hooker [possibly offensive]: prostitute.
"You''ll find a lot of hookers in the red light district."

horny [possibly offensive]: ***ually stimulated; in the mood for ***.
"Red wine seems to make my boyfriend horny. "

hot (1): popular.
"Brad Pitt is really hot now."

hot (2): ***y.
"Wow! Cindy Crawford is really hot!"

humungous: really big.
"American supermarkets are humungous."

hungries, to have: be hungry.
"I don''t know about you, but I''ve got the hungries."

hyper: overly excited.
"Children often get hyper when they are tired."

icky: unpleasant.
"The food is really icky in the school cafeteria."

I.D.: identification.
"If you want to order a beer, you''ll need your I.D."

I''m outta here: I''m leaving; I''m departing.
"Sorry, but I''m outta here, dude."

in: fashionable.
"Ray-Ban sunglasses are really in now."

ivories: teeth.
"Tom Cruise has really beautiful ivories."

jack around [possibly offensive]: waste time.
"Will you please stop jacking around?"

jam, in a (1): trouble.
"If you''re in a jam, I promise to help you."

jam (2): improvise (musically).
"I''d love to jam with Bon Jovi!"

jamming, to be : going well.
"Dave''s ESL Cafe is really jamming!"

jerk: stupid or annoying person.
"How could you go out with such a jerk?"

jillion: an immense number.
"Do you really have a jillion problems?"

jock: someone good at sports.
"I''ve never been much of a jock."

john: toilet.
"Where''s the john?"

K (k): a thousand.
"I could retire with 100 K (k)!"

kick back: relax and enjoy.
"I wish I could kick back at the beach today."

kick off: die.
"My dog finally kicked off."

killer: something exceptional or great.
"Wow, your boyfriend is killer!"

knock: condemn.
"Don''t knock it unless you''ve tried it."

knockout: beautiful woman; handsome man.
"Benjamin is already a knockout!"

kook: peculiar person.
"Stop acting like a kook!"

laid back: relaxed; calm.
"I always feel laid back at the beach."

lame: incompetent.
"Dave is really lame when is comes to fixing his car."

lip: cheeky talk.
"My students are always giving me lip!"

loser: a bungling and worthless person.
"Why are you dating such a loser?"

love handles: excess fat around the waist.
"Is it possible for Dave to lose his love handles?"

luck out: to be lucky or fortunate.
"You really luck out by visiting Dave''s ESL Cafe!"

make waves: cause problems.
"Teachers don''t like students to make waves."

max, to the : maximum.
"I''m happy to the max."

mega: big.
"American restaurants serve mega portions of food."

megabucks: a large amount of money.
"It takes megabucks to live in Japan."

mellow: relaxed.
"I''m feeling very mellow this evening."

mickey-mouse: unimportant; time-wasting.
"I''m sick of this mickey-mouse job."

monkey bite: a kiss that leaves a mark on the skin.
"I don''t want any monkey bites tonight, okay?"

munch out: to eat voraciously.
"Let''s munch out on a large pizza!"

nada: nothing (from Spanish).
"I know nada about politics."

neat: cool; great.
"Isn''t my new car neat?"

noid: someone that''s paranoid.
"Why are you so noid?"

nuke (1): nuclear weapon.
"This world had too many nukes."

nuke (2): destroy; delete.
"Sorry, but I accidentally nuked your e-mail message."

nuke (3): cook something in the microwave oven.
"Can you nuke this frozen pizza for me?"

nut (1): odd or crazy person.
"Why are you always acting like a nut?"

nut (2): someone passionate about something.
"I''m a nut about computers."

nuts [offensive]: testicles.
"Don''t ever kick me in the nuts."

okay: decent.
"My boss is an okay person."

OK: decent.
"Dave is an okay person."

pad: someone''s home.
"Can I sleep at your pad tonight?"

party: celebrate.
"Let''s party tonight!"

party animal: someone that loves parties.
"Dave has been known to sometimes be a party animal."

paws: hands.
"Get your paws off me!"

peanuts: very little money.
"I love my job, but the pay is peanuts."

pee: to urinate.
"I always have to pee after drinking beer."

pickled: drunk.
"He got pickled on vodka."

pig out: eat too much.
"Dave is famous for pigging out on chocolate ice cream."

piss: to urinate.
"My dog pissed on me!"

pissed (off): angry; upset.
"I''m really pissed (off) at you."

