Orifice (續：深淵 裂縫 運氣 單字大集合)

orifice 



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【文】【幽】孔,口,洞 [C]



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–noun 

an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe; a mouthlike opening or hole; mouth; vent.  



—Related forms

orificial, adjective 





　

Yeah yeah, we all wanted another killer gaping orifice movie. 



Celebrated director David Cronenberg is in talks to helm The Matarese Circle, a global conspiracy thriller based on the 1979 book by the late author Robert Ludlum (the Bourne franchise). 



Denzel Washington is already attached to play one of the leads in the MGM production, with an adapted screenplay to be written by the duo Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma, Wanted, Wanted 2, CTK).





。極限範圍 

Vicinity



。深淵裂縫

abyss

fall into the [abyss] 

[abyss] of shame

or as a vulnerable but edgy woman who can't resist pushing herself to the [edge] of the abyss in attempt to find or define herself.

abysm 

reserved almost wholly for figurative

abysmal

[abysmal] ignorance

her concentration was [abysmal] 

abysmal[ly] gloomy

abyssal

the abyssal [zone] (oceanography)

orifice 

although the doll comes advertised with "orifices," Lars does not use Bianca for sex. 

rictus

the [gape] of the mouth of a bird 

his face frozen into a [rictus] of unease and dislike, his eyes turned away, as the classmate [rattles] on and on.

gape

suggests open-mouthed, ignorant or rustic wonderment or curiosity

gape at a [tall] building or a [circus] parade. 

Just in time or born in the vestry. You shut your mouth and help Mr. Godby pick up them cakes.

gawp

Chiefly Northern U.S. to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment, gape

I've brought in the Earl to gawp at my triumph. Authors have a place, Mr Etherege. It is in the garret.

Yes, as an 80s adolescent I spent formative evenings gawping in front of Blue Velvet, Brazil and so on.



crevice 

tiny crevices between our [teeth]

Then you see that big, old bullfrog in the crevice, and sort of float this along in front of him.

crevasses 

yawning crevasses in our knowledge of the [universe]

rift

A deep rift had started in their [family] life.

The news cycle spins merrily out of control, producing something that Kelly is pleased to term a rift in the [space]-[time] continuum.

fissure

The roots of the tree loosened their holds in the fissures of the [rock].

In one sight gag, Thornton gets slammed in close-up against a glass door that waits a beat and then [fissures].

The [fissured] disorientation powerfully conveys an infinite [un]raveling—a sense that nothing less than space-time as we know it is [spinning] off its axis.

gorge

chasm

a chasm in [time].

There is always a chasm [between] pros and their audiences.

IT'S TIME THAT WE EITHER BRIDGE THAT CHASM WITH SOME KIND OF REALISTIC LAW ENFORCEMENT OR ELSE-- I DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA BE BRIDGED IN THIS COUNTRY. WE'RE GOING TO REVOLUTION.

slit

make a long cut, fissure or opening

and she has her own spooky glamour for having once slit her [wrists]. (The thin, [wistful] Malone 

It happens to be a barber’s, so he sits and has a shave, still [panting] from his exertions, and not knowing whether the man with the [razor] will help him out or [sli]t his throat.

gash

a long, deep wound or cut, slash

Slang: Vulgar.

vagina

Disparaging and Offensive, a woman considered as a sex object 

There is [barely] a murmur of science here: anyone expecting talk of [wormholes], or of gashes in the space-time [continuum], will be disappointed.



aperture

which was the widest lens aperture setting.

perforate

Hector, I ordered three Islamic 13th-century, perforated pottery bowels and six breakers.



chink

cranny

nook

Every [nook] and [cranny] of this place brought back memories.

They searched every [nook] and [cranny] for the missing ring.  

a [shady] nook that was ideal for a picnic. 

Every scene is crammed with detail, from the [nooks] and [crannies] of the settings 

But this small, sensitive, [wondrously] likable debut occupies a nearby [nook] in the DIY pantheon. 

Washington Heights was good. It was always good, because there were a lot of nooks and crannies, you know.

rook

David, what are you doing down there? Looking for a chess piece. No, I didn't find it. I think it's a rook.【鳥】白嘴鴉, (國際象棋中的) 車,騙子

But... Why, it must be someone's initials. Well, I've been rooked. The jeweller rooked me.



rut

You better slow down. There's ruts out there. You can get us stuck in one.

trench

Venturing [deep] into the trenches where hard-working Americans struggle to put food on the table,

culvert

Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two 18-year-olds, kidnapped and murdered the 13-year-old Bobby Franks, immediately killing him and then stuffing his naked body [up] a culvert.

scupper

allowing water to drain away 

those old rumors about Rodriguez and McGowan splitting up and that [scuppering] the movie. 

This sounds like Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant squared, or even to the power of von Trier’s own The Five Obstructions. I hope - hell, I pray - that Scorsese or De Niro don’t pull [out] and [scupper] this.



spelunk

Sarah is lured to the States with her friend Beth to a special [spelunking] trip by the fearless Juno,

cavern

In the movie’s neatest conceit, we take them to be proof of adultery, but they [glimmer] with something worse, from the [caverns] of her past. 

grotto

cave or cavern

Then, my birds sing, and the deep grottoes whisper my name.

ravine

Our spies infiltrated among [through, within] the crowd. Our scouts were told to infiltrate from [toward] the ravine.

You know, I thought he was going to shoot me back in the ravine. I really thought he was going to do it.





。運氣

serendipitous

serendipitous scientific [discov]eries. 

Although Spielberg said he wanted to give Tom Hanks the time and space to develop elaborate situations like Tati [serendipit]ously blundered through

and because [coincidence] and [serendipity] play such a large role in his stories, this is more cheerful than it sounds.

gloat

Don't gloat, Walter. 

Bashung trying not to gloat [over] his continued popularity while Arno exaggerates a waning career.

fluke

Personally, I’d like to see her [chained] to a word-processor because the screenplay [to] Juno simply couldn’t have been a [fluke] and I want more.

If nothing else, Revolutionary Road proves that their Titanic chemistry was no [fluke].

It is no [fluke] that the film won the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. With its witty, nonexploitative treatment of a [lurid] subject, 

Following the triumph that was L.A. Confidential, director Curtis Hanson proves that film was no mere fluke with this [beautifully] written, [expertly] acted comedy that recalls the looseness and offbeat sensibilities of the best cinema of the 1970s. 



fortuitous

happening or produced by chance, accidental

lucky, fortunate

I know there's always a certain kind of reader who will be compelled to ask, But what really happened？ The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish. As long as there is a single copy, a solitary typescript of my final draft, then my spontaneous, fortuitous sister and her medical prince survive to love.

It's difficult to make any sort of movie, good or bad, but to make a movie that's so bad it's good you need vision, drive, [luck] and obsessive vanity. [Fortuitously], The Room's writer/producer/director/star Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent.

and the film overall, benefit from an uncommonly intelligent script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, an [odd] yet [fortuitous] pairing of seemingly dissimilar writing styles.



arriviste

a person who has recently acquired unaccustomed status, wealth, or success, especially by dubious means and without earning concomitant esteem.

Robert Walker's Bruno becomes the flamboyant [homicidal] id to Farley Granger's stiff arriviste Guy, obliging Guy's desire to [eliminate] his wife and expecting Guy to return the favor with Bruno's father. 



kismet

fate, destiny

I really really believe in [karma], [kismet] and whatever almighty power there is to judge how and what we do in our lifetime.

















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