Last weekend I watched the movie, and listed some unfamiliar English words from the script. So here’s the list, followed by the sentence used in the dialogue. It is recommended to use Stardict (www.stardict.org) to find the meaning of these words, since it’s free and have pretty much additional dictionaries.
Furlough
“They give you fourlough after boot camp”
Shovel, Furnace
“I’ll be shoveling coal in a furnace, mum”
Ashore
“You’ll be wearing them when you go ashore in America”
Seafaring
“If You wanted a seafaring life, couldn’t you have signed up for the Mersey
Ferry”
Supper
“At least you’d be home for your supper every night.”
Limey
“You sound like a limey”
Excuse
“You could excuse a bastard by saying that his dad was killed in the war”
Derail
“I didn’t come here to derail your life.”
Out of shape
“Shit! I’m out of shape.”
Bunking down
“I’m just bunking down here, you know, temporarily.”
Androgyny
“Androgyny suits you, Max”
Cut out
“I’m not cut out for this college crap”
Chucking
“You know, when do that lot start chucking plates at each other”
Dessert
“Dessert, yeah.”
Brawl
“He needs a bar, brawl or a hotel.”
Rush
“What’s the rush?”
Shudder
“I shudder to think how Max lives, or what’s he up to.”
Dubious
“He always attracts the most dubious people.”
Promiscuous, Dope
“He’s probably sorrounded by promiscuous dope fiends”
Exhilirating
“It’s exhilirating in a way”
Induction
“It says I have to report to an induction center on the 7th.”
Beets
“HE ate a ton of beets the night before the physical.”
Jab
“We could just jab his arm with a needke a few times.”
Twisted, bend
“You know, he’s so twisted. he’ll bend his way out of this fix”
Bugger
“I love the bugger.”
Exempt
“Well, I’d have been exempt as a shipyard worker”
Scuff up
“You’ll scuff up them shiny black boots”
Vain
“And I would be sad if our new love was in vain.”
Blissfull, throe
“But as blissful as you are in the throes of young love..”
transcend
“We gotta transcend the bullshit, and fast”
snarled up, dreary, hive.
“Let them get all snarled up in their dreary hive.”
knock, swing
“Never knock the way another cat swings”
Groove
“Hate to mess with your groove, New York!”
Tater
“We’re eating taters”
Frontier, transcend
“We’re pushing the frontiers of transcendental perception.”
Contortionist
“She’s a contortionist”
Shagger
“A Shagger, A Don Juan”
Exaggerate
“Don’t Exaggerate.”
Stank
“This guy got no soul and no stank.”
Slither
“They slither while they pass…”
