Friends season2 episode 21 : Words (프렌즈 2-21 단어)

 

 

 

 

• On behalf of : representing:
  
  On behalf of the entire company, I would like to thank you for all your work.
  
  Unfortunately, George cannot be with us today so I am pleased to accept this award on his behalf.
  
  She wasn't able to be present, so I signed the letter in her behalf.

 

 

• Would like : used to say politely that you want something:
  
  I think I'd like the soup for my starter.
  I'd like to go to Moscow.
  I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who's helped to make our wedding such a special occasion!

 

 

 

• Rotisserie : (a shop or restaurant that contains) a device for cooking meat, especially chicken, by turning it round slowly near a flame or cooker
  
• Chicken out : to decide not to do something because you are too frightened:
  
  I was going to go bungee jumping, but I chickened out.

 

• Eerie : strange in a frightening and mysterious way:
  
  She heard the eerie noise of the wind howling through the trees.He had the eerie feeling that he had met this stranger before.

 

• Beat : 1. to defeat or do better than:
  
  Simon always beats me at tennis.
  
            2. extremely tired:
  
  I’m beat - I'm going to bed.

 

 

• Be supposed to :  1. to have to; to have a duty or a responsibility to:
  
  The children are supposed to be at school by 8.45 a.m.
  What are you doing out of bed - you're supposed to be asleep.
  You're not supposed (= allowed) to park here.

 

                                    2.to be intended to:
         These batteries are supposed to last for a year.

         We were supposed to have gone away this week, but Debbie's ill so we couldn't go.

         How am I supposed to (= how can I) find that much money by the end of the week?

 

 

• Kudos  : the public admiration that a person receives as a result of a particular achievement or position in society:
  
  Being an actor has a certain amount of kudos attached to it.

 

• Strip : to remove, pull, or tear the covering or outer layer from something:
  
  Because of the pollution, the trees are almost completely stripped of bark.
  The paintwork was so bad that we decided to strip off all the paint and start again.
  [ + adj ] During the summer months, the sheep strip the mountains bare.

 

 

• Not know the first thing about ~ : to know nothing about something.
  
  You don’t know the first thing about the stock market!

 

• Bull : someone who expects the price of shares, bonds, currency, etc. to increase, and who buys these investments in order to sell them later for a profit:
  
  Bulls believe the US economy is beginning to pick up.

 

• Kibble : food for animals in the form of hard round balls:
  
  a bag of dog kibble
  
  
• Wonder : to ask yourself questions or express a wish to know about something:
  
  [ + question word ] Shouldn't you phone home? Your parents will be wondering where you are.
  He's starting to wonder whether he did the right thing in accepting this job.
  [ + speech ] Will this turkey be big enough for eight, I wonder?
  "Have you decided where you're going next summer?" "I've been wondering about (= considering) going to Florida."

 

 

• Threshold : the floor of an entrance to a building or room 
  
  
• Upstate : towards or of the northern parts of a state in the US, especially those that are far from cities where a lot of people live
  
  upstate New York

 

• Fella  : a man:
  
  There were a couple of fellas leaning up by the bar.

 

 

• Stitch : a piece of thread sewn in cloth, or the single movement of a needle and thread into and out of the cloth that produces this:
  
  She sewed neat, firm stitches.

• Niece : a daughter of your brother or sister, or a daughter of your husband's or wife's brother or sister
  
  
  
• Beat up : 1. to hurt someone by hitting or kicking them many times:
  
  They threatened to beat me up if I didn’t give them my wallet.
  
  
  2. (beat someone/yourself up) to blame or criticize yourself or someone else
  
  It’s time you stopped beating yourself up over this.

 

 

 

• Rite of passage : an official ceremony or informal activity that marks an important stage or occasion in a person's life, especially becoming an adult

 

• Come to terms with something : o learn to understand and accept something:
  
  He made little effort to come to terms with his critics.

 

 

• Bob : to move up and down quickly and gently, especially on the surface of water:
  
  In the harbour, the boats bobbed gently up and down on the water.

 

 

• Gutter : an open pipe, usually at the lower edge of a roof, that collects and carries away rain

 

 

• Ovulate : (of a woman or female animal) to produce an egg from which a baby can be formed:
  
  Some women take drugs to help them ovulate.

 

• Trip : an occasion when you knock your foot against something and fall or lose your balance, or someone causes you to do this, when you are walking or running: