishonest.
a [gambling] ring
ilk
We don’t socialize with people of that [ilk]
among Tarantino and his [ilk]
Set in an unspecified time "not so long ago," Metropolitan pokes affectionate fun at [Stillman's] ilk.
Like most films of its ilk, nothing of consequence really happens,
cahoot
Jin Ping is actually in cahoots with illegal private doctors,It's my lovely mother, isn't it? She's behind all this. She's in cahoots with Maria.
caboodle
Kit and caboodle, son.
chum
But the action stems from the arrival of his [chum], Warren, who comes bearing $15,000 he has stolen from his self-made father
She and her [college] chum Alice (Chloe Sevigny) decide to arrive in a cab rather than on foot, but that hardly matters.
Scout's [ever]-strengthening bond with older brother Jem (Philip Alford), her friendship with [precocious] young Dill Harris (a character based on Lee's [childhood] chum Truman Capote and played by John Megna),
crony
I think he may be one of [us]," Harvey winks to one of his cronies.
Johnny Ross, who is scheduled to testify against his Mob [cronies] before a Senate subcommittee in San Francisco.
a scurrilous hatchet job on Clinton [crony] Vernon Jordan.
You trashed my fiscal year, and now, you and your crony here [egg] these media vultures...
brethren
pl. of brother
The brethren will meet at the [church].
and therefore lacking a hero's necessary sense of protectiveness over [his] brethren.
There have been many movies about psychos invading the homes and overturning the domestic bliss of innocent families, but in the capable hands of Curtis Hanson, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle rises above most of its brethren.

throng
presses together or forward, with common aimand everyone throngs in the street to watch, [perched] on stoops like kids in an Andy Hardy picture.
a throng of [memories].
He thronged the picture [with] stars.
swarm
contemptuousA swarm of [dirty] children played in the street.
Surging with colors, music, the ever-present [swarming] multitudes and the vitality of its youthful characters,
Before long, wishes-gone-wrong have left the neighborhood [swarming] with tiny spaceships, crocodile armies, giant [boogers].
rabble
The [nobility] held the rabble in complete contempt.
It was a bully pulpit from which to challenge rabble [rousers] like the gay-hating Anita Bryant.
ragtag
Milk rouses a [ragtag] army of street boys and Harvard graduates.

proletarian
But Fink, who claims to be the poet of the working man, is not interested in a real proletarian
a self-professed proletarian [radical] who [stumbles] into the social sphere of a group of well-off Upper East Side twentysomethings calling themselves the SFRP.
Will it end under proletarian dictatorship?
foreman
He is single and independent, rooms with his parents in their [grubby] worker's home, [gripes] about his low pay and harsh [foreman], and spends his Saturday nights drinking beer in the pub.
fink
a strikebreaker
a labor spy
an informer, stool pigeonWell, being a fink is a thirsty work.
Somebody saw him here. I don't know who. Maybe you got a fink around.
The Mentaculus really works! You knew about it? Well... They must have finked me out.
Jacks an accountant for the Mob. He finked to the FBI. Hes been skimming off the top, and now the kids are marked.
nark
British Slang. a stool pigeon or informer.
Chiefly Australian Slang. an annoying person.
Don't know what you're getting so narjed about, you nicked the bloody thing, didn't you?

pariah
When Maria (Adrienne Shelly) gets pregnant by the high school quarterback, she's [dropped] by her boyfriend, drops out of school, and her father drops dead of a heart attack. Maria's hard-bitten mother treats her like a pariah.
plebeiansturdy... plebeian... plenty of body.
peon
social have-nots, unskilled worker at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale.
He's a [snarky], shaved-head, bow-tie-wearing [mis]anthrope who would be utterly amazed if he knew how his files got into the hands of two [peons] at a gym.
thrall
Don't order me around. I am not your [thrall].
Jack Burden suffers from an insufficiency of ego and finds himself in [thrall] to a bully.
and director Michael Lehmann is [in] thrall with the hipness he tries to chronicle.
valet
they realize (in the words of the [valet] in Elaine May's movie "A New Leaf") that they are carrying on in their own lifetimes a tradition that was dead before they were born.
lackey
I am a imperialist lackey.

wetback
Jimmy got a kitchen full of wetbacks, most of them relatives. Those people breed like chickens.【美】【口】非法入境的農業勞工 (尤指非法入境的墨西哥勞工)








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