2008年9月25日 星期四

Menagerie (續:珍奇異獸 十二生肖 單字大集合)






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EDITORIAL: Fur Is Dead

MAGAZINE: Vogue

MODEL: Raquel Zimmermann

PHOTOGRAPHER: Mario Testino 









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–noun 

1. a collection of wild or unusual animals, esp. for exhibition

2. a place where they are kept or exhibited. 

3. an unusual and varied group of people



selmablair 

Guillermo del Toro and Co. have pulled off a fantastical feat of high entertainment in Hellboy II, a follow-up that bounds off its predecessor into new comedic and action-packed heights, giving this unlikely big screen hero a gleeful second installment that works its devilish tail off to [satisfy] and [astound]



Having already been through the rather transparent -- "This is who the big-horned fella is and yes, he's the leading man" schtick the first time around, round two finds its own groove as Mike Mignola's characters trounce through Del Toro's menagerie of fetishes



namely misunderstood monsters, clockwork gears, undying love, and a magical array of monsters that leaves the audience [spellbound] throughout its near-two-hour running time.





4.1 獸性

4.2 動物叫聲

Surfeit



4. 動物 

。鳥

。洞穴

。狐

。貓科

。海底動物

。人猿

。昆蟲 Walrus



terrarium

As it is, Lonesome Jim soon [evolves] into a comedy, or at least it can be one in the proper frame of mind, a toast-dry farce about depression seen, necessarily, from [outside] the terrarium. 陸地動物飼養所

pachyderm

What about the old diminishing pachyderm formation there? No, that's all Sandra's collection. She's in Zimbabwe at the moment.【動】厚皮類



。鼠

rodent

animated movies about indignant handheld devices and [chatty] rodents, 齧齒目動物

hamster

My close friend was Joe. His bedroom was filled with aquariums, [terrariums], snakes, [hamsters], spiders, and butterfly and beetle collections. 倉鼠

chipmunk

with his chipmunk-like [physiognomy], that the film was thought of and sold as a kid's movie. 

gerbil

This is a PhD candidate in neurobiology. She's studying aggression and sexual behaviour in Mongolian gerbils.

Yeah, I just play with gerbil dick all day. 沙鼠



。牛

stolid

Wendy Hiller is [brusque], but warm, as More's [stolid] wife, 

I think there is something in the Italian landscape, which inclines even the most stolid to romance.

bovine

I regret to say, is borderline [bovine] throughout—merely lowers his [muzzle] and pants a bit

heifer

You fucking heifer.

We come up with a dead heifer in the night. (未生過牛犢的) 小母牛

nowt

he never leaves that television set, so you've got nowt on him.

cud

They have one point in common. A [bovine] quality. Though I liked these [cud]-chewers... They chew things over.

regurgitate

As the body doth regurgitate spoilt meats...

rumination

rumen 

maw

but backward into the [maw] of time.

paunch 

haunch

loin

"My Own Private Idaho," with two young hustlers wandering the West and [noodling] among the [tenderloin] drifters in downtown Portland. (豬、牛等的) 腰肉

goulash

We're making goulash. 菜燉牛肉

cowhide

I always wanted that Corbusier chaise but I'm allergic to cowhide. (帶毛的) 母牛皮, (鞣製的) 母牛皮革

veal

One woman ordered pork and veal mince and I thought: She'll make meatloaf. I had that yesterday, with applesauce. (食用的) 小牛肉



。牛乳

mastectomy

The Oscar-nommed star of "Georgy Girl" and "Gods and Monsters" was diagnosed with [breast] cancer in December 2002, [had] a mastectomy in January 2003 and [underwent] chemotherapy.【醫】乳房切除 (術)

lactation

Poor Ruby. She hates me. I breastfed her baby. Wouldn't take the bottle. So I fed him, and he took to me right away. But, you know, I think my mistake was... I shouldn't have told her. She's got lactation problems, and she couldn't appreciate it. 分泌乳汁

mammilla

pap


teat

the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge nipple or mammilla

areola

aureola

halo

He trusts that we don't need the filmmaker to [vilify] or even mock Dubya from the third person, and despite the aforementioned halo, he also doesn't paint devil horns on the members of the administration like Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.

udder  

wean

accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk

He isn't weaned yet.

Your father has taken a lot of morphine. Too much. If he increases his doses now, it will kill him. We need to wean him off it. We'll stop the morphine for a couple of days until he "kicks the habit" a little.

brisket 

During bondage shoots, the Klaws offer [brisket] and good advice. 胸部,胸肉

Irving offers his models "some beautiful sliced [brisket]",



stalactite

You can't see it, because of the stalactites, due to water seepage.【地】鐘乳石





。溫馴動物

。狗

Bovine



。爬蟲類

。豬怪

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