Throttle (續：車輪餅 計量 單字大集合)

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–noun 

1. Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve. 

2. throttle valve. 

3. the throat, gullet, or windpipe, as of a horse.  



–verb (used with object) 

4. to stop the breath of by compressing the throat; strangle. 

5. to choke or suffocate in any way. 

6. to compress by fastening something tightly around. 

7. to silence or check as if by choking: 



His message was throttled by [censorship].  



8. Machinery. 

a. to obstruct or check the flow of (a fluid), as to control the speed of an engine. 

b. to reduce the pressure of (a fluid) by passing it from a smaller area to a larger one.  

 

valve

【機】閥,活門

【解】瓣,瓣膜

【英】真空管



—Idiom

9. [at] full throttle, at maximum speed.  

　

However, given the strong reaction to the test screening, the Weinstein Co. has decided to go full throttle on securing a release date and mobilizing the marketing materials.





。工具

Schmuck



。車輪餅

cylinder

You do know that this guitar was owned and played by Manuel el Sevillano. It was recorded on a wax cylinder in the 1920's, believe it or not. (發動機的) 汽缸【數】柱,柱面

Comprised largely of never-before-seen archival materials, Gibney's film focuses on the years between 1965 and 1975, when Hunter S. Thompson was truly firing on all cylinders.

throttle

crank

the president's efforts to crank [down] inflation

She's able to crank [out] one best-selling novel after another.   

to crank [up] enthusiasm for a new product

carburetor

maybe it needs a little more air through the second carburettor.【機】汽化器

I think I spotted something. It's a '32 Ford. It's got a 427 in it. And, uh, those are Carter carburetors. Eleven inches of rubber on the rear.

carburettor

Basically, I don't like to work on carburettors, and I can tell

without gettin' into it that that is a complicated unit.

chassis

Automotive. the frame, wheels, and machinery of a motor vehicle, on which the body is supported.

The wind blows ruts into the road, and they shake the hell out of the chassis.

The "Odyssey" carts the crew members drive in the film were custom-built on a chassis designed by the director's father. 車身底盤



cf. retch

ratchet

ratch

Using split screens to ratchet [up] the suspense,【機】棘輪

This version also makes Engstrom a less [ingratiating] man when the [flowering] of his relationship with the hotel desk clerk turns sour, a scene that the remake chose to make into a [respite] rather than another means of ratcheting [up] the tension.

He also does a great job of ratcheting [up] the suspense, 

He uses every device at his disposal to keep the tension and ambiguity [ratcheted] high.

Thanks to its heightened sense of claustrophobia and desperate human drama that [ratchets] up the first half of the picture,

cog

In which you're a cog, boy.【機】鈍齒

spoke

in one film, a Christ figure, saddened by the sight of a dog tied to a [wagon] spoke and too tired to keep up, 輪輻

Vera Farmiga is the femme fatale who’s into spokes.

sprocket

Later on, the film comes off its [sprockets] -- the celluloid literally [breaks] and [melts] on screen, before our eyes. 扣鏈齒輪

winch

This is the first time Eleanor's ever cried in front of me as long as I've known her. Except for once when she got her arm caught in the deck winch. 絞盤,絞車,錨機

Know what I heard? Tony Curtis almost lost his sex life. Back in '44 he's on a Navy sub. A winch falls off hits him in the base of the spine. Right?

sheave

bringing in the sheaves. 滑車輪,絞纜輪



lorry

What bird ? In the lorry.【英】卡車, 貨車

One of the cannibals on the back of the lorry is played by Kodi Smit-McPhee's real life father.

barrow

And before we have undertaken any of our excursions. You haven't even been to nine barrows down.【英】兩輪手推車,流動售貨車

jalopy

No, it was like a beat-up little jalopy.【口】老爺汽車,老爺飛機

Your husband claimed there's not a single jalopy available!

droshky

... when a droshky approaches from the direction of Lvov. 敞篷四輪馬車

cabriolet

He drives a cabriolet. A cabriolet, that's good design. Good mileage. 單馬雙輪輕便車, (舊時的) 篷式汽車

The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes, his children, robed in white... stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror... holding a golden crown... and whispering in his ear a warning... that all glory...is leeting.

Worry's all I've got... some in chariots, some in horses. but we remember the name of the Lord, our God.

chaise

I always wanted that Corbusier chaise but I'm allergic to cowhide. (常指單馬雙輪有車篷的) 輕便馬車



aerodrome

I suppose they're saving them for the aerodrome again.【英】飛機場,航空站





。天乾物燥 Desiccate

。降雨 Cataract



。計量

barometer

This isn't a barometer reading. It lasts. 氣壓計,晴雨表

thermometer

calibrate, to divide or mark with gradations, graduations, or other indexes of degree, quantity, etc., as on a thermometer, measuring cup, or the like. 溫度計

odometer

I set the odometer when I left home. 里程計



caliber 

calibrate

a sales strategy calibrated [to] rich investors.  

The emotional nuances in Eric Rohmer's movies are so [carefully] calibrated that 

It's easy to see why a filmmaker of Eastwood's [caliber] would be drawn to a story like the one that inspired Changeling,

not even an Oscar-[caliber] crew on both sides of the camera can cover for the fact that the screenplay for Changeling simply [flounders] in the final act.

peg

of a [budget] currently pegged [at] $8.65 

The [feature] on the chief of police was pegged on the [riots].  

to peg away [at] a [homework] assignment.  

I guess that'll take him [down] a peg!  



。瓶罐

beaker

He's trying to say something, Dad. Cider. Here you are, Rat. A beaker of Bean's finest secret cider. Like melted gold.【化】燒杯

"Thwaite's companion asked for the brandy to be served in large beakers. Apparently, as a result of a bet between the two men. Thwaite filled one of these beakers to the brim and drank it all."

cf. flank

flask 

homunculus, an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a [flask] by an alchemist. (實驗用的) 燒瓶,長頸瓶

canister

small box or jar, often one of a kitchen set, for holding tea, coffee, flour, and sugar

the part of a gas mask containing the neutralizing substances through which poisoned air is filtered

It would take one bomb, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.

keg

Just like you have a powder keg. When you have a powder keg|and there's too many sparks, the thing's going to explode. If the thing that's going to explode is sitting inside the house, and if it explodes, then the house is going to be destroyed. I said the house is going to be destroyed. 小桶 (通常在10加侖以下)

pail

He fetched a pail [of] water.

He redeemed himself. Redemption, sure.But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant. 桶,提桶

crock

an earthenware pot, jar, or other container

a fragment of earthenware, potsherd

Jake didn't show? No. Oh, he said it was out of respect for me. That's a crock.

vat

large container, as a tub or tank, used for storing or holding liquids

preparation containing an insoluble dye converted by reduction into a soluble leuco base

That aftershave, it just made my whole childhood come back with a sudden Proustian rush. That's beause I'm wearing Proustian Rush by Chanel. It's reduced, so I got a vat of it.



。單位

tesla

The time for jackong around with tesla coils and ball lightning in the garage is over. 特斯拉 (磁通量密度之國際單位)

metric

Mr. President, I think we're being overly negative in a situation where, indeed, we lack the metrics to judge the overall success of the global war on terror. 公尺的,公制的



ream

Able to memorize ream[s] of trivia. 令,二十刀 (紙張計數單位) 

dollop

given a [dollop] of extra fat. 塊,團,份
sheaf

Erik's book instead earned a sheaf of rejection slips.


















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