Vicinity (續：極限範圍 緊張 精神疾病 運氣 單字大集合)

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–noun

1. the area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood: There are no stores [in] the vicinity of our house. 

2. state or fact of being near; proximity; propinquity: He was troubled by the vicinity of the nuclear testing area.  



propinquity

–noun 

1. nearness in place; proximity.

2. nearness of relation; kinship.

3. affinity of nature; similarity.

4. nearness in time.





　 

Almost immediately, the balloon's role is assumed by the Chinese film student Song (Song Fang) hired to look after Simon. A would-be guardian angel, she hovers in the boy's vicinity before locating the studio where Suzanne is rehearsing her new, Chinese-inspired puppet show. 



Like the balloon, Song is round-faced and [benign], a preternaturally (pree) calm, solitary, self-contained observer. She is also like Hou in that she, too, is a foreigner remaking The Red Balloon, albeit in DV. Unlike him, however, she's fluent in French.





。摩擦 

Fray



。極限範圍

tether

[at] the end of one's [tether]

This is [beyond] my tether

shackles 

fetters

Boredom puts [fetter][s] upon the [imagination].

Séverine, Deneuve's character, finds that marriage is not the beginning of [contentment], but a key which [unlocks] the doors of her abusive past to allow her [imagination] to run [unfettered].



mesh

to be caught in the meshes of the [law]. 

The [two] versions of the story don't mesh.  

Hollywood-honed tech smarts [and] European character sensibilities mesh entertainingly in pacy WWII resistance thriller Black Book

Kristi Zea's production design meshes [with] location work in Connecticut and Gotham to produce a vivid but unstressed sense of 1955.

trawl

Kenzie goes [trawling] [for] the little girl through an underworld of【漁】拖網【美】(捕海魚的) 排鉤

we are back with Gaffer Hexam and his saintly daughter Lizzie, [trawling] the same river [for] the dumped and the drowned at the start of "Our Mutual Friend."

cf. droll trot

troll 

sing or utter in a full, rolling voice

sing in the manner of a round or catch

fish for or in with a moving line, working the line up or down with a rod, as in fishing for pike, or trailing the line behind a slow-moving boat.

Elevate your taste in trolls, man.



haze

Nat, a bartender who has seen it all, is surprised to see Don. But when Don shows he can pay for his drinks, Nat reluctantly serves him, telling Don, "One's too many and a thousand's not enough." Soon Don plunges [in] an alcoholic [haze], his boozing [landing] him in a [harrowing] drunk tank, [presided] over by the cynical attendant Bim.

gauzy

cobweb

The [dank] doctor's surgery and its abandoned, dirty look covered in cobwebs was said to be [achieved] by the director breaking jam jars on the floor then leaving the room shut off for a little over a month to attract various bugs and insects.

gossamer

One carries a pitchfork. The other has gossamer [wings].

Damon Bradley, her destined lover, there are enough laughs to make one forget the gossamer [story].



plangent 

a plangent [fable] of faith, childhood's end

taut 

The rope was [taut], and so was the ship’s discipline. 

stringent 

strict

pungent 

sexual obscenities 

Beleaguer 



ambient 

vicinity

There are no stores [in] the vicinity of our house.  

diameter

radius

every house [within] a radius of 50 miles.【解】橈骨 (車輪的) 輻條 

watching his people act [out] their moral comedies within such a [circumscribed] radius

The radius of a circle is half the [diameter] 

breadth

Denzel Washington stands at the center of the film, in a performance of enormous breadth. 

girth

the measure around anything, circumference

something that encircles, a band or girdle

It's really amazing. I mean, how small it looks from here, considering the... the girth of what's inside of it.



gamut

ken

knowledge, understanding, or cognizance, mental perception

range of sight or vision

We all consider him eccentric. His doings are [beyond] the ken of most folk.

purview

range of operation, authority, control, concern, etc.

That's not [within] my purview, sir. I thought General Franks was taking the initiative there. Tom, you're commander of the whole [shebang]. That area was never part of my command responsibility, sir.

This is my purview, Edie. I'll check it out. If it's true,

gamut

stratospheric

and it isn't implied by anyone other than Hayden Christensen's Stephen Glass that he's attempting to live up to stratospheric [expectations] "back home." 同溫層的,平流層的

The stratospheric praise given her work led some critics to honor the rest of Monster's Ball with equal [vigor], but the film is more a collection of great parts than a complete whole.



divvy

divide, distribute (often followed by up)

In Alcatraz to divvy [up] the [spoils] from a robbery,

mete

distribute or apportion by measure allot, dole (usually fol. by out)

mete [out] punishment

limit or boundary  



cordon

If you don't need paras inside the cordon, they shouldn'y be inside your cordon. You just have the uniform inside the cordon, okay?

Some disgruntled drivers eventually broke through the [police] cordon and the shoot had to be [aborted].

picket

Don't cross the picket [line]

to picket a [lawn] [captives]

a small group of protestors [picketed] the movie... those carrying picket [signs] decrying the movie as an attack on religious beliefs. 



demarcation

Unlike many child actors who’ve made the successful [transition] to grown-up roles, DiCaprio hasn’t evolved in predictable ways—there are no clear [lines] of demarcation.

contour

The potentially predictable story of a young man who undertakes an impromptu journey to resolve some [un]finished family business emerges as an appealing tale of personal growth with hand-crafted contours. 



trajectory

While the film [follows] a tragic [trajectory], the Coens can't resist leavening it with oddball humor.

Fassbinder [anticipated] the entire trajectory of American independent film. 

aberrant

aberration

that the Huey Longs were [a]berrations,

shunt

shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way

is mocked as old fashioned and irrelevant, and shunted [off] to the side.





。深淵裂縫 

Orifice



。高矮胖瘦

Opulent



3. 緊張精神疾病

Hypochondria



3.4 運氣 Orifice

3.5 疾病

3.6 身體器官

Scalp

















Vicinity