Abide
Yeah, I got some speeding tickets. But I'm a law-abiding citizen and I'm not an offender. I'm more like a speeding-ticket collector.
是的，我是收到过一些违规超速的罚单。不过我可是一个守法公民，而不是违法者。我更象一个超速罚单收藏家。
注：你因为超速被交警拦下后你敢这样对警察说吗？
Abolish
If everybody becomes middle-class, the middle-class will automatically be abolished. If everybody is in the middle, there is no middle. So I'd rather to stay in the low class, or even negative class so you can be in the middle class.
如果人人都成了中产阶级，中产阶级将会被自动取消。如果人人都在中间，就没有中间。所以我宁愿呆在低的那个阶级，甚至负阶级，好让你们当中产阶级。
Absurd
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
不尝试荒谬你就成就不了不可能的事。
注：人类历史上每次重大的科技进步一开始在常人看来都有点儿的荒谬。
Accommodate
Lord Emsworth had of those minds capable of accommodating but one thought at a time ---if that.
艾姆公爵的大脑一次只能容纳一种思想--如果他有的话。
注：他不仅一根筋，而且还可能没脑子。
Acquaint
Prosecutor: Your Honor, my opponent is a liar!
Defense attorney: Your honor, my opponent is a cheat!
Judge: Good, I'm glad to see you're acquainted with each other.
公诉人：法官大人，我的对手是个说谎者！
辩护律师：法官大人，我的对手是个骗子！
法官：很好，很高兴你们相互认识。
Acquit
The judge told the prisoner that the jury had acquitted him on the charge of bigamy.
"You are free to leave the court and go home."
"Thank you. But which home shall I go to?"
法官告诉犯人陪审团撤消对他重婚罪的指控。
"你自由了，离开法庭回家吧。"
"谢谢，但我该回哪一个家？"
addict
If you are addicted to knitting while eating, you should exercise some caution... especially with macaroni.
如果你吃饭时还沉溺于打毛衣，要小心点儿......特别是吃通心粉时。
注：别把毛线和通心粉弄混了。
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
有些人沉湎于夸张，以至于他们不说谎就讲不了真话。
注：自相矛盾。
There is a division of labor, even in vice; some persons addict themselves to the speculation only, others to the practice.
劳动有分工，干坏事也不例外；一些人只沉溺于思考，一些人热衷于实践。
注：有些人先思考后实践，有些人先实践后思考。
Hi, I'm Bill and I'm an Internet addict. But I've been off-line now for 4 days, 12 hours, and 8 minutes.
嗨，我是Bill，我是个网虫，不过我现在已经有4天零12个小时零8分钟没上网了。
注：形象地表现了不上网时分分秒秒的煎熬。
Adhere
Strong adherence to principles: Stubborn.
严格坚持原则：顽固
注：你不说某人"顽固"，而说他"严格坚持原则"，这是说话的艺术，也是一种拍马屁的艺术。
Adolescent
Adolescence: I went to my son's school to see his guidance counselor. He told me my boy was out: He'd be back in one to three years.
青春期：我去我儿子的学校看望他的指导老师，他告诉我我儿子出去了，一到三年内就会回来。
注：青春期比较躁动，这小子一出去两三年都不回来。
Adore
In Ireland there is so little sense of compromise that a girl has to choose between adoration and pregnancy.
在爱尔兰很少有妥协的概念，女孩不得不在爱慕和怀孕之间作出选择。
注：如果女孩子想让男孩子爱慕她就不能怀孕，一旦怀孕，就把男孩子吓跑了，爱慕也就不存在了。
Why are babies like hinges?
Because they are things to adore.
为什么婴儿象铰链？--因为他们让人爱慕。
注：adore 与 a door谐音。 Because they are things to adore还可理解成：他们是门上的东西。
Adverse
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another person's, I mean.
通过努力我们很容易学会忍受灾难，我的意思是，别人的灾难。
注：忍受别人的灾难还是要容易些。
A person who smiles in the face of adversity ... probably has a scapegoat.
一个面对灾难微笑的人......可能找到了一个替罪羊。
注：一般来说面对灾难微笑的人意志力都比较坚强，也有一些人面对灾难的微笑和意志力无关，他们找到了替罪羊。
I fear nothing in the face of adversity, because there's no adversity in my dictionary, and what is more, I don't have a dictionary.
我面对灾难临危不惧，因为我的字典里没有灾难，我也没有字典。
