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[flak-sid, flas-id]
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–adjective
1. soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.2. lacking force; weak: flaccid [prose].
biceps【解】二頭肌
Small, wiry and pockmarked, Galoup cuts a strange figure around his "boys," shaven-headed young giants with faces as sculpted as their biceps.
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flaccid (adj.)
is conventionally pronounced FLAK-sid,
but FLA-sid can also be heard (and is often questioned). It means "weak, limp, flabby, slack":
After weeks of inactivity my [muscles] felt flaccid.
Smith's heart is in it, but it's sort of a broken heart now; Clerks II feels as though it was made by a man who needs a change but isn't permitted to make one. Part of that is his own fault:
He's too erratic a writer and
too flaccid a director
to balance the smirky-dirty humor with the schmaltzy sensitive shit.
。噪音 Raucous
。爭執 Schism
。反噪音
flaccid
While the book by Bret Easton Ellis is shockingly [cynical] and [nihilistic], this big-screen version is [laughably] moralistic and [flaccid], so [reductive] to its characters that their afflictions have been transformed from heartbreaking to absurd.
Showgirls was not so much [abject] as flaccid, and the executives realised that its best hope of winning an audience was to be [parcelled] up as deliberate high camp, the lowest form of cult. They half-succeeded.
placid
the [storm] passes and the [placid], [chilly] surface returns.
the opening shot of [calm], [placid] water disturbed by the family's arrival sets the tone of the picture in an instant.
Ronnie's presence disrupts the community's [placid] exterior and, at last, the repressed suburbanites are able to [breach] their self-imposed silence,In addition, he establishes mood and contrast in brief shots - placid, then [turbulent] waters, bustling minions,
halcyon
Why, Mrs Rutland! Can you be suggesting that these halcyon honeymoon days and nights, just the two of us alone together... should ever end?【鳥】翡翠鳥
zephyr
The zephyr has wafted us off our course.【文】西風
waft
to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over waterThe gentle [breeze] wafted the sound of music to our ears.
The actress wafted [kisses] to her admirers in the audience.
most readily [calls] to mind Polanski in his "The Tenant" mode, with [echoes] of Hitchcock, Lynch, Kafka and Dostoyevsky wafting [through] as well
Although it is only fiction, it [wafts] a thick and acrid air of smoldering truth.
The Dark Knight – the film that changed the way the Academy voted on Best Picture, remains among the best films to ever waft in their direction, whether they were smart enough, in mass, to notice, or not.
skim
She skimmed the soup to remove most of the [fat].
flit
to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along
[Bees] were flitting from flower to flower.
[Fancies] flitted through my mind.
The movie's plot is as [lighthearted] as a Scott Fitzgerald short story, all about young people skimming the [surface] of the pond of life, [flitting] here and there, making small talk and flirting.
Génessier's [birdlike] daughter, Christiane, [flits] about the château, eyes peering through the sockets of a [molded] plastic mask.
"...and the [raven], never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on the [pallid] bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door."
You can have any car you want, but that ugly black horror is an eyesore and an embarrassment. Really, Harold, it is time you settled down and stopped flitting [away] your talents on these amateur theatrics, these little [divertissements], no matter how psychologically purging they may be.
winnow
free (grain) from chaff by windhas only 16 or so minutes [shorn] from its original 150, the cuts winnowing [away] at the most easily mocked ingredients
sift
to winnow a [mass] of statements.
to winnow falsehood [from] truth.
rustle
rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papersof moments when the attention is stimulated only by the sinister rustle of [silk]
pulverize
reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding [粉碎]
demolish or crush completely
Her transposition of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd to a French Foreign Legion post on the Horn of Africa is a mosaic of pulverized [shards].
This summer Michael Winterbottom's Jim Thompson adaptation The Killer Inside Me, in which Affleck stars as a psychotic sheriff who [brutally] pulverises two women, has [caused] outrage.
You know what? If he would've listened to me, he'd have pulverized Clinton. I mean, I wish he had more of Mom in him because he's weak in spirit.
You didn't teach him so good. I pulverized him in Pittsburgh five years ago.
friableeasily crumbled or reduced to powder, crumblyCrocidolite? Worst kind. This is decayed, friable. Circa nineteen forties.
honeAmid [ultra]-mod 1960s nightclub interiors and Henri Dacaë's [icily] stylish cinematography, Melville [meticulously] [details] Jeff's [well]-honed methods for stealing cars, shooting victims, and covering his [tracks]. 磨刀石
sangfroid n.Originally released in the U.S. in an edited, dubbed version meant to capitalize on the popularity of The Godfather (1972), Le samouraï was restored to its original form in the 1990s, although its visual flourishes, procedural flair, and Delon's existential sangfroid had long since [infiltrated] the international neo-noir lexicon.【法】冷靜; 沈著; 鎮定.
aplomb n.It's nice to see Mouglalis in a comedy, and even nicer to see how she handles the wry lines with confident [aplomb]【法】沈著,泰然自若
Magimel, [abetted] by a wacky haircut and flashy wardrobe, pulls out all the stops with take-notice aplomb.
Deschanel here shows she can do weary and depressive with [equal] aplomb.
Ralph Richardson gives his [pointed] aplomb to the rich man and as a wise old tailor who gives the hero a golden suit,
Hitchcock was in wonderful form here, [stacking] the thriller deck with incredible skill and [aplomb], and coming up with a stunning and unforgettable 12-minute climax that is played without a single word of dialogue.composureserene, self-controlled state of mind, calmness, tranquillity
Her endless hours of [rigorous] training suddenly rendered useless by the pass of a pen, Mélanie remains unable to [regain] her composure after the incident and subsequently gives up music altogether after failing to pass the test.
imperturbableincapable of being upset or agitated, not easily excitedimperturbable [composure] Lead thesps are beautifully matched, with Stahl's imperturbable Isaac acting as the perfect straight-man [foil] to Farmiga's neurotic, impassioned Fiona.
impassivewithout emotion, apathetic, unmoved
calm, sereneOpening with a fake [nugget] of samurai wisdom, Melville emphasizes the [self]-imposed isolation of Alain Delon's impassive Jeff Costello, as he lies alone in his [monochrome] apartment before his next job.
induratemake hard, harden, as rock, tissuecallus
callous
having a callus, indurated, as parts of the skin exposed to friction
insensitive, indifferent, unsympathetic
You're offending Dr. Peterson with your [callousness].
How can you be part of it without becoming more andd more callous?
phlegmatic
not easily excited to action or display of emotion, apathetic, sluggish
phlegmatic as ever, Samantha Morton. (The best gag in the film is that Hazel’s home is forever on [fire]
The Driver (James Taylor) and the Mechanic (Dennis Wilson) phlegmatically [slouch] from race to race, pitting their gray Chevy against any and all [gearheads] in order to make money for [gas] and [food].
valerianHow many drops? Of the valerian? 【植】纈草屬植物 (採製的鎮定劑)
ValiumShe was okay all year. Now look at her after a day in the clinic. They only gave her valium. It's normal. 安定 (商標名,安眠鎮定藥)
QuaaludesHER TESTIMONY: He had a pill broken in three parts... He said, "Is this a quaalude?" And I said, "Yes." And he went, "Do you want part?"
amobarbitalThree drugs on the needle: amobarbital, Valium, insulin. 戊巴比妥 (鎮定劑原料)
Flaccid
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