plastered: drunk.
"Why does he always get plastered?"

pad: someone''s home.
"Can I sleep at your pad tonight?"

poop, the (1): knowledge; information.
"What''s the poop on Michael Jackson?"

poop [offensive] (2): defecation; shit.
"Be careful not to step on dog poop."

poop out: get tired and quit.
"I got pooped out after spending eight hours at Disneyland."

pot (1): toilet.
"Who''s on the pot?"

pot (2): marijuana.
"It''s easy to buy pot in the big city."

pr someone who''s good at something; professional.
"She''s really a pro at golf."

psych crazy person.
"Stay away from that psycho!"

puke: vomit.
"Alcohol makes some people puke."

pumped (up): excited.
"I''m really pumped (up) about Dave''s ESL Cafe!"

puss: the face.
"My girlfriend slapped me right on the puss."

quarterback: leader.
"Dave is the quarterback of Dave''s ESL Cafe."

quick and dirty: done fast, but not well.
"The mechanic did a quick and dirty repair on my car."

racket (1): noise.
"Small kids can make a lot of racket."

racket (2): something that''s dishonest or deceptive.
"The Tobacco Industry is quite a racket."

racket (3): an occupation.
"I''ve been in the ESL racket for fourteen years."

rank: give someone a difficult time.
"She''s always ranking her teacher."

rat: a despicable person.
"I thought I loved you, but now I know you''re really a rat."

razz: annoy someone.
"Will you please stop razzing me?"

rear (end): buttocks.
"Dave fell on his rear (end)."

riot, a : something or someone very funny.
"Jim Carrey is a riot!"

rip off (1): stealing.
"Someone ripped off my car."

rip off (2): fraud.
"I paid $10,000 for my computer. What a rip off!"

rocking: great; excellent.
"Dave''s ESL class is really rocking!"

rubbish: nonsense; not true.
"That rumor is a bunch of rubbish."

rug rat: a child.
"Dave has a couple of rug rats at home."

runs, the: diarrhea.
"Oh no! I''ve got the runs!"

scarf: to eat.
"I can easily scarf an entire banana split."

screw up: to make a mistake.
"I screwed up on the driving test, so I didn''t pass."

screw-up: a person who makes a mistake.
"Why are you such a screw-up?"

scum: a despicable individual.
"Don''t hang around with that kind of scum."

shades: sunglasses.
"Those are really cool shades!"

shoot some hoops: play basketball.
"Let''s shoot some hoops!"

silks: clothing.
"Those are really awesome silks!"

smarts: intelligence.
"It takes a lot of smarts to become a doctor."

smurfbrain: a dumb or stupid person.
"Stop acting like a smurfbrain!"

snookered: cheated.
"I got snookered into buying swamp land in Florida."

sofa spud: a person who watches too much television.
"I''m usually a sofa spud on Sunday."

solid (1): really good; cool.
"Dave''s ESL Cafe is totally solid!"

solid (2): consecutive.
"It''s been raining for seven solid days."

specs: eyeglasses.
"I didn''t know that you wore specs."

split: to leave.
"Let''s split from here now."

spunk: spirit.
"She might be small, but she''s got a lot of spunk."

stoned (out): drunk from drugs or alcohol.
"I''m really stoned (out), dude!"

street smart: knowledgeable about city life.
"Since Dave is from Los Angeles, he''s very street smart."

suck: to be bad and unacceptable.
"That song really sucks!"

technicolor yawn, to do a : vomit.
"My dog just did a technicolor yawn all over the carpet!"

thou: thousand.
"I need to borrow a hundred thou."

threads: clothing.
"My wife spent $900 on new threads."

ticker (1): the heart.
"My grandfather has a bad ticker."

ticker (2): a watch.
"Wow! That''s a really cool ticker!"

tints: sunglasses.
"You have to wear tints in California."

totally: really; completely.
"That''s totally awesome, dude!"

to the max: maximum.
"I studied to the max."

turkey (1): failure; flop.
"Thank goodness that Dave''s ESL Cafe is not a turkey!"

turkey (2): dumb person.
"Turkeys are not allowed to work for this company."

turn-off: something that repulses a person.
"Bad breath is a real turn-off."

umpteen: many; countless.
"I''ve asked you umpteen times to show me the money!"

unlax: relax.
"Dave needs to definitely unlax with his family."

