Sling

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–noun 

1. a device for hurling (猛投) stones or other missiles that consists, typically, of a short strap (皮帶) with a long string at each end and that is operated by placing the missile in the strap, and, holding the ends of the strings in one hand, whirling the instrument around in a circle and releasing one of the strings to discharge the missile. 

2. a slingshot. 

3. a bandage used to suspend or support an injured part of the body, commonly a bandage suspended from the neck to support an injured arm or hand. 

4. a strap, band, or the like, forming a loop by which something is suspended or carried, as a strap attached to a rifle and passed over the shoulder.  



5. sling-back. 

6. an act or instance of slinging. 

7. a rope, chain, net, etc., for hoisting (吊起) freight or for holding it while being hoisted. 

8. Nautical. 

a. a chain for supporting a hoisting yard. (圈欄)

b. slings, the area of a hoisting yard to which such chains are attached; the middle of a hoisting yard. 

 

–verb (used with object) 

9. to throw, cast, or hurl; fling (用力扔,使突然陷入), as from the hand. 

10. to place in or secure with a sling to raise or lower. 

11. to raise, lower, etc., by such means. 

12. to hang by a sling or place so as to swing loosely: 



to sling a [rifle] over one's shoulder.  



13. to suspend: 



to sling a hammock (吊床) between two [trees].  



see hemlock



—Idiom

14. sling hash, Slang. to work as a waiter or waitress, esp. at a lunch counter or cheap restaurant.  



—Synonyms 

9. pitch, toss.





　

In Clerks II, the Quick Stop has been closed down due to a fire. Dante (Brian O'Halloran), the neurotically rational, wheel-spinning underachiever who looks like Charlie Sheen after being whacked with a geek stick, and Randal (Jeff Anderson), that spiky, even less evolved specimen of dedicated...uh, randiness, now work the counter of a Mooby's fast-food franchise. 



They wear goofy purple uniforms that, if possible, mock their status even more than the Godot-at-the-Ring Dings-rack atmosphere of the convenience store did. 



Slinging [burgers] 

and 

[onion rings] to the rare customer 



who wanders into the place, they jabber, in their nothing-matters/everything-matters way, about such vital topics as Transformers, the Proustian joy of go-carts, the issue of whether two particular body parts should ever meet during sex, and also whether either of these two human zeds plans to get, you know, a future.



randy

【蘇格蘭】粗野的女人;強討的叫化子;莽漢

【蘇格蘭】喧鬧的;粗俗的;難馴的

【英】【口】好色的;淫蕩的

jabber

快而含糊地說;吱喳地叫;信口閒談





see spiky



swoop

catapult ricochet



flinch cringe cower

flinty 

flint, esp. in hardness. a flinty [heart].



heist rifle pillage 

loitering 

larceny kleptomania felon

plunder 





dingy 骯髒單字大集合



dissolute (licentious)

desultory (random)



cavil (unnecessarily) 

quibble 

prevaricate (mislead)

equivocate (ambiguous to mislead)



garrulous 長舌單字大集合



blabbermouth 

babble (嬰兒)牙牙學語

jabber 快而含糊地說