Bulge

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–noun 

1. a rounded projection, bend, or protruding part; protuberance (瘤); hump (駝背): a bulge in a wall. 

2. any sudden increase, as of numbers, sales, or prices: the bulge in profits. 

3. a rising in small waves on the surface of a body of water, caused by the action of a fish or fishes in pursuit of food underwater. 



–verb (used without object) 

4. to swell or bend outward; be protuberant.

5. to be filled to capacity: The box bulged with cookies.  



–verb (used with object) 

6. to make protuberant; cause to swell. 





　

In the new version of "All the King’s Men," Sean Penn, as Willie Stark, the Southern country boy who wants to be governor, wears his hair cropped close at the sides and standing up straight on top. With that coxcomb roof, Penn looks constantly aroused by Stark’s eagerness to conquer. The performance begins quietly and builds into a kind of permanent uproar. Like Robert Rossen’s 1949 version, this grandiose movie, written and directed by Steven Zaillian, is based on Robert Penn Warren’s extraordinary 1946 novel about the eruptive life of the Louisiana governor and senator Huey P. Long. Willie Stark begins his career as a lawyer and local official, and, as he sizes people up, gauging weakness and strength, Penn seems wary, even recessive, but you can tell from the set of his mouth that he’s thinking malevolent thoughts. 



coxcomb

雞冠花

花花公子



When Willie’s speeches fail to excite much interest, Penn lets loose: his [neck] cords bulge, his voice becomes coarse, as if his throat were lined with broken glass, and his hands, circling each other rapidly, suddenly shoot out to the side, repelling evil capitalists and corrupt politicians. "You’re a hick!" he screams at the tired-looking country people listening to him, "and ain’t nobody ever helped a hick but a hick hisself." Willie promises schools, roads, and bridges. Attacks on him by other politicians are, he says, attacks on the people. In a montage of speeches, we see the populist turn into a demagogue.

Huey Long became governor in 1928 and was dead by 1935, but Zaillian, trying not to let the material recede too far into the past, updates the period to the fifties. Rampaging around town in a double-breasted suit, a hat covering that rooster hair, Penn walks with his gut thrust out, his arms swinging at his sides. He gives a strenuous, at times shrewd and acid performance, which has been embedded, unfortunately, in a clumsy and ineffective movie. Rossen’s film, which won the best-picture Oscar, is terse, rowdy, and melodramatic; 



rooster 

雄雞

【美】狂妄自負的人,好鬥者



it surges ahead like one of those gangster movies from the thirties which chronicled the abrupt rise and the more abrupt fall of a noisy thug with a fondness for broads and tailored suits. Broderick Crawford, who played Willie, was a big, heavy-set man with jowls and a menacing snarl. A less accomplished actor than Penn, he was a more natural fit for the part. But Rossen didn’t much bother with authenticity. You can’t tell where the movie is supposed to be taking place—it could be the Midwest—and the actors make no attempt at Southern accents. 



jowl

頜,大顎,頜骨

面頰





tumescent

tumid

turgid (swollen) turgid [language]

turbid (dark & muddy)

bloat

Overeating bloated their [bellies]. The [carcass] started to bloat.

to [cure] (fishes) as bloaters. 

The promotion has bloated his [ego] to an alarming degree. 

eke

increase, enlarge, lengthen.

Eva and Jan are musicians who have withdrawn to a remote island where they eke [out] a [living] by growing and selling fruit. 

mete

distribute or apportion, dole 

a limiting mark

his one true love is the city whose mean streets offer him [no] shortage of opportunities to mete [out] justice.

dole

doleful

Debilitate