upchuck: vomit.
"She got sick and upchucked three times."

uptight: nervous; anxious.
"Why are you so uptight?"

vanilla (1): plain.
"She drives a vanilla car."

vanilla (2): Caucasian.
"The Midwest is too vanilla for me."

wad: roll of money.
"It''s dangerous to carry a big wad in your pocket."

wasted: killed.
"A lot of people get wasted in the streets of New York."

wheels: car; motorcycle.
"If you want to live in Los Angeles, you''ve got to get some wheels"

whitebread: plain; boring.
"Dave''s ESL Cafe is definitely not whitebread!"

whiz (1): someone who shows a special talent for something.
"Einstein was a whiz in Physics."

whiz [offensive] (2): to urinate.
"I really have to take a whiz."

wimpy: weak.
"Don''t be so wimpy!"

winks, get some: sleep.
"I really need to get some winks"

wrong wrong.
"That is totally wrongo!"

yank (1): bother; harass.
"Stop yanking me, okay?"

Yank (2): a Yankee; an American.
"Dave is a Yank."

zer an unimportant person.
"If you don''t work hard, you''ll end up a zero."

zip (1): nothing.
"I don''t know zip about you."

zip (2): energy; vigor.
"I need something that will give me more zip. "

zit: pimple; acne.
"Teens often have a lot of zits

A to Z slang

airhead: stupid person.
"Believe it or not, Dave can sometimes act like an airhead!"

amig friend (from Spanish).
"I met many amigos at Dave''s ESL Cafe."

ammunition: toilet paper.
"Help! We''re completely out of ammunition!"

antifreeze: alcohol.
"I''m going to need a lot of antifreeze tonight!"

armpit: dirty, unappealing place.
"This cheap motel is an absolute armpit!"

ass [offensive] (1): backside.
"I fell on my ass on the ski slopes."

ass (2): an unworthy and hated person.
"I cannot be friends when you act like an ass."

awesome: great and impressive.
"Dave''s ESL Cafe is truly awesome!"

baby boomer: a person born from the end of the Second World War until the early 1960s.
"Dave Sperling was born in 1961, so he''s considered a baby boomer."

ball (1): a fun time.
"I really had a ball in Dave''s ESL class."

ball [offensive] (2): a testicle.
"After getting kicked in the balls, his voice seemed much higher."

bang (1): a very powerful thing.
"Disneyland is really a bang!"

bang (2): a powerful effect.
"Japanese sake really has a bang!"

barf (1): vomit.
"My dog barfed all over the carpet."

barf (2): vomit.
"Don''t step on the barf!"

barf-out: a displeasing person or affair.
"That restaurant was a real barf-out."

bazillion: an infinite number of something.
"Has Dennis really taught a bazillion students?"

B-ball: basketball.
"Do you wanna play b-ball with me?"

beans: money.
"I''ve worked for this company for ten years, but I still don''t have beans."

beat: tired.
"I''m really beat because I was awake all night."

beemer: a BMW.
"He wants to buy a beemer when he makes more money."

biggie: something important.
"I was hoping to get my homework completed, but it''s no biggie. "

biker: a motorcycle rider.
"Dave used to be a biker until he got into a serious motorcycle accident."

***** [offensive] (1): a very unpleasant woman.
"My boss can be such a ***** sometimes."

***** [offensive] (2): complain.
"Stop *****ing and finish your homework!"

*****y [offensive]: moody.
"I like my friend Steve, even though he can be really *****y."

bod: body.
"Stalone has a great bod!"

bonkers; go bonkers: crazy.
"If Dave works too hard, he sometimes goes slightly bonkers!"

boobo a mistake.
"I made a booboo on the last question of the exam."

boob tube: television.
"Benjamin is always in front of the boob tube."

booze: alcohol.
"The ESL party was fun, even though there wasn''t any booze."

boss: excellent; great.
"Dave''s ESL Cafe is totally boss!"

bread: money.
"Can I borrow some bread?"

brew (1): coffee.
"Every morning Dave needs a fresh cup of brew."

brew (2): beer.
"Do you want another brew, dude?"

brewski: beer.
"I love drinking brewskies!"

