Fulcrum

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(槓桿) 支點

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–noun 

1. the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.

2. any prop or support.

3. Zoology. any of various structures in an animal serving as a hinge or support. 



–verb (used with object) 

4. to fit with a fulcrum; put a fulcrum on. 





　　

Pic's fulcrum is a roadside diner, where down-and-out petty thief Franck (Edouard Baer) considers a stick-up until he realizes luck isn't with him lately. 



Waitress Susie (Anna Mouglalis), clued in to Franck's thwarted objective, confesses she tried the same thing two days earlier, but with no money in the cash register, she figured she might as well work the counter for a while.





demotion

James E. Davis, was demoted following the Collins [debacle].

inductee

a sequence where [inductees] in Jockey shorts carry the Statue of Liberty through a Vietnam field

induct

The [committee] inducted her as [president].  

They inducted him [into] the mystic rites of the order.  

postulant

Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of [nuns].



beseech

implore

There he is [implored] by other waiters to lend them his clean towel

Convulsion