标准美国俚语SLANG
SLANG
●An informal non-standard variety of speech characterized by newly coined and rapidly changing
words and phras.
●informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for
formal occasions
Common Slang
●awesome:
very good, interesting, or appealing
●big deal:
important event; may be ud sarcastically to refer to something that is not important
●blast or It’s going to be a blast!
It’s going to be a lot of fun
●blow it off:
to ignore or avoid someone or something
●blue or have the blues:
feel depresd
●bogus:
1) nonexistent, fake
●to book:
to rerve a ticket to an event or on transportation
●bounce a check:
to overdraw a checking account
●broke:
having no money
●buddy:
friend
●bummer:
unpleasant experience
●burned:
rejected, insulted, or otherwi negatively treated
●burned out:
exhausted
●busted:
to be caught by anyone in authority while misbehaving, or by the police while using drugs
●check out:
1) to sign out materials from a library
2) to try to find out something
●check it out:
to look over a situation
●chill out:
a command to stop what you are doing, relax
●couch potato:
a lazy person who spends a large amount of time (perhaps on a couch) watching television
●cram:
To study frantically the night before a test
●crash:
1) to stay overnight in someone el’s dwelling, usually without notice or formal arrangement
2) to go to sleep after becoming extremely tired
●cruising:
Driving around for pleasure with no particular destination ●to have a crush on someone:
To be extremely infatuated or attracted with someone
●cut it out!
Stop it!
●dork:
an unfashionable and awkward male
●dorm:
dormitory
●dough:
money
●down in the dumps:
depresd
●drop in:
to visit unexpectedly
●dude:
a man
●fire up:
to get excited about something; to motivate
●fix up:
to arrange a date for a friend
●fed up or sick of:
disgusted with; tired of
●freak out:
to lo control of onelf
●geek
unattractive, unstylish, socially inept person
●get a kick out of someone/something:
find someone or something amusing or enjoyable
●give someone a break
to stop criticizing or teasing
●Give me a break!
Express disbelief
●Give someone a ring
to call someone on the telephone
●goofing off
acting silly; doing something that has no particular purpo ●give up
to quit
●go bananas
to be so excited that one los control of onelf
●gross
something unpleasant
●hang in there
keep trying; do not be discouraged
●hang out
1) to spend time leisurely
2) a regular meeting place for friends
●hit the road
to leave a place
●hit the sack
to go to bed
●hitch a ride
to get a ride from another person
●ID
identification card
●in a nutshell
very briefly and concily
●jerk
person who cannot do things correctly; a mildly mean/bad term most commonly for men
●Knock it off!
Stop doing that! Usually expresd when you are doing something annoying
●Lighten up!
Relax, don’t be so rious
●loaded
someone who has had too much to drink;
someone who has a lot of money
●Loon up!
Relax
●lo it
to lo control of onelf
●luck out or get lucky
to have something good happen due to luck or chance
●Don’t mess with me!
Leave me alone
●Mind your own business!
Do not ask questions or make statements about this matter; it is my concern and not yours
●nerd
a strange or socially inept person
●on the hou
free, no cost
●Oops!
An exclamation ud when a small mistake is made