B.S.: bullshit; lies.
"I''m tired of listening to your B.S."

bull: bullshit; lie.
"That''s a bunch of bull!"

bullshit [offensive]: lie; dishonesty.
"I don''t like people that bullshit me"

buns [possibly offensive]: the rear end; buttocks.
"Don''t stare at my buns!"

bushed: extremely tired.
"I''m completely bushed."

butt: the buttocks.
"Stop sitting on your butt and help me wash the dishes!"

catch some rays: get some sunshine.
"Let''s go to the beach and catch some rays."

cheesy: cheap; outmoded.
"Why are you wearing such cheesy clothes?"

chicken: coward.
"Don''t be such a chicken!"

cool: excellent; superb.
"Dave''s ESL Cafe is totally cool!"

cooler, the: jail.
"If you drink and drive, you''ll end up spending time in the cooler."

couch potat a person who watches too much television.
"Why did I have to marry such a couch potato?"

crap [offensive] (1): something worthless.
"My furniture is a bunch of cheap crap."

crap [offensive] (2): excrement.
"Yuck! I stepped on dog crap!"

crap [offensive] (3): falsehoods and lies.
"I''ve had enough of your crap."

deck: to hit someone.
"His wife almost decked him when he returned home with lipstick on his shirt."

dicey: unpredictable; risky.
"Gambling is a dicey occupation."

diner money (from Spanish).
"I wish I had more dinero!"

dirt: extremely bad person.
"My ex-boyfriend was dirt."

dirty: offensive; pornographic.
"Stop looking at the pictures in that dirty magazine!"

dorky: strange; peculiar.
"If you keep acting so dorky, you''ll never get a girlfriend!"

dude: a male.
"That''s really cool, dude!"

dynamite: powerful; excellent.
"Dave gave a dynamite presentation."

dinosaur: something old fashioned or out of date.
"I''d love to surf the Net, but unfortunately my computer is a dinosaur."

el cheap something cheap.
"Since I don''t make much money, I always purchase the el cheapo brand."

evil: great; excellent.
"Your car is really evil!"

eyeball: to stare long and hard at someone or something.
"Dave eyeballed his daughter''s new boyfriend."

eyepopper: something or someone visibly astounding.
"Wow, that girl is truly an eyepopper!"

fab: fabulous.
"Dave''s ESL Cafe is really fab!"

face-off: confrontation.
"I think it''s time we had a face-off."

fart [offensive]: to expel intestinal gas.
"It''s embarrassing to fart on the first date."

fender-bender: small accident.
"This morning I had a fender-bender on the Ventura Freeway."

flaky: unpredictable.
"I waited four hours for my flaky friend to show up."

flashback: sudden memory.
"In Little Tokyo I had a flashback to my days living in Japan."

flick: movie.
"Let''s go out tonight and watch a flick."

fox: attractive, alluring person.
"Is it true that Dave is a fox?"

freebie: something that does not cost money.
"My trip to New York was a freebie."

French kiss [possibly offensive]: kissing with the tongue.
"Dave''s dog is always trying to French kiss him!"

geek: someone who works too hard, is more intelligent than usual, and is slightly unattractive.
"Bill Gates is kind of a geek."

get it: to understand something.
"Sorry, but I just don''t get it."

get naked [possibly offensive]: to completely relax and have a good time.
"Let''s get naked tonight!"

glitch: flaw.
"There must be a glitch in this softwware."

go bananas: go slightly mad.
"This project is causing me to go bananas!"

gomer: a dumb person.
"Stop acting like a gomer!"

goof (1): a silly and foolish person.
"What a goof you are!"

goof (2): make a mistake.
I really goofed on the test today."

goof off (1): waste time.
"Stop goofing off and help me clean the house!"

goof-off (2): someone who wastes time and isn''t serious.
"A goof-off never does well in school"

goof up: make a mistake.
"Oh no! I really goofed up!"

goofy: silly.
"Kids always make me feel goofy!"

grabbers: hands.
"Have you washed your grabbers, Benjamin?"

grand: one thousand dollars.
"He''s making over a hundred grand a year!"

grass: marijuana.
"Have you ever smoked grass?"

grub: food.
"Where''s the grub?!"

grubby: not clean.
"I always feel grubby in the morning."

grungy: unclean and stinky.
"Grungy people are not allowed in Dave''s house!"

gut: a person''s stomach; belly.
"Dave is getting a big gut because he loves chocolate ice cream and beer!"

guts (1): courage.
"It took a lot of guts to ask his boss for a raise."

guts (2): the nature of something.
"Let''s get to the guts of Dave Sperling!"

hairy: difficult; dangerous.
"The steep and windy road was really hairy."

hang a left: make a left turn.
"Hang a left at the next corner."

hang a right: make a right turn.
"Hang a right at the next corner."

head: toilet.
"I really need to use the head!"

hep: sensible; informed.
"She''s a really hep student."

hickey: a love bite on the skin.
"Wow! Is that a hickey on your neck?"

hip: sensible; informed.
"He really tries hard to be hip."

符号的英文读法

． period 句号
≈ is approximately equal to 约等于号
， comma 逗号
＜ is less than 小于号
： colon 冒号
＞ is more than 大于号
； semicolon 分号
≮ is not less than 不小于号
！ exclamation 惊叹号
≯ is not more than 不大于号
？ question mark 问号
≤ is less than or equal to 小于或等于号
￣ hyphen 连字符
≥ is more than or equal to 大于或等于号
' apostrophe 省略号
；所有格符号
％ per cent 百分之…
- dash 破折号
‰ per mill 千分之…
' ' single quotation marks 单引号
∞ infinity 无限大号
double quotation marks 双引号
∝ varies as 与…成比例
( ) parentheses 圆括号
√ (square) root 平方根
[ ] square brackets 方括号
∵ since; because 因为
《 》 French quotes 法文引号;书名号
∴ hence 所以
... ellipsis 省略号
∷ equals, as (proportion) 等于，成比例
¨ tandem colon 双点号
∠ angle 角
ditto 双点号
⌒ semicircle 半圆
‖ parallel 双线号
⊙ circle 圆
／ virgule 斜线号
○ circumference 圆周
＆ ampersand = and
π pi 圆周率
～ swung dash 代字号
△ triangle 三角形
§ section; division 分节号
⊥ perpendicular to 垂直于
→ arrow 箭号；参见号
∪ union of 并，合集
＋ plus 加号；正号
∩ intersection of 交，通集
－ minus 减号；负号
∫ the integral of …的积分
± plus or minus 正负号
( ∑ sigma) summation of 总和
× is multiplied by 乘号
° degree 度
÷ is divided by 除号
′ minute 分
＝ is equal to 等于号
″ second 秒
≠ is not equal to 不等于号
＃ number …号
≡ is equivalent to 全等于号
℃ Celsius system 摄氏度
≌ is equal to or approximately equal to 等于或约等于号
＠ at 单价

老师给学生们出了个作文题目：“10块钱能干什么？”

 

第二天，老师看到了同学们的答案：

 

普通工人的儿子林小毛：爸爸说，10块钱能打25分钟的电话。妈妈说，10块钱能买一只鸡腿。爷爷说，10块钱能买两包中档香烟。奶奶说，10块钱能买一顿早点。我觉得，10块钱能买10个冰棒。

 

包工头的儿子郑小发：爸爸背着妈妈对我说，10块钱不够给小姐一次小费。妈妈说，10块钱买不到一只高级唇膏。爷爷说，10块钱买不到一包中华烟。奶奶说，10块钱不够打一圈麻将。我说，10块钱不够一天的零花钱。

 

房地产商的儿子王小顺：爸爸说，10块钱可以买一顿狗食。妈妈说，10块钱可以买一本时尚杂志。爷爷说，10块钱可以买一个最便宜的鸟笼。奶奶说，10块钱能让擦皮鞋的给她擦一次鞋。我说，10块钱可以让我打一次的到学校。

 

市委秘书长的儿子李小路：爸爸说，10块钱用不着单独开发票。妈妈说，10块钱长啥样我没印象。爷爷说，10块钱装兜里太占地方。奶奶说，10块钱怎么能算钱？

 

建筑队里工作的下岗工人的儿子李强：爸爸说，10块钱是我干一天活儿的工钱。妈妈说，10块钱是我两天的饭钱。爷爷说，10块钱能买10支俺孙子最爱吃的糖葫芦。奶奶说，我不知道10块钱能干什么，因为我的口袋里从没有超过10块钱。我说，10块钱能买20包方便面，每天中午吃一包，够吃20天。

 

老师的评语：10块钱可以买一本课外读物，10块钱可以买一盒英语磁带，10块钱可以买一只普通钢笔，10块钱可以买到一份勤奋，一个志向，一颗恒心......

同女人做爱和同女人睡觉时两种互不相干的事情，前者是情欲--感官享受，后者是爱情--相濡以沫。